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51 minutes ago, cuthound said:
Well the petition to limit fireworks to council approved events has over 100,000 signatures and thus will be discussed in Parliament.
I've also.written to my MP asking if she will support this petition.
Sorry to say but such small numbers will be completely disregarded. When over 500,000 out of a population of less than 3 million complained about an impending ludicrous speed limit it was ignored. That would be like 10 million signing the fireworks petition.
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8 hours ago, PaulJ said:
I was moving a 54fter earlier this year with a very similar looking RH 2YBA- that was rated 10hp @ 1800
Think it drew about 32 or so inches and other than having to work a bit ploughing through a fairly shallow North Stratford it went OK.
My first boat, a 56 footer had a 9hp LR 2. We did most of the system in her including Tidal Trent, Thames etc. It was a bit interesting at times.
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20 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:
Or even a composing Loo 😇
Is that musical?
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21 hours ago, robtheplod said:
motor in stock, rubber gasket thats questionable is on 4 week delay....... i have 4 weeks to get this right...
If you have four weeks to " get it right" that is long enough to skip it and fit a proper, sensible cassette bog 😜
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26 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:
They're not doing as well at that as the last lot, though, who managed to more or less drive their party into extinction. Still time, of course...
They all seem to do it over the last few years. Get a stonking number of seats and then do their damndest to lose their popularity as quickly as possible.
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53 minutes ago, GUMPY said:
No it was always white and rock hard, you just don't see it like that anymore.
Yes lots of white dog poo in the towns years ago lol
Hell of a lot of dog walkers round here but very rare it's not picked up. I suppose some areas are not as well looked after. Here we have a monthly and a weekly group of residents that meet up and sweep the streets and remove rubbish and weeds etc etc, my missus attends every month. We also have half a dozen dog shit bins in the park that are emptied every few days by volunteers. Lots of vollies here do lots of tasks. Trouble is it seems there are many places were people moan about rubbish and dog shit but the moaners do not form groups to clean it up, they just moan.
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24 minutes ago, cuthound said:
You are lucky. They started here at 5:00pm and continued until well after midnight.
Sam only suffered a bit from 5:00 pm until 5:30.and again from 8:30 pm until 9:00 pm whilst waiting for his sedatives to kick in.
Hopefully it will be reasonably quiet now until Saturday night and then stop until New Year's Eve.
I think it's down to where we all live. I live in a valley and the entire population of the village/town is below 1500 people. We do not have an organised bonfire and no one else seems to bother. If you live in bigger conurbations chances are noise will come with it.
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56 minutes ago, Naughty Cal said:
Our dog wasn't too bad last night. He got a bit upset in the car on the way home from work and was panting heavily but then he snapped out of it when we had people viewing our house and he was "showing them around".
His mind was then further taken off the fireworks while he was eyeing up our ostrich steak and king prawns we had for dinner and he was quite calm while we sat and watched TV for an hour before bed.
He usually sleeps in his own bedroom but he snuggled in between us last night for an hour before sneaking back off to his own bed when he was settled enough.
If only he was like that every time with fireworks!
Not even one single firework anywhere hear, not a sound thankfully.
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Still not one single firework or bang here and tis bonfire night. Not a sound. Luckily the weather has been wet, but we had non last year either TF.
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2 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:
I reload my own rifle ammunition and it is certainly something that should not be undertaken lightly and without ongoing care and attention.
I also refill my Scuba diving air cylinders with air at pressures up to 300 bar (about 4500psi), again care and knowledge is required as the cylinders have as much potential 'explosive power' as a handgrenade.
But, as Kids I guess we have all done daft things but age tends to bring caution.
Indeedy!! A couple of friends and I used to make our own explosives basicaly like most kids did in the sixties round our way. One time we packes and tightly wrapped a " Banger " we had made and put it next to a gate post of a large five bar gate. The bang and smoke was insane and it blew a hole at the bottom of the post
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1 hour ago, Tracy webb said:
Thanks,not too late glad of the headsup
We went to see a finished boat and didnt really like the shiny orange wood that had been fitted at huge cost.Also the cabinetry was very dark and costly too.We really love open plan,light interiors.oh well will keep researching.Thanks for your time..we have a lot to learn
My advice and that of just about everyone of us with extensive knowledge of the subject is do not buy a new boat for your first boat if ever, Its a surefire way to instantly lose £££££s and until you have had some months/years living aboard you only think you know what you want anyway. Buy a well looked after used boat at least for your first one.
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Just now, Jen-in-Wellies said:
I ran in to exactly this a couple of months ago. Fortunately, there is a pharmacy that can take electronic prescriptions in Ellesmere, just over the border in Englandshire.
Madness isn't it. When we moved over to Wales we kept our same NHS numbers but the computer system here could not access our English health records. Luckily my consultant knew that would be the case and printed mine off to bring here.
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4 minutes ago, Tracy webb said:
Thanks
You will be fine. You will find that if you try to fully comply and be totally legit it's simply not possible, you have to be economical with the truth. Try buying a TV licence without a post code for instance.
