grendel

you mean like the 1953 and 1912 floods?

not every time does the work succeed, for example the new container and ferry ort at ramsgate was supposed to help the erosion, well it stopped erosion west of the harbour but a sandbar has now moved a mile from the east and sits smack in the harbour entrance, half blocking it at low tide

yes, that was the one

tragically, a lot of people think they can control or mitigate nature, King Cnut tried it (actually he was demonstrating to those that served him that nature ignores even kings) and a lot of those in power should take note. whatever is done will only be a losing battle against nature, if you do manage to solve a problem at one location, it will only move it elsewhere, nature will always win. a lot of the issues though are caused by the attempts to subvert nature, the problem gets moved. rather than trying to prevent nature doing what it does best, the authorities should be concentrating on helping those people who need help- relocating or whatever,. down here on the south coast, a whole lighthouse was jacked up and moved 20m inland due to the cliffs crumbling.

how much of that rise can be attributed to better measuring techniques though?

70 years ago would be 1953, when the floods were a lot worse than currently, and 41 years before that 1912, when predicting water levels when building you plan for 100 year high levels ie levels reached once every 100 years on average. but then there are still 1000 year levels which will get you.

on a hire boat, the number after the registration is the maximum number of people allowed onboard, the number of people allowed in the hire party will reflect the number of berths aboard. so here you are allowed 6 in the party, but you could have 2 guests aboard for a day cruise. (would also be a factor on the trial run 6 crew plus 1 staff member)

It would appear Smoggy has beaten me to it (as I too am busy working (allegedly))

I would like to bet that their defence would be quoting sections 2(1) and 2(7)

This was one of the reasons we went over to a committee running this forum, committee members have changed and the forum keeps on going. when everything is all on the shoulders of a single person, then indeed as we can see here, health issues and other issues can cause problems, and the forum then goes down. hopefully the Owner will soon be back to full health and get the issues resolved to get the forum back online.

there are 2 groups on facebook, one is a private group for the committee with 2 members, the other is a public group, indeed as a non member I was able to go in and download the pdf and read it.- the second public group is headlined as Reform the Broads Authority (but has the BRAG banner as its symbol)

it does sound a bit like, how can we make the few hundred metres of dredging we have done sound more impressive - I know lets just say how much spoil we took out, thats by far a bigger number. yes 26,000 cu m would be dredging a 1m depth 26m wide for 1000m, and half that volume was probably water.

if it goes pear shaped it will be someone else, if it works, they will all be claiming responsibility

and again i have astronomy outreach scheduled for Friday evening, at a local grammar school this time.

you have to feel kind of sorry for the bird, one minute flying along thinking, at a few feet off the ground theres nothing I cant see coming and get out of the way of - then Whoooosssshhh thump. and the bird thinking wha...........

unlawful on new cars, but when my 2008 car was built it wasnt yet unlawful, so is still subject to the whims of volvo service department.

Heres Hoping that Shaun pulls through, these things are most worrying and theres not a lot that can be done but wait upon the outcome, if its any consolation I had a work colleague who had a car accident on here way home, she was rushed to London and was in a medically induced coma for 3 months due to tearing one of her main blood vessels to the heart, and because she also broke her neck, when she was woken she took nearly 6 months to recover all her facilities, but 10 years on she is living a normal life again. they really can work miracles nowadays.

just remember that the swan was dying because it hadnt been fed a merangue based dessert when the bell rang, (this creates all sorts of complications in the theatres when the last call before curtain up bell is sounded.)

you mean like only a dealer can code new parts to the car, with a charge of £150 plus for the privilege.

the only real issue was the headlight that was pointed low (failed on alignment on the first MOT) had not properly been adjusted (the little mechanism that transfers the drive through a right angle was just clicking- easily remedied by popping the headlight out and using an allen key on the actual adjustor mechanism, and the footwell trim that had been inexplicably left off (not a deal breaker as I can and have put that back myself, once i figured where it went and in which order) still better that than keep the car longer i guess.

the astronomy outreach was great, loads of kids, loads of parents, though the cloud meant that for half the evening we could only show them jupiter, and for the other half, only show them the telescopes and pictures on a laptop, due to the clouds rolling back in, the 4 of us were busy all evening and everyone had a great time. A lot of the kids hadnt seen Jupiter before (neither had a lot of parents), and we could clearly see the cloud bands and 4 of the moons

that was the reason mine needed to go to the main dealer- basically to make the car recognise the new part.

sorry, but I am doing an astronomy outreach at a local college tonight so wont be there

If i had been taking it to a dealership i would have expected the courtesy car, but the dealership would have insisted on fitting a new £2500 ABS Pump and the final bill would have been vastly more expensive, as it was I was expecting the bill to be over £1000 as the ABS pump repair should have been £200, but after the courier losing my old pump the ABS repair shop stumped up the replacements and all of the costs of Volvo coding the part to the car (about £600). the garage I use is run by an ex forces chap, with ex forces staff, and they live up to their name- affordable, furthermore they give forces and emergency services a 10% discount. as such to keep their costs down, they dont offer a courtesy vehicle, which I knew at the start, although privately i may have been pulling my hair out at the delays, I didnt pressure them, as I knew the circumstances were out of their control and they were doing the best they could in a bad set of circumstances. they were most appreciable of this fact and I believe dealt with me fairly when it came to the bill, charging just £41 to fit the ABS pump when they in fact had to fit and remove the original and the 3 replacements, so I am grateful that the charges were as good as they were, somewhere else may well have charged for each time it was fitted or removed. they kept me up to date with all the developments as we went along, so overall a good experience. I always say that good customer service is not measured on day to day performance, but when things go pear shape, and in my view they have dealt with what could have been a disaster in an exemplary manner, which has retained them a customer.

even better news today, the car has passed its MOT and is ready, at just a shade under £800 so the charges for recoding at volvo must have been shouldered by someone else as they wouldnt have been a lot less than that for the 4 seperate attempts to recode different ABS units.