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Post by Mr Stabby on Aug 11, 2024 17:38:08 GMT
Put the Scoopy back together today, here's before and after on the transmission cover. Checked my email and as per my request, CRT have set up a monthly Direct Debit for my Mooring Permit which is due on 1st September. This is the first time since I've been here at the farm that I haven't paid it in advance in one lump sum. I could easily afford to but the prompt payment discount (which I will lose) has been cut from 10% to 5% and with the incoming Labour Government I'm expecting inflation to be well over 5% by this time next year so financially it should make sense.
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Post by on Aug 11, 2024 17:52:19 GMT
7 hours on the Podium launch then I got back to the saloon launch and I was like 'I just don't know what to do with myself' so I was like 'go out in the floating elecfric beer drinking platform for the evening. It is what it is. Worse things happen at sea. Speaking of sea I am going to take Dulcinea out and sink it. Nobody will buy it. The fishes will like it and in salty water the mild pollution will not be a notifiable incident.. We will cross that bridge when we get to it.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Aug 11, 2024 18:00:20 GMT
Speaking of sea I am going to take Dulcinea out and sink it. Nobody will buy it. Can't believe that, Dulcinea is a lovely looking boat, have you had any feedback from interested parties as to why they decided not to proceed? I'd try putting it on the "Narrowboats for sale UK" Facebook group. I know it's not a narrowboat but they aren't anal about that. Someone will buy it.
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Post by on Aug 11, 2024 18:07:04 GMT
Speaking of sea I am going to take Dulcinea out and sink it. Nobody will buy it. Can't believe that, Dulcinea is a lovely looking boat, have you had any feedback from interested parties as to why they decided not to proceed? I'd try putting it on the "Narrowboats for sale UK" Facebook group. I know it's not a narrowboat but they aren't anal about that. Someone will buy it. Its a great Boat but it is too small to live on for most people and its not in fact a commercial fishing Boat. At least two of the people who saw it were concerned about the concrete ballast. Technically it is a good solution but it does mean there is an unknown and people don't like that. Its a Boat and if I got my £371k cash legacy I would probably keep it but for some reason if that does not happen I think there is very little prospect of me being able to afford to keep two steel Boats. Its not much money but never having been in work I can't see an income generating activity. I don't know why really but it is not going to happen. So that Boat needs to go.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Aug 11, 2024 18:33:28 GMT
Put the Scoopy back together today, here's before and after on the transmission cover. Checked my email and as per my request, CRT have set up a monthly Direct Debit for my Mooring Permit which is due on 1st September. This is the first time since I've been here at the farm that I haven't paid it in advance in one lump sum. I could easily afford to but the prompt payment discount (which I will lose) has been cut from 10% to 5% and with the incoming Labour Government I'm expecting inflation to be well over 5% by this time next year so financially it should make sense. Good shout re. inflation. However in these modern times I feel the weight of global factors within the overall mix of inflationary and deflationary pressures might just save Labour from this embarassment. Your next challenge could be: getting the spokes all bright and shiny, looking like new.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Aug 11, 2024 18:46:58 GMT
Put the Scoopy back together today, here's before and after on the transmission cover. Checked my email and as per my request, CRT have set up a monthly Direct Debit for my Mooring Permit which is due on 1st September. This is the first time since I've been here at the farm that I haven't paid it in advance in one lump sum. I could easily afford to but the prompt payment discount (which I will lose) has been cut from 10% to 5% and with the incoming Labour Government I'm expecting inflation to be well over 5% by this time next year so financially it should make sense. Good shout re. inflation. However in these modern times I feel the weight of global factors within the overall mix of inflationary and deflationary pressures might just save Labour from this embarassment. Your next challenge could be: getting the spokes all bright and shiny, looking like new. Labour will spunk large amounts of money on the public sector and the money they claw back by stitching up pensioners for their Winter fuel allowance won't come close to matching it. Higher inflation is a given. Not much that can be done with zinc-plated steel spokes, alas. Once the zinc plating has left the building, all that can be done is to rub down the spokes and treat the rust with Kurust (which I have already done) and then paint with metal paint.
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Aug 11, 2024 19:59:44 GMT
Put the Scoopy back together today, here's before and after on the transmission cover. Checked my email and as per my request, CRT have set up a monthly Direct Debit for my Mooring Permit which is due on 1st September. This is the first time since I've been here at the farm that I haven't paid it in advance in one lump sum. I wonder which dubious postal address this lying psychopathic arsewipe uses for paying for the Licence and Mooring Permit for the uninsured boat that he lives on, and pretends that he owns, . . but doesn't. Shit-for-Brains Coventon, . . a real nutter, . . complete with the bayonet he carries with him at all times.
