Chris Pink

The expensive (but best) option: http://www.apple.com/uk/keyboard/ There's one here a bit cheaper; http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Apple-Wireless-Keyboard-British-/200818661764#vi-content Just to note, there's a lot of counterfeit Apple MC184B keyboards on eBay - ie most of them as far as I can tell. I don't know if they work or not but they aren't Apple keyboards. THe one I linked to is genuine (or at least it's a genuine box!)

Your stock 'argument' when you have lost the debate is pretty thin stuff.

I think I'm going to lie down now. I agree with this. With the addition that if CRT do persuade Parliament they need more power, and with a brouhaha brewing in London, they might. It will be an ill thought out and rushed piece of legislation. Whatever else one says about the 1995 Act it wasn't rushed. Which bit?

"personal vitriol" - and your post #269? I am not making any personal attacks I am disagreeing with you (discussion) and pointing out that trying to find a way to escape due tax is inconsistent with criticising others who you see as "playing the system" Clearer now? There, as you're so sensitive, i've substituted "inconsistent" for 'hypocritical'.

They don't do they? There's a document circulating at my mooring "The Future" and where my nice shady pontoon is there's not one tree. Madness.

...and there's you claiming to be competent at IT. (though I feel sorry for everybody else who has to read your crap in that stupid way. Suits you, incidentally - pompous and tasteless, I think you should make it your house style ) I discounted your 'it's too much hassle" argument, because that's such a non-specific whine that it could apply to almost everything. So, as I say " I don't want to", "it's too much hassle for me to fiddle the system" and "I can't fill my tank without spilling fuel" are hardly heavyweights arguments are they? Would you like me to provide you with a link to a good funnel? By the way, in the grown up world, I already manage 6 fuels on my boat, so handling white diesel as well is not going to be as difficult for me as someone as intellectually challenged as yourself.

Why don't you try a wireless keyboard with the iPad, much cheaper and easier than replacing it? You can also get OpenOffice for iPad now, will deal with most Microsoft stuff though Google Docs is good too but you do need to be online, using data to use it.

Youtube is your friend.

Sorry, I didn't realise you hadn't understood, here you go; hypocrisy (noun); the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform Just to help you a little more; saying "I accept your apology" and then making little snide comments is an example. Criticising boaters for using the law to their advantage and then looking for ways out of paying tax is another. HTH

I think you check what your carer is writing for you (maybe if they used easier words?) Which part of "I don't want to" are you retracting now? I take to mean you would be incapable of filling your tanks without spillage - or is that just everyone else? As for you with your nasty little snide comments on the back of Colonel Blimp's coattails... maybe you should try a little harder with that avoiding hypocrisy. How can I tell?

I don't suppose they're particularly New Age any more, 30 years on, Old Age Travellers perhaps?

I would have thought even suggesting it, if it came to light, would be sufficient to have a license refused or revoked.

I look forward toi Dave Mayall and Mike the Boilerman calling your a Left Wing Loony Liberal too then. This is my feeling. I agree completely with you. I have no problem with CRT taking proper and appropriate action against boats but to abuse their powers to remove it a boat is not one. So you would be glad to see a known criminal framed for something just to get them off the streets? This, in my mind, is directly analogous to that.

I can't be bothered to pick the threads of your attempts to find loopholes because that's what it is, just as surely as your accusations of NCCCCXMers finding loopholes to do what they do - that's why it's germain (sic). I certainly value my time more highly than transporting diesel for a 10% saving. All I will say is that all other European countries have managed to implement this directive. As Loddon says, in France, absolutely nobody tries to get around the law. The UK government just can't be arsed. And I see no ethical, moral or legal reason why boat fuel should be rebated. Even the blundering Mayall can only come up with "I don't want to" and "I'd spill it if I had to fill my own tanks".

And rather than weasel words that completely avoid addressing any of the issues, could you give me a straight answer to this question; Given the 'evidence' of numerous posters on here as to this boat's movements do you think that CRT's reasons given for the Section 8 and subsequent court action were valid? ie that the boat was not complying with the conditions of a licence with no home mooring. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ incidentally I've had a look through the forum rules and I can't find the bit that says you have to have your sense of irony removed before posting on here. A thread that started by discussing CRT's statement about a boat that may or may not have been breaching licence conditions is now firmly in the area of ways of breaking the law and getting away with it.

It doesn't take much 'prediction' to read the arguments. They were there from page 1. I am sorry if they are too complicated for you. Many people who have no sympathy whatsoever for these people, including myself, object strongly to the spin CRT has put on it. The undefended nature of the judgement simply reinforces my argument. I suggest you read my, and other's, posts again, this time taking your time to read them properly.

This: http://www.victronenergy.com/upload/documents/Datasheet%20-%20GEL%20and%20AGM%20Batteries%20-%20rev%2007%20-%20EN.pdf Last page, top chart. Won't pasted properly. Absorption 14.2-14.6V Fast charge 14.6-14.9 Float 13.5 - 13.8V Boil the bugger (14.9V) Unless you have over-capacity of solar in which case be kind 14.6V

Yep. That's what I said would happen.

So not defended then. Seems like they'd already moved on and decided not to fight for this boat/home in court. A bit of a pyrrhic victory for CRT in my opinion. And hardly justification for the crowing nature of the original press release. Though no doubt some fantasist will be along in a minute to tell us what the (non-appearing) defendant's motives were.