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yet cuts are always made on staffing levels at the lower end of the pay scale, its never well we either get rid of 50 cleaning staff or one chief executive, so they get rid of the cleaning staff while the chief executive complains his office is filthy.

Its not, its owned by the pub owners. since they bought it in November 2018

according to the Land registry the land is not owned by Brooms.it is owned by two individuals whose address is given as the pub and has been since last November. the land comprises the pub and the pub car park. prior to that it may well have been owned by Brooms and leased. If anyone wants further details, then I suggest you do your own search and stump up your own 'pint' for the information. the fact that a transaction was done just last November, would seem to indicate to me that the current owners are not about to pull out, or be enticed by a large bundle of cash in the near future. there is quite a large tract of land behind the car park that appears on the land registry as unregistered (ie there are no titles registered to it) despite the fact there are buildings and woodland (and I see horse paddocks from google street view) in that plot. this doesnt mean it is not owned by someone, just that the land registry cannot locate a title to it.

£3 for the register and £3 for the plan is the usual fee.

my cats all use a cat litter, which i get to clean out regularly, cant dogs be trained to use specific locations dedicated to the purpose. i dispose of it in the household waste - bagged up, I did once ask the council whether there was a preferred manner of disposal, but their response was that it was illegal to put it down the toilet, and illegal to bury it, which left the only option open to a householder to put it in the wheelie bin.

Now if it could be recycled into a commodity and had a value that you could claim when handing it in, most people wouldnt just leave it, I wonder what it could be used for....

I can remember the days when I was small when it turned white and hard when left, after that it seemed to disappear

there is a special offer, buy one at twice the normal price- get one free.

seagull landed on it, and its now pointing at the chimbley

either

at least I wouldnt drink all the profits

so with one side done its turn the model round and start on the other side, also picking a servo for the steering and making a mount for it to sit against the bulkhead.

I think a lot of uk people are waiting until the last minute before booking either.

I suspect that brexit is having an impact on holiday bookings, both at home and abroad.

so following on from Pollys comments on the gooseneck, I got to work and set the printer going, 11 hours later I have a gooseneck, this will be able to rotate on the mast (probably constrained by a collar above and one below) and allow the boom to move vertically, cost to print only about £4, i do love my 3d printer. strength - we will see, but it is ABS plastic, and that is tough stuff. so pictures below - mast topper, goosneck and the end for the boom. these will be bolted in place through the boom and mast top, but not of course the gooseneck, two collars will be printed, one above and one below, also fixed through the mast.

MM i'm sure its Miss / Mz or Mrs not Sir

also consider some yards are all in, fuel etc included, and others add a fuel surcharge which you get paid back for any you dont use, so the price you see isnt always comparing apples with apples

we had the benches with the lower section down the middle, so planes were always placed with the toe in the well and the heel in fresh air with the blade sitting somewhere above the well

Polly I think I can see what you are getting at now, the rig I have got at the moment doesnt allow for the boom to tilt up and down as the wind blows, so it will put a torsional stress on the clip, I can sort that out by slotting the clip end cap and putting a pivot bolt in, though i might just redesign the part and reprint to achieve my aim.

seen here on google earth under construction

Polly the sail will only be about 6 foot by 8 foot max, the clip part I bought at the chandlers in a pack of 2 (so I will have a spare), and the rest is printed from ABS Plastic which is pretty tough stuff., if worst comes to worst I can make one out of plywood for the end of the boom, its not as if its going to take the strain that a bigger boats mast might (if its that windy I expect I will be rowing or using the outboard) it will only be for playing around, the goosneck above probably has a bigger pin sticking out than my boom is in diameter

from the facebook reports, the emergency services were following up to check on the river users disturbed by that cruiser, as one boat reported both its mooring lines broken - so not an unnecessary response at all, so they were checking everyone was alright. they did catch up with the culprits, but I do not know what action was taken. as the Broads Authority pointed out on our facebook page, there is little point to just posting about it on social media, if you dont also report it to the authorities. - Broads Control on 01603 756056 or Broadsbeat on 999. which means the incident can officially be logged, and can receive attention much faster (as they dont necessarily monitor their facebook pages 24/7). The sad thing is that these incidents are generally few and far between, but can saddle the whole broads with a bad reputation.

so having got a (maybe 10 foot) length of steel tube, plus an 8 foot length of 28mm dowel and a 2m x 3m tarpaulin, it was time to figure how things were going to work, I was told for such a small sail area a pulley was unnecessary, just a topping block to the mast with a hole through it, so of course I went one better, printing a mast topper with a rounded hole through (created by subtracting half a torus from the main part). to join the boom to the mast I had purchased a clip - looking much like a rowlock, but how to fix it onto the end of the 28mm dowel - easy, a sleeve was printed to hold the clip, with holes built in from the side for captive nuts, to hold the rope at the other end of the boom another sleeve was printed with a torus subtracted (providing a hole for the rope, this time it was curved toward the end). the good bit is I now have the ability to print new parts if these should fail at any point. Thanks for the offer of mast and sail JA, I might take you up on it, but I want to have a go myself first, as I now have the parts I need (just waiting on the delivery of some grommets for the edges of the sail), I have some very good waterproof duct tape from Lidl that is pretty decent (it held my wing mirror on my old Volvo for several years), this will be used to reinforce and tidy up the edges of the cheap blue tarp where the grommets go through, the sail will then be able to be laced to the boom with loops around the mast, I do have to clean up the outside of the tube i have for the mast, as I think its a top rail from a herris fence, and it has rough weld spots regularly down its length, so those will be smoothed off and the whole thing will get a coat of paint (its mostly galvanised).

! also popped into b&Q to get a 28mm pole for a boom and a tarp to make the first sail, once its right I will probably get a proper one