Saturday, 28 December 2019
Winter Mooring?`
Sunday, 22 December 2019
The Election
Saturday, 30 November 2019
Open Live Writer
Tuesday, 19 November 2019
Graffiti
Sunday, 17 November 2019
Ooo er!
Saturday, 16 November 2019
New for old!
Friday, 15 November 2019
Fake Shit!
Thursday, 14 November 2019
All in a days life on the South Oxford
EDIT:-
Tuesday, 12 November 2019
My Fault?
Recycling
Tuesday, 5 November 2019
Friday, 1 November 2019
Sunday, 27 October 2019
It irks me!
I have spent a lot of my time in the last eight years collecting other peoples crap from the canals. the stuff I pick up varies from general litter to the disgusting.
There will always be sweet wrappers and dogends, but when you are in the middle of nowhere and you come across a 6x4 dining table leaning up against a tree, obviously left by a boater, you have to wonder why? Especially when you know there is a disposal point a few miles along the canal. It irks me.
I have in my time collected 8 full cassettes. (the disgusting). It irks me.
I once collected a full minifridge of of rotting food from an an island downstream of Sonning on the Thames. Not a mile or so from the disposal point at Shiplake Lock (equally as disgusting). It irks me.
It is somewhat annoying when, at pretty spot on the canal, you find a bag for life with empty paint tins in it, unusual colours. What is more annoying is when you pass a boat with a same bag on the front deck and the boat has been recently painted with the colours you found before. How stupid some people are! It irks me.
Now I could name and shame, I have a boat name and I have a person name, but there are people out there who do not understand their place in the world. Who don’t understand I would put this information up to just embarrass the perpetrator. It would not be a signal to attack the said boat/person, much less condone such attacks. So now you will never know who it was and that irks me.
Saturday, 26 October 2019
Saturday, 12 October 2019
Guess what I did this summer?
Open Live Writer
If anyone knows what I need to do for the god of Blogger to make this right please be my guest.
I know what you are thinking, but I am writing this in Blogger not OLW.
Sunday, 14 April 2019
Internet
Thursday, 11 April 2019
Live writer
Thursday, 14 March 2019
More Stuff
I made something I have been promising my self since I got on the boat 12 years ago. Ta-Daaaaaaaa!
Wednesday, 13 March 2019
MAGNET FISHING
Tuesday, 12 March 2019
Sunday, 17 February 2019
Journalism 101:
If someone say its raining outside and another person says its not, one of them is mistaken or lying.
As a journalist it is not your job to report both observations and conclude both have a point.
No, it is your job to report the truth, simply look out of the window.
Thursday, 17 January 2019
Serco-Mears?
Have you ever heard of Serco-Mears? No neither had I until just the other day when it was announced that they have just been awarded a government contract worth £2.9 billion pounds. Now it’s bad enough that the government is giving £2.9 billion to a company not many have heard of, but the purpose will stun you.
This contract is for the purpose of building homes for ‘asylum’ seekers! Outsiders! Now I don’t want to seem uncaring, disingenuous, or perish the thought RAAAAAAACIST, but when was the last time the government gave £2.9 billion to a house building project for social housing to house our homeless or ex-service or those trapped in sub-standard private accommodation? NEEEEEEEEVER!!!
OK on top of that If the company gets 10% profit that’s £290 million, let me put that better way,
£290,000,000.
And you can bet they get more than 10%
Wednesday, 16 January 2019
Connecting to what!
So today I moved from Atherstone down to Nuneaton. Whilst the signal, Internet/phone, in Atherstone was fair (and I by no means use that to say properly useable) the signal in Nuneaton is garbage! No phone very little internet.
Earlier today my phone tells me I am connected to the internet. Yet when I try to google pound/euro exchange rates I am told to make sure I have a signal!
Now I may be a bit old fashioned here, but if I pay for something I expect to get it. As in if I have a mobile phone I expect to take it to different places and use it. I most certainly do not expect it to tell me,
NO SERVICE AVAILABLE
not even emergency services. I mean what if I fell and broke my leg or had a heart attack?
Yes I know coverage is not guaranteed, but I am in a town fer cris’ake not out in the country (where the signal is, for some strange reason, better).How long have mobile phones been going now 25/30 years? Isn’t it about time the system was sorted to function properly. No, I know there is never going to be 100% coverage, but the system needs changing.
Lower Heyford generally only works with O2, but if you go up on the bridge over the platforms you might OK with several ISPs. Why is that?There should be one company responsible for supplying signal then all the phone companies could sell you phones and packages. You pay them, they pay the signal company.
No its not complicated! Electricity/Gas/Rail they all have a company that deals with pylons/pipes/rails and several ‘suppliers’ that deal with customers. I can’t believe it hasn’t been done before!
Tuesday, 15 January 2019
On being able to write
For some time now I have had problems with my laptop. Several of my keys failed to work S G H M didn’t work at all. Several others worked if you persisted. No capitals at all.
If you have ever had a problem with a lap top keyboard you may or may not know about the onscreen keyboard. It is not easy to write with the pointing device, but its OK in an emergency. A mouse would be better, certainly faster.
It suddenly occurred to me today that rather than struggle writing on my phone then emailing to me to cut and paste, I could buy a keyboard! This I have now done and am able to actually get back to doing what I like, writing.