Machpoint005
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3 hours ago, manxmike said:
I wonder if the gene pool would have been better off if he had indeed taken a 100 foot fall. Almost a shame someone wasn't coming the other way.
Depends whether he has reproduced yet. The indications are that he hasn't!
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10 hours ago, restlessnomad said:
loose tea is expensive... but then I drink normal tetley so probably every other tea is pricier.
Sainsburys loose tea for me, please. We don't often shop at Sainsburys but their tea is better than Asda or Morrisons.
I also like Aldi Gold teabags-- even better than Yorkshire Tea, and cheaper.
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3 hours ago, Barneyp said:
I don't think the money is being spent to enable 3000 boats to get to and from the Weaver, it's about preserving a piece of heritage and using it to educate and engage the wider community.
The lottery will give grants to individual projects like the boat lift, but maintaining the canals in general wouldn't meet their criteria, so it's not a straight choice between fixing the lift or carrying out routine maintenance on the canals.
The half million squid wouldn't have been available for eg dredging. That's not the way lottery grants work.
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2 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:
In other news, Leicestershire voted the most deeply average county in the UK.
Have you never been to Bedfordshire?
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On 06/12/2022 at 19:37, Dav and Pen said:
It was a Christmas present from that nice Gordon Brown <<
Ted Heath.
Gordon Brown gave us much more valuable stuff.
On 07/12/2022 at 21:27, sueb said:Those that don't need their £10 could give it to the homeless.
We support our local homeless help centre -- I'll not boast about to what extent, but two Ted's Tenners wouldn't make much difference in the grand scheme of things.
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My thoughts entirely.
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8 hours ago, PeterScott said:
First family car - four gallons of petrol for a quid ... cars then went further on the Good Old Imperial Gallon than they do on these newfangled litres ...
My car probably goes further on one litre than that Dagenham Dustbin could manage on one gallon.
That's cruising at 70mph.
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5 hours ago, pearley said:
If you receive your state pension monthly then the £10 is paid into your bank separately. If you receive it weekly then it's added to that weeks payment so many people don't realise they have it.
Just as well it goes straight into the bank. I wouldn't be bothering to cross the street to pick up £10.
The Memsahib and I will give ours to the grandchildren.
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We have an open fire in the front room in the house. The grate is hugeous but we've had the same two half bricks at the sides to restrict the coal consumption for at least 15 years -- just ornery Cheshire Commons. They haven't even split, let alone exploded.
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2 hours ago, blackrose said:
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Why isn't there an access hole in the body with a snap on cover that you can use to gain access to the knob for just such occurrences?
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I'm not familiar with Thetford cassettes, but it seems to me that if there were such a cover, it wouldn't snap open when you needed it to, but would snap open at the most inconvenient moment, such as when it was directly above an Elsan disposal drain hole, or being carried to one...
Murphy's Law applies.
2 hours ago, blackrose said:>> there's something preventing that knob from turning. <<
Bluebottle: "Turn the knob on your side!"
Eccles: "I haven't got a knob on my side..."
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18 hours ago, MtB said:
"You simply cannot believe everything on the internet."
~ Abraham Lincoln ~
Tinternet is like a newspaper. Half of what you read isn't true. Trouble is, you don't know which half.
1 hour ago, Higgs said:The government is not a private concern. It cannot detach itself from its place in society. The contributors to that are the taxpayer.
Funny, that's exactly what the tories have been doing since 2010.
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^^ Wot he said.
The provision of reliable 21st century communications on an 18th century transport network isn't a priority for telecomms companies. Why would it be?
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Survey completed, 5 or 6 minutes. Only had to fudge one answer, as I could see no way of putting a future date in for BSC certification. Mine doesn't expire until December 2023 but I had to put 2022.
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I believe one can actually sail on the Broads, and the answer to your question is probably 'no'.
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If the pub is playing loud music late at night, it doesn't matter who was there first. A nuisance is a nuisance is a nuisance, but as I've said elsewhere, it is not explicitly defined in law.
However, in common law a 'nuisance' can be defined as a matter which is an unreasonable and substantial interference on the use and enjoyment of a person's property.
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On 12/11/2022 at 16:58, Naughty Cal said:
Our alternative was a nice lump of venison we have in the freezer. That can be for new years dinner instead now.
Mmmmm, roasted Bambi!
1 hour ago, Alan de Enfield said:Housing the birds does not stop them catching flu - it can be simply bought into the sheds by (say) an infected sparrow finding its way in.
Our neighbour has just had to slaughter 35,000 birds, all of which were locked up in sheds
But t least those 35,000 birds didn't spread avian flu to anywhere else. Our "free range" hens haven't been allowed out of their enclosure into the garden for over 18 months now.
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Well, they could always send it six months in advance (as well as coughing up the import taxes...)
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If you were to ship it over, for a week's holiday, then it would probably get there just as you arrived back home...
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Quite likely. My price was plucked off Tinternet because I already knew the stuff was expensive. It always has been!
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21 hours ago, Steilsteven said:
Yes it would absolutely ruin that quiet little backwater known as Central London 😁
Interestingly, it doesn't matter who was there first -- a nuisance is a nuisance, even though it is not properly defined in law.
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3 hours ago, Bee said:
Speaking as a bloke I reckon about a carload each. Seriously though my wife and I spend 3 months a year on our small boat in France and just take a weeks worth of jeans and T shirts that we wash as and when we can. For me I just have a couple of pairs of jeans for a week and a T shirt a day plus one decent pullover and an old anorak for rainy days. As for socks and things for me just a clean pair for every day. As for the ladies frilly things I have no idea whatsoever. You could probably reduce that even more with a bit of handwashing. Have a nice time, not many of us visit those canals as they are separate from the main system.
If the weather was reliably hot you wouldn't even need all those socks!
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18mm hexaboard is the stuff. We used it on our cruiser stern nearly ten years ago, and it's still going strong.
Health warning: it's cringingly expensive -- about £132 for a 2500mm by 1250mm sheet. Best to get it cut professionally.
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It does strike me as the self-entitled nimbyism of those who consider themselves above the hoi polloi.
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Forget canals. A lock gate would be an excellent way to acquire chunks of oak, for any number of purposes.
1 teabag = 4 STRONG mugs of tea
in Living Afloat
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Perhaps that's because the water dahn sarf is so disgusting? When I used to travel a lot for business, I would always drink coffee when south of Birmingham, because the tea was so disgusting.
In Manchester and West Yorkshire (and some other places, including most of Scotland) the water is really soft.
My daughter uses one of they. It seems to work very well.