Ronaldo47
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I tried downloading duckgogo but my phone is too old to run it.
It's odd, sometimes the forum opens with no problems, other times I have to go incognito, which means entering user name and password every time. Other sites are starting to go the same way, so it must be down to my phone.
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So it seems that using a vehicle of a type which, if ridden on a public highway, would be criminal offence, would not be a criminal offence if ridden on a towpath (other than the rare case where the towpath is also a public right of way).
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But is a tow path a public highway?
If it is not, then using a vehicle that would be illegal if used on the public highway, would arguably not be illegal when used on something that is not a public highway. You used to need a special permit to use a bike on the tow path, indicating that a tow path was not a public highway, but I don't know if subsequent legislation has changed the towpath's legal status. Perhaps it would be covered by by-laws or conditions of use, which could mean it would be a civil law matter rather than a criminal law one.
The last two times we hired at easter, it snowed. The first time it settled and was heavy enough to build a snowman figurehead.
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We were looking at boat hire prices recently, and they do seem to be on the high side.
Don't forget that Portsmouth now has a ULEZ zone that you have to enter to get to the IOW ferry terminals.
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6 hours ago, LadyG said:
In Glasgow 1958 or so when there were still rag n bone men , i recal the horse usually had his lunch in a hessian nosebag with a leather trim.
In my part of East London in the 1950's, about the only horse traffic was rag and bone men, brewery drays, and the mounted police. The draymen used to give their horses a nose bag when they were delivering.
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The 1/2" and 3/4" pipe threads are the only ones where BSP and NPT have identical pitches (14tpi).
My screw thread book gives the BSP/NPT pipe diameters for 1/2" as 0.8250"/ 0.840" and for 3/4" as 1.0410"/ 1.050".
BSP/ NPT thread flank angles are 55°/ 60°. BSP threads have rounded crests and roots, those of NPT are flat. If the fit is tight, using a die/tap on/in the larger/smaller thread should provide a solution.
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I used to use Plastic Padding Type Soft for car body repairs and general filling jobs, but I haven't been able to buy it for some years. I now use Ronson High Performance Wood Filler, a polystyrene-type filler that looks, smells, and behaves much the same as Plastic Padding Type Soft, apart from the colour.
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It's not rocket science to make a new key for that type of lock. When I was a child, we inherited a box of assorted mismatched locks and keys, and I managed to modify some of the keys to fit some of the simple locks like the one in the photo, using a hacksaw and files from dad's toolbox.
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Especially so when horses were the motive power.
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My understanding is that, when canals were in their heyday, bargees were paid well enough to afford a house on land for their family, and that it was only later when competition from the railways led to lower wages, that living on board with your family became widespread. So the reference to three centuries of living afloat is arguably not entirely correct.
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Thanks, I had missed the earlier thread.
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I saw the new "Wonka" film last night. Soon after the start there was a flashback sequence where he was recalling his childhood with his mother on a working narrowboat. It includes a very brief short of the boat on a canal, apparently a traditional motor with a tarpaulin-covered hold, but the rest of that scene is set in the interior of the cabin, evidently shot in a studio. I wondered if anyone knows anything about the boat?
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I have tried visiting the Playstore, but am not offered an update.
I have had to log in via the Incognito route to post this.
It seems from feedback on the Chrome playstore link that a recent update has caused a number of problems, at least one of which resembles mine.
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Using incognito mode is the only way I can access the forum when my phone is in the "unsafe" mode. I had to go incognito earlier today, but at present it is working normally, although it had forgotten my saved sign-in.
Here is a screenshot of my Chrome data. It's the only browser on my phone.
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My dictionary gives both forms, but in principle I agree with you.
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This is what I get when trying to log in normally:
I can't make screen shots in Incognito mode, so I will have to type what I get after typing in the forum address in the google search bar. The text enclosed in square brackets [ ] appears in a clickable box.
First page
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{exclamation mark in red triangle}
Your connection is not private.
Attackers might be trying to steal your information from www.canalworld.net (for example , passwords, messages or credit cards).
Learn more
NET.ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID
[BACK TO SAFETY]
[ADVANCED]
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Clicking the [ADVANCED] box produces this page:
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This server could not prove that it is www.canalworld.net, its security certificate is not trusted by your device's operating ststem. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your communication.
