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Post by fi on Feb 4, 2024 19:10:40 GMT
He is building a tunnel on instruction from Hamas, the sandbank is the spoil heap.
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Post by on Feb 4, 2024 19:12:02 GMT
The sad thing is a woman with kids was 'in a relationship' with this crazy born again christian loony with a criminal record.
Another case of incompetence and poor judgment. Obviously I have a slightly chequered career in the SIS and I didn't tell The Woman until quite recently that I have eliminated several other people while on assignments but thats different. We strapped them to experimental depth charges with very large cable ties rather than throwing acid or alkaline at them.
There are standards and it is important to maintain them for a number of different rather obvious reasons.
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Post by ianali on Feb 4, 2024 21:22:29 GMT
Regarding the Afghan acid thrower: Him and others like him have shown great enterprise. "I can't go back, Im now homosexual, I'll be persecuted" or "I can't go back, I'm a (fully bearded) child, I'll be persecuted" has now largely changed to "I can't go back, I'm now a Christian, I'll be persecuted". You have to admire the creative minds behind this. Whether this is the creativity and enterprise which could make Britain great again is a matter of opiion, of course. I’m glad you no longer boat. |
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Post by quaysider on Feb 6, 2024 13:21:33 GMT
Back to the original topic, I'm hoping it does get sorted pronto as my second trip with punters this year takes me that way. Not gonna lie, I'm not looking forward to it and will be relieved to get off the trent by the end of trip 4 and back on to (relatively more comfortable) Yorkshire waters... ie/ the ones with too much or too little water in.
When I did this years plan, it seemed a good idea... less so the more I think of what can go wrong between Stone, Leeds, Liverpool and Llangollen.
Next year I'm heading down to the K & A, Basingtoke, skirt around London then back up the GU to Market Harbrough and up the Soar to get back to the Trent and Mersey... whether I have punters or not.
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Post by kris on Feb 6, 2024 14:49:26 GMT
Back to the original topic, I'm hoping it does get sorted pronto as my second trip with punters this year takes me that way. Not gonna lie, I'm not looking forward to it and will be relieved to get off the trent by the end of trip 4 and back on to (relatively more comfortable) Yorkshire waters... ie/ the ones with too much or too little water in. When I did this years plan, it seemed a good idea... less so the more I think of what can go wrong between Stone, Leeds, Liverpool and Llangollen. Next year I'm heading down to the K & A, Basingtoke, skirt around London then back up the GU to Market Harbrough and up the Soar to get back to the Trent and Mersey... whether I have punters or not. Depending on the river levels a modern shallow narrowboat should be able to get through. |
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Post by brummieboy on Feb 6, 2024 20:45:58 GMT
Back to the original topic, I'm hoping it does get sorted pronto as my second trip with punters this year takes me that way. Not gonna lie, I'm not looking forward to it and will be relieved to get off the trent by the end of trip 4 and back on to (relatively more comfortable) Yorkshire waters... ie/ the ones with too much or too little water in. When I did this years plan, it seemed a good idea... less so the more I think of what can go wrong between Stone, Leeds, Liverpool and Llangollen. Next year I'm heading down to the K & A, Basingtoke, skirt around London then back up the GU to Market Harbrough and up the Soar to get back to the Trent and Mersey... whether I have punters or not. Depending on the river levels a modern shallow narrowboat should be able to get through. I've been on the Trent twice, once to Torksey and back to visit Lincoln, and another time from Keadby back to the T&M so I didn't have to go back along the L&L. I can say I will never use it again as it is a long boring passage with very few places to stop, and even when you find somewhere disembarking is akin to a trial like TV's Gladiators. I hope your punters are entertaining Quaysider because the cruise certainly isn't. |
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Post by Aloysius on Feb 7, 2024 2:22:21 GMT
Personally I found the Trent to be mildly challenging. At the time the internet didn't exist so any 'info' I had mostly consisted of, as things turned out, largely bullshit from bullshiters, of whom there is rarely any shortage. I recall one guy recommending I drag some heavy chain from the stern in order that the current didn't spin the boat around...I definitely should have read more from reliable sources beforehand but, as they say, ignorance is bliss.
I spent a night on the Fossdyke; there was a handy pub, but the overall scene was rather bleak and unappealing. So I left. At Keadby I got talking to a crew of a coastal freighter; they invited me on board for a drink; I left somewhat totally pissed.
My main regret was that I had to leave the Trent there; the thought of going on into the Humber estuary was damn exciting, but clearly I was in the wrong sort of boat for it. The Aire and Calder, and then the L&L, seemed tame by comparison.
I guess it's all about how you choose to see things.
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Post by kris on Feb 7, 2024 9:14:12 GMT
Oh so you did actually have a boat at some stage.🙃
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Post by Aloysius on Feb 7, 2024 10:39:12 GMT
Yes, actually more than one. And lived on them full time for some years in various locations...it's not a secret, I've mentioned it several times before. But whatever.
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Post by kris on Feb 7, 2024 11:15:01 GMT
Yes, actually more than one. And lived on them full time for some years in various locations...it's not a secret, I've mentioned it several times before. But whatever. Sorry I must have missed the posts when you mentioned your boats and boating. I don’t presume that everybody on the forum has a boat. So anyway do you still have a boat tucked away somewhere? |
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Post by Aloysius on Feb 7, 2024 11:29:39 GMT
A sailing dinghy is all. TBH some years ago (eight or so) I had a choice of boat or flat. I chose the latter. I often regret that choice.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Feb 7, 2024 12:21:26 GMT
Regarding the Afghan acid thrower: Him and others like him have shown great enterprise. "I can't go back, Im now homosexual, I'll be persecuted" or "I can't go back, I'm a (fully bearded) child, I'll be persecuted" has now largely changed to "I can't go back, I'm now a Christian, I'll be persecuted". You have to admire the creative minds behind this. Whether this is the creativity and enterprise which could make Britain great again is a matter of opiion, of course. I’m glad you no longer boat. Not strictly true. Each day between April and October, with a predicted wind speed below 8mph, sees me afloat either in Cardigan Bay, or up the Mawddach estuary. Once a boater, always a boater. |
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Post by kris on Feb 7, 2024 13:31:59 GMT
A sailing dinghy is all. TBH some years ago (eight or so) I had a choice of boat or flat. I chose the latter. I often regret that choice. Don’t know if I could move back onto dry land. Especially not into four walls, maybe if I was moving into the middle of a wood somewhere? |
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