BroadAmbition

For what it’s worth, I reckon we as a race in this country are too clean and have been so since the late seventies. We hardly get exposed to muck and grime like we used to do as nippers, as a result our natural immune systems have become weaker. When we were nippers we had bath night once a week whether we needed it or not. sanitisers, hand gels and the like we’re unheard of. Nowadays we are all so clean that the slightest bug knocks everyone over. Septasemia was unheard of, it was plain and simple blood poisoning. No one ever gets that nowadays either I'm just gonna carry on as normal until I’m A). ordered to do otherwise B) become ill or C) pop off this mortal coil in which case I won’t give a toss Griff

Water was on at Ranworth last month Griff

Restricting the tidal flow going up the rivers at GYA might increase North sea levels by what? Point 01 of a millimetre? Griff

So, The winner is WherryNice. Only £3:14 away from being ‘Bang On’ Well done WherryNice We are in Jockland (Gourock) till the fifteenth, when I get home I’ll transfer £10 to the Forum Funds on your behalf. Not a prayer of doing it any sooner from my phone - Really? Griff

£317:13 that includes the 4 x £1 coins not shown. 50p pieces were not put in the bottle until August onwards. So the next fill should be a higher total Griff

Morning Y'all, Some great guesses. Amazingly one of them is only about £3:00 off being 'Bang On' I'll close the entries at 2100 this evening and then reveal the winner Griff

Put Soltron in your tank every fill. A fellow boat owner did this on a well used boat engine to combat the dreaded diesel bug. Side effect was a non smoking engine We use Soltron in ‘B.A’ all the time Griff

So, brought over from the 'My Day' thread. The photo you see is of our small change bottle. It's one of those glass gallon bottle types. Since the photo was taken it was filled right up to the very top. The denominations of coins that go in the bottle is 50p coins or smaller MrsG has just this morning emptied said bottle and counted the lot up (She discovered four x £1 coins that shouldn't have been in there), took her over two hours - Serves her right, it's not as though she had owt else pressing So there is now a prize on offer for the nearest the total. I thought to mysen what small prize can I give forumites? - Sommat boaty, as in a 'Nearest n Dearest' gift voucher ain't any good as not all forumites are boat owners. A bottle of wine or some such like wouldn't be any good either as some poor deluded souls in here are tea total (No offence intended) and then there is the issue of getting a bottle to the prize winner So how about a weekend onboard 'B.A' skippered by mysen then? - Somewhat a heavy prize that would be, I do that at least once a year for charities and it costs me an arm and a leg what with days off work, getting there n back etc. So lets be sensible - I will donate £10:00 to the forum funds on behalf of the winner - There, that should cover everybody. As it is a free to enter competition I would expect plenty of entries but only one entry per forumite please I was going to enter it mysen but MrsG blurted out the total to me before I could stop her. I have taken a photo of the bagged up coinage along with a post dit showing the total So those other guesses on the t'other thread can be ignored, we start from here. A clue - The total amount counted in our bottle is over £100:00 Over to you lot, Griff

And that one on display in our lounge is staying unopened too Griff

I can't ever remember getting our change bottle this full before emptying it and counting it up. The change bottle in our hovel is saved towards holiday spending monies. Last year we upped the anti so 50p's and below get saved in here. I am proper intrigued as to how much the total will be in it. We never spend a 'Twofers' either they are saved separately. Between the bottle and the barrel it makes a big difference on our foreign holidays spends Griff

That’s a very good point. I never thought of that. Now all I have to do is find a wealthy ‘T’. Tyson Fury perhaps? Griff

It meant nowt in the early 80’s when I put it on. Nowadays of course it’s kinda cool Griff

Moving one of my toys back home earlier today Griff

I have been overdosing this week on upgraded tech at our abode. Last year I got word that Windows 7 was to become obsolete and no longer supported. Plus my home PC tower has been here for ages and was getting slower and noisier too. So, a new tower p/c system was researched and ordered (Bro did the research and I simply agreed with him, we bought a matching pair!) The new tower arrived, its a HP Pavilion 590-p0xxx intel cpu 3ghz ram 8gb 64 bit operating system with windows 10, Microsoft word outlook etc. I hope someone knows what that lot means as I have not much idea tbh. All I know is it is working fine, after having transferred lots of info over from one to t'other. Its so much quieter and notably faster. I have now got to get used to windows 10. This will not be an overnight process you understand Then there was a phone upgrade form an iPhone 6 to an iPhone 7. It's operational but there are some issues still to deal with. A few calls to EE help line for business users will sort those out I hope. Now I need to open up the unit that has the hardrive on our home cctv security system, change that over as that packed up recently too Oh, and the solar panels - inverter has developed a fault, a fault that can only be rectified by purchasing a new unit. I'm told a replacement will cost about £700:00, a lot more if I want to upgrade the system with storage batteries for night time use All this would be so much easier if I was a teenager Griff

