Hudds Lad

There's a modern fitter using it now, which i found surprising

Slightly less chance of going to hell if you cross them though

Doesn't the Willeymoor have a big campsite across the bridge from it? Surely they must get trade from there? If you have an irrational fear of Toby Jugs and novelty teapots, this is not the pub for you

It's why they used to hand out newspapers to the riders in the Tour de France and other races at the top of climbs, they'd stuff them under their jerseys before the descent to stop the windchill on the way down

The problem with the inaccuracy of CRT notices is you've no idea if this is accurate or a cock-up. It could be a single passage on one of those days if someone clicked the wrong button, it could be an out and back trip that they've left detail out of, it could be correct and the person booking was saying they might be there Sunday or if the weather is crap they'll be there the next day or the day after. Nobody knows. 🤷‍♂️

Bottle of water, bottle or bar of soap, even easier.

Current 3 contract is now up for the router on the boat, and is set to become much more expensive for unlimited. Am thinking of switching to something like Smarty but unsure as to what happens if you don't pay a month due to not using it, does the account stay dormant until you buy another months usage or does it get cancelled? Before anyone starts trying to get me to move to a diff network i'll just stipulate we have no problem with 3 where we currently cruise, and unlimited is preferable to a set amount of data as it does get spanked with work/entertainment use, i just begrudge paying £23 pcm when not on the boat (contract was about £16 previously but set length of months) as i don't want to be tied to a 2yr contract again in case we move marinas and the coverage is then pants. And only looking for 4G so i don't have to upgrade any equipment. So 4G, Unlimited data, ability to pause when not onboard. Am i looking at the right provider?

One of my earliest memories is of a holiday with my family in the New Forest being pushed in a pram. Mum always had a thing for frogs, and thought she'd show me the big one she'd spotted so picked it up and waved it in my face, the toad was less than happy about this and promptly peed all over me I don't recall it putting me off my dinner either

If you're hitting things every time you go through a bridge i'd suggest you might benefit from a helmsman's course DIY painting is time for us that could be spent cruising, i'd rather be out and about than sat with a paintbrush hoping the weather is good enough to fettle the paint. We're not retired so time is precious, paying a professional means it should last a long time, admittedly the cost is giving me cold sweats (nearly as much as the trip back with a shiny boat through Braunston, Crick & Husbands Bosworth tunnels ) but if it does another 17yrs like the original paint job has it will probably see our time on the boat out. Besides, J said we're getting it painted so that's what's happening

Chainsaw blades mounted forward at each side, linked via sprockets and chains to be powered by the stove fan, although some sort of reduction gearing would be needed to ensure the saws didn't overheat from too many revolutions from the stove fan. This would only work whilst the stove was lit though so not so good in the summer, and it would obviously upset the H&S types.

When we still had the shareboat the roof was repainted due to having a large rust patch forward of the rear hatch, round the mushroom vents and chimney, and on the leading cabin edge above the welldeck. I was not privy to the fine details of the job, but i imagine it was just rubbed down flat and then painted and was done at the cheapest/quickest quote from the Marina. Afterwards the roof looked great. Within a year shadows of the former rust patches could be seen through the paint, corrosion was starting to show again by some of the mushrooms, and the lightest scratch would reveal undercoat. Cost £2.5k and took a week back in 2019. Our own boat is booked in with a proper boat painter (booking made two years ago) to go at the end of next month for above the water repaint, it will be shotblasted back to clean metal with everything removed, then properly painted. This will take 6-8 weeks. Quote was £12-13k when booked, but i'm sure this will have increased, at the time they guesstimated 5% more but who knows now with the way things have been going up. Having seen the results of a quick turnaround paint job at a Marina we are loathe to repeat that mistake.

So it requires the owner to sit watching it with a magic wand to fend it off?? The fact it has an app shows it is streets ahead of the model we had which had no connectivity of any sort, just don't trip over it in the night when heading for the loo

How am i supposed to stalk @Tony1 now? Congrats on the upgrade, i remember back in the day with VBB updates often broke as much as they fixed, hope it went smooth