22 minutes ago, Tracy webb said:Thanks so much for your help,just concerned that if i dont have a home address the doctors surgery would refuse the prescriptions,maybe meed to register to my sons property
Perfect
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I would also suggest you just remain with your current GP surgery and carry on regardless.
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2 minutes ago, Tracy webb said:
Thankyou for reply.If i have not got an address to register the doctors to,that would mean I couldnt get prescriptions signed off there wouldnt it?
You fo not need an address to access the NHS. However it's usually best to use one. Over the years we used several rellies addresses and a pub etc etc.
1 minute ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:Assuming you can get registered at a GP, then you can change your nominated pharmacy as often as you need on the NHS app. The biggest issue is estimating where you are going to be three to four days ahead to pick a pharmacy not too far away.
Ahhh an App, new fangled stuff.
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32 minutes ago, Tracy webb said:
Hi,hoping to become continuous cruisers in 2026
Trying to figure out how we are going to pick up repeat prescriptions in various places.
It was never a problem for me. You can pick up at any pharmacy. I picked up at many different ones. You just tell where you are going to be and it's sorted. I don't recall who I told but it was dead easy, just ask your docs or pharmacy and they will advise it really is simple.
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17 minutes ago, Tony Brooks said:
I viewed it all, and as suspected, long on bull and short on anything of consequence. They seemed to be giving the impression that solar on a narrowboat would be adequate to recharge the batteries, but I did not notice anything about the battery type.
Of course solar is adequate, you will not find any ALL electric boats with diesel gennies, that would never happen!!
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Talking of You Tube. We are three days into the brilliant every year East Idaho News series of Secret Santa, always worth a watch every year.
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8 minutes ago, Mike Tee said:
No, it's most weekends in Milton Keynes and I suspect the same in most large towns
Luckily so far this year since nye we have not had any whatsoever, there may be some on bonfire night but last year even then we did not have any. The few people who are interested round here go to the display in New Quay that was held on 1st november this year. Fireworks are like smokers, a dying breed, These days only 12 percent of people smoke of which surprisingly is mainly youngsters not oldies. When I was born up to 80 percent of peeps smoked it didnt drop to below fifty percent until the late sixties. Just like drink driving, that has certainly dropped over the years as people become better edumacated on such things.
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1 minute ago, GUMPY said:
Didn't realise you were that young 🫣
Very young thanks, only seventy thankfully. Don't feel a day over ninety 😃
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33 minutes ago, GUMPY said:
Organ donation from someone older? Will it last long enough for you?
Beggars cannot be choosers. The alternative was to stay on the transplant list for maybe three more years and dialysis daily in my case which I probably would not have survived??
So far it's not been a very good outcome but not dead yet lol. They take organs from donors up to age eighty, my donor bless him was early seventies.
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10 hours ago, robtheplod said:
I make these when i can and when i have a subject. They take ages to do and its hard to do them so they look 'pro' - hence why mine are poor, but i do appreciate it when people come along who are good at the process..... the content might not be brill, but that's life. You need to have a wide net to catch an audience to make anything from YouTube and so i can see why people have the clickbait titles and scared faces etc but its very easy not to watch if it doesn't interest you.
Looking at viewing figures is interesting. I suppose because I'm doing maintenance type videos they dont appeal to most, but odd ones stand out.... when i discussed the TV licence that is my highest rating one! and the engine service one is highest rating narrowboat one..... i do them as i enjoy them and it might help with the boat sale in the future as its a log of the jobs - never made a penny out of it as I'm way under the thresholds... maybe i need to do scary faces!?
My next one will be on the pumpout toilet not working, so its edge of seat stuff!!!!
Being good at something certainly helps, in fact it can make people suddenly become interested in something they were never interested in previously. For some reason I cannot fathom I am now interested in skipping and for some reason I further cannot fathom the jumper I sometimes see has got over one and a half billion views on her channel in about four years. Can one of you chaps take a look at Lauren jumps and try and work out why I now like skipping videos.
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1 hour ago, GUMPY said:
Old enough to know better but young enough not to GAF. 😱
If I am asked how old I am I now ask which bit of me they are talking about as one major part is a few years older than the rest of me 🤣
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1 hour ago, Naughty Cal said:
Yes Syd knows that fireworks and thunder on the TV are not real. They don't bother him at all.
It is really only fireworks and thunder that bother him. Big V8 engines firing up next to him don't bother him at all, nor planes, trains etc.
He is generally a very confident and outgoing dog so to see him trembling and terrified is upsetting. Thankfully people seem to stick to the weekends either side of bonfire night and on new years eve here so not many nights of fireworks for him.
Big V8 Engines
where have you been!!, can I come along. Give it another few years and kids will be listening to the whirr of food mixer motors 
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Leaking floor new to boating any information would be greatly appreciated.
in New to Boating?
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Are your under floor bilges full of water?