Hudds Lad

perhaps they were appealing to bulk buyers who also can't spell

that's an impressive cock-up, company logo's are nearly always separate .eps/.jpg files, so somebody would have to have gone and deliberately edited it

Proof Reading was a high pressure job at big printing firms, sadly most were phased out in favour of someone else of a lesser wage doing the checking. Why pay all that money for someone to sit and read stuff? I used to hate R&A season, pages and pages of figures, often with masses of "alts" to do when someone figured the sums didn't add up, having to explain why that one sentence they want to insert on one page would change the entire document as it pushed things onto different pages, spending hours on it knowing full well it would be back the next day with more changes. I do remember we nearly had an expensive mistake when the apprentice did some alts to some food packaging last minute and wasn't too hot at spellchecking. Although it would have been fun to see the freezers in Farmfoods stacked with boxes of Jam Rolly Ploy

probably the director or production assisstant

problem with a pumpout tank that you've not owned for it's entire life is that you don't know what someone else may have put down years ago. sludge can sit in the corners etc. trapping things and never get properly removed, then if its sat a while unused and dried out this could then break off and come back to bite you years down the line. i know at some point a pair of specs a previous owner lost in our loo could resurface if they haven't already gone i guess worst case you could replace the flexi hose with the blockage in, if it's easy enough to get to without dismantling too much trim.

We were at Overwater for three or four years with our shareboat. Office staff very helpful, as was Simon in the workshop. Cruising options are not too bad, we usually either stopped on the embankment at Nantwich first night, or the bottom of the Audlem flight, for the proximity to pubs. Barbridge was do-able, but due to time constraints of when we got onboard with being a share it meant you were quite late to the moorings and most were gone. Not a problem if you don't mind a nice walk after the pub dodging dog eggs on the towpath. if you have a pump-out loo, the machine is timed, so get everything ready before you pop the token in to ensure you get everything done. Think it was £16 a go if memory serves. Working as a team, the wife and i could easily do both loo's on the boat in the allotted time (usually just use one, but both if taking in-laws too) but we have seen folk have to go buy another token due to faffing about. the cafe & wheelyboat mean you can sometimes have quite the audience whilst steering onto the services (two coachloads of grannies was my worst) so bear in mind if you're shy We'd not have a problem moving back

i've been up and down our stairs thousands of times over the years, still slipped down the last few carrying a basket of laundry the other day though familiar things can still bite you in the ass, or hit in this case

by the same logic you don't KNOW that it wouldn't have. Schrödinger's boat. From what i can tell the production company DID accept responsibility by offering a settlement, he's chosen NOT to accept that and gone for the company they were contracted to produce a series for in the hope's of a bigger payout.

i can't help feeling that the "national treasure" in question was going to sink if it was moved or not, he now has a useful scapegoat to claim against. i think the production company felt responsible knowing they'd moved it without permission so offered a settlement, but he's now seen those fat Netflix pound signs and gone for a big pay day. hardly surprising with today's compensation culture. certainly makes you think twice about re-mooring a boat that's broken free if you're then in the frame for damages should it sustain any after the fact though

Then colour me sad. I find it quite useful on an evening to turn all the downstairs lights off with one command as i'm going to bed, saves me having to wander into every room of our house and flick switches (technically that's a form of "pushing buttons"). Or have them come on automatically at set times and off again when we're away on the boat. each to their own though, i was merely offering an alternative solution, PM me your preferred collection point and i'll send you some Quality Street ?

yeah, but all the hard work is done, i'm just standing on the shoulders of giants

i guess in simple terms for electronic projects that require an electronic brain. like a weather station that records from different sensors and then sends or compiles the data, or a security camera, or a remote control car/boat/plane. for clever nerds to make stuff that does stuff. this rules me out, i can make an arcade cab out of a raspberry pi, but anything that requires programming beyond changing values in code is beyond my pea brain

i don't think they're in coloured cellophane like they used to be. you can get reasonably cheap colour changing LED bulbs nowadays, cool to warm white and combo RGB colours all changed from your phone or via Alexa, Google, Siri etc.

I've heard they have new plans for the basin to really engage the public next year

no, that stripey monstrosity in the garden. i know you could easily remove it (preferably with nukes from orbit) but as i'm in no position to spaff £500k on a house i may as well find silly reasons to justify not buying it, like that gravel being the wrong colour

i've been told it was failure of, or around, a new culvert installed by the contractors that built the extension working on behalf of LCC