Machpoint005
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Yes, I endorse what others have said about going for it -- slowly.
As regards the time of year, as BEngo said, some of the narrow canals don't have water in them just now. They have porridge.
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16 hours ago, MtB said:
I wonder if it might not be much more expensive to just do basic blacking and buy a newer boat in 40 years' time. <<
Good point, well made.
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11 hours ago, Stroudwater1 said:
It states here that all practices in England have the app and you can order prescriptions from them all by the looks of it? That’s only for England though. It’s not available/a way behind in Scotland and Wales is slowly catching up ….
https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-app/about-the-nhs-app/
. Thanks -- I thought that was the case. The system works especially well for regular long-term medication, such as statins.
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Perhsps there's a good case for running a canal as a cooperative.
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If your GP uses the NHS app, repeat prescriptions are dead easy.
If they don't ... perhaps you need to find a GP who is actually in the 21st century.
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Ruthless:
Me, when I broke up with a girlfriend.
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Moreover, only a few local authorities are involved.
As Naughty Cal says, it's sensationalising the exceptions, and short on detail.
It's the moisture content of wood fuel that is critical for smoke emission.
Chumped timber will be wet.
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14 hours ago, booke23 said:
>> I remember a dog trainer once telling me that you need to do everything you ever intend to do with your dog by 6 months of age....leaving them alone, driving them in the car etc etc. After this age it is very difficult to resolve issues caused by poor upbringing.
Much the same as (human) children, then.
Slightly different time frame -- but only slightly!
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Time for the reintroduction of dog licences, issued subject to the owner passing a test?
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11 hours ago, system 4-50 said:
Regardess of the wisdom of losing a toehold in the property market, if you are a "fretter" then a boating life is not the best for you. IMHO.
Since the aspiring boat inner friends are not absolutely sure about the idea, I'm not sure whose business it is to "persuade" them one way or the other.
I'm sure the OP can correct me if I'm mistaken, but what's the point in this apparent boating evangelism?.
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I'm sure we used to have a photo of it, but 60-odd years ago we found a sign in the Netherlands which said "Do not lean bicycles against this sign".
Guess what we did.
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23 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:
Something I never come across locally here in Suffolk
You really don't need to, since you're in Adnams territory!
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Judging by the OP's list of products, he isn't brewing.
He's fermenting.
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27 minutes ago, magnetman said:
I noticed they said Canal Trust but assumed it was the CRT.
Well spotted !
It would be quite interesting if the CRT did contract out the work of tidying the area to a local canal trust.
They may just mean volunteer litter pickers.
I have mixed views about the positive aspects of this. It seems to me to be encouraging littering.
I've a feeling that the less litter there is to start with, the less likely littering becomes. If a place is filthy with litter, perhaps Joe Average will say to himself (consciously or unconciously) "my extra little bit of litter won't make any difference".
But it does, of course.
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On 01/09/2023 at 19:16, Sea Dog said:
Please tell me you don't make it with Uncle Ben's microwave rice...!
No such thing.
It's Ben's rice nowadays.
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My pellets come from Chelford Farm Supplies. The chickens love 'em.
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6 hours ago, BEngo said:
Fuel consumption varies surprisingly little between engines in typical midlands canal use.
On a typical narrow canal: about 2 pints per hour.
On a typical broad canal: about 2.5 pints per hour.
Once you are off the midlands canals then the water around can be have differently and many factors come into play.
Bracket open on a wide river or a commercial sized canal: Depends on which model and how well the prop is matched, but a 2200 rpm model with everything set up perfectly about 20-30 pints per hour.
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Where do you buy diesel in pints?
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It's always worrying when someone claims 'X' to be better than 'Y'. Relatively few people have the background knowledge to ask "on what basis?" or to recognise that these are hardly ever black-and-white questions.
"Nothing environmentally friendly about burning wood pellets" is a good example.
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^^^ what he said.
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Don't know if you meant on a boat or in a house, but HETAS is your starting point.
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6 minutes ago, LadyG said:
Grandfather rights?
No rights, just the knowledge and ability -- as it stood when the tickets expired.
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31 minutes ago, LadyG said:
If the whole boat feels different you have changed the C of G, bad idea.
And if the CG gets above the metacentre, very bad indeed..
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1 hour ago, Tonka said:
Also why clean the tank and then introduce a dirty pump just to save time
Dunno about saving time though. There is always another job to be done on a boat whilst waiting for the s-l-o-w system pump to empty the tank.
Even if it's only sitting on your arse doing the crossword.
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17 minutes ago, Mike Todd said:
>> Some places, however, are just simply no-go areas for parking!
. . . And such places are often no-go areas for mooring too (or should that be no-stop areas?)
Canals transferred out of CRT?
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I said cooperative, not Cooperative.