New member saying hello!

Welcome Simon,climb aboard!

Welcome too, Simon, – it’s always nice to see “new blood” arriving and contributing, especially from a familiar ( MM ) back story.

Welcome aboard. Theres at least one Dave Special still going, and no it’s not mine 😊

After a visit to Bletchley Park and TNMOC a few years ago, my senior grandson has an original MM from long, long ago. I have the last issue and an MM mug, donated by another Forumite.

This was taken in 2015 in his mum’s home. There have been so many changes since in that young man’s life: he now has a very good well paid job in IT. He has his own apartment and his system is light years beyond what you see there, with a massive Server array in the second bedroom. Mum’s house has gone from being a 200 year old 2 bed cottage to a large 3 bed family home. But he remains the quiet, hard working lad he always was and i love him to bits.

Narrow boats and log fires.

When I first moved to IOM 32 years ago, I bought a Morso “Squirrel” for the (that) cottage. Dual fuel, it was very good. Fast forward to a couple of years ago. Via wives of USSR origin, I got to know a (VERY) wealthy guy, and when we were at his house for a Russian Christmas meal, I saw he had a Squirrel. I commented on it, and he told me he used to have a string of boatyard shops, and he supplied squirrels for fitment to very many narrow boats. I forget the details, but as i recall you have a removable hearth for use with coal/smokeless fuels, but just remove it for wood burning. I am sure, touring the Cut, you would see many wood collection opportunities.

On the security front, if you live in a park-able home (boat, caravan etc.) you are game for assault by the idiots, especially when tanked up at the weekend. I had a pal who had lived a sheltered life as a “skivvy” on a farm, with oft repeated promises of the title when the old woman who owned it died. Then one day, he saw it was B-S, so upped and away. He bought himself a boat and lived in that for a while. Regular problems when parked up. He then moved to a gypsy caravan (he had a horse), but found it was rather much the same. He still had the caravan when I first knew him, but had his eyes on a young woman with hareshorn lip problems, who had become domestic skivvy to father and brothers. They married, bought a house, but after about two years, went to live on a smallholding in NE Scotland (Mid Clith??). He is either still there, or passed on to the best of my knowl;edge.

Les.

I never did finish them scans of my old MM mags. https://forumite.co.uk/micromart-issue-29/

I still have the final issue on my loft. Event hough the last few years weren’t that great.

I did use to love it in the days of the ads, sitting there building a pc I could never afford.

The Internet ruined that. An online Configuratior just isn’t the same.