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2LO calling , 2LO calling? This is the BBC from Crystal Palace transmitting station. Blimey chaps that looks like a dastardly Gerry bomber, lets shoot at the blighter!! Never in the field of human fishing have so many gone forth to return with so little Threre'll be blue birds over the white cliffs of Dover Jack I remember your bradcasts well Mad Mike

That aside Rich which, IMO, is a is a none starter in the argument not to change, extra daylight hours would be a great benifit to all in this day and age of people having more leasure time. Mad Mike

Quite alot of reviews give the rooms as dated, smelly, dirty etc?? The Daiquiri is spotles but the rooms do smell of dampness on arrival. Take out your Tesco club card or similar whack it in the slot of the Air Conditioner control this allows you to leave the Air Con on all the time rather than the room key thingy that you have to take with you. Go to the bar and have a drink or two and then return to your sweet smelling room It's the ever present humidity that makes for the stuffy smell in closed rooms. Just leave the air con on 24/7 - No resturants on the Cayos - only the hotels, food reported as just average in many cases Cuba tourist board tell the hotels tha the tourists like international type food therefore they do not use any Cuban dishes. The food is very fresh, plentiful, cooked well but absolutely uninspired. It will not be a gourmet holiday. However if you bring in some fish for the chefs and one for yourself they will prpare it beautifully. Apart from fishing and sun bathing - little else to do? There are organised trips that your tour operator will tell you about but remember this is a slightly paranoid communist contry so they are all accompanied trips. Apart from these it is a sun and relaxing place. The Daiquiri has a great in house entertainment crew who provide nightly caberet entertainment of a very good standard. Finally - is it possible to Bonefish the flats without a guide? Short answer is no. You will need a guide to enter the national parks lagoons These guys are dirt cheep when compared to using a professional guide in the USA. Remember too that they are very tight on protecting their lagoons, fishing and their paranoid security (not the guides, they would spit on Castro, it's the military & police ). My advice is not to risk fishing on your own outside the hotel areas. A night in clink and a trip home to the UK the next day would be your reward for being where you should not be. Mad Mike

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Do y'know I try to be serious from time to time with little snipetts of information or bits of boaty info' and what happens ?? Every one takes the P Mad Mike

HE SAID HE HAD THE CAPS LOCK ON DEAR!! Mad Mike

I do apologise I read this as though it had become law. Any way as it says here I urge you all to email your MP's in support of longer daylight hours in the name of fishing. Mad Mike Peer fights for longer daytimes Clocks go forward an hour in the early hours of Sunday More than 400 people could be saved from death or serious injury each year if the way the UK changes the clocks is altered, says a peer pushing the move. Lord Tanlaw is urging a three-year trial of "double summertime", claiming it would mean lighter evenings and be of huge benefit to road safety. His Lighter Evenings Experiment Bill, which goes before the Lords on Friday, is backed by safety campaigners. Clocks go forward at 0100GMT on Sunday, marking the official end of winter. 'Write to MPs' Lord Tanlaw's system would mean clocks no longer reverted to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) in October, but would stay one hour ahead until March. Another hour would then be added until the following October. The changes would give an extra hour of evening daylight throughout the year. Lighter evenings will also allow school children time to boot a ball about before going down the chippie or slumping in front of the family TV Lord Tanlaw But opponents warn of the longer hours of darkness on winter mornings, especially in Scotland, the north of England and Northern Ireland. This, they say, might lead to an increase in road accidents However, Lord Tanlaw, who wants people to write to their MP in support of his proposals, says the scheme could save 100 lives a year and 300 injuries. "The reason for doing this is to improve the quality of life for the majority of people and also to reduce the number of road accidents per year," he said. "Some 18% of accident involving school children occur in the mornings and 84% in the dark evenings after school. "Even if it saves one life a year, I think this bill will have been worth it." The lighter evenings would also help tourism and business and have the "added bonus" of bringing the UK into line with much of Europe, he said. Government opposed? It could lead to safer streets as most street crime occurs after dark and would save energy as electric lights would not be on as long. "Lighter evenings will also allow school children time to boot a ball about before going down the chippie or slumping in front of the family TV," he said. Just consider the benefit to the Olympics themselves in having an extra hour of daylight in which to hold the events Colin Dawson BALPPA A poll of more than 1,500 politicians, including MPs, peers, MEPs, MSPs and Welsh Assembly men and women, suggests a majority in support of the bill, he said. But last year Science Minister Lord Sainsbury signalled his rejection of the bill, which receives its second reading on Friday. He said the plan had been tried between 1968 and 1971 and abandoned. However, Lord Tanlaw, a crossbencher, who is also a proprietor of a railway engineering group, a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Horological Institute, says he wants to see evidence that the plan would not work now. Roger Vincent, from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), backs the measure, saying it is a campaign the group has been behind for years. "If you have lighter evenings all year round it's better in terms of road safety," he said. "It will be better for school children and older people, who will be able to return home from the shops in daylight." Olympic bid The move is also backed by BALPPA, which represents Britain's leading leisure parks, seaside piers and visitor attractions. Chief executive Colin Dawson said: "An extra hour on the clocks in summer would create the opportunity for British tourism to operate an extra hour a day. "In addition, the government is naturally anxious that Britain performs well in the Olympic medal tables in 2012, and longer evenings will enable many athletes to train longer. "Just consider the benefit to the Olympics themselves in having an extra hour of daylight in which to hold the events."

