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Heffalump

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Heffalump last won the day on February 9 2011

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  • Birthday 04/12/1987

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  1. Oh dear! Blimey.. 12-13 years now, 12-13 years of planning to live on a boat lol!
  2. Indeed! I am still kicking about, albeit stuck in Banbury for the foreseeable
  3. Yes! It gets a little bittersweet to keep too much up-to-date when I can't be afloat lol. Great to see so many names again. Absolutely, far from the rural getaways we're used to, there's always someone to have a natter with here! I also quite enjoy seeing the back end of our industrial past as we go through built up areas. It's so nice to see all these names again, Mrs Heffalump says she has far too much crafting paraphernalia to fit on a boat full time, but we have this discussion every time we go away, and I'm sure I'm wearing her down
  4. Hi Friends, I hope you're all well. It felt right to check in here, after it's been a few years since we've managed a boat trip. We've commandeered my parent's nb, Penelope, and spent the last couple of days going from Brentford to Little Venice, where we are moored on the VMs at Rembrandt Garden for another night. The canals here in London are a lot different to our normal patch - so much rubbish! So many tarps around the prop! lol. But it's been a great trip so far. We're going to plod around here for the day before heading back to Brentford. Just saying hello really, but if you happen to see us, give us a hello! Nice to be back on the canals Heffa
  5. Thanks Phil. Yes, batteries, new paint, blown up inverter, colander calorifier etc I was planning to do as and when from the BOAT saving fund!
  6. Hi Folks, Can you help me sanity check a monthly costing please? License: £93 (Based on 70', prompt payment) Insurance: £17 (Based on £200 annually, quoted on a 1990 boat worth 30k with 5k contents cover fully comp) Diesel: £100 (Based on liveaboard battery charging, travelling a few miles once a week or fortnight) Coal: £40 (Based on a couple of bags a week during the winter, supplemented with free wood) Gas: £13 (Figure pulled out of thin air, expecting to use gas purely for cooking) Blacking: £30 (Based on 70' every 3 years, although I plan on doing this ourselves, I've costed for having someone else do it as you never know) BSS: £4 (Based on £150 every 4 years) Servicing: £5 (Based on oil and filters a couple of times a year) Have I missed anything? Am I wildly out on anything? Two of us, both mechanically minded. I will be putting about £700 into savings each month which will be the BOAT fund so as long as these numbers aren't horrendously wrong I think I'm OK? Heffs
  7. Rather than start a new one, anyone at crick today?
  8. I'll set a reminder to PM you not to watch it when it's out misery guts ?
  9. They'd better get a hydraulic drive on that thing sharpish for sneaking through the undead!
  10. All my drivers swear by peek for their trucks
  11. You're paying for it do what you want!
  12. Arkle, and promarine spring to mind. Very high deposit percentage required, and chokingly high interest rates. They are the reason I don't have a boat. They "have to" take into account my current rent of 865 a month, despite the fact that having a live aboard I wouldn't be paying it anymore...
  13. Who are you using, if you don't mind me asking?
  14. Ooh I like that! I think boating is a perfect way to celebrate a relationship, closeness, relaxation, and slowing down!
  15. This one looked just like normal from the back, tiller with the bar still attached swinging on its own, very eerie! I imagine they had quickly disappeared below when the hail started.
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