Dr Bob

Stick a flag pole on the side and you could hoist a couple of sails?

Watching it avidly....so please don't post before noon tomorrow (Sunday) so we can watch it in the morning on Sky.?

That sounds a bit political Richard. You'll have Smelly on telling you about his golf club.

That looks like the north oxford by the Willoughby bridge. Clearly a 'no fat boat' canal.

I agree with you. I'm not a fan of the 1 in 100 method have 'got it' as there is no measure of how long someone has got it so the same person could show up for weeks. I guess as long as you just look at the change in the numbers it gives you a guide if its better or worse. Similarly the gov figures on new infections per day is a bit misleading as it only measures the peeps who go to get tested - but is ok to watch day to day as it goes up or down. For me the key figures are how many new hospital admissions per day as that is specific and I assume accurate, plus the deaths. The number of how many are in hospital is not so good a measure of transmission as some peeps could stay in hospital for a long time.

Ok. This happens to 5 million peeps. Some will have only gone to Tesco. Some to tesco and the beach, some to all 3 or 4. You can then analyse the 5 million data points to see which is more prevalent. You then compare data from track and trace (hee hee hee!) and you can get a better guesstimate. It will only be a guesstimate but with 5 million data points it will show quite a clear picture. Trust me - that's how sparse data modelling works. We use it all the time in industry. Have a vitual greenie for that one Mr Athy. I'd forgotten that one.

We had a similar experience in 2017 with GH and turned up a Wigrams without an appointment (which were required by them at the time), persuaded Liam to show us a boat and we had bought it 4 hours later. Very good service Last year (in Jan) GH had no one on site and couldn't be arsed to send someone down for 10 days. When we sold our boat last year (in Feb), we did it through New and Used and they rang us the morning it went on t'tinternet saying can someone come round in 30 mins. The viewers were looking at 4 boats that morning. It was cold and wet. The wind was blowing the rain horizontally. The first 3 boats were empty ...so no fire and so cold and damp. We had the stove going in ours, toasty and warm. We had the offer on ours by the following morning. Very pleased with N&U.

I dont think we have seen enough data to conclude that. The press have been crap at reporting real data. I seem to remember the bit about catching the virus on the beach was one 'expert' saying "I dont know of any cases where it was transmitted on the beach". Has he really looked for all the data (if it exists) on who caught the virus on which beach? I agree indoors is where it is likely to transmit. I would be convinced it is true if we saw facts rather than 'experts' saying "I have not seen". Where is the data that says there is transmission in certain areas? The pub business is saying there is little/no transmission in pubs. The government and Queen Nichola are dead against alcohol being sold in pubs or after 10pm etc. Who is right. Where are the facts. After 12 months of this, you would think that there is enough even 'rough' data to present. Boris (and queen Nichola + that old guy in Wales) are wrestling with how to unlock the country. What do we open first? Schools? Shops? Pubs? Holidays? International travel? Come on guys. Give us the data on where transmissions are happening. You have the models. They should be comparing well with what is happening in real time. If that data is not available, you are not doing your jobs right. Please pull your fingers out and tell us.

In Jan 2020 we were looking for a better boat and rang Great Haywood about a boat at Wigrams. We were told no one could show us it for 10 days! ( or was it 2 weeks...no matter). That is not the way to run a business when boats were selling fast. I didn't want to wait 10 days as there were others to see straight away and this one could easily be sold while I waited. I think the problem was that there is no one in Wigrams selling boats now Liam has gone. When we put our boat up for sale we didn't put it with GHBS as we feared we would have no viewers. We put ourselves on GHBS's list in Dec 2019 and did not receive one call from them about possible boats. I think we are still on their list. We did pester them 3 or 4 times when we were actually looking but nothing back from them.

Indeed this is the law and indeed this is what we must do. Spot on - no discussion. I would be gob-smacked however if this is the position in the future. The vaccine should stop the growth of the virus in your body to the point where there is little viral load so There is little to infect others when you mingle. This what other vaccines do. Problem is that this has not been proven yet so the need to be ultra cautious and not mingle now. The results coming out of Israel apparantley are saying that the vaccine does reduce spread but no one has bothered to show us any data, not that that would be any use as the press has been crap at passing on real data ......i.e. Where is the data showing where the main transmission was at the start of the 3 rd phase.....in schools?, in pubs?, in multigenerational housing? We should be seeing data on transmission in the UK in the next 3-4 weeks.

It's not the narrow people, it's the narrow canals you need to avoid. Peeps get upset when you try and take a fat boat where they are not designed to go ...i.e. The north oxford as they cause hold ups and delays.

I wouldn't bother. We tried to see a boat there a year ago and were told appointments were necessary and they could do one in 2 weeks time! The boat sales there has gone to the dawgs since Liam left. We got our first boat there when it was a good place to sell a boat.

I thought we'd left that.

