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Don't worry. There's an instruction book. How to Shit in the Woods
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The HNC is not to be missed, although the increasing number of stoppages may affect your chances. The latter also applies to the Rochdale. I moor below Lock 1 of the Rochdale, and although I've been over it to Manchester once, my route south of choice is the HNC - 12 transits, and it took a year-long lock closure (Marple) and a global pandemic to prevent the 13th.
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From the same source: MELANIA TRUMP TO BE BROKEN UP FOR PARTS
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51 minutes ago, Midnight said:
You'll love this. When we first moored at our club in 2011 fees were £10 per foot per year. We now pay £6.40 per ft per year that's £365 for us. I'm embarrassed to pay the invoice.
Of course as moorings officer you can charge yourself what you like! (That was a joke, BTW. I'm sure everything is absolutely above board). Makes me wish I'd taken up your invitation to moor there a few years ago.
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You don't say where to get the 'Anglian Pass' or the price for boats under 10 metres (as mine is).
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I hadn't realised that the indomitable Barbara Castle was so interested in the promotion of canals while Transport Minister. Was her influence as great as was depicted in the documentary?
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On 12/02/2021 at 10:20, Boaty Jo said:
One lady who commented locally said her parents were Rechabites. At least for a while......
She said the sect was so strict, her Mum hung some washing out on a Sunday and got booted out!
Perhaps they're still around. (Caravan site, Cogenhoe)
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4 minutes ago, churchward said:
The US Senate has voted 56-44 in favour of the trial and it being constitutional. 6 Republicans voted for the trial with Democrats. 11 more will need to be convinced of guilt to convict (if they all turn up to vote) at the end so still not looking likely.
I watched a good deal of the presentation and debate from both sides. Impeachment House Managers (the prosecution if you will) presentation was very good and well argued but as one has come to expect the Trump lawyers etc. did quite a poor and unconvincing job.
Donald Trump impeachment trial is constitutional, Senators say in vote (usatoday.com)
Think you've strayed a bit, Churchward
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Latest update on the RRS Sir David Attenborough from Mike Glostein, the Radio Officer. Lots of swish interiors and a rather daunting prop shaft.
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I use an Ad Blocker (Adblock plus) and on no page on CWDF does it indicate that it is blocking anything. I would suggest that the ads are nothing to do with CWDF but an outside intrusion such as a PUP (potentially unwanted program). Malwarebytes or similar gets rid of these.
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6 minutes ago, Tim Lewis said:
They don't show up on my desktop unless I click on the gallery button
I just did that. Nothing there.
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3 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:
The surveyor has ownership of the copyright, so can sell it (and rights to using it) without the permission of the people who commissioned it.
I'm very surprised to read that. Surely if I commission anything, including a survey or any report, or indeed a work of art, then it becomes my property? When I bought Cygnet, the previous prospective purchaser had paid for an independent survey, but then couldn't come up with the money for the boat. I bought the survey for half price, and assumed that I was buying it from the person who commissioned it. All this was done through the selling agent (Calcutt Boats), whom I trusted and who were very helpful in the whole process.
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Where's the snow bomb? It's here, but not a bomb really - more of a damp squib.
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4 hours ago, Kendorr said:
All I do is to move the cursor over the abbreviation, don't click anything and after a very short time, the word appears
Even on this, hover above Nb in all 4 cases, Narrowboat shows.
Nope, nothing happening.
Edited to say that after I typed that, I tried again and now it works! Actually, I'm not sure I want these things popping up - I managed quite well with acronyms in context before. Can I turn it off, or is that just being awkward? ?
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2 hours ago, Kendorr said:
Works fine, HP laptop, Win 10, Chrome browser.
Which is exactly what I've got and it doesn't work!
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9 minutes ago, RichM said:
No problem: Hover your mouse pointer over the below for example:
Nb
CRT
BCN
WB
Not urgent by any means but no doubt will prove useful to some and I thought the topic may be a bit of fun too.
Nothing happened. Laptop running Windows 10, Chrome browser.
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Quite a bit of snow here last night. But not snowed in, as the the plough unexpectedly came through this afternoon - it usually takes 2 or 3 days for them to get around to us. Another pic from the top of the hill behind the house - Little Dog was really loving it all.
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Can I just say that if you use Envirograf at the stove end, then make sure you have somewhere else to go when you first fire it up. A long walk would do. Wigan in the rain wasn't good.....
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39 minutes ago, Hudds Lad said:
Have a google for "navvies ark", not sure if they did a build blog or anything but several interviews with various publications, might be a way to get in touch with them.
Passed it on the Leeds & Liverpool in 2015 and is probably the best lifeboat conversion i've ever seen on the canals.
personally i can't imagine living in one, but would make a good weekender or AirBNB i suppose, if it had its own mooring
I believe Navvies Ark is a member here. If the pics are anything to go by, they have made it entirely habitable. And a lot better looking than some of the things I've seen
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Taken 3 days ago from the top of the hill behind the house, with the sunset behind me. Not really snowed in, though, and we're not going anywhere anyway.
Edited to say that I'm in Scotland, but the pink hills are in England.
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We had a shared boat for several years with 'Stockton' as place of origin. Of course 99% of people thought it was from the much less interesting Stockton on Tees.
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I have raw water with heat exchanger cooling on my 27ft narrowboat (no mud box) and the only time it has seriously overheated wasn't on the dirty canals but on the Yorkshire Ouse last (2019) summer when the intake became blocked with the rampant weed of that year, necessitating a rather fraught stop on the rickety pontoons at Cawood in a strong current, observed closely by the Bridge Keeper through binoculars. I normally have to clean out the raw water strainer once a week on the canals. On that trip it was twice a day. Only 11HP
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If you want to see the absolute peak of model boat building, take a look at the link from Andy in the latest 'New Members' thread https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235034692-u96-172-type-vii-u-boat-revell-05015/
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14 hours ago, EdwardMeades said:
Surely it can only go in one way round?
No. You could wrongly think that the upper should fit over the lower (as I have seen advocated even here) and buy an adaptor appropriate to that. Ditchcrawler gives the reason for the correct arrangement. All connections should be a tight push fit, but if this is not possible then high temperature sealant should be used.
Venice: Low tides leave canals dry
in General Boating
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Although I've never been to Venice, I feel I know it intimately, through the eyes of Guido Brunetti via Donna Leon.