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Post by JohnV on Sept 22, 2022 22:38:36 GMT
Came across this tonight .... someone for whom I have always had a hell of a lot of respect,
(anyone told to do something by someone pointing a gun at them (who has already just shot a couple of people) and say "Not bloody likely" has earned it)
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Post by JohnV on Sept 22, 2022 18:33:01 GMT
You need to move your boat further south John V. Canary Islands? Oh, hang on. You still on the bottom? there's a word for people like you who crow over the trials and tribulations of others
on the whole I consider myself a restrained and polite individual so I won't lower myself to .........
Oh sod it !!! ............... TWAT !
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Post by JohnV on Sept 22, 2022 17:15:53 GMT
Well I now have central heating eventually messilly exhaustingly Pressure held up overnight so thought "goody" started up the boiler and started to go round the radiators to bleed them when I went to the radiator in the galley I opened up the b screw and then noticed that the radiator isolator valve was turned off. there was a bit of hissing from the bleed valve going on but when I opened the valve there was a hell of a lot gurgling and burping started. strange thought I, airlocks don't sound like that ..... I then realised I could hear gushing water. Turned the valve off, turned the boiler off and listening carefully for the noises realised it was from under the floor in the corridor ...... you know the one I relaid last night and put the hardboard sheet down and re-carpeted and screwed down the edging strips and vacuumed
took up the carpet tiles, took up the hardboard sheet, unscrewed and took up the flooring (awkward tight fitting bits of 25mm ply)
Plenty of water but no sign of where it had come from .... all the joints were tight everyuthing seemed to be ok ......
Ah well nothing for it .... turned the isolator valve back on ...... the water was coming from the next frame .... the only pipe there had been the return from the Rayburn
No longer needed it had been chopped off where it entered the floor and where it had joined onto the main return from the rest of the system
the annoying few inches under the next section of flooring just left there (It would have been a lot of extra work getting that next section up)
what I hadn't remembered was that when I installed the radiator in the galley area I had tapped the return in near the Rayburn
It was probably that which was why I hadn't been able to pull the remaining bit of pipe out.
I cut the new main return (plastic) put in a tee piece and re terminated the pipe from the radiator near the other junctions .... I don't know if anyone else uses Speedfit connectors
I quite like them but when there is limited room it's a bugger to apply the pressure needed to push them right home.
Anyway then spent a happy hour with the wet and dry sucking up the water
(I will have to leave the bloody floor up again as it takes ages for all the water to work it's way to a spot where you can reach)
I then spent another merry couple of hours bleeding the bleeding airlocks out of the bleeding system. !!! finally success I thought
I then went into the engine room and started to clamp all the pipes etc into place when I noticed a few drops of water from the feed couplings on the heat exchanger.
It was only tiny but I thought "Oh well ... do it now is better than do it later in the middle of of the night in midwinter"
To get to the fitting I had to slack off the other feed pipe so that it would rotate enough to get to the nut ..... plastic pipe into brass compression.
I barely turned the nut ..... and the pipe blew off and I was drenched from head to foot in (fortunately clean and not containing any additive) hot water (again fortunately not too hot)
at least it's a clean engine room bilge and I could just pump it out with the bilge pump.
extra ptfe added to the weeping fitting by the weeping fitter
and then bled the bleeding system a-bleeding-gain
finally everything works properly ...... I am now waiting for the water to heat up for a shower and consoling myself with a large rum
I must be F*****g mad
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Post by JohnV on Sept 22, 2022 8:16:37 GMT
There have been a hell of a lot of changes in peoples views in the main period of fighting 2014 to 2016.
Judging byt the number of refugees that fled the zone to either Russia or the government held areas of Ukraine, there was probably a majority
of the people in that area were inclined to be pro Russian .... the split was nearer 60/40 with the largest group heading to Rostov
(How many were willing to have a civil war to achieve becomming a Russian satellite is of course different)
Enforced induction into the armed forces of the insurrectionists probably altered that position as well along with some pretty dire actions in the insurgent controlled areas.
(not that some sections of the government forces were any better)
Before all of this there probably was quite a bit of support from Russian speaking areas especially from those brought up under the Soviet
However in the 4 or 5 years following the civil war Ukraine changed quite dramatically with huge improvements in freedom, improving standards of living, better and fairer legal system.
A slow but distinct attempt to rid themselves of the kleptocratic systems they had inherited following the Soviet breakup but which Russia still continues.
The Russian speaking areas in the North Eastern areas of Ukraine saw their living standard improving, major infrastructure projects, roads, schools etc happening.
They also saw conditions in the separatist areas either stagnant or worsening with clamp downs on freedom of speech etc increasing and unemployment worsening.
Their opinions were changing ..... yes a percentage were still pro Russian but they were more and more the older generation.
When you consider that a good proportion of the present Ukranian forces have Russian as their primary language (or at least are bi-lingual)
and the government forces are basically a volounteer army whereas the seperatist side is most definitelyu not
(as of yet they have not needed conscription they have as many trying to join as they can train and yes things might change)
I think your view on the amount of support is the same as Putin ...... and you can see the result of thinking that.
They were also beginning to believe in a bright future for Ukraine and the adoption of European values.
