Smoggy

Hosepipe ban by Tuesday then....

You may be floating again soon!

And how many know that to "give it the whole 9 yards" is only a good thing depending on which end you are, 9 yards was the length of a machine gun belt I believe (happy to be corrected, I'm only a mere sprog compared to some of you lot). So........ Is a tad or a gnats c*ck metric or imperial?

Not again, those poor pubs! Enjoy your hols.

I used to have tomtom on a pda with the roger mellie voice (from viz), that was always an amusing trip for sure.

Only pure water though! US fluid ounces are different too.

We still use inches at work as it's all yank stuff, oil is measured in US quarts, fuel flow is US pints/hour, all our micrometers are inch and all tools.

One of the benefits of satnav on a connected device is traffic issues even on a route you know well, the machine re-routes when you are not expecting it means there's a problem come up on the roads that the radio hasn't mentioned yet.

We'll be lifting a few glasses in Ian's honour tomorrow, best wishes to you and your family.

http://www.broadsnationalpike.com/

I just signed out and back in with no issues or popups, probably malware on your end Vaughan.

You'd have to ask the buyer, there's no reason to assume it will appear on the broads.

It says best offer accepted.

You could just saunter gently for the hills and hope she thinks you went the other way, take the drink with you though.

Assuming it has a greaser, mine don't just a raw water feed from the oil cooler and a vent pipe, I would imagine modern builds would use the lip seal type nowadays to keep a dry bilge.

It's a whole lot easier to align a small cruisers shaft/engine but it still has to be done.

So salt will come in and fish will die, did the same fish lurk in the same sections when dredging actually happened? Have they inhabited sections they couldn't previously have survived in? I'm not an angler so genuine questions.

A bow thruster??? Not got one but 2 engines helps. I have to admit in a side wind a girlie button would make life a lot easier due to no keel whatsoever.

If you fancy a bit more of a challenge you could always go under haven bridge and moor up on south quay, mooring is by lines that hang down and land access is by hideous slimey ladders and it's quite a drop at the best of times. I once had to get a dog off and back on there so he could relieve himself after eating bits of sun baked crab off the pontoon at wells followed by a fairly lumpy trip back, what he deposited was quite an improvement to yarmouth,it was an exeptionally high spring tide which made getting him off easier but dropping rapidly so had to rugby tackle him off the top of the floodwall and fall back into the boat to get him back on, not something I wish to repeat. We got enough clearance just after midnight so shot off to berney arms for the night. Hire boats are not allowed under haven bridge.

Getting into pickle at yarmouth is easy but turn and go against the tide and it gets much easier.

Gotta say I've had a very prompt reply and likely to get measured up on its mooring during the week, can't argue with that. Nice one Paul! Don't it work better when you actually send the sodding email.

Email re-sent, it's definately in my sent folder and I have a note from my Mum to say so!

Oh I'm trying alright, very trying!

And for those that despise shopping and like a bit of old diesel too a trip to prickwillow drainage engine museum near ely is a good one especially when they do running days, a lot of the old drainage pumps were powered by tugboat engines and the like, and they're huge. And of course Ely is a pretty place to visit while you're nearby.

I just hunted through my sent folder with a view to resending and I can't find it, my head wasn't very good when I emailed as I was suffering from a chest infection so I may have typed it and hit the wrong button, not even in drafts folder so.... Sorry Paul I may have blamed you for not replying to an email I didn't send please try and brush up on your psychic abilities to cater for idiots like me. I'll try again.