corydoras

They don't like salt water much. I managed to trash mine last week

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I did'nt think that jet skis had prop' shafts either. They just suck water in a little hole underneath and spew it out another little hole at the back.

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No wonder Judy is confused. All I can say is this must be a Royal Navy only term. A couple of lengths of wire secured by a Senhouse slip serving as a guard rail (just called 'railings' on merchant ships) would not pass muster on a merchant ship. Senhouse slips need to be under constant tension to work properly, so if the wire guard rail becam slack for any then the slip might open, et voila no more guard rail. About the only place you will find a Senhouse slip in use today on a merchant vessel will be to secure lifeboats and life-rafts. Just for Judy here is a piccy of a Senhouse slip. Newt: I think in the American Merchant Marine (and perhaps in the US Navy too) they are known as Pelican clips, but I am not at all sure. [ 09. August 2003, 10:42 AM: Message edited by: corydoras ]

When I lived in Scotland fishing with ANY kind of float for trout was illegal. It probably still is. If Andy Macfarlane is around he can prabably confirm or you could PM him.

Okay Alan, I give up. Where does the tulip come into it. The only tulip connection I can remember from my seafaring days is that some Dutch shipbuilders used to (maybe they still do?) carve or cast a tulip bud design into the masthead.

Franz Ferdinand

Ravel

I have noticed the same thing with 1664. I first tasted this on draught in France and although I prefer real beer, I quite like 1664. The stuff you get over here is just not as good as the stuff that is sold in France. I don't know if the French stuff is stronger or not but it does taste much better.

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It's a pleasure. Marie is in sunny Barcelona on holday with her mum. I am sure she will be having a rare old time. How is the weather down Dorset way?

I reckon this deserves a topic all of its own, especially as Little Onions and my daughter Marie share the same birthday. A very joyeux anniversaire to both.

OK. The email problem. Can he send but not receive or receive but not send?. My bet is that he can receive but not send. If so what errors does he get when he tries to receive mail.

Has he changed his Internet Service Provider?

Too right mate! I have worked there quite a lot in the past. A 10 minute walk down Slough High Street is just about enough to make one lose the will to live. It must qualify as the Butt Ring of Berkshire

I was brought up on an estate in Scotland. When I was a nipper I used to hate this time of year because of the pheasant and grouse shooting that went on. I thought then that it was unjust to shoot birds that until a few weeks earlier had been kept in a big cage in the wood and would eat from ones hand. My feelings on this have not changed with the passing of the years. I have no problem at all with someone going out with a pony and a .303 to stalk deer. My grandfather, an old Scots shepherd who had no problems shooting anything for the pot thought that course fishing was at best weird and at worst cruel. Personally I have no problem with anyone taking any species fish if they are going to eat it, although I cannot remember the last time I kept a fish that I caught.

Nowhere could smell as bad as that festering dung heap. I visited this port on a RORO container ship called the Jeddah Crown 1977. On our first visit there was an old Greek reefer (refrigerated cargo ship) tied up at the quay with a load of frozen chicken. The poor old reefer was having severe problems with her brine plant and as a result all the chicken in her hold (about 5,000 tons of stuff) was rapidly defrosting in the hundred degrees plus heat. Now I know not why the Yemenis were buying frozen chicken in bulk like this because they did not really have the infrastructure or the logistics to deal with the cargo, but to cut a long story short we left the following day and when we returned about 6-8 weeks later the old Greek reefer was still tied up at the quay, her refrigeration plant had totally packed in and about half the chicken was strewn all over the quay whilst the rest was suppurating and festering in the freighter’s hold. The smell was absolutely stomach churning

Were you in the Argyll's perchance? [ 06. August 2003, 03:22 PM: Message edited by: corydoras ]

Either that or she is going to a barbie

alchemy

I agree Colin. Folks whinge at being asked to recycle and whinge again when someone tries to think up ways to cut down on the amount of waste produced in the first place. I am sure that we will see this over here and throughout the rest of the EU in due course. [ 06. August 2003, 01:16 PM: Message edited by: corydoras ]

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Who cares.Resin

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