I don't know if all of you guys are aware that this is going to be the last time you will have had to put your clocks forward from GMT. The government has decided that BST will become the standard time for ENGLAND (Scotland may not) In fact it is being proposed that next year having kept to BST through out we might put the clocks forward yet another hour (2hrs + GMT) for the summer months making lovely long days. This was done throughout the last war to enable factories to work 12hr days and yet have daylight in the evening for workers to enjoy. Many people of that generation bitterly regreted the return to GMT. Wouldn't it be wonderfull to think of leaving the slipway at 6pm and knowing that there is yet another 5 hours of daylight ? Mad Mike

Count me in to staff the stall if needed, I have some items too. Carol says that if this year I bring back more than I take she will disembowl me with a potato peeler! Mad Mike

Tom tempestuously tosses out........ Jeez I need to go fishin You could sit on the sofa with your rod in your hand? Mad Mike

It is amazing the world we live in. How long ago would the stuff we have on our fishing boats been on the secret list and installed in naval craft? I remember the first Seafarer rotating LED ones which we thought were the last word in technological advancement. I understand that these days there are sets that can scan forward of the boat and show a three dimentional view of what the boat will (not has) cross over. Incredible! Mad Mike

Pardon? Could you speak up a bit? Mad Mike

A plain S/S ring of sufficient diameter will do it. I use one with a short length of S/S bar welde at rightangles. Mad Mike

Don't worry if the GRP tears a bit, it's dead easy to repair and if needed I can give you some glass mat as I have some spare from another job. Mad Mike

Not necessarily Crazy it depends on how old they are and how well educated. You don't stand much chance of getting a 3 year old spelling trouble let alone the average 15 year old these days! Mad Mike

Bl00dy hell anyone would think that I never wrote about a 1000 words on how an anode works and why one is needed Kam! As for the problem at hand......... If you try and drill them out, you are right, unless you are VERY lucky the drill will drift into the softer material. I am assuming the boat is ashore? If so I sugest the best method is working from inside the hull.I would think that a heavy lump hammer and a drift will work once the epoxy/resin that was used to retain them sheers. A heavy hammer used slowly is much more effective than a smaller one used frantically, it's all to do with inertia and mass. They will indeed be mild steel studding or bolts. I also think that grinding them off flush will be a good idea before even starting with the hammer as the heat generated by the grinding will also help the surrounding sealing material to loosen up. Mad Mike

Try Alec who advertise on this site! Mad Mike

Oh yeah dude What happened to the lead wot I wanted then He wholaughslaughsleftaslastlaughleftlesslaugh!! So there!! Mad Mike PS I'll drop it round to Salterns (?) in the week. I need to get out more I'm told Summat about getting a life too Do you know where I can buy one?

Child sized bouyancy aid free to a good home. It's not 'orrible and dirty, ideal for those odd occaisions you might have a youngster aboard. Mad Mike

Paul, I take my hat of to you mate! I s'pose invigorating is the word you would use? My thinking is along the lines of obsessive repetitive self punishment. I am sure you can get pills for it Be patient dude, that balmy spring day with a gentle force 2 breeze, a cloudless sky and rods kicking down with the charge of a 5lb bream on your line, well, they are just around the corner. Mad Mike

LOL So that's why you took up fishing? Mad Mike

This guy is American, right? So they are led by a bunch of guys that can see weapons of mass destruction that aren't there, so why be-grudge the poor sap for seeing a sturgeon that probably wasn't there either? One only has to watch any American sports commentary or Sports program to see that they can not communicate without ridiculous hyperbole, the poor dears do get overexcited like 10 year olds at a fun fair. Large portions of cynicism are needed when reading or watching American programs. Mad Mike

----- A Professor was giving a lecture on "Involuntary Muscular Contractions" to his first year medical students. Realizing that this was not the most riveting subject, the Professor decided to lighten the mood slightly. He pointed to a young woman in the front row and said, "Do you know what your arsehole is doing while you're having an orgasm?" She replied, "Probably out fishing with his mates!!