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  1. We do seem to have a number of locksmiths on this forum who only work nights on other peoples locks without their knownage. Firesprite In the Fens
  2. Well I am one the few members of this forum who still have a Job. Firesprite In the Fens
  3. This survey is being carried out by a paddy company called Ecorys, How much is that costing, It not be cheap (£50,000?) Where is the money being wasted? Apart from surveys like this. Firesprite In the Fens
  4. Had it been your boat, They probable would had been looking for your cases of 'Humgrummit' Wine or your "floggle-toggles" Firesprite On night duty at the office Probably searching for a wad of cash or jewelry, That sort of stuff I keep in the safe, which is welded to the rear bulkhead and behind a closed door. Firesprite On night duty in the office
  5. So Private Bear are you one of the crews of the T54's or have they let you have a go with SS20 launcher in the Fenland Militia, So you can encourage a well known lady boater from the Wolds to keep her speed down on the Great River. Any how don't you have to be a member of the masons get in Bill Fen's. Firesprite On night duty in the office
  6. That is something they have done before to get a story, With reporters anything goes. Firesprite In the Fens
  7. Its not 'Speedy Fox' bui a new build for someone who required it to be a copy of his old springer (In which the hull was rotten). Firesprite
  8. The locks on the nene are only 15ft wide, Anything with a draft deeper than 2' 6" has to go backwards through Stanground if locking down. Firesprite On the Wet and Windy Fens
  9. I gather they did so, Just to be on the safe side, The copyright would still be owned even if the company is not longer trading. Firesprite In the Wet and Windy Fens
  10. Whats comes to mind, Is which make is the ' Rolls' or the Maybach? Firesprite On the Wet and Windy Fens
  11. The downside was the 1st mate get killed by a Hit & run in 1988 after finals. Firesprite In the Wet and Windy Fens
  12. Since 1985 when I went to UMIST to read for my Degree (BSc 2:1) Firesprite In the Wet and Windy Fens
  13. Foxes built a new Springer last spring. Deem to be a rebuilt as they cut the top part of bows of the leaking old one and built a replacement using the bow section as work around the design copyright. Firesprite In the Wet and Windy Fens
  14. Increasing boats are being targeted for their brass (Scrap Brass £2600 per ton) mushrooms and the only ones to benefit from this apart from the 'Never do well low life' are the chandlers. In one Fenland town a number of streets had all the brass numbers and door fittings removed in one night. Peterborough is getting petty bad for this, along with a increasing numbers of Eastern Europeans living rough along the riverbank. All the fittings were ripped out out of the shower block on the embankment sometime ago. It was replaced at great cost, but within week's it was again ripped out. My own choice is the tiller bar, hold in such a way that it lookers like a large bore shotgun, They soon do a runner. If they try anything its a bone buster. Firesprite In the Wet and Windy Fens
  15. No, I was glad to have a place of my own away from my sister (Who is pi** off that I moved 200 miles away. (Baby sitting and can I borrow some money)) Firesprite In the wet and windy Fens
  16. I thought you used torn up copy's of the Daily Mail. Firesprite In the wet and windy Fens
  17. I am convinced that he is a member of the Press, Even if he claims otherwise (Reporters don`t have a good rep for telling the truth) Its the sort of thing that papers like Daily mail do. Firesprite In the wet and windy Fens
  18. Bad News Bizzard, Captain "Thunderguts" Povey has order HMS Troutbridge to sea, Odds on with Sub Lieutenant "Left hand down a bit" Phillips the Troutbridge will run you down and rest asure CPO "Ev'rybody down!" Pertwee will sell off the remains to Potarneyland Navy. Firesprite In the wet and windy Fens
  19. Hang on a few days, You be able to watch Alan Herd (Tommy`s Sidekick) do it on Narrowboat Dover, as its repeated again on Quest Firesprite In the wet and windy Fens
  20. I gather the former HMS Cumberland (AKA The Fighting Sausage) is up for sale for the same amount. Firesprite In the Wet and Windy Fens
  21. He only fired the gun, not point a loaded gun at me, anyhow he tell the police that he was shooting pests (In his eyes that may include people mooring on his land), I tend not to stop and argue with anyone packing heat. We no longer have a police force in Cambridgeshire, It became the Cambridgeshire Crime Data Collection Service. Firesprite In the Windy Fens
  22. Andy Hall who is one of the river inspectors, told me this was still the case earlier in the year. The ant-social group almost cleared out the most of the game birds around Elton Lock, hence the ban. The middle level have service notice on the two boaters you saw to leave the Middle levels. It is always the few who wreck it for the many. Firesprte In the Windy Fens Try the loo block Firesprite In the windy Fens
  23. Is not the case that he likes running his own little empire, If grouping takes place he just becomes a small cog.. If I remember correctly that in the 16th drainage Act there is a condition which gave free navigation rights. And this is why the middle levels can not charge a fee. Firesprite In the windy Fens But surlely the most expensive waterway is the Manchester Ship Canal, No annual licance instead you a fee for passage plus a toll per lock. The most expensive moorings per foot, are to be found in Falmouth Cornwall. Firesprite In the windy Fens
  24. With any lock you buying time (5 minutes is a very time for a crook) Crooks are more likely to break in, If the crook can see in (Keep the curtains shut on the bank side) I suspect that after the Cambridge Riverbank Openhouse some of the boats will get broking into in the days afterwards. A comment from a Pal of my, Who is one of the local plod. My own boat has steel doors and 12" potholes to keep the little S*DS out. And the tiller arm will encourage them to try elsewhere. As I did with a pole `never do well` who tried to remove my vents in Peterborough early in the year. Firesprite In the Fens
  25. So where is the `Isle of white`? As the only island in Solent, That I know of, Is the `Isle of Wight` or have you had one two many and are seeing double. The Navy can still press gang in time of war under the impressment Act of 1835. Bad news your admiral is a `fake` who broke out of `Broadmoor`. The true Lord High Admiral of the fleet is of course the Duke himself. Any how your boat is to be used as a target for a Navy Shoot. Firesprite In the Fens
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