Paul

I think we've already established that, although the phrase private leisure craft does not appear in the regs, it is fair to say that such a boat is not subject to the GSIUR, unless of course it is used as a primary residence, so liveaboards would need to comply.

Sorry TheQ, but you need to stop repeating these inaccuracies, as somebody, someday might get taken in by them. 1) Totally Incorrect.The code pf practice and guidelines laid out in the Gas Safety (Installation & Use) Regulations form part of the regulations themselves and are written into statutory law. 2) Totally incorrect again. See section 83 above, I emboldened it to make it easier to read but I shall try and make it easier to understand. "DIY gas engineers and those performing favours for friends or relatives all need to have the required competence", ie must have completed appropriate training and proper assesment, at least in the area of work they are undertaking. When you look at the Gas Safe register you will see it quotes different types of work for which the engineer has been assessed. If you wish to fit, or work on a boiler beyond that maintenance which the manufacturer deems safe for the end user, then you must be competent to do so, and in terms of these regulations competent means qualified, as shown is sections a and b above 3) Not sure what relevence there is to that point, but as you refer to apprentice then that individual would be considered to be undertaking training toward a Gas Safe approved certificate anyway ..... I guess the best test would be for you to get youself blown up by DIY gas work, and then see what happens in court. I doubt that you would have a leg to stand on, possibly quite literally if you were to close to the bang!

I have been somewhat disappointed, considering that over the past five or so years we have been living through the 75th anniversary of the events of World War II that generally very little has been made of it. I am pleased an effort is being made for D Day at least. I was born twenty or so years after the end of the war and grew up in an era when the memory of it was still very fresh for many people, although by that time much of the inevitable anymosity had faded, at least until we joined the common market and boat loads of Volkswagens started to arrive on our shores. Buying one, for a while at least was seen as akin to treason. Many on this forum predate me, one or two might even have direct memories of wartime. We use phrases like "never forget" and "we shall remember them" and to many of us that is so true, however as a society I fear that brave generation of which many gave up their lives is, slowly, and inexorably slipping from our social conscience. The 75th anniversary was a chance to reverse at at least delay that process which I think has been missed. I for one shall not forget that the freedom I enjoy today was bought for me by the lives and freedoms of people I shall never know.

Err.... Wrong, for houses at least. We have already established that pleasure craft on inland waters not hired or loaned or used as permanent or temporary residences are excluded. A valid point has been raised about what consitutes a temporary residence, an overnight stay, a week, two weeks, a month? The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations do indeed state "competent person", but then in the Code of Practice defines competent person as (a) a person who has successfully completed an industry recognised training course followed by assessment of competence. Training that leads to assessment of competence in safe gas work should be recognised by the industry’s standards setting body; or (b) in the case of a currently or previously registered person, where they have proved competence through a certification scheme; furthermore in the guidance notes it states 83 Anyone who does work on a gas fitting or gas storage vessel must be competent to do so (whether or not they are required to be a member of an approved class of persons). Therefore, do-it-yourself gas engineers and those performing favours for friends and relatives all need to have the required competence. The level and range of competence should match the full extent of work done, but needs only to be sufficient for and relevant to that work. The regulations do not refer to the Gas Safe Register directly as it did not exist at the time they were written and could be replaced (as CORGI was itself replaced by Gas Safe). It refers to the industry standard setting body which currently is the Gas Safe Register, operated by CGRAS under license from the HSE. It was appointed on a ten year contract in 2008 with a five year extension in 2018. It is also not permitted for a non competent person to install gas fittings or appliances and have them certified by someone who is competent. In this case both the person making the fitting and the person certifying it are breaking the law.

I don't buy that. At a minimum the Swan could have replied along the lines of "we are sorry to hear of the problems you encountered and have asked the car parking company to investigate the matter". Remember, as the land owner the responsibility for imposing parking charges is theirs, not Europarks who act as their appointed agents, no matter what either party will try and make you believe. The lack of response clearly demonstrates the business's attitude towards it's customers. It comes as no surprise to many, or to one member of this forum at least, and as has been said, it seems an attitude prevalent in a number of businesses in Horning in recent years.

