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littlesprite
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I have been reading a few history books and there are a couple of really bizarre practices that used to occur in this country.
Did you know that there was once a time when public toilets didn't exist, people would just use the nearest tree, wall or alley.
Many years ago, before people new much about rats and the spread of disease (plague, rat bite fever, leptospirosis, murine typhus), instead of having rubbish collections people would have pits at the bottom of the garden where rubbish would pile up and rot.
I know such things couldn't happen in the 21st century, but just imagine how hard it must have been for your ancestors, isn't it good to live in a more enlightened era.
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What I have to laugh about is the insistence on a CE mark, a few weeks ago people were talking about 32amp/16amp reducer plugs and saying how they could easily fit a fuse and make them safe, the fact that doing so invalidates the CE certificate seemed irrelevant.
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58 minutes ago, littlesprite said:
I have no idea about the legal duty of councils or classification of waste, however, the waste has to be dealt with and cost needs to be found.
If mooring at Acle, South Walsham, Beccles or any of the other chargeable moorings, it seems logical that the people charging the fee should provide the service. When hiring a boat, the hire company should provide a facility as part of the package. Private boats who pay for a home mooring should have facilities provided by the company/individuals who charge the fee.
with all of the above facilities paid for by the people earning a living out of boaters, the council who also gain fast financial benefit from boating should fill in the gaps.
I clearly had a double brain fart with this post, started by putting it in the wrong thread, then compounded it with writing South Walsham instead of Salhouse.
I'd best go for laydown.
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I have no idea about the legal duty of councils or classification of waste, however, the waste has to be dealt with and cost needs to be found.
If mooring at Acle, South Walsham, Beccles or any of the other chargeable moorings, it seems logical that the people charging the fee should provide the service. When hiring a boat, the hire company should provide a facility as part of the package. Private boats who pay for a home mooring should have facilities provided by the company/individuals who charge the fee.
with all of the above facilities paid for by the people earning a living out of boaters, the council who also gain fast financial benefit from boating should fill in the gaps.
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I always use Soltron on the boat, it was just when ordering heating oil the other day I suddenly thought "oops"
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The Bridge inn Acle seem to have found the right formula, good food at affordable prices and they cater for children, now why are they always busy 12 months of the year.
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Congratulations poppy.
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Please be gentle with me, I'm only a little mad!
I think the Boadshaven at potter would make the perfect setting for a riverside restaurant, well it's got the room and it's on the river. A little money spent on the frontage and landscaping "perfect"
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Jill,
Whilst a sharp chisel sounds good, what would I do with the redundant club hammer.
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Yes I probably am tempting fate but here goes anyway.
Diesel bug, we've all heard about it and many of us probably use some kind of treatment to prevent it, my question is has anybody ever treated their home heating oil tank?
This is where I tempt fate, after more than 30 years I've never treated my heating oil,
does anyone treat theirs, or has anyone ever had a bug problem?
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I obviously haven't been paying attention, this thread is over a month old and it's the first time I've seen it.
Great pictures.
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2 hours ago, MauriceMynah said:
Luddite (modern usage) a person who CAN operate modern technology but only at the basic level. When faced with explanations as to how things should be operated to any further degree, the Luddite's eyes will glaze over and he will rapidly lose the will to live. This condition will be the same if he is in a pub surrounded by nerds.
To cure a Luddite of insomnia any of the following words will do the job.
Software, Hardware, Application, Download or 'Operating System'
To do any lasting damage to a Luddite an explanation of Mother Boards or Baud Rates could induce coma like symptoms. CAUTION, to a luddite discussions about BIOS could prove fatal.
MM you seem to have just described me! I guess that means I'm a Luddite.
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Timbo,
If you look at this report into the flooding of the Somerset levels it doesn't really agree, failure to carryout dredging and intentional pumping of water from new estates into the levels are blamed. at the time of this flooding the EA had just completed a new nature reserve at a cost of millions rather than dredge the river.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/01/18/flooding-in-the-somerset-levels-a-case-study/
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Happy New Year to all.