The Barton Angler - used it many times (Bartan Anglia ?) Eagle at Neatished - Another tick, Bridge at Potter - Liked that one a lot. Wherry was it? at Langley Dyke. Stracey Arms in the late 70's early 80's was a gudden too. Petersfield House in Horning, Anchor at Coltishall. Sigh, happy days Chequers at St Benets - Way way before our time, although Jenny Morgan might have had a soft drink in there when he was a nipper Griff

Hmmm, awkward one. if there isn't any room anywhere else to moor in Horning, I would probably chance it and offer to pay if anyone 'Official' came to see you and be nice to them. You can but try / ask? I did speak with the potential new landlord and he did say he was hoping to finalise things sometime in March but as of yet nothing in concrete. That's as much as I can say on it Griff

My Brother contracted Swine Flu when there was an outbreak of it a few years ago (he genuinely did) he visited a doc and was given some oinkment Griff

Yep, received ours today too, just a tad under 3% rise for us as well. I can live with that I suppose. Last years crewed up days onboard 'B.A' was our lowest yet since we recommissioned her back in 2007. That worked out at £8:49 per day for the toll alone, our best year that I have records to hand for was 2017 - £4:63 per day for the toll used. Need to get out more and we will this year. 2019 was an annus horribilus for us at this hovel, particularly for me and MrsG. Griff

We lived in Norway for 3 x years, October through to April, winter tyres were a legal requirement. Over there, they didn't muck about the winter tyres had steel studs in the shoulders. I once remember driving down the Dramensvien (a motorway)on hard packed snow comfortably sat at about 80mph quite happily. Three winters driving over there, I learnt more about winter driving than a lifetime of it over here. We could also volunteer for the Marines winter driving survival course - which I did, great fun and very surprising too Griff

Quite surprised to see low profile 50 sides fitted to a working Transit. You and me both Griff

Tired of Tyre talk yet? The front two boots on Trevor are approaching the wear limiters. So off I went to my long trusted tyre outfit. The tyres fitted all round on Trevor are Goodyear F1 Eagles, 235/50 x 18's for goodness sake. they are the extra load capacity variant due to being on the van. I was expecting £200 each - but no, pleasantly surprised they are 'Only' £135 fitted and balanced. However, me n MrsG are due to be taking Trevor (Well, to be factual - he will be taking us) up to Jockland, Gourock next month for a week. They have that snow / ice stuff and lots of rain up there at present, they always have lots of rain up there at present. Driving in those conditions with extra wide soft summer tyres is asking for trouble imho. Winter snow/ice type tyres is what is called for. I always intended to get a set of winter tyres for the previous van but never did. Ideal opportunity to get it sorted once and for all for Trevor. Having conversed with 'my' tyre outfit, they advise me that I need winter tyres 215/65 on a 16" (commercial rated) to maintain the same tyre diameter as the presently fitted tyres that I reckon they fit to Vulcan Bombers. I did want to go for 205's but they will be short in the diameter department. I have sourced a good set of second hand original 16" Ford Transit Custom alloys. By tomorrow they will be shod with the new winter tryes - All to the good then. The present huge alloys - I'll take off all four tyres, saving the two good ones, then treat the rims to powder coating (Black n red) re-fit the two good tyres and buy two new uns. Sometime April / May these will go back on Trevor The upshot is that for six months of the year I'll be running on wide low profile sticky summer tyres, t'other six months I'll be on the sensible winter tyres on smaller rims. Bit of a hit financially in the short term, but what price on not having a RTC? Griff

To date I have not been caught once, There is always a first time though, Hopefully as previously stated,. if we keep sharing them, then all of us will be up to speed Girff

Got another one, this time txt to my phone supposedly from EE (I do have an EE account) stating they could not collect my payment, I clicked on the link and it took me to a very convincing 'EE Site' The sit wanted my email address and passowrd which didn't input. I rang EE they confirmed it as a scam and could I forward it onto them along with the number that the scam came from which I did of course Griff

Hydrographic Surveys? Really? At high tide no doubt? Cynical I know but the Ba over the years have done nothing but make me cynical almost as much as 'Our' politicians Griff