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40 minutes ago, rightsaidfred said:
Sorry but you have jumped in with both feet again, you brought the subject up I was merely responding to your post and I didnt say all but those that dont, in that context I dont see where compassion comes into it, my statement has nothing to do with current circumstances just an ongoing perseption you have of others.
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Really try reading the post I referred to prior to my first comment, I'm leaving this right here because I can see your interested in making it personal .
How about thinking of everyone not just some i flaming well are .
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12 minutes ago, floydraser said:
I find that a bit of a confusing read?
And I think you're over reacting to Fred's comment. It was just that: a comment.
One would have thought it obviously that's why I choose to quote it , sorry if I'm a little edgy but this is a very serious situation and Don't see why old battles need re enacting at this time ..the NBN Is in a good position to help here , if it's negative then it will not go down well with other members or guests that are thinking of joining ..we are all in this together regardless of nothing , now is the time to pull together .
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1 hour ago, EastCoastIPA said:
I'm sure we all have views on the subject, but now is perhaps not the best time to air them, but to look at practicalities.
Most marinas do have toilet and shower blocks and whether the rules allow liveaboard moorings or not, if there are people staying on their boat long term this overcomes the issue of getting water and full foul tanks.
In London they are looking at trying to get some of the homeless off the streets, for the duration of the crisis, by utilising some of the many empty hotel rooms.
Perhaps a multi agency approach in Broadland needs to be looked at for those who do not have a permanent mooring to secure temporary spare berths for a short period, for someone to approach pubs with an outside toilet and shower block, perhaps even for the delivery of a number of portaloo's to key 24hr moorings, turning a blind eye to over stayers at places like Loddon and Ludham bridge where there are toilet blocks nearby, perhaps designating these moorings for those most in need as a temporary place to stay until the lockdown is over.
I wasn't intending sturing up any problems but I objected to the post I quoted for the reasons stated , I've always had the opinion that we shouldn't be interested it blame but instead pull together .
There are a number of moorings with toilets close by and I'm aware of BAs superb idea of getting together a list which will help no end , now is not the time for laying blame we need to help each other as much as we can and BA are working towards that in helping as they can .
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2 hours ago, rightsaidfred said:
I don't think there has ever been a problem between private boat owners and those livaboards who have a marina berth and behave in a responsible manner just the opposite, it is the livaboards that don't play by the rules where people have a problem.
Fred
Sorry but do you mean that anyone who Cruise's continually is breaking the rules ? .
Sure some do but equally alot don't .
Btw isn't it required that to live on a boat legally you need a mooring with planning permission in place , just exactly how many marinas have that ?
Those living afloat in Marina's without permission are equally breaking the rules .
It's totally wrong to state that those who live out in the river through choice are a problem some are done are not .
Remember this now brooms have closed the kiosk fuel and the basic item water is increasing difficult on the yare , and yet the most important thing is seaming taring everyone with the same brush .
Why not have some compassion for those who are operating in very difficult circumstances or is that too much to ask .
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48 minutes ago, floydraser said:
This a great idea and generous of people to offer their services. "Jenny Morgan" offered the same earlier.
I just had a thought: it would also be a good idea to go thieving so maybe we should all be a bit vigilant around the marinas.
How can you be vigilant around the marina when you're not going to be there due to a lockdown.
Surely the marina staff who live locally will handle the situation .
I'm wondering just how many boater's now wished the had someone living onboard in their marina ? , For year those that live afloat have been crucified here and other forums , to me that was short sighted and worse but isn't it funny how they when this lockdown happens and it most certainly will , suddenly become the biggest assert security wise? .
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30 minutes ago, marshman said:
Me too!
It does just occur to me whether yards will still do pumpouts but i guess the bigger yards at least will keep staff on, especially as they will be claiming the salaries etc
I'm sorry but who is going to need a pumpout other than those that live on a boat ? , If the lockdown when it comes is anything like the one in France then it won't be possible to just go for a jaunt down the river it would be breaking the rules .
Obviously if you live in the boat it's your primary residence and if your a continuous cruiser or whatever you no doubt will be allowed to move the vessel to obtain water, fuel , pumpout or food , only those vessels would I believe be granted an exception .
The whole point of the lockdown is to stop the virus potentially moving around , hence cruising for just pleasure is highly unlikely to be allowed , now it's not clear what the penaltys would be for infringement but I'd be surprised if it's not a police matter of a certain level of importance given the circumstances .
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1 hour ago, floydraser said:
I think they call it "Click bait"?
That's exactly what it is called , the question is why use it , after all click bait is designed to make people jump to conclusions .
Why not just title the thread " Google Earth" after all that is the subject , that saves unnecessary jumping to conclusions IMHO .
