Smoggy

I saw mine just over 3 weeks ago and replaced the knackered bilge pump and pumped the water out, I was lucky enough to get a van job going close by so wasn't going to leave it any longer knowing it had a problem like that, ran my genny for an hour to give the batteries a boost too, looks like end of march will be the next brief visit.

I doubt I'll book time off work till the pubs re-open in some capacity, a few weekends of boat maintainence will probably be the idea till they open but I don't have power at my regular mooring so always aim for the ferryhouse to do my jobs and have to drink beer while I'm there. Drinking on board is just not the same., we don't have much to talk about at home so why will it be different sat on a boat, at least in a pub you end up talking to others about different things. Roll on pubs!

Assuming the hour counter is in the tacho do you have a spare you can take with you....

It may be that those having a bigger reaction to the jab are the very same that would go on to be seriously ill with the real thing but of course there's no way of researching as those that show the reaction are then unlikely to be bad with covid as they have the immune response. A reason to be happy about the side effects if you get them... Roll on tuesday morning when I get mine, I can live with man-flu for a week if I have to.

Worth taking your own outboard....

A bikers pub doesn't usually mean problems, often the opposite.

Obviously you were not being a good boy Ian.

At 5.00am it's a bladder emptier not a stomach filler.

Reedham really needs Pete's steak pie back at the ship to be worth visiting, that pub has not been the same since.

Just got the following from Adnams, the terms said Offer is valid from Tuesday 16th February to Midnight on Friday 19th October 2020 but I assume they've just re-sent the old email so probably valid till midnight friday. Enjoy! 10% off * when you spend £50 or more with the code BOARDWALK10 15% off * when you spend £75 or more with the code CURRENTS15 20% off * when you spend £100 or more with the code SEASHORE20

Edited so as not to offend the sportyphiles, they're a delicate bunch bless em....

All this talk of cricket and football has reminded me that I have some paint to watch dry somewhere.

I assume because you need permission to post in the public information board as most of us are not worthy/can't be trusted, I don't see a reply option either.

I'm beside you in the stocks then, as long as the nhs can cope at some point we have to live with the virus not hide from it, if not bad enough to need hospitalisation getting ill is not a big problem and something that happens all the time with other illnesses.

Like it! That's me got some time to waste then....

I got a text from my gp with a link, clicked it, confirmed date of birth, clicked book now button, chose first slot available (8.10am so shouldn't run out), got a confirmation text. All in about 3 minutes tops, 2 minutes of that was going back to the forum thread I was reading (it was tea break after all).

As a surprise update to last post I just got a text from my dr. Surgery, booked in 23rd Feb for my jab. Chuffed!

We've not been abroad (unless scotland counts, well they do speak funny) since 1999 and have no plans to anytime soon, the last uk holiday not using our own boat was 2006 and it ended up with us buying another boat so holiday wise it's just down to booking the time off work and going boating, till things are looking better I won't be booking any time off. Ali gets her first jab on sunday morning so that will be a step closer, I should get mine by Christmas..... I gotta say the rate it's being rolled out I'm fairly sure I won't be that far behind her, top work NHS and thank you all!

That is a good enough reason for me. On Christmas eve seven of my neighbours got their houses flooded out by the brook that runs beside us, one of them popped out for something and on return had a load of white plastic ducks very similar to your snow ducks (only plasticy not snowy obviously, but still sort of duck shaped as ducks would be....) laid out around the front garden on all the bits high enough to show above water, they had a sighting of a car suspected of being involved and had a good idea who it was and luckily saw the funny side, they are still there now.(if the wind hasn't dispersed them)

So what exactly happened in your life to make you think "I really need a snow duck maker" ?

That'll be the cold weather, wait till spring.

Eberspacher and webasto do a water heating version that can power radiators or heat a calorifier but not cheap, radiators from calorifier would cool down rapidly once the engine is off, I have one of my engines heat the calorifier so I fitted a heater matrix plumbed to the calorifier take off on the other engine with a bilge blower fan for a bit of free heat into the cabin while running, some slightly cool days the eber is too much but the boost from the engine is just right. The thing with radiators is that most of the heat rises straight up and is lost through the roof as boats are not that well insulated, at least blow air can be ducted to floor level so the whole space is heated not just the space above the radiator.

First I heard of it was on the news just after 6pm or we would have done.

They have probably done more river miles than most of us have in the last 12 months.

Your last line is the one that counts Vaughan. That's gonna make an interesting insurance claim.