As is usually the case, the regulations seem wonderfully unclear. What constitutes a "fitter", what constitutes "temporary residence". I often think this lack of clarity is deliberate so as to provide plenty of work for the lawyers, and expensive work at that, if and when the definitions have to be tested. The GSIUR were updated not that long ago, and I had read in one of the boaty type magazines that all pleasure craft would be included under the changes, but that seems not to have happened, reading the current pulication on the HSE website.

Interesting .... The Gas Safe Installation and Use regulations exclude boats on inland waters not used as a permanent or temporary residence or hired or loaned. Section 7 of the BSS requires fitters to be Gas Safe when working on LPG systems, but is a DIY installer to be considered a "fitter", or is a "fitter" only someone employed to do work? Looking at my last insurance policy from Maritime General it specifically quotes that all work must be undertaken by a qualified person. (note "qualified", not "competent") As for unlawful and illegal, something is unlawful if it is not permitted by law, something is illegal if it is specifically prohibited by law. Unlawful can relate to any situation governed by laws, even the "laws of the game" in things such as Rugby and cricket whereas illegal relates only to criminal law, as far as I understand. There is a wonderful law in the rules of rugby which states "anything not permitted in these laws is not permitted". It sounds like gobbledygook but think carefully and it is a wonderful rule. Employ it in something like Formula 1 and it would resolve a whole load of argument.

bottled gas usually contains more moisture than mains gas and this can, over time lead to corrosion inside the pipes of your appliance. The best way to deal with this is to switch off the gas supply, remove the unit and strip it down then blow compressed air through the feed pipe. The jets must be removed first. The hob jets are normally removable with a 7 or 8 mm socket, and grill and oven burners are usually clipped in then secured by one or more screws. Remove them, give them a good clean and ensure the nozzles are clear. Then turn on all of the knobs and give a blast of compressed air through the feed pipe. You'll be amazed how much detritus comes out of the burners. Reassemble and reinstall. REMEMBER .... the law requires this work to be undertaken by a Gas Safe registered engineer approved for working on boats.

The logistics company I used to work for would not buy anything other than Sprinters, Luton with tail lift. Each van was kept three years then auctioned. They work day and night six days a week and travel between 200k - 250k every year. Some went to auction with 800k plus. We took a short term contract delivering lounge suites for a catalogue chain and to take the extra capacity we leased a load of Peugeot's, which due to the front wheel drive had a lower load floor, ideal for sofas. There was at least one u/s every day.

No, Sony have never realeased a bad phone, and it will be Sony in future for me, not that my "weewee" is bad, it's just not as good as a Sony. Had Samsung just owned up and said from the get go that the batteries were faulty (not just the batteries, the USB controller was also dud, hence the lack of adaptive charging and data connection) then it would have been better. But instead they gave constant denials, trying to put the blame on the user when they knew what the fault was all along. They only admitted it when the US government got involved with the Note 7 fiasco. totally agree Elaine had one for years, the 520 I think and it wasvery reliable, but the lack of apps on the windows platform would not have suited me. She now has a Sony and it's been faultless. I can't remember the cost of my first mobile phone as it was supplied by the company I worked for but it came in two parts, one was the handset and the other the battery. You could unplug it from the battery but it would only work for about ten minutes if you did.

even so that's dreadful by modern standards. I use my Huawei lots, mostly for playing audio books, regular text messaging, maybe half a dozen calls a day and it's never below 80% at the end of the day. We spent last week in Devon and it was only charged twice all week despite being my camera, music system, sudio book player, alarm clock .....

Bob Willis, monotous old wind bag that he can be at times, hit the nail on the head a few minutes ago. England's footwork was totally absent. They seem to have a mindset that they can just stand and slog. Cricket, in any format is not like that.

Other than that it was quite good really, better camera than the Huawei has, despite the Huawei being twin lens and better screen and sound quality too.