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Post by JohnV on Sept 21, 2022 20:12:37 GMT
I use a match
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Post by JohnV on Sept 21, 2022 20:06:50 GMT
Bodinnick lovely area, plenty of good local cyder Can't be doing with cyder when I'm driving ☹️ that's why I stayed there for two weeks
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Post by JohnV on Sept 21, 2022 18:53:23 GMT
Bodinnick lovely area, plenty of good local cyder
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Post by JohnV on Sept 21, 2022 18:44:31 GMT
What's the catchment area for the river where you're moored JohnV ? Rog basically the Driffield area and the Wolds and part of the East Riding
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Post by JohnV on Sept 21, 2022 14:11:21 GMT
River levels are getting really bad here at the moment ..... we might have had a few inches of rain this month but there is nothing in the river. A few weeks back the chap who owns the yard was saying he couldn't remember seeing it this bad before .... My mooring clamp system was under ridiculous strain and I increased the height of the vertical pole on the deck to help Sunday it was again under a lot of strain but held for a while but then the twin pivot poles pulled out of the key clamps with a hell of a bang. The originals were about 6" long, I had a bit of the right diameter tube that cut in half gave me two just about 10" long .... I thought that should be enough as I was aground by then. This afternoon I noticed while I was working that we seemed to have a list again so I went to check. The clamp is stretched to it's limit not so much because Sabina is that much lower but more because she is trying to slide down the mud into deeper water. Those poor old key clamps must have a hell of a weight on them SAM_3816 by mudlarker, on Flickr another loud bang I am expecting any minute is the bow rope on the 90 foot barge just behind me .... it's a fairly sun damaged rope and I dread to think of the strain. SAM_3811 by mudlarker, on Flickr
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Post by JohnV on Sept 21, 2022 12:47:17 GMT
last joints done and filled the system to 1 bar ...... one leak straight away ..... one of the copper joints somebody forgot to tighten it up ..... I wonder who the hell that was .... they need a good kicking pressured up again about 30 min ago .... still holding. Fingers crossed ..... if it holds for the next couple of hours without pressure drop I will bleed the air out of it and top it right up
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Post by JohnV on Sept 21, 2022 6:37:14 GMT
Still trying to finish my central heating plumbing but it's been a couple of weeks of many, many interuptions.
So in spite of the importance of getting all this finished more immediate things have got in the way.
Hopefully today I can at least get the main system back in action as it has now been re-routed to be a seperate unit.
There are only a few little bits of plumbing to complete around the boiler.
That at least takes the pressure off a little on finishing the Whisper gen system
Watched TV a lot more than I intended on Monday ...... and felt unsettled (more even than I expected) and so not a lot got done.
Yesterday had just got the hatches open and was starting when I got a request for help from a friend.
Following that I got some shopping on the way home and a late, late lunch. So I only got a couple of hours done.
At least the wall is back up in the corridor and the floor back down in the saloon and bedroom.
The Wheelhouse cabinet is still in bits but I can live with that for the moment,
(as with the boxes of bits taken out of various cupboards to let me get in to work.)
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Post by JohnV on Sept 21, 2022 6:03:40 GMT
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Post by JohnV on Sept 20, 2022 21:57:25 GMT
Watched this rather interesting YouTube documentary last night. It's a bit of a different slant to the "Ukraine good, Russia bad" thesis normally presented. It's quite long at 50 minutes, although the first 10-15 minutes sums it up fairly well, and a reminder that the war in Ukraine which has recently stolen the limelight from Covid here, has in fact been going on for eight years now. You seem to be rather susceptible to propaganda ...... which is most definitely what that video is
It is sensible to actually fact check when trying to make sense of what is happening in that area and during that period.
The Russian excuse (and that is what it is) that they were only acting to put an end to the 8 years of civillians being bombed in the two breakaway regions,is frankly rubbishs.
That is in spite of the claims made in this video.
Actual civilian casualties over the last few years of the contested areas and borders was tiny.
Don't believe me ? think I have been taken in by Ukranian propaganda ? No ..... these are facts
Total civilian casualties in the Donetsk and Luhansk area of Ukraine in the total period from April 2014 until September 2021 was 3095
(this does not include the 298 killed by the Russian missile strike on the Malaysian airliner)
Nearly all of these casualties were in 2014 and 2015 in the last few years the figures are tiny and are often related to unexploded munitions
27 in 2019, 26 in 2020, and in the final year before Russia was "forced" to start the "special military occupation" to protect the civilians from the bombing and shelling was ..... 18
If you think I have been fooled by propaganda then go and check the figures yourself on this UNHCR pdf (page 3 for the figures I quote)
Conflict-related civilian casualties in Ukraine1 ukraine.un.org › sites › default › files › Co... PDF
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Post by JohnV on Sept 20, 2022 13:47:30 GMT
I was struck by the ammount of 'Scottishness' in the procedings. Putting aside for a sec. the great job the Scots did given her madge died there I do think (given her role in planning the arrangements) she was very cleverly giving a middle finger to wanna be queen nicola... They did like her and I guess she liked spending time in Scotland. It would be very brave of the wicked witch to go for independence in the wake of the funeral. Her mother was a Scot after all
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Post by JohnV on Sept 19, 2022 16:54:24 GMT
shoot the fucking fox
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