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Post by patty on Apr 11, 2018 17:17:25 GMT
Apparently Spring is here, I'm still waiting for it to show it's face. Hopefully from today the weather is going to improve, and according to this mornings weather report, next week looks good. cut the grass again today..have mastered the lawnmower..I have to run down hill pulling the start cable ..takes me now about 20 mins to start...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2018 18:19:29 GMT
Not long now, and you'll be laid back having grapes peeled for you to be washed down with complimentary gin Rog
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Post by patty on Apr 11, 2018 20:29:31 GMT
Not long now, and you'll be laid back having grapes peeled for you to be washed down with complimentary gin Rog 1 more grass cut to go..... Summerhouse to be painted... Garden needs weeding..... Photographs Friday...hopefully on the market Monday.... Then count down to NB Ellis .......
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Post by JohnV on Apr 11, 2018 21:25:21 GMT
Like you Ross I always found wood cutting a satisfying job ...... hard work but seeing a stack of logs you have just cut is a great feeling. I used to burn wood all the time but I had to give it up when my health started playing up. winter fuel by mudlarker2, on Flickr
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Post by patty on Apr 12, 2018 6:25:06 GMT
Wood cutting using the saws(note plural.. they were on offer) is wrecking my shoulders so I've now decided to let the 13 giant trees lying across next doors field...lie.....I notice they are full of tiny birds now so I hope they are not nesting. However as it took the farmer 3 and a half years to fell them, I'm not anticipating that a) the trees will go anytime soon or b) the fence they dragged down will be repaired in the for seeable future.....living here one has to accept 'whenever' approach to tasks requiring others to do or other's responsibility.
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Post by naughtyfox on Apr 12, 2018 7:48:53 GMT
Not long now, and you'll be laid back having frozen peas peeled for you to be washed down with complimentary gin Rog
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Post by TonyDunkley on Apr 12, 2018 9:23:04 GMT
Don't assume that possessing some sort of paper qualification, especially if it was gained by completing one of the inland waterways courses run by the RYA, has any real meaning or value with regard to boating know-how and ability. (snip) If it's a "blue boat master thingy", it's granted by the MCA, and requires a minimum of 150 days relevant working experience, as well as a practical examination. In most cases, the examiner will hold, or have held, sea going qualifications. Very different from the RYA Inland Waterways Helmsman's Certificate! Since the introduction of Boatmaster Licensing under the MCA in 2007 the required levels of qualifying service time have been lowered, along with the introduction of additional 'tiers' of Licences covering commercial vessels operating in more restricted and specific areas/waters. I'm not familiar with the full details of these newer, restricted Licences, but I'm more than a little surprised, not to say somewhat horrified, that the minimum service time has been reduced to a mere 150 days. I have, on occasion, stood in as crew for candidates undergoing MCA practical tests, and I have to say that the required standards of practical competence, and oral test knowledge, fall far short of what I would regard as an absolute basic minimum for the type of vessels, and the waters, the tests are applicable to. My last MCA Boatmaster's Licence was in the form of small booklet and printed, if I remember correctly, on very pale green pages bound in semi-hardback reddish brown cover pages. It was issued under 'grandfather rights' when the MCA boatmaster licensing scheme was first introduced, and covered me for commercial vessels of any size from the mouth of the Humber inland on Category A, B, C, and D waters. Valid for only 5 years, I was in the process of renewing it when the Trent gravel traffic ceased in July 2012. The MCA now tell me that if I want to renew it again I'll have to undergo an oral examination and a practical test due to not having put in sufficient 'days of service' in the intervening time since the Trent (Besthorpe to Whitwood) gravel traffic finished, and that they'll only renew it for 12 months at a time on account of my age - 70 next month. Presumably they think that as I'm now officially a doddering old fart that I'll have forgotten everything I learned since I got my first job on barges trading on the Mersey, the Manchester Ship Canal and the Weaver, immediately after leaving school.
