yes these plans i used but the one with the sail details came out at a different scale so i used the hull plans to scale mast

These?

see my build on Norfolk Wherry

Are the round bow and stern carved blocks, or steamed strips? Yes, I know you cheated and bought a preformed hull 👵😀😷

Hi Ron, Pleased to see you are taking an interest in Thames Barges, you must have already recognised what a unique vessel they are. They make excellent models. How about it. I'm sure you wouldn't regret building one.

cheers, Nerys

Hi, Ron, I was having dialysis at home, but my fistula started playing up and although I complained to the hospital for several weeks to do something about it, they ignored me, eventually giving me an appointment for a scan two days after it completely failed. I then had a line fitted into my chest, to dialyse me through that. They then built another fistula into my other arm, which has never worked, thus I'm stuck in hospital being dialysed through the line, which I must admit is far more comfortable and convenient than a fistula. They say there is too much risk of things going wrong to let me go back home. I blame their negligence in not taking any notice when my original fistula started playing up. I'm too old for a transplant.

Nerys

My neighbour had one of those machines in their home, which he used at night. He eventually had a kidney transplant.

I'll add another comment to the Greta pics, or more exactly the offshore forts. When I was skipper of 'Nellie', we had the job on one occasion, this would have been mid fifties, of going out to the Nore Towers forts and collecting scrap from them as they were demolished. It was a rotten job, the scrap was loaded as they cut it out and it was often ages between drops. At night, we went back into Queenborough for shelter, then came back out the next day. The only consolation was evenings spent in 'The Old House at Home' at the top of Quenborough Causeway.

Cheers, Nerys

I do hope so Ron, I'd love to meet up with some of the friends I have made on here. This lack of freedom is so frustrating for all of us. I have always been someone who loves to get around, get away for a few days at will, but apart from the lockdown, my life is tied to a renal dialysis machine, which means four hour sessions on a machine three times a week. Under normal circumstances it is possible to arrange 'holiday dialysis' at other hospitals, even abroad, but at the moment that isn't possible. We are doing what we can to effect a 'jail break' we are converting a van into a camper in the hopes of being able to flee the Soith Wales valleys for a couple of days between treatments, but that cannot be until lockdown is over.

Cheers, Nerys

Neyrs, which means Noblewoman, I hope once we are able to travel again, that get to meet in person, for a pint or cup of tea.

Thank you Ron, for posting those pictures of the sailing barge Greta and the waters I love, the Swale and Medway. The first time I saw her was in about 1949, she and a dozen or so others were moored on a trot in Whitewall Creek, River Medway. She had been on requisition to the War Dept during the war for various duties, like ammunition storage in the creeks of the Lower Medway and were now being sold off, most were about £105. Most of them became barge yachts or houseboats. The picture of Upnor Woods is pure nostalgia too, I lived about half a mile upstream of there in my late teens, early 20's. My father was a schoolmaster on the Training Ship Arethusa which was moored off Lower Upnor village. The Russian submarine is a lot smarter than the last time I saw her. Kingsferry bridge joining the Isle of Sheppey to the mainland holds memories too, mainly of waiting to through the original bridge, the bridgekeeper seemed to delight in keeping small craft waiting and unless you were very lucky, you had to wait for a commercial ship to go through and follow on. It's been considerably better since the new one has been built
Happy memories.

Cheers, Nerys