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I'm in that area. Lorry overturned on the river bank?

The alphabet as far as I remember it: A for 'Orses B for mutton C forth Highlanders D for enshul E ? F for vescence G ? H b for beauty I for Novello J ? K? L for leather M? N O? P? Q for a bus R ? S? T for 2 U ? V? W? X for breakfast Y? Z? Ah! Here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockney_Alphabet

That is absolutely a top quality joke. Few bettter.

Ah! Right.

It looks as if no one else has seen it.

Thanks for all the interesting information. There is much more to this than I originally thought. Nick

We fitted secondary double glazing to our bus windows. We bought precut 3mm acrylic on line. They are all the same size so that was easy. We stuck draft excluder around the edges and drilled the acrylic to attach each sheet with 10 SS screws into the wooden surround. We have found this very successful and keeping out the drafts and preventing condensation. It didn't cost much.

Just come through there from the SU. We locked up about six inches. Now, unless I am sadly mistaken the SU was cut after the Staffs and Worcester. I wpuld have thought that the owners of the S&W would have been very keen to ensure that they didn't lose water to the Shropshire Union, Question: Why is the rise of the lock from SU to S&W? Doesn't that mean that any water is lost from the S&W very much against the interests of the earlier canal?

I think that you are right on that. I haven't done it myself. It was an idea that I got from a fellow boater who was busy changing all of his.

Forgot to mention that I fitted a "gas fuse" which shuts of the supply if there is a sudden drop in the delivery line frinstance if the flexi gets cut. N

I see that the residents have been allowed home. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-49261977

Afternoon. Mr Catweasel Sorry that I am late replying to the query. Vastly cheaper to run the gennie on gas. Turning up my records I see that I have run the generator for 250 hrs, used 3 and a bit bottles of gas and 5.3 litres of petrol. I have been advised that it's a good idea to run it on petrol from time to time. The Generator is a Kipor IG1000 and if I had my time again I might get a more powerful one, but a more powerful one would be heavier to lift on and off the boat. So I don't know. I fitted the gas conversion myself and use neither of my two 13kg propane bottle to run it. I bought a third bottle which fits in front on the other two in by bow locker. I don't take the bottle off the boat when I use the generator. I use an extra long flexible hose. The conversion was pretty straightorward. I got the conversion kit from https://www.sailandtrail.co.uk/.

I didn't measure the pressure when I fitted my accumulator. I experimented and set the pressure so that I got the maximum amount of water from the cold tap before the pump switched on.

I think that it is a good plan to convert all the round pin sockets to cigar lighter sockets. N

I would echo what Matty said. Very lovely and worth spending a night there.