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Post by on Aug 11, 2024 20:10:19 GMT
Had another little run down the River in the coaching launch. Did a little coaching then tomorrow will have a run back up. 11 locks and about 35 miles. Seems alright. Will soon be time to reinstall at the country estate for the closed season. I like seeing Boats about but to be honest with me its quite nice when they go away and also handy to be on the private mooring out of the main Chanel. So yeah. It is what it is. And we have what we have. I surprised myself by scrubbing one side of the coaching launch back to the gelcoat so rather than having stains and weed on the side it is all white. Looks quite tidy actually. Wet n dry paper is the key. As Andyberg would say 'photo or didn't happen' 😁 A photo would be nice please. Rog So yeah. And I was like 'there was weed and old antifouling on there isn't it man'.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Aug 11, 2024 20:13:51 GMT
Yep, looking really tidy.
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Post by on Aug 11, 2024 20:22:58 GMT
30 miles and 11 locks on the Podium today. I could have done a lot more !
A nice platform but no sleeping cabin and I don't do camping. Still its a great article.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2024 21:06:18 GMT
Put the Scoopy back together today, here's before and after on the transmission cover. Checked my email and as per my request, CRT have set up a monthly Direct Debit for my Mooring Permit which is due on 1st September. This is the first time since I've been here at the farm that I haven't paid it in advance in one lump sum. I could easily afford to but the prompt payment discount (which I will lose) has been cut from 10% to 5% and with the incoming Labour Government I'm expecting inflation to be well over 5% by this time next year so financially it should make sense. Good shout re. inflation. However in these modern times I feel the weight of global factors within the overall mix of inflationary and deflationary pressures might just save Labour from this embarassment. Your next challenge could be: getting the spokes all bright and shiny, looking like new. You and Vince should look at the UK inflation rates over the last 40 years or so. You’ll be surprised to see that under Labour it tends to be very similar to that under Tory rule. Still, let’s not let facts get in the way huh. Best not mention last years inflation either huh?
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Post by Clinton Cool on Aug 11, 2024 22:12:35 GMT
Good shout re. inflation. However in these modern times I feel the weight of global factors within the overall mix of inflationary and deflationary pressures might just save Labour from this embarassment. Your next challenge could be: getting the spokes all bright and shiny, looking like new. You and Vince should look at the UK inflation rates over the last 40 years or so. You’ll be surprised to see that under Labour it tends to be very similar to that under Tory rule. Still, let’s not let facts get in the way huh. Best not mention last years inflation either huh? Many of the factors that drive inflation are of course global. However back at home: Generally speaking the greater the money supply the greater the inflation. That's simplistic of course but without writing chapters on the subject, it's not a bad basis to work off. So far, the government has announced inflation busting pay rises for public workers. It has also announced the creation of a 'sovereign wealth fund'. Unusually for a wealth fund there will be no wealth in it, only debt. Calling it a wealth fund is a disguise for the re-introduction of Corbyn's 'borrow to grow the economy' idea. The idea being that if you 'invest' in the public sector, dividends will accrue. First, from matched or hopefully higher investment from the private sector and then, the general multiplier effect that results from any economic activity. It should be noted that this idea has never successfully been implemented in any major economy. It's simply a socialist theory. Anyway, this isn't about the right or wrongs of sovereign debt funds. The point here is that both of the above steps taken so far by Labour are inflationary. So Vince has a point, believing that future inflation is highly likely. Where I disagree with him is that now, more than ever, inflation is mostly taken care of by global factors. So much of the stuff we use is imported that fluctuations in exchange rates, for example, can have more effect on the cost of the things we buy than can profligate government spending. Government policy of could effect the exchange rate or Jeff Bezos could do it, just for fun.
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Post by Telemachus on Aug 11, 2024 22:30:59 GMT
Regarding the inflation busting pay rises, it depends on the time scale you apply. You give someone a 1% pay rise, ie today they earn 1% more than they did yesterday, and yet inflation over that day is only 0.01%. So is that an inflation busting pay rise?
Take the annual figures: You give someone a 5% pay rise when inflation is running at 2% and so you might say that is inflation busting.
Or maybe take the figure over 3 years, inflation was 10%, 5% and 2% in those 3 years. The employee received pay rises of 3%, 5% and 5%. Is that inflation busting? They are still earning less in real terms than they did 4 years ago.
So it simply depends on which timescale you choose to use, and your choice is likely determined by your political agenda.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Aug 11, 2024 22:45:48 GMT
The measure is taken against the inflation at the time the award is made. It couldn't possibly, reasonably, be taken against anything else. That's for a single year pay review, not a multi-year one.
If pay settlements were lower than inflation in previous years it doesn't prevent a future one, in excess of inflation, being inflation busting.
Naturally, those who suffered below inflation increases in the past might have a gripe. Like the junior doctors. However, Britain has been able to employ lots of junior doctors from overseas on these lower (adjusted for inflation) wages. In the same way that it managed to employ millions of low skilled workers from the EU, which also kept down the wages of millions of low skilled British workers.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Aug 12, 2024 3:37:43 GMT
I think the essential point to grasp is that if I don't consider the advantages of paying for my boat licence in one lump sum to be sufficiently advantageous compared to paying by monthly direct debit, then that is a decision for me and me alone to make.
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