No him finger trouble when typing screwdrive (r). My keyboard does delayed action sometimes but not others so what you see is not what you get if you hit enter to quick. (It also sometime refused to deleate going backwards. Such querks are normal to me. I once owned a deck of punched cards whose third card always read right but sumersaulted (or whatever) in the reader. People came miles (well yards) to see it perform. -- On Wed, 17/2/10, James Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
From: James Cook <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Considerate Boaters guide - lift bridges To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, 17 February, 2010, 18:05 Screwdrive? or is this some rare piece of kit of which I am not familiar? Paddington David Cragg wrote: > > Heading up north we have found a screwdrive useful as some handcuff > locks tighten the metal piece onto the metal of the paddle casing and > you need the screwdrive to prize it off. > > --- On Mon, 15/2/10, Baz Juniper <[email protected] > <mailto:baz%40junipers.co.uk>> wrote: > > From: Baz Juniper <[email protected] <mailto:baz%40junipers.co.uk>> > Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Considerate Boaters guide - lift bridges > To: [email protected] <mailto:canals-list%40yahoogroups.com> > Date: Monday, 15 February, 2010, 11:33 > > > > On 13 Feb 2010, at 00:01, Sean Neill wrote: > > > David's method wouldn't work reliably where the bridges have to be > > padlocked since you have to close a BW padlock to release your key > > and, like most folk, I am inclined to leave my keys in the padlock > > (even when the padlock is on the towpath side and I'm on the off- > > side, which I suppose would be risky in some circumstances) . > > Baz > > > > As I have my BW key on a chain, I tend to lock the padlock in mid- > > air and come back to it if time and the boiler permit. If BW can't > > trust boaters to act responsibly I have no hesitation in putting my > > own safety first. > > I should think that the safety of others might also be at issue if > boiler management was unduly neglected :-) > > Its a fair point, though, Sean. Not even BW seem to put much store > by the padlocks on the western end of the K&A. Of the 8 swing > bridges between Bath & Foxhangers, I think only one had a useable > padlock for most of last summer. > > Baz > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
