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Just now, Tonka said:
We didn't get that and we're not that far away from you, weired
I am being generous when I called it snow, it was very slushy and hardly enough to cover a ants toes but it was there
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Had snow in North Wales yesterday morning
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2 minutes ago, magnetman said:
Don't even ask about the gran on the Clapham omnibus !
I won't if you don't
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2 hours ago, magnetman said:
Always worth remembering that if one were to ask the nan on the Clapham omnibus she might think canals were for having pleasurable holidays unencumbered by inadequate low grade housing provision for those who ideally need state support.
Is this a general nan or a specific nan, I would volunteer mine to offer her opinion but she died a good few years ago
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7 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:
Apparently just one-twig counts as being built (irrespective of who placed the twig there).
For a pidgin that's a mansion
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36 minutes ago, peterboat said:
I have passed on everyone's regards to Tim, he is very poorly the transplant hasn't gone well, he was nearly back in hospital the other day. I will be talking to him later so will know more then
Thank you for the update and give him my best
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I've been wondering where he has got to, I know he has been a bit poorly, hope he is OK
3 hours ago, Graham Davis said:the same time as Phil left.
Has Phil left?
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2 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:
Not sure it is quite as binary as that. Recycling rules are complicated and vary across regions. The quality of waste will vary as conscientious boaters or householder apply their own mixed set of rules.
Where do cardboard juice cartons go? Does everyone rinse a milk plastic bottle? Should a black microwave food tray go in recycling? My understanding is that black food tray plastic is so low grade is has no recycle value and should go in general. In my part of the world glass goes in recycle.
Don't disagree that recycling rules are less than ideal but none of that matters a jot when people abuse the simple system we have now and I mean really abuse the system...
Bins full, bugger it just throw the crap on the floor. Which often means the bin men won't empty the bins due to obstruction which then leads to
Oh look everyone else is dumping stuff on the floor, I might as well.
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Yes I know there are signs saying no waste oil but stuff it...
Where else can I dump my bag of poo mixed with cat litter, or mattress or sofa or plasterboard and so on and on
I would absolutely guarantee that if CRT installed proper recycling systems someone would stuff it up and continue to stuff it up
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6 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:
the past 20 years of my yachting, lack of marina rubbish segregation has been a persistent complaint. You will be surprised how many really want this.
I don't disagree with you, many people want proper recycling systems in place, problem is it only takes one to stuff the whole system up, it could be boaters or none boaters it doesn't matter.
People are their own worse enemies, have you seen a bin compound in a busy summer?
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And from me
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33 minutes ago, system 4-50 said:
It behoves the technical people to be honest. Why not just admit that for brief period you hooked up an AI engine to sift through all the posts and suppress those without any merit?
And the result was the no new posts page we all saw, so admin had to hurriedly switch off the AI
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23 minutes ago, rmo said:
This should be fixed now.
Should this happen again I always recommend posting a topic in this forum like you have done here - I will receive a notification on my phone as soon as you do so.
On a separate note: Please kindly do not use the report post feature to report technical issues as I won’t have immediate visibility of it.
Cheers
Thank you
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Same, using both chrome and Samsung own browser
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8 hours ago, MtB said:
I DID ask the mods.
But understandably, no reply yet as I see Jen has just confirmed, there is a back-stage conference about it going on.
And you might see it as a storm in a teacup, but I gave the matter quite a lot of thought and came up with a credible scenario that might explain why the marina was demanding payment, and asked some pertinent questions to find out if that scenario was actually the case. The OP appears to have responded by ignoring my ideas and demanding thread deletion instead.
Which is all fair and as I didn't read the thread I didn't see how it developed or read your post.
These threads though always develop along the same lines though where posters bemoan the state of the forum, the state of the moderation and how terrible it all is with occasional references to the golden era of some sort.
The reality is the moderation is good the majority of the time considering it's all done by volunteers with a life outside the place, expecting an immediate response to issues such as this is, at least I think, a bit much.
