Tag Archives: Manchester

May

22

2013

Broken Prop Shaft

A while ago (it has taken me a while to post this) there was a horrible crunching noise coming from under our back cabin floor. normal it makes less horrible whirring noises, as under there lives our prop shaft. It turns out that we had taken out the bearing on our prop shaft, according to [...]

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Apr

07

2013

On Continues Cruising and JSA

my contract with FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) has not been renewed, so for fun I am now without a job, one of the things however I am allowed to do in the UK while applying for work is apply for JSA (Job Seekers Allowance). I am trying to do this without ending up claiming [...]

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Oct

02

2012

Cunning Plans

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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Aug

12

2012

An update

It’s been a fair while since I last wrote an update to my blog; back then b0atg1rl and I were looking for a boat; since then we have bought ourselves a 58ft Semi-Trad called nbSteven (the name will be changed when she next comes out the water!), b0atg1rl is currently bringing her blog about life afloat [...]

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Jan

24

2012

Trains and Cost – Part 3: Public Investment v Wasteful Subsidy

In 2011 passengers contributed about £6.5bn and taxpayers £4bn a year to the running of the railways (ref). Now I will be the first to admit I don’t like how the Rail Network is set up at current [1, and 2]. However Let us quickly compare the cost and subsidy with the UK road network: Externalities: £48.7 [...]

posted in Car, Railway, Trains, Transport | tagged with Advanced Passenger Train, APT, Birmingham, Bombardier, Car, HS2, Leeds, London, M74, Manchester, Railway, Road Tax, Roads, Rolling Stock, ROSCO, Trains, Transport, VED, Vehicle Excise Duty | No Comments