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Mar
26
2013

Harry Beck Style Canal Map

by Skippy

The first diagrammatic map of London’s rapid transit network was designed by Harry Beck in 1931.[3] Beck was a London Underground employee who realised that because the railway ran mostly underground, the physical locations of the stations were irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get to one station from another — only [...]

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Oct
14
2012

Review – Ballistic iPad Hard Case

by Skippy

For the past two and a half weeks or so I have been thoroughly testing a Ballistic Hard Case for iPad that Skippy was sent to review by GearZap.com. As the iPad is mine I have been the one using it most therefore I am the one writing the review. Since I bought the thing [...]

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Oct
02
2012

Leaving o2

by Skippy

After being with O2 for a while (5 years), and getting slowly getting more and more niggled by them and that I have been paying £21.41 pcm for 600 minutes, 1200 SMS, (un)unlimited (retarded) internet (without tethering), She who must be obayed took me accross to the T-Mobile/Everything Everywhere (Nothing Nowhere) store in Swindon, where because she [...]

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Oct
02
2012

Cunning Plans

by Skippy

There is a cunning plan, and that cunning plan is to escape… escape the west, heading east we plan to first go… um… west to Llangollen, because b0atg1rl has never done the Llangollen Arm of the Shropshire Union canal (bit of a mouthful) on her own boat; and well I have never done it at all. [...]

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Oct
01
2012

The Bed room is finally (half) finished.

by Skippy

After having nbSteven for just under three months now, and having lived on her for two, we finally have the bed room finished… well it’s how we wanted it in the short term. A long while ago on a trip to IKEA we picked up two BETYDLIG curtain poll clips, one BETYDLIG poll, and some [...]

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Oct
01
2012

Where the Themes meets the Themes and Severn Canal

by Skippy

Following on from my previous two posts; this one is based on my 365s location, b0atg1rl and I were standing in Lechlade. Lechlade is just downstream from the junction between the River Themes (River Isis), River Coln, and the Thames and Severn Canal. Again its under the control of the trust. The Trust is working to restore [...]

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Sep
19
2012

Solar Power on Boats

by Skippy

A while ago I looked at Solar Panels (Photo Voltaic) and did some research, (including reading a very hippy book [Electrosmog anyone??]) Tom of nbWaiour wrote this post about nbDestiny’s solar panel mounting system, which he says appears to be “electrically controlled and ‘self-seeking’”. Solar Trackers are not unushal in comercial PV instalations, however they are quite unusual on narrow [...]

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Sep
04
2012

nbArianrhod is now sold

by Skippy

nbArianrhod boat has now been sold, b0atg1rl and I are now offering soyouwannabuyaboat.com for other peoples uses, If you are interested in utilising So You Wanna Buy A Boat please use the contact form to send b0atg1rl a message. We are now thinking about how to utilise So You Wanna Buy A Boat as a classified site for [...]

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