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Post by peterboat on Feb 12, 2020 19:14:18 GMT
I recently brought a pack of 40 AA varta batteries for just over £10. Are you going to tell us where or do we have to guess? Poundland or some shop like it no doubt, I bought 5 litres of chain oil from the tinternet £13 delivered better than buying local at £13 per litre
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2020 19:43:29 GMT
You will have to guess. If anyone else wants to know just ask me 😀 He's as dim as a Toc H lamp ... maybe the batteries would help Rog Oh how I love that saying! My old town lost its Toc H society in the mid 2000's www.rushdenheritage.co.uk/leisure/TOC-Hmemories.htmlThe society is still going worldwide. www.toch-uk.org.uk/Background to the society and that superb saying. www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/7027873.dim-light-still-shining/The phrase "Dim as a Toc H lamp" refers to a lamp that is kept in Talbot House and which has become a symbol of the Toc H movement. It was known as the "lamp of maintenance" and was used by Tubby Clayton in the house. Every year, on the anniversary of Tubby Clayton's birthday, December 12, lamps are lit in Toc H branches throughout the world. The Toc H lamp is an oil lamp which glows dimly, therefore giving rise to the phrase you mention.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2020 20:03:20 GMT
We aim to please. My lovely old Mum- in- law used to use the phrase all the time, and when I was courting Jane in the early 1970's I remember looking Toc H up (no google then) in an encyclopedia. That's when I learnt about Talbot House for the first time Rog
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Post by Jim on Feb 12, 2020 20:21:30 GMT
All this talk of batteries and lamps
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2020 20:24:43 GMT
You will have to guess. If anyone else wants to know just ask me 😀 He's as dim as a Toc H lamp ... maybe the batteries would help Rog I only have one thing to add Power Tokage is the way forward
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Post by Mr Stabby on Feb 12, 2020 20:30:10 GMT
when I was courting Jane in the early 1970's Blimey Rog, she must have been about 12 then.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2020 20:46:25 GMT
when I was courting Jane in the early 1970's Blimey Rog, she must have been about 12 then. Jane might like you, but I still think you're a bastard. Rog
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Post by kris on Jul 12, 2020 12:55:08 GMT
On the cwf it says the Selby Micheal has now sunk. No pictures though. Have you got a link to the thread?
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 12, 2020 14:36:50 GMT
On the cwf it says the Selby Micheal has now sunk. No pictures though. Have you got a link to the thread? Have a rummage yourself, it can't be that hard to find.
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Post by Telemachus on Jul 12, 2020 15:23:25 GMT
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Post by kris on Jul 12, 2020 16:26:20 GMT
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jul 12, 2020 21:29:46 GMT
Here's a pic of the stricken boat. Despite all of the fallings-out I have had with the owner, if there's anything I can do to help then I will.
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 13, 2020 6:51:06 GMT
if there's anything I can do to help then I will. Yeah, me too, if Tony can think of anything I might be useful for. I have in mind to nip over to England (if possible) before mid-August, to check our boat if nothing else.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Jul 13, 2020 8:52:19 GMT
I think the time has come to substitute a few facts for the uninformed speculation that's been circulating on this matter since the evening of Sunday 26 January last, . . . when Selby Michael was deliberately set adrift from below Hazleford Lock, where it had been left, inadequately moored, by C&RT after moving it, without notice, from it's designated mooring on the maintenance/craneboat wharf above Hazleford main weir. Here are some of the most pertinent:
* The vessel did not break adrift, . . it was intentionally set adrift.
* There is eye-witness and photographic evidence on record that the vessel's mooring lines neither parted, nor were any of them lifted off the shore bollards on the lock island.
* The three lines, out of the original four lines plus a wire rope, used by C&RT to re-secure the vessel after moving it, were all let go from the onboard deck bollards on Sunday 26 January 2020 and were independently seen and photographed the next day, hanging down into the water from the shore bollards on the lock island.
* The vessel was returned to Hazleford on 29 January by C&RT, re-moored, by them, on the designated Visitor Moorings at the top end of the lockcut, and water to a depth of 6'-7' pumped into the hold, sufficient to settle the barge firmly on the river bed. ___________________________________________
So there you have it, Selby Michael neither 'broke' adrift, nor has it subsequently 'sunk'. It was first intentionally set adrift and then deliberately 'pumped' down after being returned near to it's original location by the navigation authority, . . the same navigation authority that, despite the weight of evidence, has consistently refused to accept that the barge was intentionally set adrift in the first place, and is now, over four months later, sending me somewhat apologetic e-mails informing me that the barge they left with around 200 tons of water in the hold at it's present location has sunk, and asking if there's anything they can do to help !
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Post by TonyDunkley on Jul 13, 2020 18:30:57 GMT
I see that over on CWDF the leading light of the forum intelligentsia has dusted off her single timeshare brain cell and put it to work again.
In response to another poster who correctly quoted me as saying :- "The vessel was returned to Hazleford on 29 January by C&RT, re-moored, by them, on the designated Visitor Moorings at the top end of the lockcut, and water to a depth of 6'-7' pumped into the hold, sufficient to settle the barge firmly on the river bed." - the best she could muster was :-
Naughty Cal
Gender:Female
Location:Worksop/Lincoln
Boat Name:Naughty Cal
Posted 4 hours ago
You do have to question if it was settled on the river bed how has it now sunk? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Astounding, . . isn't it !
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