Tempus Fugit

I trust everyone has seen the weather forecasts for the week ahead, I think there may be a few says when the boat will not be going anywhere !

Isle of Man Steam Packet Company 57 mins · **Sailing Update – Issued at 10:30hrs** Due to the forecast adverse weather on Sunday 27th January the following sailings to and from Birkenhead have been cancelled. Douglas – Birkenhead Sunday 27th January at 08:00hrs. Birkenhead – Douglas Sunday 27th January at 14:00hrs. Due to the cancellation of the above sailings, The Ben-my-Chree will now operate additional sailings to and from Heysham tomorrow evening (26th/27th January), these sailings will depart as follows: Douglas – Heysham Saturday 26th January at 20:00hrs. Heysham – Douglas Sunday 27th January at 02:15hrs. If you have an online account with ourselves then you can log on and amend your booking online. Alternatively you can contact our reservations team on 01624 661661 or 08722 992 992 to make alterative arrangements. For further information on any of our other sailings then please visit our website.

changed so that when covered in snow it cannot be distinguished from others whereas the 'halt' sign could by the 'T' shape of it !

is the hump they installed really supposed to be another pothole and they had the plans upside down ?

how to break a drought ? - introduce a hosepipe ban on 1st August

amazing how google can't find that website, all it finds are twitter and facebook with no recent updates :-(

just for the record, that's the forecast last night, force 9 would not make getting through the dog-leg of Heysham entrance, or turning, very easy. With all of last night's traffic and probably this morning's Manannan load it wasn't over-packed with pax, maybe the decks were full of campers and vans though. Arrow has been riding out the storm in Laxey bay waiting for the wind to drop and a vacant berth even this morning BMC was heading 160' more like going to Llandudno before turning east Arrow has been riding out the storm in Laxey bay waiting for the wind to drop and a vacant berth

Isle of Man Steam Packet Company 5 mins · **Sailing update – Issued at 17:27hrs** Forecasts confirm that the adverse weather has deteriorated further and therefore the following sailings for this evening have now been cancelled. Douglas to Heysham 13th June @ 19:45hrs Heysham to Douglas 14th June @ 02:15hrs Passengers booked on the above sailings can contact our reservation team on 01624 661661 or 08722 992 992 to make alternative arrangements. Alternatively you can amend your booking online through your online account. Following review of the latest forecast the following sailings are subject to probable disruption/cancellation. To give these sailings every opportunity to take place, a final decision will be made by the Master by 06:15hrs tomorrow morning. Douglas to Liverpool 14th June @ 07:30hrs Liverpool to Douglas 14th June @ 11:15hrs For further information on these for any of our other sailings please visit our website.

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-5442371/The-9bn-extra-cost-smart-meters.html

what an utter waste, £18 MILLION to implement, in the hope it will make people cut down on electricity use, will cut staff from going around reading meters (and checking for meter tampering !). If the demand reduces it will drop profit which in turn will increase the price per unit - as happened last time in the 'fuel crisis' (still have my petrol ration book !) if anyone is old enough to remember (1970's), where tv closed down at 10pm etc, demand dropped so to maintain profit level the price increased, and never went back down again :-( I already have an 'Owl' device which tells me how much I am using and doesn't make me switch anything off, I've already converted most lights to led where suitable alternatives were available (not at silly prices !) but the heavy use of electric still need to be utilised for laundry, cooking etc. I fear this is just another 'because everyone else does it' exercise where we follow along like sheep .

Manannan came out of wet dock earlier and is now on its way 'home' :-) eta: aborted berthing due to wind, seems to be bobbing about on the briney off Clay Head until it calms down a bit in the morning

there was a suggestion that there were a number of larger windfarm crew transfer vessels on the pontoons which may have added too much load

Chris Barber at the Jazz club in the Villiers Hotel was good !

weren't Douglas corpy all those years ago selling the site to the Governemt for £1 (or was it 25p ?)

BMC late in tonight waiting for enough water at very low tide, had a tour of Maughold lighthouse to put in time !

isn't wednesday 'haardous cargo' night - usually just enough pax for a rugby match

so why is the complete downloadable pdf such a pig's arse :-p

I see no menus on pdf just 62 pages of jumble

the forum screws up the formating, but I fail to see how you can just list the sailings to eg. Dublin

you haven't looked at it then, you can't just scroll down to the date, or just look for a particular destination, it may be all things to all people but is a nightmare to find what you want, the website doesn't even have a 'Home' tab to get back to the landing page from where you were #notimpressed

anyone seen the abortion of a new SPCo website and timetable (complete pdf download) makes things almost impossible to plan any journeys :-(

is it time for these people to get an ASBO and be deported ?

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