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No Regrets

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While I'm sure I'm not on many of your Christmas card lists (Although I have had a few, thanks chaps!) I would nevertheless like to take this opportunity to wish each and every one of you a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful 2017, assuming you survive this particular Annus Horribilis...

May your own peculiar penchants boat-wise all turn to fruition, and may you all find suitable moorings in the correct location.

May your impellers hold together and give up the ghost gracefully (i.e. in one piece, not a ten large chunks dotted around your engine internals...)

May your fuel resist the dreaded Bug (Buy some Marine 16 eh!?) and furnish your engines with pure Diesel (Petrol guys, get a CO detector huh?)

And finally, may you enjoy Blue Skies, Calm waters and Intact propellers (Outdrive people need not apply, you are all doomed)

Right, thats it, see you in 2017, unless somebody tempts me to pop up again, which is unlikely.... :encouragement:
 
Bon Noel to you and yours and to all who have dragged their typing finger across the forum keyboard over the last year.
It would would have course been nice for all of the uncertainties of the year to have been resolved,however this would have left nothing for us to argue about in the coming winter months before we can get properly boating again.
For those in the loop, there are some out there who may not wish to extend the feeling of Xmas greetings everywhere and will feel that the building trade needs a rocket put under its arse :):):)

An industry which has moved on little since Wattle and Daub.
 
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oldgit said:
Bon Noel to you and yours and to all who have dragged their typing finger across the forum keyboard over the last year.
It would would have course been nice for all of the uncertainties of the year to have been resolved,however this would have left nothing for us to argue about in the coming winter months before we can get properly boating again.
For those in the loop, there are some out there who may not wish to extend the feeling of Xmas greetings everywhere and will feel that the building trade needs a rocket put under its arse :):):)

An industry which has moved on little since Wattle and Daub.
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Staying in a stable over Christmas? How novel! ;)
 
Merry Christmas everyone.:encouragement:

Now who fancies lighting a traditional Christmas pud and dropping it over Teddington lock bridge?:D
 
As said elsewhere the boating forums seem to become quiet over December and particularly so just now. Maybe some are more obsessed with boats than others.

Merry Christmas
And hope for some decent weather, after the winds have passed ,to allow some boating activity over the holidays.
 
No Regrets said:
While I'm sure I'm not on many of your Christmas card lists (Although I have had a few, thanks chaps!) I would nevertheless like to take this opportunity to wish each and every one of you a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful 2017, assuming you survive this particular Annus Horribilis...

May your own peculiar penchants boat-wise all turn to fruition, and may you all find suitable moorings in the correct location.

May your impellers hold together and give up the ghost gracefully (i.e. in one piece, not a ten large chunks dotted around your engine internals...)

May your fuel resist the dreaded Bug (Buy some Marine 16 eh!?) and furnish your engines with pure Diesel (Petrol guys, get a CO detector huh?)

And finally, may you enjoy Blue Skies, Calm waters and Intact propellers (Outdrive people need not apply, you are all doomed)

Right, thats it, see you in 2017, unless somebody tempts me to pop up again, which is unlikely.... :encouragement:
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You frequently annoy (me).

And hopefully you get annoyed back.

But peace man, have a good Christmas.

Cheers,

MP.
 
So, it's Xmas and, sadly, not to be the first Xmas in our new home that we had planned . However, we and the mutt are safe, warm and dry, in the (converted) stable we have been living in since October. I can report that there has been no virgin birth, no stars (except the usual line-up of mainly mediocre talent on TV) and with the confusion over addresses no wisemen (or oldgits) bearing gifts were able to find us.
Today will bring a new experience enjoying the full English Xmas Lunch with friends on a narrowboat on the Thames - shades of a previous Xmas afloat a little closer to Bethlehem on a Nile cruise !
So, a very Merry Xmas to all our friends and anyone else happy to receive our good wishes for a peaceful and contented holiday wherever you may be - yes, that includes you John ! :)
Tony, Maggie and the Bosun.
 
The bags are packed and we are waiting for the Cab to the airport.

Thames Water has given TW12 (Hampton & Hampton Hill) plus TW2,3,4 &13 a special Xmas present... No water!!!

Apparently the pumps at Hampton have gone off-line.... LOL!!
 
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The bags are packed and we are waiting for the Cab to the airport.

Thames Water has given TW12 (Hampton & Hampton Hill) plus TW2,3,4 &13 a special Xmas present... No water!!!

Apparently the pumps at Hampton have gone off-line.... LOL!!
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They kindly gave us a trickle for Christmas. I hope you haven't left any taps open? Could prove a bit wet on your return:D
 
We all enjoyed a typical Portuguese Xmas this year. Regretably however, this was not in Faro or Sagres but on the prison riot racked Isle of Sheppey.
Aquaintance of ours runs a Portuguese restuarant.
The prospect of being waited on hand and glass and no washing up proved weirdly attractive to my good lady.
Now trying to find an excuse for an early night on New Years Eve.
Suggestions welcome....
 
Just back from a trip up the Tamar. Left our Plym moorings this morning into a mirror sea, a blast out round the Breakwater and a leisurely trip up the Tamar past what remains of our navy to Calstock about 12 miles. Moored to the floating pontoon, a meal in the Tamar Inn and a leisurly poodle back. Very reminicent of our beloved Thames, a gentle Christmas cruise, perfect.:)
 
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