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Post by Telemachus on Sept 15, 2024 17:29:31 GMT
I was going to go home this evening in preparation for driving down to the boat on Tuesday, but we had a visit from the Army today and they would like to do an exercise on the airfield involving Apache helicopter gunships - loading and unloading munitions etc, refuelling, casevack by Merlin, all as part of a training exercise. So it will all be jolly exciting and I will have to stay and watch the soldier boys playing with their choppers. And they are giving us £500 for the pleasure. Try not to get too excited 😁 Would they have to kill you if you took photos ? Rog They might do, I’ll have to try it and see. But bearing in mind it is adjacent to a public road I suspect it will be allowed from a reasonable distance.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 15, 2024 17:38:25 GMT
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 15, 2024 18:22:57 GMT
In a nutshell, I understand the law regarding boat licensing and Dunkley doesn't, which is why I've got a boat and Dunkley hasn't.
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Post by dogless on Sept 15, 2024 18:55:11 GMT
Try not to get too excited 😁 Would they have to kill you if you took photos ? Rog They might do, I’ll have to try it and see. But bearing in mind it is adjacent to a public road I suspect it will be allowed from a reasonable distance. If you can stop your hands trembling 🤣 Rog
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Sept 15, 2024 19:15:21 GMT
On 12 August 2024, psychopath, pervert, and pathological liar, Vince 'Shit-for-Brains' Coventon, also known by his own chosen internet name of ' Mr Stabby' - posted the following blatant lie in the pages of this forum :- " I live in a house in Kent where I pay Council Tax and am on the electoral register."______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fact is, that despite claiming to live in Kent, . . in a house for which he says he pays Council Tax, and is on the electoral register, . . this psychopathic pervert has in truth for the last 9(+) years lived permanently, full time, on board a canalboat for which he can't obtain compulsory third party insurance due to not having what insurance underwriters define as having 'an insurable interest' in the boat. To get round this insurance problem at every annual renewal, Coventon obtains a technically worthless insurance certificate from his insurers by means of a less than completely truthful Proposal declaring that he owns the boat, with which he then usually succeeds in conning C&RT into believing that he's complying with the third party cover requirements in the boat Licence T&C's. In the early part of this year C&RT became aware of the problem with the invalid third party insurance cover on the boat, and that is what kept Shit-for-Brains at home on his mooring all of this year, . . instead of going out on his usual Summer cruise. Coventon shares this uninsured boat (which is owned by someone else who probably does actually live in Kent) with a life-size inflatable rubber doll, and moors and keeps it for most of every year, with a number of other residential boats, on the field moorings at Colehurst Farm, Rugby, CV23 0PT, alongside the (North) Oxford Canal, close to the villages of Stretton-under-Fosse and Brinklow. For some reason not yet discovered or known, 'Shit-for-Brains' Coventon also tells, and repeatedly publishes on the internet, lies about where and who he works for as a driver. Whilst pretending that he works for a company called Slam Transport, with depots in Coventry, Darlington, Dunfermline, Gourock, and York, the truth is that he's employed by a specialist logistics company called Hi-Speed Services whose Midlands depot is on Swift Valley Industrial Estate in Rugby. For anyone understandably wanting to give this serious nutter the widest possible berth, this 'selfie' photo of him waving a (Army rifle) bayonet around in public on the stern of his uninsured borrowed boat will be helpful in identifying him :- "Unlike some here, I fully understand the Law and do not think that different interpretations of it apply to me."
Vince 'Shit-for-Brains' Coventon -- 12 August 2024 *
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Post by anothernarrowescape on Sept 15, 2024 19:16:03 GMT
It's not a rifle bayonet btw
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 15, 2024 19:18:28 GMT
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Post by dogless on Sept 15, 2024 19:53:21 GMT
To change the subject ... it's mizzerly damp outside and 19 degrees in the boat.
Supposed to be sunny tomorrow.
We'll not light the stove as I think it will be too warm tomorrow.
It's that dodgy time of year ... fire, too hot ... no fire, chilly in the morning and evening.
Guess it'll be about 14 degrees in the boat in the morning ... not ideal but if it warms up quickly we'll survive, and we'll be cruising anyway.
