system 4-50

£7.00, and a freshly made mince pie.

Raise you. £4.00.

Izal, I remember it well. It was 6000 grit wasn't it?

My father's family buried their treasures in their garden. This was 1939/40ish and the Russians were coming. It is still there (now part of Ukraine, and the Russians are still coming…). The principle and most highly cherished item in the collection was a typewriter, I'm told.

Presumably some grooves are imperial and some metric...

I swept streets briefly. It was much harder than I expected. You needed to be healthy and fit and it was still hard.

I got my tanks 2 x 400L from Smiths of the Forest of Dean but they were not bespoke. (when you've had a good quantity of sensible replies I'll come back with reference to the difficulties of having fabricators under the bed 😀)

I can't add salt to food, it gives me leg cramps in the night. OP: Get yourself a glass container with a good-fitting glass lid. Put a cup of phosphorus pentoxide inside the container together with but separate from, your salt. Seal the joint between the lid and the container with a non-setting, non-aqueous, sealing grease. Dry salt guaranteed. Whether its still edible or not, I don't know :- Wiki: "Phosphorus pentoxide itself is not flammable. Just like sulfur trioxide, it reacts vigorously with water and water-containing substances like wood or cotton, liberates much heat and may even cause fire due to the highly exothermic nature of such reactions. It is corrosive to metal and is very irritating – it may cause severe burns to the eye, skin, mucous membrane, and respiratory tract even at concentrations as low as 1 mg/m3."

I'd like to point out the distinction bewteen "coal" and "smokeless fuel", so I will. This taken from Wiki: "Smokeless fuels serve as a potential replacement for fuels such as coal, which produce smoke upon combustion. Examples of smokeless fuels are anthracite, coke, charcoal and hexamine fuel tablets. Smoke-free carbonaceous fuels for domestic use are usually supplied in the form of standard pillow-shaped briquettes." Coal is quite different from Smokeless Fuel.

Don't book a BSS inspection unless you need one anyway. Book an unofficial "pre-BSS" inspection from a BSS guy instead. If you have an official BSS inspection then your current BSS certificate becomes void and you have to get any significant work done immediately regardless of how important you think it is. If you have a "pre-BSS" inspection then you can deal with any issues in your own time frame though obviously you'd get any serious ones done quickly. Once all work is done then you can get the same guy to do the official BSS and it won't take very long. This will cost more but can save a lot of stress. I did this when installing my gas systems as I didn't want my BSS voided by any faults found in the gas system which I wasn't relying on anyway.

What sort of fuel are you using???

My narrowboat, as was, not useful but I enjoy wallowing in the memory so here goes: Mostly solo so able to just manage with only 60ft. SF stove central in boat, both x and y. So lounge central also. Galley at stern so that wife who does all our cooking was near to the steerer (on the rare occasions that she came on the boat) who was more willing to be out in the cold. Straight either side layout kitchen, with full 60cm cooker& hob on one side & narrow units including sink on the other. 6 seater dinette in between. Straight sofa convertable to bunk beds in the lounge, NO "L" shaped sofas because I detest them. (The horizontal portions are too deep for my legs, the backs are not sufficiently near-vertical for me, and the angle is wasted space.) Gas water heater in the lounge on the adjacent bathroom wall to minimise pipework to the shower. Jabsco flush mascerating toilet connected to pumpout tank near the bow. Bedroom with fixed double bed 200 x 140 cm so bigger than some, with 800L water tanks underneath. 6 seater well deck. 4 x 13Kg gas bottles in transverse bench locker at stern. All services, pipework, wiring, etc completely accessible. What will I do next time? 72ft. An automatic folding rigid canopy over the cruiser stern. Pale roof colour. But definitely same hull builder.

If I die in a cold canal, I will sue C&RT for failing to keep the water at a safe temperature.

from Wiki: For nearly all models of induction cooktops, a cooking vessel must be made of, or contain, a ferrous metal such as cast iron or some stainless steels. The iron in the pot concentrates the current to produce heat in the metal. If the metal is too thin, or does not provide enough resistance to current flow, heating will not be effective. Induction tops typically will not heat copper or aluminum vessels because the magnetic field cannot produce a concentrated current, but cast iron, carbon steel and stainless steel pans usually work. Any vessel can be used if placed on a suitable metal disk which functions as a conventional hotplate.

A friend of mine sells 1 sq M plots of land in Scotland, would one of these suit you? You acquire a title of "Laird of .." for your plot.

Combinations were popular for keeping warm in the late 18 hundreds, first patented in 1862.

I have a boat for sale! £80k! With washing machine! A discount of £10k available to suitable discerning buyers owing to no hull, no engine, and no interior. A low-maintenance special!

Bubble testers have a maximum throughput, not that it is relevant in this small load case. So I had two. No inspector ever used them, they all connected a manometer instead. One did eventually show that gunk from the bottles was getting down the lines which was useful. Bubble testers do introduce extra joints but they live in the relatively safe area near the bottles. In my next boat, probably on the Astral Plane, I will not bother with installing them. (One ispector said I should have installed only one bubble tester with a bypass loop and valves.)

It is time somebody put some serious work into researching why so many relationships fail. Our kids endure so many years of education, and how much of that is focused on helping them to make successful partnerships? Almost none? If more were successful there would a need for fewer individual housing units. Perhaps fewer(!) liveaboards? A government initiative to encourage long-lived three and four-somes might even eliminate the housing shortage at the cost of encouraging 72ft narrowboats and more fatties?