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Even though the OP is new to the canals he is a gent of retirement age who has been gay his whole life I'm not sure he needs us to warn him about much, (is straightsplaining a thing? I don't know) I suspect this is not his first rodeo.
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29 minutes ago, Mike Hurley said:
They do Reargunner mugs too.
That mug advert is a constant on urban dictionary, any word you find on the site they will print on a mug for you, which I suppose is that long way round for saying yes they will.
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5 minutes ago, TheMenagerieAfloat said:
Likewise the two wives
The Narrowboat experience
https://narrowboatexperience.com
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8 minutes ago, rusty69 said:
Parahandy's post #57 wasn't much better before he wisely chose to delete it.
Weeeell, it's a fine line to walk when you're trying to set the cat among the pigeons and pretend you're completely innocent, I suppose there must be the odd time you tip your hand.
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3 hours ago, Boater Sam said:About your new boat name.
As you are OK displaying your sexuality I hope that you do not get too many homophobic remarks.
You have been away for some considerable time, consider please.
This is not Thailand where sexual orientation is an open book, Britain is still populated with folk who may take exception to GayZing and the rainbow. And act accordingly towards you.
Why put yourself up as an Aunt Sally?
I think this post says more about boater sam than it does about anything else, but I can understand his concern, as a man who needs to have half the forum on ignore he's obviously a little fragile when I comes to other people's opinions.
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I am so pleased for you and rather impressed that it all went so smoothly, I'm sure you're going to be quite busy getting things together so we might not hear from you for a day or two (
) but all the best and lots of warm wishes to you.
Tumsh.
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3 minutes ago, rusty69 said:
And........ Drum roll. Which boat is it then?
Good grief Beagle, he's only just signed in - not much squeaks past you.
Well - Whatcha bought then? Piccies, we need piccies.
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4 minutes ago, haggis said:
Re defusers, the one we have must be about nine inches in diameter and I have never had a problem with a pot sliding off it.
Yes - that's a good size, that would cover the ring well. I wonder if a good old fashioned hardware shop would have them, I know a lot of folks don't like amazon but they and eBay are usually pretty good at this sort of thing.
Camping shops might be limited to the smaller sizes though. Just a thought.
Anyway good luck to Mrs Bob.
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35 minutes ago, Dr Bob said:
Mrs Bob has used these in the past when we had a gas hob in the house but found they were pretty useless and made the pan on top less stable.
They used to be pretty flimsy and often getting one to fit was a bit hit or miss but some have improved, and a more sturdy now so if you do find you need one have a shop around; the ones for the inductions hobs are very solid and you can get them in larger sizes but they will probbly take quite a bit effort to get up to the right temperature.
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8 hours ago, haggis said:
I have the same problem on kelpie - not being able to simmer stuff at the lowest setting - and I solved it by using a thing which I put on top of the burner with the pan on top. I have no idea what it is called but it is a sort of double metal mesh circle with a wooden handle. Works a treat!
haggis
A search for a heat defuser should find what Haggis has. A ring reducer might also do the job if you got the disc kind. For my induction hob they are called a simmer mat (some induction hobs also have a bit of an issue getting a really low heat).
Good to see you are still with us and manage to out smart those pesky hunters for another year, Haggis.
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6 minutes ago, jenevers said:
Has anyone ever swapped boats for a couple of weeks, in order to have a change of scenery, like people do all over the world with houses?
@jimxtc did it, unfortunately the "doomsters and the gloomsters" ran him off the forum and he hasn't been back, but the link to the group that he belonged to is in this post. I don't know if it's still an open group but it would be worth a look.
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1 hour ago, Alan de Enfield said:
You could always do a Timothy Spall
The Princess Matilda was a Cat B sea going barge and the 'Back at Sea' episode is about how he traveled up the west coast of the British Isles and where he vowed to never do it again. Much as I love the Caley I don't think is a substitute for the inland waterways of Europe, not to mention that as you can do it from one end to the other in two days and then can't go anywhere except back the way you came it probbly won't fill someones retirement (hopefully) .
https://www.steelboats.co.uk/fcn_steel_seagoing_barge.html
Oh look the thread has taken a faceplant, what a surprise.
