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12 hours ago, matty40s said:
Yes- Close to the Edge would have to be my one album. Incredible piece of music.
Kathy got me one of these a while back, with a USB socket so you can transfer the files to digital.
Bowie, rise and fall of ziggy stardust.
Actually maybe diamond dogs
Nope definitely rise and fall.
Hang on, maybe dark side of the moon, yes definitely dark side of the moon.
No definitely rise and fall
Mind you I would miss Billy Bragg talking to the taxman
Hmmmm this could get complicated
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1 minute ago, MtB said:
Me too, and particularly in the case of Halsall. Wasn't it "Junior" of this forum bought Halsall about ten years ago and de-converted to run as a fuel boat? Does he no longer operate it?
Halsall and Alton are part of the same company and yes Junior did work it as a fuel boat but gave up a few years ago and moved into a house
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1 hour ago, Tigerr said:
The smell of skunk is awful. It is like being in a confined space with someone with really really bad BO. Which is exactly what it smells like if you happen to be behind a heavy user in the line at the co-op. (mind you I think they mostly avoid the bit about paying round here, and just dash for the door).
I used to rather like the smell of the hash I smoked back in the 70's. An inoffensive and quite pleasant smell that went well with patchouli oil etc. The high was, well, mellow, focussed. The strongest thing back then was Thai sticks, flower heads on a twig, a bit richer in THC. Too strong for me in fact and quite hallucinogenic. About 5 years ago I had a joint of modern stuff. I was catatonic for 5 hours, not really pleasant at all, a whitey.
Not doing that again, but I'd rather like to get my hands on some good vintage moroccan black. Lovely stuff. This thread has put me in mind to go out and see if I can find some on the Uxbridge road.
Sums up my experience, I gave up a fair few years ago but the odd time I have dabbled since (twice I think) was the more modern skunk or a derivative it was a horrible experience, full on whitey.
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43 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:
There are two rope seals that need to be replaced on the squirrel door. The door glass uses a self adhesive flat fibreglass seal. Remove the old glass and seal and stick the new seal down with its built in adhesive. Place the new glass on top and rotate the retaining clips with a pair of pliers on to the glass. Don't try loosening the screws on the clips, as you'll just break them, unless the stove is brand new. Got to disagree with @tree monkey on this.
For the door to stove seal, there are two types of rope seal, hard and soft. A squirrel stove needs the soft sort to make the door easy to close. Most rope sold is of the hard sort. If you are unsure, then buy the stuff that Morso sell, as this will be right, though it is expensive. I have installed the hard sort by mistake in the past and this required a lot of effort to close the door. The pressure, I think, lead to the glass cracking, though they do break eventually just at random. It is a good idea to have a spare stove glass available on board.
For fitting the door seal, preparation is the most important thing. Getting all the old seal, glue, rust and soot out of the grove and take it back to metal. Lots of scraping with an old screwdriver.
It's a valid point, but it's worth making the effort to unscrew the clips, if I remember correctly my last glass replacement had one clip that just wouldn't budge but having the others free made the replacement a doddle.
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Use plenty of penetrating fluid, leave it to soak, use more and leave it to soak
Unscrew retaining clips, hope they come out otherwise it gets messy.
Remove the old rope.
Scrape the recess with an old screwdriver or other appropriate scrapey thing.
Wire brush the recess, clean out all the debris, wipe it down with some sort of solvent to finish.
Apply the rope glue as per instructions.
Install new glass and newly cleaned retaining screws ( I add a thin smear of copaslip).
Panic about exactly how tight the screws should be and whether you will crack the glass.
Panic or swear or both because the door is now an absolute bugger to close and convince yourself the new door rope is far too thick, decide to ignore it and sigh with relief when you realise the rope compresses over time and the rope is the correct size.
Clean up, find greasy smears of fire muck and dust everywhere for days.
Buy a second hand door so when the glass cracks in winter you don't have to panic
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On 21/09/2023 at 21:06, PeterScott said:
Today 2023
Sadly, still dead ...
Always a danger with a severe reduction on an established tree, particularly one already under stress, routine pollarding which this isn't should start early before maturity.
Hopefully they will retain the stem as a habitat, probably after the final removal of the crown
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23 minutes ago, haggis said:
I have heard that grabbing a dog by it's b*** (manly bits) makes them let go if they have hold of another dog. Never tried it though 🙂
Not sure I would want to try it
First choice would be grab collar and twist, hard, it's worked twice for me, once on a doberman and once on a staffy type
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15 hours ago, MartynG said:
What law is that please ?
I can't say I have ever owned or used gaffer tape in my life
What do you use it for on a boat ?
Loads of stuff that needs tapeing up
I've also used it to act as a temp repair to a split radiator hose (on a mini though), it got me home and to the spares shop and back again and even then wasn't leaking
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37 minutes ago, Rob-M said:
Lit our fire about an hour ago and now it's too hot.