The amount of bloatware Samsung use is horrendous, but that's not unlike most android phone manufacturers. The biggest issue is the terrible battery life and reliability. I was unfortunate enough to choose a Galaxy S6 just as they released the S7 to the market The deal was very good, to get rid of old stock I guess. After about ten weeks I noticed that the battery life was starting to reduce to a point where when fully charged in the morning, even not used the battery would be flat by the end of the same day. I took it back to the shop it came from who advised it was a problem with the battery charging software which they updated and sent me on my way. Next day after being fully charged overnight it died at 4pm. I had made one call. I went back to the shop who said they would have to send it to a Samsung service centre. Three days later I had an email from Samsung to say they had received my phone at their service centre but couldn't find anything wrong with it. I called and explained the issue and they said it was due to me using an "unauthorised" charger and to repair the phone would cost £270. I disputed this as it had only ever been charged with the mains charger supplied, a samsung branded car charger bought at the time I got the phone and a wireless charger bought from the Samsung shop about a week afterward. They called me again two days later to say that they had agreed to fix the phone "as a gesture of goodwill". About ten days later the phone arrived back to me in the post. I plugged it in and immediately noticed that it was not "fast charging", the phone supposedly had adaptive charging meaning it could charge at different speeds depending on battery temperature, available current etc. I left it on charge overnight, and by the end of the next day there was about ten percent charge left. This was about the time I changed jobs and needed to use my phone more. I found that if not constantly charging the phone would die after only a couple of hours use, and if using an app such as sat nav then even plugged in the battery life was still dropping. I contacted Samsung again and asked them to replace the phone, as it was still only four months old and they had failed to fix the problem. They refused. They advised me to send it back to their service centre who would diagnose it to find out what was wrong. I'd heard nothing atfer a week so checked the delivery receipt, the phone arrived the day after I sent it. I called them again and they advised they were "testing" the phone. Another week later they called to advise that the battery had to be replaced but as the damage was due to using a non approved charger ...... here we go again. This time they would not budge. I researched the issue on the internet, and despite the phone being less than six months on the market there were pages and pages of google results with the same issue. I emailed Samsung's head office with screen dumps insisting that they fix and return my phone. They replied four days later to advise they had authorised the replacement of the battery "as a gesture of goodwill". Another week passed before my phone arrived back. As soon as I received it I plugged it in, still no fast charging, so I charged it to 100% and this time it seemd to be working properly. The charge lasted all weekend with occasional use for calls and web browsing. Still it would not fast charge, in fact when plugged in to the AC charger I only got slow charge, and a message "connect an authentic Samsung charger for faster charging". It was an authentic charger! On the wireless or car charger i got standard charging. I put up with it until only a month later stand by time started to drop again. This time I insisted they either replace it or I would tie it to a brick and chuck it through their window. I was really starting to lose my rag. Samsung agreed to replace it, still insisting the problems were my fault, but did eventually agree to replace it with a refurbished phone. I mailed it to them again, ten days later a replacementarrived in the post, except it wasn't a replacement, it was my same phone in a plain brown box. How didI know they asked. The postcode on the back in ultra violet security marker is a bit of a give away. I advised the service centre I would take the matter up with Samsung's head office and started emailing and calling them daily, as well as posting my experience on their facebook page. Eventually they replaied to my email advising they would replace my phone "as a gesture ... blah blah blah." Two days later a courier delivered a brand new S7. In truth the S7 was very little different to the S6, same size, same Amoled display, same processor, same ram and most importantly same Lithium battery. It worked OK for about three weeks, then stopped connecting to my laptop to download photos. About a week later it stopped fast charging. It's now ten months since I first had the S6 and my contract expired after twelve. I thought I'd stick it out until then and go back to the Sony's I'd always had before. My plan nearly worked. A week before my contract expired driving up the M42 with the phone on the passenger seat it suddenly flashed a message "fast charging disabled due to battery temperature" or words to that effect (it wasn't fast charging anyway). About ten minutes later another message on screen, "battery temperature too high, unable to charge". As I reached to unplug the charging cord it exploded, a big flare from inside the phone, acrid smoke leaking out of the case and a big scorch mark all over the seat. Check the internet and you'll find a whole host of simlar accounts of people who had S6 and S7's with battery life problems or batteries explode or catch fire, not to mention the Note 7 which was withdrawn after only a couple of months on sale due to "irresolvable battery safety issues". Sorry, but Samsung phones are abysmal, and their customer service ethos is even worse. They were fully aware that the batteries in these phones were faulty, potentially dangerous yet denied and denied and denied it. I'm usually a live and let live kind of character but Samsung should not be in business.

