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The German one was quite interesting. Even had some canals and locks.
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2 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:
You can see on fields where the sprayer has overlapped and given a double or treble coverage.
The grass is badly burnt (brown) and is killed.
You will see the same when a bitch (female dog, not that dodgy woman down the pub) pees on your lawn. The patch where she has peed will burn the grass.
Probably the same if you let that woman down the pub pee on your lawn.
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On 06/01/2021 at 19:36, LadyG said:
Then transported to Holland to be diluted and fed to the plants?
I don't think so.
Years ago farmer's tried feeding newspaper sprayed with molasses to beef cattle, I suppose they could have recycled urine, and fed that too?
I think the residues from sewage farms are injected in to soils, personally that makes a good case for organic farming in a responsible way, not concentrating God knows how many drugs and residues and putting it back into food I might eat.
I would imagine newspaper with molasses would make quite a good feed (!).
Back in the ‘80s new EU regulations were introduced to limit or prevent certain ingredients in sheep and cattle feed. Two of the items were human sewage and poultry feathers. “Who the hell uses human sewage in cattle feed” people asked. Turned out the Italians were doing it and that feed could be exported to other European countries.
To measure the protein content of ruminant feed, they actually measure the nitrogen content and multiply the level by 6.25 as in theory the rumen bacteria convert the nitrogen to protein. Some bright sparks worked out that grinding up 30% chicken feathers and 70% straw made a calculated protein level of 16%, the standard protein level of sheep nuts for instance. Somewhat cheaper than using conventional protein sources!
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Have you done any angle grinding? The specks of steel will rapidly tarnish if they are not cleaned off, before or after painting.
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Just watched it- recorded to skip adverts.
Interesting programme. There are actually some good documentaries on PBS . I use tvguide.co.uk to check what's on, pick your area and which channels to cover.
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32 minutes ago, Loddon said:
Its on freesat ch 155 freeview ch 91
At 10pm tonight
Or pbs +1 an hour later.
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Programme on PBS, on "European Waterways ".
10:00 on PBS channel 91, or PBS +1 channel 93 at 11:00.
Don't know anything about the programmes, but could be interesting.
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You don't really need an air filter as the engine intake is not going to be subject to dust and grit. Having said that, it needs something to stop you dropping a nut or spanner down the air intake. Vetus engines (e.g. M4.xx) had an air filter box, but no filter in the box.
On a previous boat with a Thorneycroft Mitsubishi, I actually got better fuel consumption when I threw the air filter out.
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2 hours ago, Athy said:
As for Wallace, as a presenter he makes a pretty good greengrocer, yes.
And he should have stayed as one.
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It's leaks.
I shut my gas off at the cylinder when I leave the boat. I can go back a couple of weeks later and without turning the gas on, light a burner on the hob which will burn for a few seconds before fading out. To me that confirms that I don't have a leak (as long as I haven't got a leak-through on the cylinder tap).
When it wouldn't light, I searched, and found, a very slight leak on the regulator.
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“To the Baltic with Bob” is also an entertaining read, by Griff Rhys Jones.
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2 minutes ago, Murflynn said:
I would like to see the police act as they did in a recent rave in Brittany:
a cordon around the offending boat and not allow anyone to leave without paying an on-the-spot fine, which will require each raver to spend 10 minutes filling out forms and making a statement, one at a time. The boating life will soon pall when 100 hungry tired and cold ravers find the bogs are blocked and the party pills have run out.
If only.
Instead here they will be told they have been naughty boys and girls and now please go home. And probably offered a lift.
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We've just defrosted a pint of full fat milk that had been in the freezer for about four months and it was fine (mrs dor made panna cotta and pancakes). Since I have got used to black coffee we don't keep fresh milk in the fridge at all, but have frozen some milk in an ice tray. The cubes are kept in the freezer in a bag and gets used for coffee etc if someone wants a white coffee.
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And make sure that you use ferrules on the cable ends when connecting to screw contacts. Needed with multi strand cable unlike domestic T&E cable.
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Just another example of CRT’s complete lack of competence when it comes to awarding contracts (and much else).
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1 hour ago, doratheexplorer said:
I've been trying to remember the last time I went into a shop.
I now buy all my groceries online. I reckon the last time I went in a shop to buy was around september/october last year. The one except was about 3 weeks ago. I was out for a walk and I was desperate for the loo, there was a tesco so I went in to use that. I was genuinely shocked at how busy it was. Yes it was in the run up to Christmas, but there were big family groups just ambling around the shop with their masks round their chins. This was in a tier 3 area. I think it was at that point that fully realised how bad things would be getting in the new year.
Some people just never got what a pandemic means in the first place (including some forum members). Others seem to have gotten bored with doing what they should.
It should be really simple. If you're planning to do a thing, ask yourself these questions:
1. Is there any level of risk involved?
2. Do I actually need to do it?
3. If yes, can I do it differently to reduce risk.
A pandemic is built in billions of little casual neglectful acts. Each one adds a tiny bit to the overall picture.
Shopping in pairs or groups is one of these acts. If you really can't do it by yourself, it's not available to order online, and you really NEED it, then fair enough. But if you tick those boxes I'd question whether you should even be going out, or whether someone should be shopping for you.
In my (admittedly inexperienced) opinion, the almost complete lack of policing of the rules, and the resulting contacts, are probably the biggest cause of the huge increase in cases. Just look at the Brecon Beacons fiasco, where at worst people were politely told to turn round.
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Fit the new isolator somewhere easy to get to, and just connect a bit of wire across the old isolator which is probably easier than removing it or trying to fit the new one in its place.
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I wonder if the boat had been comprehensively insured, whether the insurance company would try and wriggle out by saying the owners were negligent leaving the boat on tight lines on a river prone to significant level rises.
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My wife uses a 700 W "travel hairdryer". Whilst it draws quite a bit of power, it is only on for a short while so doesn't impact much on the batteries. She usually checks with me that it is ok to use, which it normally is.
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You need to establish what the base fridge is, then look for spares for that. The Shoreline label (RR46) doesn't relate to the fridge itself. Could be LEC or several others.
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I made my own from 18mm ply, copied from one of the foam ones, similar, but more square than the ones shown.
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Water in the fuel tank? 15%. Is getting quite low, and if the tank hasn’t been checked it could have a few litres sloshing about.
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I had a similar arrangement on a previous boat with a plain bearing. The tiller used to shake a lot and water spurted up. Fitted a proper tiller bearing and it made a world of difference.
If you do it, fit the bearing with a nylon ball rather than the square ones with a ball bearing as the latter invariably rust, especially as the angle means the grease doesn’t stay in the bearing.
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You need to take the window trim off to find where it is coming from. It could be condensation getting between the frame and trim, or it could be a leak between the window and the panel. If the latter. Capt Tolley's Leaking Crack Cure might fix it (it did mine, once I had found the leak).
Boaters fined £30,000 for breaching Covid rules.
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Walls used the fat to make the ice cream, that's why they made sausages and ice cream. The pork fat wasn't a lot different composition-wise to the cream now used to make dairy ice cream.
Used to get 1s a day for school lunch. I preferred to go down the shops for 6 pen'oth of chips, a thrupny apple and a Mars Bar.