Jess--

Last time I saw anything similar was at Albert and Wendy's wedding (1982 ish) pics below (and hello to anyone else that was there)

I'm still using the One plan from three, somehow I still have unlimited tethering. where I am is fairly close to skegness which during the summer has a massive influx of people to static caravans (have a look on google earth to see the amount of them) for 9 months of the year 3g speeds run at about 9mb down and 4mb up (4g runs at around 24 down and 17 up), for 3 months of the year you are lucky to get 1 in either direction (regardless of 3g/4g) O2 and Vodafone buckle under the strain with non-existant data and dropped calls galore EE (or at least the part that used to be T-Mobile) was reliable for calls but very spotty for data

Agreed on the staff at the white swan in Stoke Golding, we couldn't get anything more than a grunt out of them. My advice is to carry on walking about 300 yards up the hill past the white swan, there is another pub up there which seemed far better (also an indian restaurant and post office up there)

alongside a decent pub

are you sure there is no airlock in the system? when it gets hot is everything hot (pipes to skin tank, pipes to calorifier etc) if everything else is staying cool it may be a failed water pump (which could explain the chewed belt)

B-O-A-T Break Out Another Thousand A brand new boat will depreciate significantly as soon as it hits the water, a second hand boat will depreciate far less (if at all on an older boat) but you will probably have higher maintenance costs to keep the boat up to the value

Senor Chis, I believe the point being made is that a towpath with fast cyclists on is significantly more dangerous than a towpath without fast cyclists.

if anyone can supply a dataset (Lat / Long / Bridge No / Canal Name) I should be able to put together a tool that can get the postcode for any bridge

Ours passed about a month ago but had an advisory that there may be insufficient low level ventilation, this was because the although there are vents on the outside the examiner couldn't find where they were inside because they go behind panneling. When we investigated we found that the vent at the rear goes down under the bed and then splits and comes out in the bilge and through a vent in between 2 drawers. The vents at the front are similar and emerge under a cupboard. Both are set up so that they ventilated the bilge and any water getting in via the vent goes into the bilge.

Would a better option be for me to make it display the nearest 3 postcodes in a list and numbered on the map so people can choose the most sensible one for their needs?

it's partly because of things like the postcode being on the wrong side of the cut etc that the map displays a second marker showing where the centre of the nearest postcode is. if anyone has a dataset containing lat/long for water points, pump-out, fuel, marinas, chandlers, VM's etc I could quite easily add the options so that it can display the nearest of them or display a rolling map showing everything within a few miles radius. Note that this and the other project that I am working will free for all to use, will contain no advertising and will never earn me a penny (just in case anyone assumes this is some way of gaining a large dataset for commercial purposes)

Blu-Tac

It's not an app on the phone, the dataset is too big for a phone to be able to search it in any sort of reasonable time, the lookup is actually being done on a server I run here (4 x quad core cpu's), the functionality will be added into another project I am currently working on (which will have an app and web based interface), that project will be announced on here when it is complete and fully usable. Nigel and Graham, I suspect that your exact location is nearer to the centre of a neighbouring postcode than the centre of your own, since I have no way of knowing the exact boundaries of each postcode (only the centre point) there is no way of narrowing it down further at the present

It will have been slightly to your East / West as the East / West was biasing the results

I have made a couple of small changes to the logic behind the lookup, it should now be more accurate. It also now displays a second marker showing the centre point of the postcode it found (as recorded by OS) Hopefully it now get's Nigels postcode right tech details for anyone that is interested the original code ordered the results by the closest latitude and then by closest longitude, this was mostly accurate but seems to have produced some odd results for some people. The new code orders the results by the sum of the difference in latitude and longitude

is it showing the right position for you on the map?

the app you mention has a totally different purpose, mine (although not an app) is designed to display the nearest postcode to the user of the phone. I have had a look through error logs and so far the only errors that are showing up are where there has been no gps data supplied

I will be modifying it to show the position of the found postcode on the map in relation to the position found by your gps

http://gb7dl.co.uk/getpostcode Last time I was out on the boat I had a call from a friend wanting to come out and meet my by car, after a lot of messing around he finally found where we were but commented that it would have been a lot easier to have a postcode to enter into his satnav I have now made a tool that when you access it via a smartphone with GPS can work out the nearest postcode to you. it's searching through a list of just under 1.7 million uk postcodes with known Latitude and Longitude coordinates to find the closest match.

Braunston always has had spates of thefts of vehicles over the years, usually it turns out to be youngsters from Daventry or Rugby

I spent this morning working out how to get oil & water out from the bilge under the engine, it's had about 1/2 inch in it since we bought the boat, mainly due to a drip from calorifier feed and previous owners accidents when changing oil. none of the electric pumps I have kicking around would do it since they would all need priming first and would then die as soon as they pulled air in, my solution is an old beer pump (that doesn't need priming and doesn't care if it's pumping air or liquid) Interesting problem is that the pump is gas powered. final solution was to hook a 12v compressor (mini tyre inflator type) to run the pump. Pics to follow on Wednesday when I see it really will work in the bilge

I was raised with a phrase "Never a Borrower or a lender be" which basicly meant if you couldn't afford to pay for something outright you either didn't get it or waited until you could pay for it. These days the only exception to that rule is that I have a mortgage on the house, no other debts of any description (No credit cards, no overdrafts or loans), the boat I have was bought outright, the mooring was paid for 12 months upfront etc etc. It's nice to know that in the unlikely event of everything turning to sh** for me in the future I can just jump on the boat and go (Only having to earn enough to cover food, diesel and license)

just a quick (possibly silly) thought about solar panels on hot roofs... has anyone thought of trying to put the panels on some form of heat exchanger with canal water pumped through (via a small pump run from the panels)? I wonder whether the performance increase from the panels would more than offset the load of running the pump. of course another possible advantage would be that at least one area of the roof would be cool