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25 minutes ago, TheBiscuits said:
Is it a duck with a speech impediment?
The ch isn't a hard sound, think along the lines of Llangollen, It's a soft Celtic ch. I can't really think how to describe in the written word. ?
31 minutes ago, buccaneer66 said:Yeh try spelling quaich when you know what your looking for but don't have a clue how to spell it
There is also a Glen Quaich, between Kenmore and Amulree.
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38 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
There seems to be few reported liveaboards in Coastal Marinas and when I looked most marinas actually forbid liveaboards.
I suppose that's why the highlands is easier for people who don't want to be constantly under someones eye.
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13 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:
You gov figures say 30k claim to live aboard in the UK. That's less than 0.1 percent of the population. As I say I don't know how many hobby boaters there are amongst us but I do hope worrying about them being Able to take a boat to Europe is way down the list of priorities.
Interesting. I've wondered before cos I suspect there are quite a few people up here who live in little plastic boats that if they lived anywhere else in the country would probbly be classed as homeless. It's not unusual for people who can't cope with society for what ever reason to end up in the highlands, and boats and bothies are plentiful. But there also seems to be growing communities of people living on yachts, working class people like us so on regular boats not big fancy millionaires toys.
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1 minute ago, TheBiscuits said:
It started well and then went wonky!
It was a good attempt - I've seen worse. ?
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8 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:
Figures show that less than 0.1 percent live aboard but how many hobby boaters are there?
What figures? I'm genuinely interested, so if you could post a link or tell me where to look that would be great.
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Like Alan says the RYA are probbly the people to contact about this but you could also have a rummage about on the YBW forum as they cover a wider area; it's British but it's sailing so it's, you know, global.
https://forums.ybw.com/index.php
https://www.rya.org.uk/Pages/Home.aspx
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11 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:
Bless her theres stuff going back to her grandparents, fotos from 1860 etc. Its sad but no one want this stuff anymore. I ve skipped loads of stuff.
Did you ask the local heritage society if they wanted any of it? Our local one takes things like that and builds local historical knowledge of all the families and businesses in the area, it's all stuff that might not seem relevant on it's own but when you add it all up you get a wonderfully complete picture of the area.
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3 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:
True. Kids though know nowt, I didnt but thought I did, lads are far worse than girls. When I was a driving instructer I taught many more girls than boys as they all told their mates I wasnt a sleaze ( can be a problem in that business ) so i got lots of business. Girls are VASTLY better to teach and make better drivers because they LISTEN whereas 17 year old boys know everything!!
Wise people tent to be naturally more observant and do learn form what opportunity gives them; but that has more to do with personality rather than age. Most people will know more or be wiser then they were when they were younger but that still doesn't automatically mean with their age came "great" wisdom.
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1 minute ago, mrsmelly said:
I stilllearn everyday from my mum. I am 64 and she is 99, Ive still got much to learn.
Some people are naturally wise and some people never get wiser no matter how old they get.
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3 minutes ago, TheBiscuits said:
Surely a different one, because @The Dreamer wouldn't have left it on the path.
To be fair there's not a lot you could do with it, you would need to go back for it with a wheel barrow and cart it off to a skip or one of those large commercial wheelie bins. Funny thing is the wind could have blown it down to the canal before it got water logged.
That's a generic 'you' before anybody thinks I'm casting blame.
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8 minutes ago, bizzard said:
I called it tooked instead of taked at that age.
I had a friend at school who used to use his words like that, instead of saying 'I was outside playing' he would say things like 'I wurs outside playing', I liked him, he was cool. He had a set of wellingtons, one of which got a hole in from a burn when he was helping his dad out in the workshop, so he went back in and asked his mum to patch it up, she did so and about a week later he took it off, when she asked why he'd done that he said that he's thought it would have healed by then. He's grown up to be still just as wonderful and he and his lovely wife have raised lots of little people who are just like him.
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K&A parking
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I thought that's what this forum was for.
So how's the parking on the K&A, then?