On 12 Aug 2009, at 22:23, baz_juniper wrote:

> Greyish morning - just right for Lynne to shop and Baz to polish  
> the brass - hard going as it hadn't been done for 2 months or  
> more.  Kim & Aggie's tip about using sour milk totally useless -  
> probably because there's nothing in skimmed milk to ferment a  
> decent amount of acid.

Shiny Sinks/Barkeepr's Friend is what you need for dirty brass, we  
reckon.
>   <snip>

>  Below Midgham Lock we past a ricketly looking steam driven  
> narrowboat which it's steerer claimed to be the last wooden boat  
> built in England.

Maid of Oak's been built in the last five years, surely? (BCF boat,  
moors at the Taft).
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All the best

Bruce

Go steady, but keep going.



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