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Smoggy

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  1. Do you have the ea key as well as the windlass?
  2. That was purely an explanation I'd heard from whichever bunch it was (I can't remember) explaining the ones on the a11 upgrade, they cost a fortune and no one knows if they are any use. I think it was a section on Jeremy vine's show back then.
  3. I don't think bats are supposed to use the crossings as such I think the idea is the detect the structure and go up above lorry trailer height. There will be no evidence either way as bats hit by high vehicles will be tucked between trailer and cab and taken away from the site.
  4. Original plate was KN08 HED at a guess.
  5. I never got the joy of furlough, half the staff did but a key handful of us worked through. Van jobs were good as the roads were lovely, it's been a long time since driving was anything other than a chore. Had to take hearing aid batteries to my Mum on a regular basis so naturally that was a job for the bike on empty roads .
  6. As I'm having all the windows refurbed I decided to replace the leaky old hatch, while the new one is sat at home it seemed a good idea to insulate it to stop the condensation drips as it is right above the berth. So stripped all the fittings off the opening section, used 2 layers of this polystyrene (the stuff you can put behind wallpaper) held together with double sided tape, faced the glass side with leather effect vinyl wrap that closely matches the headlining, cut this strips of double sided tape and placed it on the glass behing the safety bars so not visable to prevent the insulation sandwich drooping, covered the whole of the underside with the same vinyl wrap and ran a craft knife around the frame edge making it effectively a sealed unit before refitting handles and bump stop. I recon it's turned out pretty tidy and much warmer to the touch than the glass and aluminium and it's as we ever look out of it anyway. Just got to hope the windows are done in time for easter now, glass took longer than expected and weather not looking too forgiving for fitting boat windows.
  7. Sssssshhhhhhhh! Don't tell everybody!
  8. I'm not daft, I've saved a pond full. Problem is the frogs have done naughty things in it...... (Frogspawn not angry farmers on tractors)
  9. It's the same colour as the back but pointier. (Does that help?) Cantley reedcutter has darts and pool as does fishermans at burgh castle, I think the queen's head at burgh castle does too and a cracking Sunday carvery.
  10. One of the dogs we had used to skulk off in our local to the bar and reappear with a pack of smokey bacon crisps, at least he did once manage to get a round for us included in his scrounging. Best bit was he'd open the packet corner to corner with his dew claw and sit and eat them one by one, present mutt would just bolt the lot in one go.
  11. Can you be more specific, I want to book the day off.
  12. It's probably got it's own somewhere.
  13. So what makes you think it's been a wet winter? This is my chopping block, admittedly it's not been used since I got a leccy logsplitter, but it's got some very pretty shrooms on it.
  14. Does brundall to brundall really need a weather window? Surely a brolly would do.
  15. If you are going to fit an in tank sensor fit it where the rinse inlet goes in so it gets a flush each time.
  16. So they're out of warranty then?
  17. My old man used to do agricultural tyre repairs around the cambs. fens and used to get lots of bog oak for the fire, it it just regular oaks that have been under the peat for years (possibly lots of thousands of years) and effectively come up to the surface, once the farmer hits them with a plough or similar they have to dig them out, once dried it's very definately still wood and makes great firewood but gives the chimney sweep a hard time as the absorbed peat is sooty as hell. The village always smelt of it in winter, a very welcoming smell. I don't think they actually rise, I think it's the peat shrinks as it dries and the microbes in it come alive and consume it and the ground level drops to meet them, near whittlesey mere there is a post that was sunk till it hit hard ground in the victorian times, it is now high and dry with it's base on a plinth and another sunk beside it to show how much the ground has dropped, it's not a short post! Peat bog needs to stay waterlogged or it disappears.
  18. Mine is also at swancraft at the moment, windows being redone, if not ready by next weekend I may drive up just to refit my water tank (had to re-weld a split seam) just to get an easter head start, also have new hatch to fit at some time to be fully water tight, I'm fully hopeful my hunches are correct and they're a whole lot better than trevor the bodger.
  19. Smoggy

    Flooding

    Been there, done that, admittedly it was last boat (front boat in pic). 2 week trip started from st.neots on the great ouse and ended up back there, 2009 it was, 450 litres of diesel and similar number of miles later, the trip from well to hulls was a tad interesting, came back via the trent and witham. Now please don't tell me breydon is scary, it really isn't. The flood markers in the pub are interesting, a couple are up by the fan light windows, when we were there at had been very wet and the river went up by around 10 feet an a couple of days. Be very grateful the broads catchment doesn't run off the pennines.....
  20. When my other half did that I knew it was a serious whack when waiting for an ambulance she kept saying she loved me (after regaining consciousness), clearly delusional.....
  21. We can all play at that game.....
  22. You may be joking on that one but the jokes thread shows a lot of mine outlined in red as not allowed, can't imagine why... I'm hoping that bit rings true or my avatar will be too accurate.
  23. Not an option in a pizza parlour....
  24. Yep, We've had the dog in there before a couple of times.
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