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does a loss of moorings make them lessings?

but you cant remember anything after drinking loads.

I am sorry, but my main cooking pot when away is a lidls non stick frying pan for £3.99, for breakfast fry the bread, cook the eggs, then the bacon, then open a tin of beans and sausages dump into the frying pan and heat, 1 pan, the beans leave it so it just needs rinse and wipe with kitchen roll.

we once had the police call round, apparently they were looking for a skinny man and a skinny woman, who were using our name and renting a housing association house from the council, they called round because it appeared we had two houses from the council. It transpired that someone at the housing association was pulling a scam, taking names from the housing list, and allocating the houses to the names, then privately renting the houses out to people who were paying extra just to get the house, needless to say, as soon as the policemen saw me and the missus, they were convinced we werent these other tenants, and as we had proof of identity nothing more came of it at our end.

I think we just filled those eggs with concrete, so just keep it within Tims new guidelines and we should all be happy, lot of work going on behind the scenes here.

not happy not cool, stuck for an hour on the M2 waiting for an accident to clear wiith the cars exterior thermometer registering 39 degrees, traffic reports were giving another closure 10 miles further due to a car fire, and a further holdup 10 miles after that, fortunately both had cleared by the time we got moving, opposite the first accident there was another two cars both on their roofs, not a great trip home.

dont bring it to kent is all I can say, I can have a brand new kettle boil it once and it is full of limescale.

my big regret this year is that when the air con radiator on my car developed a hole last year and was going to cost 1/3 of the value of the car just for the part, I declared, ah well I will do without, after all we only ever have a couple of really hot days a year. Oh has a decision ever come back and bitten me in the bum. (currently driving with all the windows open and sweltering.) I have just investigated the settings on the office aircon, yesterday it was set to 22 degrees and achieved 28 degrees, when I looked I found the fans had been set to their lowest setting, and half of the vents had been closed off (because people complained about the cold draught (my desk is at the furthest point in the office from the aircon)) fans now up to full and vents opened. even overnight the aircon had only managed to drop the temperature to 24 degrees - our big problem is a large metal flat roof about 18" above the ceiling and no insulation. before the aircon was fitted the office regularly exceeded 33 degrees, with all the windows open and fans going.

Ice cream is a must, especially on a delivery trip, and more especially when the ice cream boat comes calling

the longest run of cable I have worked on was 6.5kM at 33.000 volts ducted all the way

https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Technical/Charts/VoltageDrop.html here is a voltage drop calculator, if you use the twin and earth you will see application options for clipped to a wall or in conduit in an insulated wall (worst case for conduit) I used 3kw and 20 m with 2 circuits, and one returned a minimum cable of 1.5mm (in air) and 2.5mm in conduit. with stuff like this its best left to qualified electricians (or at least get one to check it over once done). at work we are usually working with bigger cables, longer cable runs, but we still have to allow for cable de-rating when running the whole length in cable ducts for example.

at work our aircon is set to 21 degrees, but due to the huge roof area only managed to keep the office at 28 degrees, the roof is sheet metal, above the ceiling with no insulation.

I am not saying its a no no, its just that the cable size required run in conduit may well be a bigger cable than not in conduit, for example a cable in conduit may only be rated to carry 70% of the current the same cable run loose would (similar to an extension cable only being able to carry 5A when coiled as opposed to 13A when uncoiled)

stupidity in extremis, I had one explode in the van, pieces of battery and acid were flung in a 10m + radius, I was fortunate, in that I was inside the van and the battery in the engine compartment, it exploded when I turned the starter key, after it had been charging.

Well its still 28 degrees in the workshop, but the doors are united with the frame, the whole lot will need trimming to length one it has been trial fitted.

anyone who complains about Royal Tudor will probably be handed a ball of putty and sent onboard to stop up the leaks

running a cable in conduit derates the capacity the cable can carry, as it cannot cool as effectively as it would in air, as does running multiple cables in close proximity to each other.

I have one of these, though the resistor isnt enclosed.

It will already be under way when the moon rises, not 100% that we will see a total eclipse this far north, I would have to check that.

right I can finally post some pictures of the big day - taken during the times I wasnt helming

my apologies, in my defence I have been playing catchup trying to read all the threads since my return from the broads yesterday

OK Mod Hat on, I request that this deviation of the post stop to let it return to the OP's holiday tale. the deviation has taken a unpleasant turn

right , we have had our little diversion from the thread, so we will leave Cal to proceed with his holiday tale on this thread. sorry about that Cal, and back to you.

well we could ban all topics mentioning the BA, but since they are integral to the Broads and their decisions affect all of us we tend to give the posts discussing them a bit more leeway, we would of course be happy if the membership showed more self restraint when posting, but many a time when we ask for more restraint the cry goes up that peoples views are being stifled. how do we please everyone ? as the authority are unlikely to sponsor us they are considered fair game for criticisms, and to be fair we usually hear from supporters as well as detractors in those threads.