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That would be my opinion too, there seems to be a solid enough foundation that the building is on, its just the supports under that foundation structure that appear to have failed. new piling seems to be the option used elsewhere in the area.

I have looked into this 'new' leasing car ownership and have to say that if you do a high mileage its not for you, most have some kind of penalty payment per mile if you are going to be doing more than 12,000 miles in the year, this means I would be paying additional fees on over 20,000 miles every year, that puts the costs well above the overall purchase cost and paying for your own running costs. plus there is the point - is running a brand new car greener that running an old second hand car, the second hand car spreads its eco costs for scrapping over a longer number of years than getting a new car every 3 years every time, even if it does kick out additional pollution by being older. its biggest environmental impact comes when it is scraped and dumped in landfill. it is my thought that cars should be made to be 100% recycleable.

ah a low mileage one then at barely more than 4600 per year, thats under 2 months driving for me (37 trips to work and back)

Added, I would imagine that is in case of something like suspected avian flu

I think I get away lightly with my Volvo

this is more a response to the thread we had trying to help a duck at acle that had fishing line tangled (I do hope that has now been successfully resolved by the way). thus we now have the contact details needed available on the site in case of future occurrences.

for reliability I have settled on Volvos, the only issues I have ever had were due to high mileage and old age, and those were generally electrical, aside from the one v40 2.0 litre Turbo, where first the turbo packed in (I then drove it another 6 months until there was a misfire on several cylinders that the engine management didnt see and acknowledge up to the point it ceased to run (still no error codes), when I went out and got another V70. my volvos are always bought at around 100,000 miles for under £1000 and then run until they drop with only the necessary maintenance done by myself, the V70's are always good for 250,000 miles, which I can get them up to from 100,000 in about 4 or 5 years.

well the list as far as it currently goes is here - https://forum.norfolkbroadsnetwork.com/handy-information/vets-and-wildlife/ if anyone has any more to add, just add the details to this thread and I will add them to the handy info page. there are other vets in the vicinity, but I did try and pick the ones that had reasonable access from the waterways for those that are on holiday and find a need for the services.

ah, that was by design so it could be used as an emergency hull patch

ok so this shows the normal flow and where I come from and need to get to.

there is a similar situation near where I live in canterbury, between two roundabouts, entering from a right hand lane needing to turn left at the next roundabout, usually facing a solid queue of traffic from the slip in to the left all wanting to turn right at the next roundabout, complicated by a bus lane and traffic lights, in just a few hundred yards I need to cross two lanes to the left. streetview shows this road as nearly empty - must have been early sunday morning, its usually a solid queue. its common to get to the top, start pulling into the left lane only to find a bus or taxi coming up at a fair lick, but only having a very short section of lane to get across, also once at the roundabout the traffic turning right will swing across that left turn lane to hug the outer kerb, as they are not thinking there will be vehicles entering the roundabout on their left to take the left turn, ok it all happens at a lot slower speed, but gets frustrating all the same, once I was forced to stay in the right lane and do a full trip around the roundabout to make the left turn, as people just dont want to make a space to let you across.

I know that one too, but have never had occasion to use the roundabout, just drive straight under on the A127. That said, the standard of driving on the A127 does leave a lot to be desired, barely a day passes without queues of traffic along the A127 past our office due to collisions, and as the entrance and exit is only off the east bound carriageway and there are no back entrances if there are traffic hold ups, we either cant get into- or sometimes out of the estate where I work.

I know that one well, its only a few miles further along the A127 from where I work

Dont worry- we are not all as bad as that lot^^^^^^^^^ (well not all the time)

where that it had only been three! , I have been tail ended by a lorry, I stopped at the red light, he assumed I wasnt going to. twice I have been driven into from the side as someone pulled out from a side turning, then there was the post office van, I was tail ended by a women in a car as I pulled away from a roundabout and had to stop as a vehicle came round from out of sight. then I have had several rubber on the road near misses as people pulled into the spot I would have been occupying if I had not braked (both cars and lorries), one of the hazards of doing 33,000 miles a year mostly on the M25, but then again that is spread out over 38 years of driving.

next one in place

I had my at fault accident on the second day i had my first car, all the rest of the accidents I have been involved in have been the other drivers fault and unavoidable, including 1 at just a couple of miles per hour when a bus had pulled out at a junction onto the road I was on, and the back of the bus was still just in my lane, i slowed right doen to crawl past and just as I got level with the back end a post office van pulled out to turn right from behind the bus, i had a whole foot in which to react. ever since that first accident I have taken great care to watch out for what traffic around me is doing.

I can think of a large percentage of the driving public that dont understand a solid line means yo cannot cross it, many cars go through the dartford tunnel in the right hand tunnel, then cross the solid line to exit at junction 31 (the solid line extends past junction 31) the number of accedents that happen here and shut at least one of the tunnels is legendary. before they took the toll booths away the signs said no exit at junction 31 for the right hand tunnel.

stern fairleads and one of the fender mounts added

Today i have finished the fender plates, and started fitting the plates to the boat, firstly the plates are polished up prior to the fitting.

now thats just being greedy MM its always your turn, and when its not, Timbo seems to hog a lot of the rest of the turns.

you know that JA just posted that to tempt someone into buying it dont you.

It appears I might be busy tonight, I have to deliver something at 8pm, and dont know when I will get away.