Malanka

Well the old and crappy below standard hybrid technology in our petrol Lexus delivers 50mpg from a 3.5lt V6. Even more round town. It also does 140mph where allowed and feels like a sofa driving along. Having driven both Kia and Hyundai models in the US for work trips I wouldn’t get your hopes up of them supplanting Toyota any time soon.

If it’s wet or I’m solo go through at low to ensure bridge clearance of 8ft 2 with top up. Don’t really bother with slack or tides outside of clearances as that’s our control factor. Prefer not to punch all the way oop North but doesn’t make much difference to us. When being 10ft wide with a sharp pointy bit works to your advantage. M

Funny but the bit about losing fuel duty to the government coffers is actually true. Funny how tree huggers refer to fossil fuels that are taxed at 70% as “subsidized”. In other news the spaghetti trees are ripe for harvesting M

Width at the shoulders of the bridge is what is measured to the quoted height. I don’t know what width Potter is at 6ft 8, but we have done Wroxham a few times with 6ft 8 on the gauge. It’s a wider bridge but not straight which effectively narrows it a bit. We are 7 ft across at the shoulders much narrower than modern boats at the same height. Yes we dismount the silly masty thing.

Not yet thanks, i use Simpson’s big thing if I need it for boat washing. Usually the track mark decks which stain very easily. Thanks for thinking of us. M

Banned in der Schweiz. We had an Aldi one for 9 years in DE and BE was brilliant. Nearly had my left nip removed in 1983 by my brother who was on the lance end of 2500psi power washer, got distracted by some short skirts and summer tops standing at the bustop. Lost control hit me on head ( I was behind him) as it went up and over him. Turned away got deep v shaped gauge in left bicep and a shallower one across my chest just under the nip. It was hot I had no shirt on. always wear a shirt lol , don’t Lolly gag at women. Now I can’t wsit to get to aldi uk to get a new one M

John, I meant that the CAT produces the CO2 not the engine. Diesels work best at high load for long periods. Petrol engines don’t care. The law says you must have a CAT they aren’t necessary to get low CO carbon monoxide emissions but the law says you have to have one? Ask why????? To drift further ask about CFC in fridges and ozone, or DDT miss use, Eutrophication of lakes / acid rain or any number of dubious emotion founded claptrap we a were taught as facts in school. The point being the original theories behind not using them and them being replaced with much more expensive and gosh, fully patent protected alternatives have now all been found using empirically derived evidence to be complete BS. Anyone changed anything ... Ahhhh no!!!!! I wonder why don’t you ?? M

Take the CAT out of the petrol car to see what it produces the co2 figures are totally artificial M

We’d have to come by a mooring planking though

If I could trust myself to get two 40kg Aireheads into the dinghy without getting wet I might try the dinghy landing. We do it but from the spit mooring. Dogs love it. M

I suspect the up to an hour is to catch the water hose users who just pop in for that. We were thinking if putting Malankas bow onto the beach area! Is that mooring? Its how it was done in the 50s certainly, and I don’t see a notice saying we can’t lol M

How did you guess lol yup containers. Bane of our lives, 3 million yellow dusters in 230kg metal banded bails in a twenty foot container and the fork truck died on hottest August Saturday morning for years, 17 tons total out, round, and back up inside by hand !! Wrecked my trapezius muscle right side. Still wrecked to this day, me and depot hydrocortisone are old friends. Plod made our lives hell too. M

John you’re not wrong as that is what STORR is diesel generators to supply emergency leccy when a brownout happens due to unreliables. Really you couldn’t make it up, like converting a coal station sat on a coal mine with zero transport costs to use wood pellets imported from the US via road ship then road.... Face palm or what !!! M

Mal will be electric by then. M

We do both Grendel, depends which is cheaper. Leasing in UK is waaay more expensive than here. Both our lease deals are at rates less that 2%. In Uk it’s typically between 4 and 6%. You’re being ripped off. Those companies borrow money from the same place we do but you get charged 6% and I get 1.8%. Quite a ridiculous figure for margin that simply cannot be justified as anything other than greed. M