I agree. If its just water then no problem to remove. If the diesel you draw off with your pela pump.....you have got a pela havent you?....one of the better buys for a narrowboat. ........ is cloudy and contains lots of black bits floating, then you have the bug. I'd prolly give up and get it professionally cleaned as long as I knew how they were going to clean the tank not just the fuel. If its very cold when sampling the diesel, let it warm to room temperature before you look at it. It should be bright and clear. It might be cloudy if very cold.

For that, lets go back to page one and start over all again with another 40 pages. I dont think we will get any further next time round. I'm off to read some other threads.

I'm not sure what West Lothian does (but I will try and find out) but if their grey bin goes to 'landfill' , it sounds like it might go directly without a picking line. The key is "will it have any recycle in it" that is worth picking out. As they are giving you small bins and only picking it up on a long cycle, peeps are forced to put as much recycling in the blue bin so the grey bin is then not worth sorting. Thats what happened in Cardiff so the 'offensive' stuff is not handled by anyone. Yours is prolly going directly into the landfill at Avondale by junct 4 or up to Binn Farm up Glen Farg way.

I was going to suggest they give you as shout Tim. ...to OTL. Talk to Mr Smelly, he has a very nice boat coming up for sale soon. You wouldnt go wrong there!

No, I didnt say we need to see the detail. Only they can work this out for the reasons you say on business information. They obviously havent done this as there is no final solution, just the output from Damien which may or may not be CRT policy. They may seek input from boaters but they should make their minds up based on factual data, not the musings of this forum where there is little solid information. Its their business not ours.......erm maybe!

Best of luck in your search. Good boats are still selling very fast so if you like it, jump in quick. It wont be there in 24 hours if it is good.

Like I said on Page one, the CRT need to look at all the inputs and work out a way they can respond. No one on here knows the full details of the CRT position and their deal they have with Biffa and exactly what rules are and arent being broken with what happens today. Only when you get all the details can you work out where to go. We are all just guessing here. This is about the whole waste handling system. You then need to look at the legal position between the CRT and its customers and work out the way forward. I guess at the end of the day that composting all this waste is the optimum for the environment (far less CO2) produced - ie none from the urea in the urine - and most marinas are set up to do it as most have gardens. They could easily charge £10 for a boater dump a months worth (20Kg) and have beautiful gardens. Very little outlay in providing the service. The CRT providing composting facilities just wont work as it would be abused by all those who abuse the network now. Lets wait until the CRT come out and tell us whats going on.

You dont understand the 'picking' line In your system, the dry sortable waste is mixed recyclate, and the 'landfill' is all the stuff that doesnt go into glass, mixed recyclate, compost etc. Some councils will tip this 'landfill' on a picking line to see if there is anything else that can be extracted of value, leaving the non recyclable stuff on the belt where it then goes to a skip and on to either landfill or incineration. The better councils will trust peeps to fill their black bags with nothing recyclable and send them straight to landfill or incineration so no nappies or dry poo bags will touch a human hand or contaminate recycle stuff. The main problem with the crt collection is that there is no sorting so if a black bag splits, last weeks curry leftovers spills out all over a milk bottle that has been put in the dumpster separately - and all the cans + bottles we have put in our black bin gets covered with last nights left over stew. This all then ends up on a picking line with all the valuable plastic recyclate covered in contamination requiring extensive extra cleaning in our plant. Food waste is the biggest problem here contaminating all the recycle stuff. Putting everything in a black bag is crazy and worse than 3rd world where at least plastic recycling is done better.

I think it is quite startling that I seem to be the only one on here that is involved in waste processing and recycling - with our plastic recycling companies, and I know the waste processors quite well, yet everyone condems this solid waste. We buy 1000s of tons per year of mixed rigid plastics and its not the contamination from dry toilets we are worried about. People really need to wake up and see what goes on in the world. The nappy I changed this morning was horrid. Clothspeg on the nose stuff. It stuck to my fingers. Yuk! Its in the bin now. That could soon be in a dumpster if we were out on the boat. Horrid thought. Where on earth do peeps think nappies go?

I dont bag and bin at the moment. It goes in a compost bin. I've only had the toilet a month. Haggis is right. When we are out and about with no compost bin to put it in (ie trips over 8 weeks - I can store 8 weeks worth easily to go into the compost bin when we get back) then it will be bagged properly and put in a bin.

Totally avoided the main point - for the tenth time. This is about putting 'offensive' waste in a CRT bin and that being transported to a waste site and that being sorted on a picking line. The definition of 'offensive' waste is the important thing. The contents of a disposable nappy, the contents of adult incontenence pads, or the contents of a dry toilet. Nappies in crt bins is a problem if the content of dry toilets are. Peeps here also talk of 'its bad for Biffa'. It is the same issues as nappies. Far far more offensive waste is put in waste dumpsters, not necessarily CRT ones as there arent many babies here, but the biffa/disposal problem is the same for nappies or dry toilets......and it is obviously not a problem for nappies so isnt the problem it is for our toilets. You missed the bet? So you dont bother reading others posts then! .....but that was obvious. All talk and no listen. Just like Donald.