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Post by JohnV on Jul 10, 2016 13:23:52 GMT
The bloody crow that sits on my masthead and greets the morning ............. every bloody day !
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Post by Saltysplash on Jul 10, 2016 13:40:08 GMT
Walking down the corridor in the early hours of the morning right into that spiders web spun over night, then, once ready for work, set off down the tow path and keep hitting bloody spiders webs!
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Post by Telemachus on Jul 10, 2016 14:24:15 GMT
Grrr... nobody, but nobody I tell you, gets my attention to come out by tapping on my living room window... Grrr! What is your pet hate about living on a boat? How should they get your attention then? Surely knocking on the boat is the normal accepted way. Unless it's window vs boat hull that is your gripe? Anyway what is it that annoys me about living on a boat? The fact that I don't! |
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Post by JohnV on Jul 10, 2016 14:29:34 GMT
Grrr... nobody, but nobody I tell you, gets my attention to come out by tapping on my living room window... Grrr! What is your pet hate about living on a boat? How should they get your attention then? Surely knocking on the boat is the normal accepted way. Unless it's window vs boat hull that is your gripe? Anyway what is it that annoys me about living on a boat? The fact that I don't!Oh ! .......... for that you truly have my sympathy .............. The only way I want to leave my boat is in a wooden box. The very idea that I might have to live ashore horrifies me |
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Post by JohnV on Jul 10, 2016 14:46:36 GMT
I suppose I'm lucky with the style of boat I am on. There is no way anyone can knock on my windows without coming on board and most people are reluctant to do that. The trouble is if they tap tentatively on the hull I probably won't hear. It needs a damn good thump before you can hear it inside. I suppose I ought to put a doorbell or something at the gangway but to be honest I can't be arsed  |
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Post by JohnV on Jul 10, 2016 15:04:34 GMT
I've got one of those too ....... mounted inside the wheelhouse  |
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Post by peterboat on Jul 10, 2016 15:44:48 GMT
I love living on my boat and try to make sure others dont spoil my enjoyment of it. I have a wheelhouse with doors that people can knock on so why do they knock on the side of the boat?
People that whistle happily on their way to work at half four in the morning!!
Boats coming past my mooring at speed very early why?
But on the whole who cares? not me really as life on a boat can be sooooo good
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jul 10, 2016 20:07:00 GMT
Biggest invasion of privacy I had when I moored in a marina was from the swans... one of the earliest lessons I learned was not to feed swans in your own marina because the bastards will come tapping their beaks on your hull at six o' clock in the morning every single day thereafter.
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Post by Delta9 on Jul 10, 2016 20:59:34 GMT
I had to moor up next to the brokerage boats once while I waited for some work to be done on my engine.  |
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Post by Trina on Jul 10, 2016 21:41:42 GMT
We often pop to Brum for a few days & I still get pigged off when kids are encouraged to put their sticky hands (& faces  ) against my windows.It's the parents cooing that there's a lady reading,cooking,eating etc .Even better,we woke up one early morn to feel the boat bobbing about-yep,we had a couple on the cruiser stern getting passionate -Seeing my hubs appear thro the back doors in the nuddy really put them off their stride!  |
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 11, 2016 8:55:40 GMT
Fox's method: shout down the chimney: "I know you're in there!"
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 11, 2016 8:58:08 GMT
By the way, anyone know anything about Chirk Marina? Other nice parking spots western end of Llangollen/Ellesmere (the old name) Canal?
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 11, 2016 9:02:57 GMT
A doorbell (bing-bong Avon Calling!) and a note beside it:
Ring this bell,
Or go to Hell!
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) against my windows.It's the parents cooing that there's a lady reading,cooking,eating etc .Even better,we woke up one early morn to feel the boat bobbing about-yep,we had a couple on the cruiser stern getting passionate -Seeing my hubs appear thro the back doors in the nuddy really put them off their stride! 