Yeah Switzerland and public transport spoils us for choice. My point earlier was economic development will drive the future not mandates from Brussels. So I agree with you but not anytime soon the technology is not mature enough. I do have one question though. What are we going to do with all the diesel and petrol we get from crude from extracting the high value lubrication oils and volatile organics to make plastics? It’s not going to be used so what do we do with it?? lol

I posted that these deliveries were by drivers with certs from firms with certs, all the owner drivers we dealt with were great, neat trucks careful supervision of loading ( I was the FT driver too) What left our warehouse was on the money. What arrived as groupage was a completely different story. Illegal imports from the United Arab Jamihyria (Libya) from South Africa (when NM was still in his cell) machine parts were diamond drill bits heading to Scotland, bags of PVC we’re going to the Dunlop factory to make tennis shoes. We transhipped them to tankers. None of that cared two hoots for CPC or any of it. When it left us it was pucca, not so when it arrived. This was mostly in mid 80s and early 90s. We had fun......

Where we live public transport is quick, efficient, cheap, readily available and simply the best I have ever seen or used. I don’t need a car here it’s our choice to have one. Even then I could use a red mobility shared car if I wanted. It’s our choice, any government that wants to remove that fundamental choice had better look long and hard first. M

You know very well the answer to your question Charlie. Told you more than once. Mrs G can use her anytime. Lol

Why not just write out in triplicate on 5 sides of A4 how and why this would on any planet be a good idea and I will consider it ... he he

We have welcomed our middle son to take Malanka out twice so far, and our youngest will take her out this summer. I drummed into them there is no democracy on a boat and that they are in charge and need to let everyone with them know that is the case. I have no issues with them using the boat, they are responsible adults who know that with that comes accountability and they actually welcome that to demonstrate to us that our trust is well placed. They have never let us down and I do not anticipate that any of them ever will. If I cannot trust my own offspring brought up by us and nurtured by us and values given and encouraged by us then who on earth may I trust. M

Absolutely agree CPC is essential. No disagreement there. All haulers should and perhaps do have one. However having worked and run my own company involved in groupage distribution and storage in UK and internationally I can absolutely assure you that we received hundreds nay thousands of deliveries supposedly by CPC certified hauliers that were: unsafe downright dangerous misslabelled poorly loaded illegal All came of course with the correct paperwork that was worth precisely NOTHING. Quoting regulations and requirements is great but in the real world there’s a jungle out there so please remember reality strikes every time.. if that were not the case there would be no need for regulatory bodies would there. ... have a great weekend M

Without drastically reducing base load, having cheaper spinning reserve options and making renewables reliable it will never matter if the infrastructure is there or not. Until that happens the commission is wondering why it’s legs are wet when peeing into the wind. Ask yourself why they didn’t mandate replacement battery technology common to all electric cars, no recharge stations just slip in via fork truck a new one, pay the charge and drive away. That way range limitations mean nothing. The goals are great and will see fulfillment WHEN the technology is mature enough not because it’s mandated and subsidized by everyone who chooses not to have one. we didn’t get steam trains and Iron ships, computers, mobile phones because some incompetent idiots in Brussels or any government said so. We got those things because economics and the people said so. Take away the subsidy and how many Tesla cars would we really see?? Musks subsidy / grant bill which will never be repaid is currently 5.4 Billion dollars... General Motors or Toyota did it for a lot less. Such is life M

No No and NO....... And I don’t want to and that’s it. People I trust may borrow her with great pleasure but not for commercial gain. She has never been hired and she’s shy.....

The word doesn’t seem to be the issue with some it is the interpretation of the word ( parable). Please inform DAESH, that Jews and Christians are sister religions. Maybe start influencing parents and children at the local mosque talk to them when they gather for Friday prayers. I find 1:1 I have never ever found an extremist follower of Mohammed ( I have met Christian extremists in the us quite frequently and they are frightening people) yet when in groups perceived slights become slogans and soon they are extremists of all stripes marching down the street. I just despair. M