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Post by JohnV on Jan 31, 2020 7:43:07 GMT
When the water finally drained from the self bailing deck and the gang had untangled themselves from the heap in the corner, John rubbing his fresh bruises looked around. Rocking in the maelstrom left from their precipitous attempt to be a submarine was a huge log with what appeared to be the remains of a hydrofoil almost chopping through it's centre.
He turned and gazed at the rather wet and battered Peter "I think you needed to update the collision avoidance equipment when you souped up the engines" He grinned giving Peter his special Harry Enfield "you don't want to do it like that" look
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Post by peterboat on Jan 31, 2020 9:11:21 GMT
Peter grinned and pressed the red button and they were all 30 seconds earlier dodging the log, and the punt wallowing in the water, which faded as they flew past it! Peter put Taff on watch at the bow with promise of treats if all went well
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Post by phil70 on Feb 7, 2020 20:56:26 GMT
Meanwhile Flappy had been listening to his pocket radio, his face was etched with concentration as he tried to take in all the weather news that was coming in. Flappy called out "John!! JOHN!! in ever strident tones, John mooched over and asked Flappy what was up Look at this storm coming in Ciara by name and guaranteed to bring massive disruption and you know what? WE ARE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE John just shrugged and said "so what?" All we have to do is get Peter to press the big red button and voila we will simply skip ahead and arrive in the aftermath...... simples!
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Post by metanoia on Feb 7, 2020 21:12:36 GMT
"Oh, Peter", creaked a clanky, rusting MetalWoman… "ZPM us to somewhere far, far away - pretty please. There's a nasty rumour that an actress from Pride and Prejudice is out to get my red shiny thing - and I think there's some bad weather due too."
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Post by JohnV on Feb 8, 2020 7:18:06 GMT
John wasn't quite as unconcerned about the weather forecast as he liked everybody to think. Soon as the attention drifted over to Metalwoman John sneaked off to weld an extra mooring post to the quay and double up his mooring lines with some vintage BWB blue string (very special stuff, only quarter of an inch thick but according to BWB it would moor up a dredger and it's hopper no problem)
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Post by peterboat on Feb 10, 2020 10:07:24 GMT
Johns faith in the frayed blue string was miss placed at the first breeze the rope had snapped so Peter pressed the ZPM and they were in somewhere warm in seconds, Met wailed as she realised they were in the Antarctic i"its cold" she wailed Peter replied "its nearly 19 degrees and it summer" the gang looked around in wonder and argued how it had happened..................
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Post by phil70 on Feb 11, 2020 8:08:12 GMT
Flappy was once again on his soapbox and was shouting to make himself heard. "Look around you lot, it's obvious that something is going on, global warming is happening... period , and we must all face upto to it " drawing breath Flappy continued "I'm not sure what the answer is but what I do know is that we have to do something and just perhaps we should listen to all the lobbies, pick through all the verbal dross and seek a sensible solution" Banning diesel is a good start but we must accept that it is only good for some uses, it's no good for boating so should remain afterall the amount that boaters put out is but a drop in the ocean so they should be able to use it. Weigh up the cost of providing EV charge points around the whole system it's obvious that is not sustainable. In fact how is it possible to provide EV points around marinas is a none goer" Flappy paused while his two brain cells struggled to catch up with each other. " ditch diesel for wheeled vehicles, cars buses lorries and trains would make a serious dent in the problem because of the relative ease of setting up EV charge points to sustain them" "The biggest problem as I see it is domestic use of gas, there is a very real problem in switching to using electricity for home heating, the cost of changing gas boilers for electric is mind blowing plus before that can happen we need a vast area of solar farms and wind farms to provide the clean power." Flappy sank back into his seat, spent and exhausted from the effort of stringing so many words together and waited for the flack to come in.
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Post by JohnV on Feb 11, 2020 9:05:39 GMT
John stood aghast ....... He had never ever like ever heard his old mate string so many words together without descending into incomprehensibilywotsit
what had come over him he wondered, is that really Flappy or is it some kind of tricky trick by some unscroopyoulus alien.
A large sup of Gruntfuttocks finest was required to sort this one out
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Post by metanoia on Feb 11, 2020 9:46:32 GMT
"Oh, that was norty", clanged MetalWoman.
"That was a bit of a mean trick. Please put the real Flappy back right now, Peter".
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Post by peterboat on Feb 11, 2020 10:22:55 GMT
Peter said "I havent replaced him!" but I am replacing these!" he pressed a button, the decks opened and both the Vulcan engine and the mighty Lister were ejected! the vulcan engine ignited its burner for a couple of seconds and both were a mile away before a mighty explosion blew them to bits!! John collapsed onto the deck sobbing, Flappy sort of looked amazed. Peter wandered to his room and came back with 2 boxes and went down to the engine room followed by Taff, Peter was whistling a familiar tune..............
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Post by JohnV on Feb 11, 2020 11:20:00 GMT
As soon as Peter became involved with the others John snitched the ZPM from Peters pocket. Taff spotted him but before he could do anything John pressed the button and Taff disappeared. John grinned to himself, a forested planet should keep Taff busy for ages marking all those trees.
"To business" he muttered to himself and after a few careful calculations he laid the ZPM on the floor and with a long stick pressed the button.
There was a huge "bang" and a horrified Peter turned round just in time to see his precious ZPM squashed under the gearbox mounting of a huge Lister Blackstone engine and twin disc gearbox. John turned to the stunned crowd "This is proper boat motive power" he announced and grinned broadly
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Post by peterboat on Feb 11, 2020 12:10:03 GMT
Peter was horrified the destruction charges had seconds to go he swept everybody overboard as the lister exploded again!! to top it off the vulcan engine landed on top of the sinking punt! Met was outraged and grabbed Johns leg as she sunk Peter was treading water and counting the heads 3 were missing he pressed his wristwatch transporter and found himself with Taff on a wooded planet, they sat on two fallen trees and transported back to the spot where the wreckage of the punt floated wet bodies crawled onto the logs...........................................
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Post by metanoia on Feb 11, 2020 19:06:49 GMT
"Clangggg, eurgh …. creak, creak ….
....sinking fast......…
..... rusting rapidly...
... but still wondering where Peter's sent Flappy, his pocket radio, Patty and Mrs BB ………………….?"
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Post by phil70 on Feb 11, 2020 21:42:26 GMT
Flappy had in fact travelled forward by 5 minutes and suddenly popped up in the water with the rest of the crew, only problem was that all that was visible of Met was the top of her head. Acting swiftly Flappy dived down with a stout rope and made a bowline around Metal Lady them swam to the surface and attached the line to the capstan and began to haul up Metal Lady. Having successfully raised Met from the depths Flappy set to with a can of WD40 in each hand and administered a medicinal spray all over Metal Lady ensuring that all the nooks and crannies received a liberal soaking. While this was going on Metal Lady was giving some thought to perhaps upgrading to Stainless Steel
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Post by peterboat on Feb 12, 2020 9:54:28 GMT
Patty was still chained to the rowing benches on a luxury trimaran! It wasnt going well at all in fact, she was in a compartment all by her own!! Patty was sure Peter had a hand in it, but she was wrong, it was Sis that had set her up!! Back at the punt they were where thay had been when Peter had ejected the engines and they had exploded, Peter had fitted the boxes and the punt was moving silently, John wasnt happy so peter pressed a button and the sound of a lister came from the engine hydrogen conversion room, John brightened up and went to investigate, but found only the small box where the weed hatch should be and the large box attached to the propeller shaft a lister sound coming from it..............................
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