Smoggy

So I guess you'll be getting out your pit after all like.

Even after 20+ years of boating it still goes wrong often enough, it make the good moorings feel even better, you will get the feel of it but only with practice and it's good fun practicing anyway.

That is also a bonus.

If veg are not slimy or smelly it gets used, anything in a tin gets used with no bother looking at dates, anything dry gets used whatever date, last night I had a yoghurt with 3/3/24 as a use by date, it was fine. If an open pack of cold meat is getting close to date and you're not about to use it chuck it in the freezer till you want it. There is a reason just about every mammal has it's smell organ just above it's mouth and eyes very close by, sod the dates think about the cash going in the bin and how much wine it could buy.

Yes, it's a fire engine and a very worrying phone call.

My triton bar mixer works well with constant stable temperature, best advice is mount with thermostatic end higher than outlet and fit valves to the inlets, that way you isolate it and remove hose for winter and leave the tap open so it drains and still use the boat with the water system working. Thermostatic is the way to go on a boat as you use less water trying to get the temperature right. Mine is at an angle due to space where the water pipes are, they don't need to be level. As an add on... For mounting a mixer bar b&q do an adaptor Bush with 3/4 one end and 5/8 other end, 5/8 end is tapped 1/2 inside so can take a hosetail, turn off the hexagon and use a backnut and the mixer can fit direct to a bulkhead, the mounting kits are for houses and make the bar stand out too far, I did have to make a pair of plastic inserts to stop the rubber seal distorting but fibre washers would have probably done.

A lot of rechargeable things can be charged off 12v or 5v (usb) if you make up your own lead, check the output of the charger plug. Converting 12v to 240v generates heat, Converting back to low voltage dc generates heat, that's a double power wastage to produce something you already had. I charge my karcher window vac from usb and it does fine.

Don't do miner work on a boat, digging a hole in the bottom is the last thing you want to do.

They don't really swim around there, they just go through the motions.....

I got goosed once right in the new cut , bloody thing flew into the vhf aerial..... It flew off apparently unharmed and the radio still worked fine.

Do you have the ea key as well as the windlass?

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.

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.

Original plate was KN08 HED at a guess.

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 .

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.

Sssssshhhhhhhh! Don't tell everybody!

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)

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.

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.

You left it on old Nyx.

Can you be more specific, I want to book the day off.

It's probably got it's own somewhere.

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.

Does brundall to brundall really need a weather window? Surely a brolly would do.