I'm not saying the moderation should escape scrutiny, I'm just saying give the poor buggers a chance before the accusations start.
I would add the thread title in my opinion is designed to elicit a specific response, it's basically a click bait title and it's worked, if this was from a new member there would be accusations of sock puppetry with mentions of thunderboat
16 hours ago, junior said:Who are the mods on here these days? Last time I paid any attention it was Dan the host, plus James & Amy. I'm not sure they are on here these days.
If you look in the top of the page where you access your profile details there is a browse menu, click on that and there's a menu to see the staff
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3 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:
It is under discussion.
thank you for bearing with us - 'A' Mod does not act in isolation, and sometimes it is necessary to hide a post while agreement is reached... - The Mods
Thank you
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By far the most sensible thing to do is actually ask the mods because otherwise everyone gets all het up over what is often a storm in a tea cup
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1 hour ago, jonathanA said:
Presumably Silver birch is the exception as its bark is natures firelighter and taking silver Birch bark doesn't seem to do the birch any harm.
Removal of bark as such isn't the issue because bark is dead tissue, although removing that bark tends to either remove or damage the actual active cambriun layer, Cork Oaks are the classic example but they are very careful not to damage the cambriun in the process
I imagine you were removing the dry loose bark that birch sheds, which is just a natural process, similar in a way to how we shed dead skin cells
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1 minute ago, Mac of Cygnet said:
There was a trip boat on the river last time I was there (several years ago). Is it still there? How did it get there? Does/did it stay all winter?
There's more than one, all above the wier.
I remember seeing a narrowboat on the river a good few years ago, I really wish I had taken a photo and could remember when
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13 minutes ago, Jonny P said:
Oops. Edited.I thought you meant the truncated loop of the old line.
The pool you’re referring to is a former (colliery?) basin. I’m sure I could find its name in some publication but don’t know of the top of my head.
Further edit - Warrens Colliery Basin.
Thank you
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2 hours ago, 5239 said:
I think it’s grown in popularity over last few years and I tend to see boats moored here in the highlighted bits,there’s moorings along the same side as the visitor centre too,
my preferred spot is opposite the visitor centre,
with a nice walk through the park to the Swan in one direction and a good chippy in the other,
I did wonder if that 'pool' to the north of bullfield bridge was navigable, does it have a name?
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2 hours ago, Lady M said:
I was referring to the Patron badge that appears if you hover over the user name, as described above.
I suspect 'rare' relates ti how many members actually contribute, nothing to do with how much or how often you contribute.
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27 minutes ago, magnetman said:
doubt one can strangle a tree with a rope.
Mr new age hippy obviously hasn't been out much and noticed that trees regularly absorb metal fences and stay standing for decades afterwards.
Certainly a rope can 'strangle' a tree or a branch, but it takes a long time as most things with trees do, it's more restricting growth than an actual 'strangulation"
I've seen 15m trees snap at the site of an old tree tie left in place, the tree kept growing above and below the tie but the site of the tie was restricted to the original stem diameter, the tree sorta ozzed around the tie and hid the restriction
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55 minutes ago, blackrose said:
I once got a bollocking from a new age hippy type for putting a rope around a tree on the Thames. He said I was strangling the tree? Maybe he'd rather I'd driven a stake into it's roots?
He sorta has a point, particularly for thin barked trees such as beech, trees are basically a thin smear of living tissue surrounding a dead core, that smear is a series of tubes that transport fluids amongst other things, so the hippies argument is I guess the point pressure of the rope could crush those tubes.
It's something I would personally try to avoid or try to use a webbing strap to spread the pressure, am I being over cautious, almost certainly, I doubt occasional rope use does any real harm, long term on the other hand I'm less confident about
I personally wouldn't give 2 hoots about driving a stake in the root zone of a tree
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CRT Commission
in General Boating
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That was fun, bloody accurate as well, funny, intelligent, engaging and dammed handsome to boot