Rog
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Post by brummieboy on Sept 15, 2024 19:54:12 GMT
Ah ... should have guessed. Working's not so bad when you know you can just walk away if you wish. I could pack up work now, I've got enough in savings to see me though until my state pension kicks in although there's no reason not to build my savings up a bit more and build up a safety buffer rather than depleting what I have. I probably won't even retire when I get to 66 if I can keep passing the HGV medical, which I will have to do annually from then onwards, I do actually enjoy work, there's just the right amount of social contact, like 20 minutes or so and then I'm on my own again. I was self employed on oil boiler and range cooker service (Aga and Rayburn et al). I went self employed at age 56, as my wife was due to retire at age 60 and self employment gave me the option of choosing when I worked. I only had to please myself, and customers of course, and as the work is basically seasonal from late autumn to early spring, it fitted in well with cruising. Lots of service spares were common with boiler spares so another win win. When that hice Mr Brown robbed my pension and trashed the rest with horrendous annuity rates, it gave me the chance to work past retirement at my own pace, which I did up to 3-4 years ago. Covid basically killed my job as customers' reticence and social distancing reduced my daily earnings and I was ineleigible for any Governmemt aid as I was in receipt (and still am) of the lower rate of retirement pension. Currently, my basic pension is about £50 per week than the regularly quoted figure. i would think that your position enables similar flexibility, and with the threat of withdrawal of zero hours contracts other drivers may find their work harder which could make you a useful makeweight. Just be aware, if there is somewhere you relyy want to go, seize the day as you never know when illness or infirmity will slow you down significantly.
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Post by brummieboy on Sept 15, 2024 19:56:00 GMT
Try not to get too excited 😁 Would they have to kill you if you took photos ? Rog They might do, I’ll have to try it and see. But bearing in mind it is adjacent to a public road I suspect it will be allowed from a reasonable distance. don't forget, your reportedly oversze head will need a significant parapet!
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Post by on Sept 15, 2024 21:17:45 GMT
I had a very interesting experience today.
Its the first time it has happened and tobbe honest with me I hope it is the last.
Nothing bad happened but it is quite alarming to have this sort of incident and makes one mildly glad to usually avoid it.
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Post by deleted on Sept 16, 2024 5:47:26 GMT
How interesting.
I was on the bus on a sunny day a while ago when I must have had the sun in my eyes or something because all I could see was an intense golden sort of light. Trying to focus made no difference. Head felt light so it was a good thing I was sitting down. The driver somewhat irritated shouted that we were at the last stop. Got off the bus but I had to lean on a wall for five minutes. Felt fine after that. Nothing like it has ever happened before. Weird. In an interesting sort of way I suppose.
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Post by on Sept 16, 2024 7:12:38 GMT
Anyway it looks like being a suitably sunny day for some pleasure Boating.
And the lord said Let There Be Boats. And there were Boats.
Dealt with.
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Post by on Sept 16, 2024 7:27:58 GMT
When one gradually runs out of money one's mind obviously turns to how to provide food. Wild food and all that. I found this useful book 'the natural harvest' in a charity shop.
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Sept 16, 2024 7:32:34 GMT
On 12 August 2024, psychopath, pervert, and pathological liar, Vince 'Shit-for-Brains' Coventon, also known by his own chosen internet name of ' Mr Stabby' - posted the following blatant lie in the pages of this forum :- " I live in a house in Kent where I pay Council Tax and am on the electoral register."______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fact is, that despite claiming to live in Kent, . . in a house for which he says he pays Council Tax, and is on the electoral register, . . this psychopathic pervert has in truth for the last 9(+) years lived permanently, full time, on board a canalboat for which he can't obtain compulsory third party insurance due to not having what insurance underwriters define as having 'an insurable interest' in the boat. To get round this insurance problem at every annual renewal, Coventon obtains a technically worthless insurance certificate from his insurers by means of a less than completely truthful Proposal declaring that he owns the boat, with which he then usually succeeds in conning C&RT into believing that he's complying with the third party cover requirements in the boat Licence T&C's. In the early part of this year C&RT became aware of the problem with the invalid third party insurance cover on the boat, and that is what kept Shit-for-Brains at home on his mooring all of this year, . . instead of going out on his usual Summer cruise. Coventon shares this uninsured boat (which is owned by someone else who probably does actually live in Kent) with a life-size inflatable rubber doll, and moors and keeps it for most of every year, with a number of other residential boats, on the field moorings at Colehurst Farm, Rugby, CV23 0PT, alongside the (North) Oxford Canal, close to the villages of Stretton-under-Fosse and Brinklow. For some reason not yet discovered or known, 'Shit-for-Brains' Coventon also tells, and repeatedly publishes on the internet, lies about where and who he works for as a driver. Whilst pretending that he works for a company called Slam Transport, with depots in Coventry, Darlington, Dunfermline, Gourock, and York, the truth is that he's employed by a specialist logistics company called Hi-Speed Services whose Midlands depot is on Swift Valley Industrial Estate in Rugby. For anyone understandably wanting to give this serious nutter the widest possible berth, this 'selfie' photo of him waving a (Army rifle) bayonet around in public on the stern of his uninsured borrowed boat will be helpful in identifying him :- "Unlike some here, I fully understand the Law and do not think that different interpretations of it apply to me."
Vince 'Shit-for-Brains' Coventon -- 12 August 2024 *
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