I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.

You had a very lucky escape, Samsung phones are the communication devices of beelzebub incarnate. I wouldn't touch one with a disinfected bargepole. I too use a Huawei, phone and tablet and have just synced the photos from last weeks holiday to my W10 laptop by bluetooth OK.

Collisions between cruise ships and dock walls are far more frequent than you might think, almost a daily occurrence. Cruise lines refer to it a "heavy berthing" and it's usually a result of misjudging the wind or a late change in wind direction. Once cruise ships were referred to as floating hotels, nowadays they are floating cities, the largest approaching a quarter of a million tonnes yet most of the time they approach port and dock unaided. When a heavy berthing leads to damage then technical or mechanical faults are normally blamed. It's less embarrassing than admitting the master "cocked up".

The start was the worst possible for the game, an early Liverpool lead meant they could sit and break, which they tried to do. It was a match played between two sides that looked, as Jurgen Klopp aluded to like they were simply out of fuel after long hard premier league seasons. Then a three week break between the end of the season and this game hasn't helped. But what do I care, big ears number six is heading to Anfield, where it belongs. It's been an ironic season in many ways. Manchester City won the trophy Liverpool really need, the Premier League. Liverpool won the trophy that Manchester City need, in the European Cup. Winning the Champions League was City's stated aim at the start of the season. It's what Guardiola was bought to the club to do For all City's achievements, and all the money spent they cannot sit at Europe's top table until that trophy sits in their cabinet. Meanwhile they gaze up the East Lancs Road and watch their closest rivals add another to their already bulging trophy room.

I wish I shared your optimism, but England's batting, whilst very dynamic is far too brittle. The next collapse is always just around the corner. Once you get to a tournament such as the World Cup rankings usually go out of the window, as the West Indies demonstrated today.

My first car was a BMW 635csi, non roadworthy which I was given to learn to drive in when I was young. Loved thrashing around the farm in it and I'm sure that's where my passion for motorsport came from. My first road car and I came down to earth with a bump, a Mini. But it was still great fun. For reliability I must nominate my Honda CRV. 15 years old now, and rapidly approaching 200,000 miles with only one visit to the garage, other than for service and mot, a replacement VTEC oil valve at 120k. Still going strong.

I read the title and thought, I bet Vanessan has seen those great white egrets on Breydon ......

Take the old name off, put the new one on and inform whichever authority she is licensed with. That's all there is to it. Some people will tell you it's bad luck to do it in the water and that she should be lifted out, that's up to you. You might want a small ceremony and to pour a libation over her bows, again up to you.

and now no Donny either..... Comiserations, always tough losing any game on pens

From the photos we're seeing and the look of the new menu I very much fear that the Locks is losing (has lost?) it's soul. Let's face it, it isn't the easiest place to get to by road or river, you have to make a real effort and there needs to be a good reason to do so. It's character was the old piano, the wine bottles covered in years of candle wax, the obscure wall hangings. The sense of being somewhere unchaged since the wherrymen stopped by for a bowl of stew, pint of black and a twist of shag. There was nothing like sitting in the bar at luchtime nibbling on a pork and stuffing roll with the sunshine beaming through the windows, illuminating the dust motes playing in the air. Sipping on a pint of Headcracker, or in more recent years "Gone Fishing", especially on the odd occasion that somebody would pick up the guitar that was always lying around the place and give us a song or two. The landlords wife used to have a cracking voice and would often give a short performance if asked nicely. That seems to be gone now. It would appear the place has been sterilised. We'll still pop in and see for ourselves when we're next tht way in July, hopefully the menu will have had a reality check and the pictures over emphasise the pillaging of the places character.

OMG. The best pub on the broads just started selling chocolate as well. Heaven truly is a place on earth.