roland elsdon

Round here the local council is the only one that doesn't do 'hard rubbish' pickup monthly( health and safety) everywhere else in Victoria 2 days before the hard waste days everyone puts their old TVs computers ( running machines !!! ) on the nature strip and they get picked up. Not here they all get fly tipped in the pine plantations creeks etc. the council solution is to put up cameras so they can tell the landowners where to clean up. It's only latrobeshire... an area of economic deprivation.. whats a hobby boater? Under different hats I've lived on boats carried with boats earned my living from boats and restored boats. Now I live 50/50 none of those has affected my desire to keep the canals clean. We often strip packaging off in the supermarkets and leave it for them and my parents introduced us to the joys of string bags in the 80s

Actualy at that point you will kneel to the mighty Eco fan because if you remove the griddling rabbit from the stove top the Eco fan will go round and round and round, it will replace the crystal set as entertainment

You are starting from the wrong place. All the galvanic idolators in braunston ( oh thank you smellchucker) hold the belief that they are retaining your metal molecules in suspension. boat to somewhere with good ley lines, where no one is plugged in disconnect your solar, throw your engine commencement device into the cut and wait. Ultimately your whole world will re evolve. Nothing will work and you will be killing rabbits and cooking them on the open fire. For a shortcut go buy Mabel and Forget me not . Straight back to the past. Wet suit not permitted .

We just pull the whole rug out of the cabin and beat the crap out of any nearby tree trunk or post. Then we follow the procedure in the previous post. We had a boat with carpets a mains ring and a vacuum 13 years ago it was over rated, so we went back to 1937

99% of people do the right thing but the 1% who don't have a disproportionate negative on the rest of us. It doesn't matter who the 1% are as long as we attempt to mitigate their behaviour. I've long believed in zero tolerance but the cheese eating excuse monkeys always generate an excuse

Quite so when I worked for the nhs we used to be advised to lease certain vehicles and in 2000 it was baby draggers. So my collegues without children is to drive 7 seat Picasso and other trash in spite of being child free, because their trendiness made their residuals high . of course I had a Mg Zs2.5 v6 with the bad boy full spoiler to visit patients...depreciation special when they went broke... Sorry my collegues without children all went to drive

you are disposing of an asset to buy a depreciating chattel that has attached costs. we lived on one income and saved the other after we bought our boat to live , on worked overtime bought the cheapest ex repo house we could and worked up. house prices may fluctuate cyclically but in the long run asset prices increase . Chattels devalue to zero

We have a turn of the century manual device. Doesn't flatten the batteries. then we stand the ecofan on the fridge and watch the dust fly back into the fire. have to remember to tether the cat first

Back on topic I bought a halfords car battery in 2012 because they were within dragging distance of where the boats batteries had been removed . ( unplanned removal) . Smallest one I could get away with ( had to take by bike) has been starting the lister ever since.

There are canals now that were dead when we started, Kennet, Rochdale, Huddersfield droitwich to name a few. None have closed since we started. yes there were lengthsmen yes bits were deeper yes there were less boats, yes you could name all the boats residential south of cowley lock. on the other hand most of birmingham and London were risky single handed and leaving an unattended boat no way. So its changed opening up the towpaths has been brilliant- you used to be locked in with the hoodlums at times, and as for the hordes of angry fishists its different and it will change again

I paid money for it so it must work. snake oil. We had a fan in our Woodstove in Australia.( 8kw) It was 200 watts . You barely felt any difference and it was ducted round the fire. I recon the 200 watts turning the motor heated the room more

I was so concerned about the divergence from scientific evidencing of world problems I decided to call what was known in my previous business as a 'f... it'

Mornington Crescent

Look we have evidenced all this clearly. Increased Eco fan use in the northern hemisphere caused a recent heatwave here in southern Victoria. Fact. It's equalised out here now as the uk has got warmer in the last few days the temp here dropped 18 degrees, and your stoves died down Fact aldi in Moe morwell and Traralgon the three towns in the Latrobe Valley where power used to be produced now have ample stocks of Eco fans as 'winter approaches' in the same way that on Boxing Day there were trays of hot cross buns Fact clearly Kinver canopies have 'acquired ' some of the fans destined for victoria. If you buy them and prevent their relocation your summer will be cold as the maelstrom of hot air from Victorian woodstoves will be interrupted . You could cause global cooling. Fact.

"I'll just go and empty some of the full loo cassettes dear" " no leave them we are just going to Banbury and might need them later"

I'm looking forward to some dodgy shopping at the Ann summers shop , c/o the zit banbury. Looks like a great place to get tied up.

We sold up fed up on 2005 it's all over after 25 years on the cut. Emigrated 'we will never retire on a boat' creep back started in 2011 , by 2012 we had ' summer boat' by 2017 we were on her 7 months ( and had summer jobs in australia) now we count ourselves as uk resident on the boat... if it's in your blood you will overcome the changes especially if you have tried the dark side

Speculation is the mother of rumour.....rumour causes disharmony... Congratulations gas axe at the ready...

What's a 3 Ee? Don't need barber only sunscreen.. banbury used to be our local big town and was quite civilised there were few chains and it was easier than leamington bilge ( now there's a bloody awful place) . Now unfortunately due to the zit it's full of designer shops selling brands..( crap made in China and labelled up)

Ok enough now. at my bike race this morning 8 am it was 27 degrees, now it's 7 pm and 37 degrees wife, keeps wandering around saying its cooling off ( was 41) please please take the fans off the stoves all of you...

Banbury used to be dreadful, opposite the new shopping centre. However now the only real problem seems to be the architectural and environmental zit on the backside of humanity that drags all the locals in to buy designer crap. Not that I'm biased or anything. i used to like wandering into the square dashing to the ironmongers hoping that the boat would still be afloat when I got back, but as for spending a night no way. having said that our deck broom was stolen at cropredy of all places. Had to go through designer city to the remains of the ironmongers to get a new one. Confirmed that they sell nothing of use to anyone in the zit.

Should have bought her back to protect her was offered .Spent 16 years keeping her true...

So from what you are saying a difficult to start engine is great on an aeroplane..joy, and you have to be pissed to fix the fuel system on a lister. I can relate to the second get pissed while someone else fixes the boat, but worry about the first....

Steel top was still there in the 80s with a wooden extension if I remember. Don't ever remember an engine or even tiller but memory fades

Thaxted used to have a sleeping partner owner who once took her on the nene. Somehow he got the bow caught under a gilloteen gate and lifted it off. They charged him 50 to come out on a public holiday and replace it...