Regarding Google Earth yes it most certainly has its uses if peg person behaves , but you can't beat actually being there
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1 hour ago, WherryNice said:
One of her sister ships is currently for sale at NYA
https://www.nya.co.uk/boats-for-sale/aquafibre-33-2/
That's the vessel that got stolen a few yrs back from it's mooring just above freedom boats .
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38 minutes ago, vanessan said:
That goes for all of us.
It most certainly does including your good self
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3 minutes ago, EastCoastIPA said:
I hate to say it, but I think this thread has gone down the toilet
It's ok if it has I know someone with loads of toilet roll
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3 hours ago, Jayfire said:
I think you made both your feelings clear and your point over 18 hours ago and yet still seem intent on continuing it further. This is a friendly group, you've said your piece and maybe now is the time to let it go
No intentions of taking it further just purely replying to posts that quote me , or is that not allowed in your world ?
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4 minutes ago, Lulu said:
I appreciate we are all getting tense and worried but can we just stop having a go at each other on here and move on. We need to support each other now. My anxiety levels are going up and I’m coming to the forum for a rest from all whats happening but now I’m reading all this bickering.....
With the deepest if respect I really don't see this as purely bickering , members are annoyed that's definitely not bickering .
The fact remains the whole episode was totally avoidable by thinking before typing .
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55 minutes ago, Ray said:
And may I gently suggest that there isn't anything particularly clever about picking people up on typos and spelling mistakes.
It seems that one member is taking the flak for everyone's frustration with the situation in general. He has explained quite clearly that he has been forced to react to the initial rush of stockpiling by those we are all rightly angry with. He has sought to to do this in as responsible way as he can and he has told us why he needs to do this. And that he has now stopped.
He didn't need to explain, he doesn't owe us an explanation but shared with us his personal situation in accordance with the 'all in it together' ethos of the forum.
Let's give him a break now guys... remember the adage about walking a mile in another man's shoes.
Wrong on 2 count's , first of all the only reason he's received a bit of a backlash is because he himself had the brass neck to make the stockpiling statement in the first place , most people would realise that wasn't a clever move .
Add to that he has no idea on anyone else health conditions or appear to be interested.
As for being responsible , is taking stock from small village stores actually a resposable thing to do for none residents ? They can't carry the stock supermarkets can and basically serve the local community and there's bound by to be people that depend on them .
As for having to explain , there would have been no need for that if the stockpiling ( his own words not mine ) post hadn't been made .
We are all in a frightening position right now every single one of us .
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21 minutes ago, vanessan said:
I have had an email from M&S this morning entitled ‘Can you freeze it? Yes you can’. Good ideas and advice but I do wonder if it will encourage more stockpiling! I do hope there’s not going to be masses of wasted fresh food, our supermarkets locally are devoid of a lot of fresh veg and fruit and certainly fresh meat. I have to smile when they say they are limiting customers to three of this and four of that when they haven’t got any anyway.
Rediculous advice , where ever you go store wise there's plenty of frozen produce , why because people are stockpiling and freezing fresh food , and now M&S are surgesting they do , I give up some folk Haven't the brains they were born with .
I only hope these idiots are dating thing's they are freezing on Mass and understand what freezer burn is !
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13 minutes ago, annv said:
I cannot see why people have to panic buy toilet rolls working on the assumption of one roll per male and two and a half per female per month one pack of nine would last a family of four over a month.I went to supermarket on tuesday evening a woman had twelve packs when i asked why she blushed and said she had a large family she had taken over a years worth its not only her but Australia and New Zealand have same problem i wonder if its world wide?? John
It's most definitely a problem in Canada at the moment although I believe it's not a problem in one of the worst hit areas Italy , apparently there the situation is stable as the Italians are only purchasing what they actually need .
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4 hours ago, ScrumpyCheddar said:
No it’s not stuff anyone else.... if that was the case I would of bought whole lot in the first shop I came to... Perhaps you should read what I have written and explained... I failed to mention my son drove up to me from his house 62 miles away to bring toilet rolls on Saturday because there was not one roll in my area.. Regardless to say people worse off than me... You try living with IBS crones disease then perhaps you would see why... Also I have my 80yr old mother and father and 74yr old mother in law on lock down.. So is that stuff you Jack attitude I don’t think so... Perhaps you should go on toilet roll patrol and dictate to tell who and who can have one...
Now as your fully aware as you have obviously read the post and liked it I've been pulled on being a little presumptuous.
Have you bothered to think I might have health issues ? .