Proceed to www.canalworld.net (unsafe)
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Clicking the "unsafe" link gets me to a logon page where I have to enter my user name and password. I have to do this every time I log on, as these things are not saved in "incognito" mode. Once I have entered the forum, I can navigate around as normal, and only have to go through the signing-in rigmarole again after I have left incognito mode and wish to return here.
I am using a Samsung Galaxy Note 4
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I started getting this problem a few weeks ago, sometimes working normally, other times refusing to connect to this site unless I go 'incognito'. Even in incognito mode I first get a message asking if I would like to proceed to this "unsafe" site anyway, whereupon it works fine. But sometimes I have no problem logging on. Using an elderly Samsung smartphone that hasn't been updated for a while.
Since having this problem with canalworld, I have also now started to get similar behaviour when accessing another forum, but for that one I don't gave to go incognito and can simply over-ride the warning and proceed to the "unsafe" site anyway. These two forums (fora?) are the only web sites that exhibit these problems.
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A nice example of the old use of the printed long letter "s" when it appears at the start of, and within, a word. It is sometimes said that "all the s's are f's" , but if you look closely, whereas in the letter "f", the horizontal bar extends on both sides of the vertical stroke, in the long letter "s" , the horizontal bar only extends to the left of the vertical stroke.
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Diluted Jeyes fluid seems to kill most things, but can leave a smell for a while afterwards.
The instructions used to recommend it for sterilizing greenhouse soil, but don't anymore. I think it might be because they would have to do the tests required by EC legislation to show it was safe in order to recommend it, despite generations of gardeners having used it for that purpose with no problems.
Rather like the Gardeners' Question Time panellist who, when asked how to get rid of greenfly, said that they used to just tell people to spray with dilute domestic detergent or washing-up liquid, but to use that method commercially under modern H&S requirements would now involve donning complete body protective clothing, because if you get soap in your eyes it will cause irritation. A panellist a few years later said you should wash the leaves with dilute detergent to wash away any dust, which was allowed, and if any greenfly got in the way, then that was just too bad.
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3 hours ago, Tonka said:
I was told when I was at school back in 1976 that there were more trees in Birmingham then in the New Forest.
We normally go through the New Forest via an unclassified road to Beaulieu, then take the B3054 to get to the Lymington-Yarmouth ferry. The part we go through is indeed mostly devoid of trees, with large areas of rough grass and gorse, providing grazing and shelter for the New Forest ponies and cattle. Once when the B3054 was closed, we were sent on an equally tree-less lengthy diversion.
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I seem to recall that Woolies paint rated very highly in a circa 1970 "Which" test.
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The trouble is that, in lowland England, any piece of land that is neglected will usually revert to forest. Locally we have Shenfield Common, which Victorian photos show used to be open grassland with a few trees. I believe animals used to graze there. Now only the northern-most tip is grass, the rest having reverted to dense woodland all by itself.
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12 hours ago, Mike Tee said:
Looks like all the work is happening on the access route - although 1 - 2 weeks to build a working pad is a bit much. For example, to cut a new camp site in the bush (during the wet season) we took one day, and the camp move for 150 people was half a day, that included living quarters, workshop, kitchens, showers, literally everything for 'living'. The guys would go off to the work site at dawn, and come back to a new site with everything working that evening. Those were the days!
Last year a columnist in "Modern Railways" mentioned how, in times gone by, emergency maintenance at an inaccessible spot would mean a gang walking there, carrying their tools, lunch, water, a Primus stove for heating their kettle, and a pack of toilet paper. Nowadays H&S means they have to construct a temporary access road leading to a wheelchair-accessible amenity block, all of which results in delays and a vast increase in costs.
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That reminds me of a guy I used to work with who, when reminiscing about his days doing National Service, mentioned the sergeant who ordered his squad to dismantle some tables, take them to another hut, and mantle them back together again.
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Browser Error when opening link to CWD but OK if main site URL accessed directly
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Posted · Edited by Ronaldo47
I do not get that option with my phone: there is no button to the left of the address button to click, and I am not given the option of "proceed to site" when trying to access this forum, although I can "proceed anyway" on others. Going incognito works, for the present anyway.