Smoggy

In a sailboat or stinkie? Have you seen me helm after a good lunchtime visit?

And for those on board nylon mooring lines makes for a quieter night.

There may not be many places to hire them but there's no shortage of them around and can be used anywhere on the broads. The hard bit is knowing where they're going.

Probably be a snow drift!

Tried but couldn't find a decent stretch of downhill water to get enough speed up.

Lj's are nowt to do with bss, auto jackets usually have 4 year expiry on the action but best checked annually at least, also a manual inflation once a year (by pump not mouth) and leave 24 hours to check for deflation. @Mouldy manual actuator never go out of date it's just the bottle needs checking, most just check for corrosion and weigh.

Best bet on yare is a mudweight on bargate, I wouldn't try and wild moor much below that myself. There's good proper ba moorings to be had at burgh castle or hardly cross if you want quiet, or herringfleet, dutch tea garden.

That big star gazing centre used to be the royal greenwich observatory till it moved to cambridge, I believe it's now sadly shut down in cambridge. It was obviously originally in greenwich but moved to herstmonceux due to light pollution in london.

My petrol engined bike has the same range issue in cold weather, it goes absolutely nowhere. Oh that's right, I'm a wuss........

Milky way is a summer thing, this time of year we are facing the wrong way at night. Used to like a bit of star gazing but sold my scope after a couple of the local companies decided the sky needed lighting up to look like nuclear war had broken out. Watching moons transit Jupiter from the garden was cracking.

Nice one, you've just reminded me I need my windows doing, I wonder if the competitor spreading rumours is the one that bodged my screen and in the same locality.

I'd have been inclined to have the stuff took off the main house bodged on to the extension just enough to say look it's thatched now I'm going to tile it. Then again I'm no thatcher and have no clue if that's even possible.

Good job he never called it "national park".

I thought Green was your colour.

I have a bag of m6 studded bobbins I bought and didn't need if you want a couple.

Make sure the flexi pipe used is iso7840 spec for bss, as for the white door stop Griff I didn't realise you were racist... Silly point but doesn't the door stop screw right through so the screw can still transfer noise to hull? How about a bracket secured by hose clip around the doorstop for complete isolation?

Is the pump mounted in a rubber bracket? Could you slip a piece of pipe lagging over it to quieten it? I love reading chinaspacher threads as there's always complete polar views shouting each other down, always worth getting a good seat and a bucket of popcorn for. I've still not heard of one bursting into flames yet, when my eberspacher packs up that's the way I'll go using original bits.

Hot water wise we confuse plumbers as we have a hot water cylinder and a combi boiler, there's a set of thermostatic valves between so if the cylinder is hot it goes direct to taps, if its warm it goes via boiler to taps. Reason being we have solar panels and at the time it was the only viable energy storage option as export rate is just guessed at 50% by ofgem with no meter so we just run the immersion all the time, we keep a spreadsheet with leccy/gas/generation meter info and it seems fine, for quite a while we were getting more back in fit tarrif over the year than we spent in gas and leccy, and when they finally force a smart meter on us there's a spare heating coil for thermal solar if I can make a frame for the end of the house.

On an old zanussi washer we had I'd changed 2x sets of bearings and it had 3 wires soldered on top of the main circuit board across corroded tracks before we finally called it a day, I don't like chucking stuff away.

We went for an Ebac washing maching when the bearings gave out on our previous one as the drum was a sealed unit, I did pull it apart with a veiw to converting the drum to a screwed setup but we had the new one by then so gave up, when I got apart I spotted that even the heater element came out through the inside of the drum so not replaceble as a £10 item it had to be a £450 drum. Ebac are rebuildable with spares held, built in UK with a high percentage of components made in the UK so hopefully we'll have it for a long time.

With all these replacement parts your average age is now lower than your calendar age.

Was his name Jake?

We leave the heating on at a low level all year round, in summer it does nowt except run the pump once a day for a few minutes to prevent seizing, when it gets cold it runs at a low level (16 in the day 18 in the evening) to encourage us to light the fire as apart from the odd pint we've not paid for wood in the 10 years we've had it, all rooms have thermostatic valves and the non lived in ones are at just above frost stat, even bedroom is only on 1 as fire is below and chimney runs up giving heat long after the fire has gone out. Bathroom rad gets turned up before a bath or shower and back down afterwards.

On a similar note, just had to evict a wasp from the saloon of the boat, not what I expected to see fly past my nose in January.