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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 13, 2016 17:10:00 GMT
Has everyone gone back to Canalworld? It's like a graveyard in here Not me, just been busy working on the boat today and yesterday, rubbing down little rust scabs here and there, changed the gearbox oil, cleaned the bilge and bilge pump etc... have a job interview tomorrow and if I get the job (so far I'm the only applicant) then I'll be moving onto the boat full-time, which I really want to do.
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Post by Trina on Sept 13, 2016 17:22:08 GMT
Has everyone gone back to Canalworld? It's like a graveyard in here Not me, just been busy working on the boat today and yesterday, rubbing down little rust scabs here and there, changed the gearbox oil, cleaned the bilge and bilge pump etc... have a job interview tomorrow and if I get the job (so far I'm the only applicant) then I'll be moving onto the boat full-time, which I really want to do. Good luck tomorrow.
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 13, 2016 17:28:12 GMT
That sounds very interesting! I think if I had another life, and lots of money, I'd like to live on a nice cosy boat too!
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Post by JohnV on Sept 13, 2016 17:32:38 GMT
And back to the Daily Mail whilst munching evening meal - so, now you have the plastic 5 Pound notes, I see! "Just think we work all our lives for bits of plastic!!!!! Can you imagine what future generations will think? Also if plastic bags are damaging to the environment how come plastic money isn't? Will we have to pay 5p for each one?" "Why are England so slow? Scotland and many other countries have had these notes for years!" (I haven't seen any plastic Scottish notes...) "It's pretty obvious that if you put a note with a metal strip in the microwave oven, the metal is going to melt, burn and go on fire, which can damage the oven's magnetron. Why risk damaging the oven for a useless experiment?" "i like to wipe my bum with the paper ones" (I think that was kris. tomsk has been asking!) Have the kids in the bus been winding you up again today ?
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 13, 2016 17:35:29 GMT
That sounds very interesting! I think if I had another life, and lots of money, I'd like to live on a nice cosy boat too! Ta, I'm not sure how I'd get on with living on the boat permanently, but if you don't try, you don't know. I think I'm fairly well set up for it, all I'd really need is a decent generator, as there's no electricity on my mooring. It's something I've wanted to do ever since I bought the boat, so we'll see how the interview goes, job sounds decent enough though, mostly acting as a go-between between the Brummies in the office and the Poles in the warehouse, neither of whom can understand a word the other says.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 13, 2016 17:40:59 GMT
That sounds very interesting! I think if I had another life, and lots of money, I'd like to live on a nice cosy boat too! Believe me, I haven't got lots of money! I own my boat outright, and I own my car outright, an 05 reg Rover 75, but that's it. I don't own a house and I've got only a small amount in savings- certainly a lot less than £10,000, but then I haven't got any debts either, and it's debt that keeps a man awake at night.
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 13, 2016 17:47:32 GMT
No problems with the kids in my bus - the ones who live along the Tokola-Kannus (Himanka-Kannus but Tokola is only 8km from Kannus) road have gotten a bit cheeky and several of them like to hit me as they get off the bus so I grab their caps when they come in and throw them back out the door! They are nice little kids. The other kids from the other two runs are also OK. This morning a strut between the front door pump and the door sheared so the door was swinging around, but that just meant I had to drive 30km to Kokkola garage to get it welded. No time to come home for porridge but had a decent lunch in Kannus instead. What an exciting life, eh? Going to try and sell my little boat here as we don't use it much - unlikely anyone will buy it as Finns are a bunch of skinflints - and if no-one buys it then we'll keep it. Planning on taking it out to our 'local playground' this weekend, Rahja archipelago, and being in one of the huts/cottages overnight.
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 13, 2016 17:50:27 GMT
So you've been up the Southern Oxford now? Any thoughts?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2016 17:53:31 GMT
That sounds very interesting! I think if I had another life, and lots of money, I'd like to live on a nice cosy boat too! Believe me, I haven't got lots of money! I own my boat outright, and I own my car outright, an 05 reg Rover 75, but that's it. I don't own a house and I've got only a small amount in savings- certainly a lot less than £10,000, but then I haven't got any debts either, and it's debt that keeps a man awake at night. Fair play.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 13, 2016 18:05:39 GMT
So you've been up the Southern Oxford now? Any thoughts? Yes very pretty, very peaceful, we're planning to go to the Fairport Convention reunion in Cropredy next year. I don't think I have a "favourite waterway" though, we loved the post-apocalyptic urban gritty Birmingham suburbs as much as we loved the beauty of Shropshire and the Pontcysillte aqueduct. I don't think we will ever top our day on the tidal Thames though for sheer adrenaline, which is not something normally associated with narrowboating.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2016 19:12:32 GMT
Has everyone gone back to Canalworld? It's like a graveyard in here And when I opened Thunderboat this morning I was greeted by an ad from a Finnish car sales firm: View Attachment View AttachmentYou have shit taste in cars foxy, your ads are based on your browsing habits, my ads are always Fiat Abarths or Alfa's, they must know I haven't pockets deep enough for a Maserati that and fecking decking at the moment.
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Post by tomsk on Sept 13, 2016 19:31:37 GMT
I have been building a football ground.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 13, 2016 19:33:01 GMT
Has everyone gone back to Canalworld? It's like a graveyard in here And when I opened Thunderboat this morning I was greeted by an ad from a Finnish car sales firm: You have shit taste in cars foxy, your ads are based on your browsing habits, my ads are always Fiat Abarths or Alfa's, they must know I haven't pockets deep enough for a Maserati that and fecking decking at the moment. Fiat's are dreadful cars though, always have been. We've got a friend who bought one brand-new a couple of years ago and it's spent more time in the workshop than on the road. Fix It Again, Tony!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2016 19:42:17 GMT
You have shit taste in cars foxy, your ads are based on your browsing habits, my ads are always Fiat Abarths or Alfa's, they must know I haven't pockets deep enough for a Maserati that and fecking decking at the moment. Fiat's are dreadful cars though, always have been. We've got a friend who bought one brand-new a couple of years ago and it's spent more time in the workshop than on the road. Fix It Again, Tony! Ah but, when they work they are great Our Alfa has been ace, one rattly rear seat catch fixed in the first month and that's it. It's only done 14k in 2 years though, so plenty of time for the bork fairy to do her work
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