The chickens were ½ hr later going up last night compared to only a week ago, spring is just around the corner.
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The chap in this article was trapped on the mud, as the SOB is intended for water rescues a rib seems like a much better idea.
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During the 63 winter most houses didn't have central heating, ice on the inside of windows was common place every winter. We always had a store shed stacked with logs and pine cones collected during the year, with that and the paraffin heaters we seemed to manage.
A two mile trek to school was the normal, but again, because it was normal no one thought to query it, coming home down whitehill was very fast as it became known as the toboggan run, any piece of wood or metal sheet became our transport.
It is surprising how quickly people can adapt to extremes and find ways of keeping things going, even the newer generation (who have had a softer upbringing) would soon learn some of the forgotten skills and muddle through.
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Living in the southeast I was awoken in 1987 by the sound of my roof going to the land of Oz, I also lost my fences, a wall, my neighbour lost the whole gable end wall of their house, the woods out at Meopham lost almost every tree, Sevenoaks lost 6 of the 7 oaks (hundreds of years old), virtually every road was impassable due to fallen trees and all manner of debris, it was a pretty scary experience.
What I am trying to say is give me all the meteorological mumbo jumbo you like, "I was in a HURRICANE"
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I don't think many have argued that banning smoking in confined spaces was the correct thing to do, how far the ban goes is another matter.
The cost to the NHS is open to debate, most of the people treated/dying of smoking related diseases will still need treatment/die eventually for some reason or another, and think of the saving in pension pay-outs for those who die 10 years early.
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Yes! Yes! Yes!
It arrived at 12.10 today, so with no parcel to track now, I will spend my time watching the grass grow "life can be so exciting"
As for next day deliveries check the small print, I had a problem of next day (3 days) delivery, on checking the small print it states "next day after dispatch" it doesn't say when it will be dispatched.
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I should point out that I do agree with the smoking ban in enclosed spaces, that only enforces peoples right to breath clean air, freedom for the majority is the right thing to do. My concern is talk of a more general ban, smoking is not the main contaminant of open spaces and therefor banning it would be aimed at curtailing people's freedom without any noticeable benefit.
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Things are looking promising! the parcel arrived at the Dartford depot 01.47 this means only 15 miles to go.
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Sorry Howard, I didn't mean to hijack the thread, I just feel that freedoms are won at a very high price and it's sad to see people give them up so easily.
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The thrills of internet shopping! I have a parcel that started it's journey in London, I live just 30 miles east of London so hardly a long haul.
The delivery company collected the parcel and took it to Hub 3, apparently a national distribution centre in Hinckley Leicestershire in order to sort and deliver to my local distribution depot at Dartford. Unfortunately the parcel ended up at Southall London instead of Dartford but they spotted the error and it was all under control, my Parcel was dispatched and duly arrived in Birmingham Hub 4 (only 35 miles west of Hinckley hub 3. Having clocked many hundreds of miles travel my parcel is now on it's way to Dartford the local distribution depot "again" all being well I should take delivery tomorrow, but I've been told that before.
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45 minutes ago, Soundings said:
Give it time, Littlesprite, all things will come. Pollution at all levels will be hit one way or another.
Freedom is a wonderful concept and it is a truism that one man's freedom is not necessarily anothers. Those who love to walk through the streets smoking may consider it a right, a part of their freedom but those who suffer as a result of stale smoke and dog-ends all over the place might well see it another way. They may well consider it discriminates against their right to clean air.
Never easy
My point exactly Soundings "their right to clean air"
So what pollutes the air most, a man walking through the streets smoking or a car driving, once the genie is out of the bottle.
does anyone treat theirs, or has anyone ever had a bug problem?
Cheap Warm Air Heating - Is it possible?
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Another example of how dodgy the Chinese can be is the chip fitted to their cars, it was designed to con the fuel test figures and make the engines appear cleaner than they were. You just can't trust these Chinese manufacturers, oh! hang on.