Same, doors open because it's too hot
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21 hours ago, Tracy D'arth said:
Had experience with a pellet boiler. Very expensive to run, needed regular servicing, parts crazy prices, very few firms prepared to service, storage of bags of pellets and keeping them bone dry was difficult, broke down often, used masses of electricity starting up with igniters, now abandoned after only one year.
I cannot see how they are environmentally friendly, an expensive experiment that failed.
My experience is slightly different
Service once a year, no problem finding service company
Parts so far reasonable price (not needed much anyway)
Yup storage of pellets an issue but I have space so not an issue for me, as a bonus I don't have to store gallons of heating oil with the associated spills and smells.
I think it's more expensive to run than an oil burner but I have no direct experience for a proper comparison, but I don’t think it's massively higher
Yup needs electricity but so do oil boilers
The issue with environmentally friendly claims is a daft one (in my opinion) and shouldn't be part of their marketing, unless the pellets are sourced from local waste wood, that aside it is certainly more environmentally friendly to my local environment than the last oil burner
14 hours ago, Sea Dog said:Yes, and the industrial quantities of pellets required would be a great excuse to add a butty!
Which is the massive issue on a boat, I honestly don't think it's practical on a boat unless you tow a butty
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42 minutes ago, TheBiscuits said:
Amateur
Something I completely accept, when compared to Dad who produced brew on an industrial scale, I swear he is responsible for global climate change, I swear the co2 levels were so high in that house it was borderline dangerous
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I currently have about 20 demijohns various air locks and a fruit press plus access to a shit load of apples, unfortunately due to life getting in the way this years homebrew plans are likely aspirational, next year though...
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57 minutes ago, Pie Eater said:
What is H & M?
Something in Australia I think, not all that relevant to the UK canals
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29 minutes ago, Chewbacka said:
So what is environmentally friendly about burning wood pellets?
CO emissions - not good
CO2 emissions- not good
pm2.5 emissions- not good
It's less environmentally damaging than burning coal, or the least that's the argument, it's certainly not environmentally friendly that's the wrong term to use
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2 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:
It was removed because even though it worked well and even at todays oil costs the cost to run it was extortionate and oil works out a LOT cheaper 😩 The full story is that around 4 years ago the local government were offering businesses such as my local pub a free boiler " up grade " ( love that bullshit term ) if they fitted pellet burners, round here its ninety percent ish oil boilers. So as old boiler was knackered landlord took offer up. It quite simply is too expensive. As he still had his decent oil tank hes had a new oil boiler fitted now and in fact there was loads of pellets left which were burn in small amounts along with briquettes on the fire last winter. I understand the reasons behind it wanting to rid oil boilers but until a viable alternative is found people will burn oil, myself included.
I did wonder if cost was the issue, I much prefer the pellet boiler tbh the old oil burner was foul and regularly broke down, this pellet boiler just works and without the stink of diesel.
I am hoping if I stock up with pellets in the summer I can keep the cost reasonable
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2 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:
It was removed because even though it worked well and even at todays oil costs the cost to run it was extortionate and oil works out a LOT cheaper 😩 The full story is that around 4 years ago the local government were offering businesses such as my local pub a free boiler " up grade " ( love that bullshit term ) if they fitted pellet burners, round here its ninety percent ish oil boilers. So as old boiler was knackered landlord took offer up. It quite simply is too expensive. As he still had his decent oil tank hes had a new oil boiler fitted now and in fact there was loads of pellets left which were burn in small amounts along with briquettes on the fire last winter. I understand the reasons behind it wanting to rid oil boilers but until a viable alternative is found people will burn oil, myself included.
I did wonder if cost was the issue, I much prefer the pellet boiler tbh the old oil burner was foul and regularly broke down, this pellet boiler just works and without the stink of diesel.
I am hoping if I stock up with pellets in the summer I can keep the cost reasonable
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13 hours ago, Sea Dog said:
My daughter's home has bio mass pellet type heating. Not the densest of fuels - the shear volume must surely be a prohibitive issue on a boat?
I have experience, fairly extensive, of a pellet boiler and this would be one of the issues that would put me off installing one, I've currently stocked up for the winter and the amount of bags required would likely fill the inside of my boat, never mind the need to keep the pellets bone dry.
Pellets are also expensive particularly if buying in small quantities or at least appear to be expensive but as I have no experience of the costs of fuel oil it could just be my tight arse tendencies coming out
Don't get me wrong the boiler is simple to use and clean compared to fuel oil and I like it a lot
11 hours ago, mrsmelly said:My local pub has just removed their 3 year old system and installed oil. Also a ginormous hopper that fed the boiler.
I mean ginormous.
I'm curious, why did they remove it?
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3 minutes ago, Tony1 said:
What insulating goose grease??
I fear this may be straying into some sort of ungodly sexual practices.
This may not be the forum for this sort of thing ma'am.