I'm hardly surprised to hear that toilet rolls in your area have sold out but I fully understand why they have , shortages are the direct result of stockpiling after all under normal circumstances there was no shortage , now if you need them all that's fine but it was yourself that stated you were stockpiling and had been for sometime.
I really can't for the life in me understand why on earth you chose to photograph them and the post it with details , surely you must have realised at some point at least one person was going to see it as wrong , I'm hardly on my own in thinking that looking at the replys on here .
As I said if you need them you need them but please for goodness sake don't promote it , just remember others may well be struggling for supply's and may well be in a similar situation health wise .
I'm quite sure you won't be the only member that's got a collection but your the only one that went public with it , and that's exactly why it got the response it did .
Stay safe and stay healthy .
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2 hours ago, vanessan said:
You really shouldn’t presume things, you seem to constantly jump to all sorts of peculiar conclusions!
Your quite right , could I respectfully ask that your a little more specific in future and in so doing eliminate any chance of further presumptions .
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48 minutes ago, JennyMorgan said:
I note that the BA's response is based on devaluing the writer rather than addressing the facts that he has presented.
Exactly they consider him not credible , funny that alot of people think they are exactly that ie not credible , how many times of late has the phrase "wrong choice of words" been used to cover for what wasn't true to begin with ? .
If BA want public trust they will seriously have to up their game and be a dam site more accurate , it's all well and good having a go at people for credibility but it shouldn't be done by an organization that sadly lacking in it to begin with .
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1 hour ago, SteveO said:
I inherited a Rawlplug kit from my Father in Law following his passing in 2005, In addition to the Rawlplug tool, I have a wide selection of the brown fibre plugs. More worryingly, there is also a metal tin containing something that I suspect is some form of asbestos, which you can use to make a paste, which is intended to fill irregular shaped holes and will take a screw. Needless to say, I haven't got too close to this.
That's exactly what is in that tin , normally environmental health will dispose of that for you but right now I guess their pretty busy , if it were me using disposable glove's I'd put it and the gloves in a sealed bag until you can get rid of it correctly .
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22 minutes ago, vanessan said:
Would you like to explain why you have directed this to me please?
Sure , it was your comment regarding forming a line behind broad ambition in which I presume your referring to Griff not the vessel as that's his forum name .
Griff is more than aware of the boat toilet rules in fact he's a phrase about it , however it was not made clear that blue roll should never go down a boat toilet as there's a very good chance it will block the pipe work , all was doing is pointing that out , sure you can use blue roll but dispose of it elsewhere .
My apologies if I've distressed you in any way but I automatically figured your were referring to Griff not the vessel .
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18 minutes ago, Polly said:
I can vouch for the fact that BA does not encourage loo roll use even the normal kind. You walk to the loo end of.
Absolutely confused now what have the authority got to do with this ???
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3 minutes ago, ScrumpyCheddar said:
Well MM hopefully there last us for a long time.. The 2 reasons to stockpile is because there is not any in the big 9 supermarkets in town... Because shoppers was bulk buying them and not thinking of others..
And the 2nd is my IBS.. As I said earlier I only purchased only ONE pack per shop.. So there was plenty for other shoppers. We always buy a jumbo 18 pack on our weekly shop but as due to the Crazy bulk buying I felt it it was the only way sensible to go around to get them for us.. As even now the shelves are empty.. Even 2 months ago we stocked up on a couple of bottles of night nurse and day nurse and boxes of paracetamol.. With health issues of pneumonia of what me and the wife have had in the past we don’t like to take chances.. Especially with this horrible virus out there.. I hope I’ve answered your questions alright there MM.
So basically stuff everyone else I'm thinking of me !!!.
In the past many have said I've posted unwisely , that said I know dam well when yo keep my mouth shut , your phonograph says everything , clearly the I'm all right jack attitude is alive and well , I'm amazed you thought people would be impressed TBH , have you ever given a thought to those even worse off than yourself ? .
This is not a personal attack it's an attack on a certain attitude held by far too many people of late .
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11 hours ago, vanessan said:
Form an orderly queue alongside Broad Ambition please...........😉
Why would you really put that in a boat toilet ??? , Sure you can use it but you will never find it in my holding tank ever , kitchen towel also works fine but not down the toilet ..why on Earth do you think proper boat toilet roll is thin and biodegradable ????
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3 hours ago, Vaughan said:
One of those tugs looks like an ex Navy LCVP, if I am correct. I guess that would be a very useful workboat on the rivers.
I'm sure they would but both are from another are on Short visit licences , that said vagabond is one big lump n only serious towing equipment need apply for moving her about
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Roger is a personal friend TBH , I know a fair few that moor there too , so far I've got 2 places for water both through friendship ..that said thanks Vaughan for that help good to see not everyone is critical