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Post by JohnV on Feb 2, 2022 8:00:52 GMT
listened to most of part one last night ..... it was certainly bland "interviewing" almost a promotional video for CRT.
I need to go back through it to carefully listen to his replies though.
I need to watch carefully to check if he had had clenched teeth when he said (quote)
"A, the canals are there for boating, that is their primary purpose"
Obviously though he was excluding commercial boats or ones with more than 20" draft or areas where there are lots of maggot drowners
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Post by JohnV on Feb 2, 2022 0:13:46 GMT
not having a dry month by any means but for some reason have had very little drink over the last couple of weeks .... looking at the bottles in the re-cycling box .... one bottle of Pinotage and a couple of bottles of Westons cider. must be slipping
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Post by JohnV on Feb 1, 2022 20:03:24 GMT
very mild day here, was expecting a diesel delivery so it was handy being able to work outside while keeping an eye out for the tanker.
Had a largish quantity of mostly rubbish wood to cut up, sticking it on the stove is a much more satisfying thing to do rather than a bonfire.
I would guess at about 5 sacks full in total, a lot of it ply. I know it doesn't last long but at least it gets used up.
Sat on the engine hatch with a mug of soup and a bit of toast at lunchtime, you can tuck out of the wind in a corner between the funnel and wheelhouse.
Jacket off in glorious warm sunshine ..... first of Feb could hardly believe it.
Then got a phone call from the fuel firm to say that they had to cancel the afternoons deliveries (no reason given) but it will be tomorrow.
Damn !!! was going to finish that motor starter repair ..... guess it will have to be Thursday now.
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Post by JohnV on Feb 1, 2022 17:19:31 GMT
In the early days of Thunderboat there was no Thunderboater that did more to help the forum grow. Since the pandemic started there has been no Thunderboater that has done more to make people fed up and drift away I can't agree any more, hence the persistence to get through his bullshit. I don't think it possible
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Post by JohnV on Feb 1, 2022 17:06:30 GMT
In the early days of Thunderboat there was no Thunderboater that did more to help the forum grow.
Since the pandemic started there has been no Thunderboater that has done more to make people fed up and drift away
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Post by JohnV on Feb 1, 2022 17:02:10 GMT
I might later but been too busy today
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Post by JohnV on Feb 1, 2022 15:58:44 GMT
hedgehog: a deflated object in the middle of the road
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Post by JohnV on Feb 1, 2022 14:54:39 GMT
The run to Fradley is nice and there is often some good entertainment while sitting with a glass in hand outside the Swan
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Post by JohnV on Feb 1, 2022 14:50:00 GMT
maybe grievance was the wrong choice of words Tony, but hopefully it was clear enough what I meant.
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Post by JohnV on Feb 1, 2022 14:00:45 GMT
lunch however is different ?
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Post by JohnV on Feb 1, 2022 13:58:16 GMT
this one is the one to catch rather than the earlier types
I didn't realise I had a choice. of course you have a choice ..... I'm sure a research lab will be quite happy to take you on as a research subject and give you Alpha, Beta or Delta
or of course you could just lock yourself away and be incredibly cautious and hope a new variant will be really awfull
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Post by JohnV on Feb 1, 2022 13:41:22 GMT
I see the mainstream media are late to the party again
pathologically it is no different from the basic Omicron it is just more transmissable.
actually it's probably a good thing.
At the moment the more vulnerable are well protected from serious illness by the vaccines,
the current variant and the new one are much less dangerous than earlier variants
the disease is now considered endemic so it is expected that virtually everybody will catch it being much less pathalogically dangerous than previous variants, this one is the one to catch rather than the earlier types
The new variant of Omicron will spread it faster so the cases will probably not fall quickly as they have in places like South Africa (who started first) but it will increase the spread, building herd immunity quicker
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Post by JohnV on Feb 1, 2022 8:22:37 GMT
sunny morning with a little thin high cloud breezy maybe force 5 ish
the odd gust but it looks like it might be a pleasant day and it certainly isn't cold
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Post by JohnV on Feb 1, 2022 8:08:29 GMT
not the sort of book I go for
The one I just finished a bit ago was a David Baldacci book "The Winner"
a thriller in his normal cracking good pace.
I have a couple on the shelf that are looking at me accusingly as they await re-reading
One of them is a very aged looking paperback that I have had for the best part of 40 years and probably last read 30 years ago
Tim Severin's "The Brendan Voyage" It's been on the "must read that again" shelf for a long time
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Post by JohnV on Feb 1, 2022 7:42:36 GMT
Can someone please explain to me why the investigation could take up to a year to conclude.
Surely most of the facts are known and any offences are met with fixed penalties, why so long to investigate.
Seems crazy to me but I might be missing something.
Simples ..... it has political ramifications which the police always back away from with great rapidity.
They have probably taken one unfortunate junior PC, sat him in front of 2,000 file boxes full of statements from everybody including the Downing Street cat and said
"get cracking and sort that lot out and then you can go and have an advanced driving course in Bed'eth"
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