That means either your invite to the goose grease gang has been lost in the post or more unfortunately you have been found lacking in moral fiber by the committee and you will never be able to enter the special restricted areas of the forum
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2 hours ago, frangar said:
As sadly this topic now has strayed so far off topic I suspect the OP has quite understandably given up on the fossils on the forum perhaps it’s time I asked what people think of Polyamorous relationships….this is speaking as someone that’s in closed triad….
As long as it works for you and your partners who give a toss.
It's not for me but to be honest I'm fairly crap at the standard old school me and a hetro female, adding complexity would probably cause me to implode
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10 minutes ago, Tracy D'arth said:
Interesting that I am in the top 6% age-wise. Are all the occupants of this category as obnoxious as I can be?
From experience I reckon the post retirement shiny boat brigade are the worse for being self-opinionated and irascible.
The young and penniless worse for manners.
Charmingly irascible?
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39 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:Dare I ask........? Don't want to offend anyone but what are this week's preferred words?
For instance, years ago if we used the term queer we were admonished and frowned upon. These days it's something like LGBTQIAa xy blooming z so, is the Q for queer and is it ok this week?
Jeeeez
You're right, it is confusing, for those of us who don't live it it can appear to be almost impossible to keep up, plus of course right now I don't need to keep up, but generally I find if you treat people decently it never becomes an issue.
Plus of course if I need to find out whats appropriate we live in the age of the internet with pages like those highlighted by MJG.
It's not really a major issue and if it makes some people's lives a little better that only be a good thing right?
4 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:AHH so it's either queer or questioning, thanks for the update.
I just wish the goal posts stayed in the same place.
2 minutes ago, rusty69 said:Goalposts? I'd be happy to find the playing field where I left it.
That's just getting old that is, the world moves on even if I don't want it to
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32 minutes ago, LadyG said:
No way.
Its remembering and thanking those who paid dearly
To ignore the event is to ignore the sacrifice they made to keep us safe.
Like I said my Dad held that opinion, he lived through it and saw the effect on his family, I am happy for you to hold a different opinion, but are you going to deny my dad's right to hold his opinion based on his lived experience.
I might also add an uncle who fought in the navy also refused to take part for similar reasons, are you going to deny his opinion on this as well
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1 hour ago, NB Esk said:
I wonder if someone may be able to answer my question? We used to have a different kind of pride in this country, it was known as “ wear your poppy with pride “. This referenced people who had made a sacrifice in the defence of their country, in some cases becoming mentally or physically disabled, or even paying the ultimate sacrifice.My question is, if the above people are entitled to just one day per year ( rememberance Sunday ), how come members of LGB are entitled to an entire month?
It could be argued that we have had remembrance Sunday and similar occasions for over 100yrs but the persecution of people for being homosexual at least in the legal sense has only stopped recently, there is still, of course, a fair amount of general discrimination in society, so maybe the idea of pride month is a expression of new freedoms and as society finally accepts the existence of homosexuality it will eventually fade into the background.
Interestingly my Dad who was one of 7 brothers all of whom who fought in WW2 (plus sisters who served) refused to take part in any sort rememberance service (or buy a poppy) because he felt it celebrated war
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57 minutes ago, wandering said:It’s worth pointing out that not even 60 years ago—in my parents’ lifetime, in my lesbian aunts’ lifetime, maybe even in some of your lifetimes—heterosexuals put laws in place that would make me illegal. I could be punished, beaten and imprisoned. That isn’t ancient history. This still happens in some parts of the world. The reverberation of this regressive practice is still felt by people like me. It was your heterosexual police force who would entrap us like we were wild savages, they would raid our gathering spots, unable to leave us alone, veritably foaming at the mouth to oppress and subjugate. They would pretend to be like us so they could hurt us. Alan Turing helped Britain to win the Second World War and his reward from the heterosexual majority was castration. Truly and utterly shameful. It was this society where even popular homosexuals feared being themselves. Kenneth Williams, who the British public adored for his role in the Carry On films and Just a Minute, could never feel truly comfortable with himself because of the society he was born in, despite the deep public adoration for him and his talent. I posit his profound self-loathing was created by a society that hated who he really was and loved his created persona on stage and film. When we are told to just integrate, I dare say why don’t you lot make a society that is welcoming and caring for people like me so that this so-called integration is possible? Why is it incumbent upon me to do that? You create laws to criminalise me, you castrate me, you threaten and hurt me. What are you doing to help me integrate? Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Well said.
I wasn't going to get involved in the thread because I'm not gay and I have no idea of any such community you asked about but because some of the prehistoric responses I thought it worth saying not everyone holds such views, good luck in finding what you are after.
5 minutes ago, LadyG said:Read all the drivel and targetted personal attacks which have no place on this boating forum.
A fairly innocent question was responded to by some posters questioning his request which then led into an argument about his culture/lifestyle/life choices, are you surprised at a slightly defensive response, which as far as I can see contained no targeted attacks just an opinion on society in general
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Cannabis smoking in marinas
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The smell can make me feel sick nowadays for some reason, I realise it's just the way it is now and will avoid any place that smells of weed