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Post by bargemast on Apr 12, 2018 10:27:20 GMT
If it's a "blue boat master thingy", it's granted by the MCA, and requires a minimum of 150 days relevant working experience, as well as a practical examination. In most cases, the examiner will hold, or have held, sea going qualifications. Very different from the RYA Inland Waterways Helmsman's Certificate! Since the introduction of Boatmaster Licensing under the MCA in 2007 the required levels of qualifying service time have been lowered, along with the introduction of additional 'tiers' of Licences covering commercial vessels operating in more restricted and specific areas/waters. I'm not familiar with the full details of these newer, restricted Licences, but I'm more than a little surprised, not to say somewhat horrified, that the minimum service time has been reduced to a mere 150 days. I have, on occasion, stood in as crew for candidates undergoing MCA practical tests, and I have to say that the required standards of practical competence, and oral test knowledge, fall far short of what I would regard as an absolute basic minimum for the type of vessels, and the waters, the tests are applicable to. My last MCA Boatmaster's Licence was in the form of small booklet and printed, if I remember correctly, on very pale green pages bound in semi-hardback reddish brown cover pages. It was issued under 'grandfather rights' when the MCA boatmaster licensing scheme was first introduced, and covered me for commercial vessels of any size from the mouth of the Humber inland on Category A, B, C, and D waters. Valid for only 5 years, I was in the process of renewing it when the Trent gravel traffic ceased in July 2012. The MCA now tell me that if I want to renew it again I'll have to undergo an oral examination and a practical test due to not having put in sufficient 'days of service' in the intervening time since the Trent (Besthorpe to Whitwood) gravel traffic finished, and that they'll only renew it for 12 months at a time on account of my age - 70 next month. Presumably they think that as I'm now officially a doddering old fart that I'll have forgotten everything I learned since I got my first job on barges trading on the Mersey, the Manchester Ship Canal and the Weaver, immediately after leaving school. That does sound very familiar Tony, I used to have a Dutch Commercial licence for all inland commercial vessels, but when I became a French resident and worked commercially here, I had to get a French licence for which I had to pass an examination, and then got a licence for life. 15 years later I received a message that there was a new licence requirement for passengerboat captains, for which I had to supply them with a proof of the tests that I'd passed to get one. All of a sudden "for life" had become until 65, and since then I've had to renew my licence every year too, but my last licence expired febr 17th this year, all I needed to renew it is a medical test for which my GP used to sign. But since she took her retirement last december, and there aren't any doctors that take on new patients, I can't get the papers signed. Only one GP was prepared to give me a new prescription to get the medication I need, but as he didn't know me for the rest, he didn't want to sign the papers of good health, as he tought it to be too much for his responsibility to sign for an unlimited lenght licence for someone he didn't know, and I couldn't oblige him to sign of course. This paper isn't allowed to date more than 3 months, so now I'm delaying my yearly visit to my cardiologist until late december, and hope that he's willing to sign them, and then I wait until after febr 17th 2019 before I ask for the renewal of my licence, as if I would do it before that date, the new licence will only be valid until febr 17th 2018. I hate all these ridiculous administrational rules, but I can understand that they require you to be in good enough health to be responsible of a ship (and it's passengers). Peter.
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Post by quaysider on Apr 12, 2018 15:54:48 GMT
Patty - come early and rescue us PLEASE xxxx
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Post by naughtyfox on Apr 12, 2018 15:59:45 GMT
From this ??!!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2018 16:04:28 GMT
Patty - come early and rescue us PLEASE xxxx Rescue from the flooded river or other clients? Rog
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2018 16:09:33 GMT
Patty - come early and rescue us PLEASE xxxx Rescue from flooded rivers or other clients Rog
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2018 16:13:25 GMT
Something weird going on here.
I write a post, but it disappears.
I repeat it, and both posts suddenly appear.
I attempt to edit one, and both disappear!
Is it a weak signal issue or is the formatting playing up?
Rog
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2018 16:15:37 GMT
Now everything is showing up......
I give up.
Rog
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2018 16:24:00 GMT
I blame the frozen peas.
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