My panels, 150W Semi Flexible Monocrystaline Solar Panels – Sunpower E20 Cells, have started to develop small bubbles in the laminate between the active panel and the upper substrate. I bought these panels in 2020 from Bimble solar. The panels are now 6 years old. I started to notice smaller bubbles forming over the summer, (2026), which saw average temperatures in the mid 30’s across the UK.
Ventilation
My panels have no air ventilation between them and the steel roof of the boat.
They’re sealed with CT1 adhesive and Soudal Fix All Sealant. CT1 to secure them to the boat, and Soudal Fix All Sealant around the edges to keep moisture out.
This has worked well, but is has had the effect of not being able to keep the panels cool in hot weather.
The bubbles beneath the laminate layerBubbles in flexible solar panel laminate
If left untreated, these bubble join and grow and as the laminate comes away from the panel in it’s entirety.
Below are panels I bought in 2018. I tore the laminated top layer off completely as the bubbling had greyed out, making parts opaque.
A flexible solar panel with the laminate layer stripped off
They’re now discoloured and the surface is textured with small cracks.
80+ mysterious deaths of high powered bankers from 2008 – 2026
**Update October 2026: Simon Andriesz, FBI whistleblower and employee of Cantor Fitzgerald found dead in Thailand. Cause of death, suspected suicide. Mr. Andriesz was part of transatlantic witness protection programs after revealing links between Jeffrey Epstein and Trumps commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick.
**Update August 2024: It’s been 4 years and the bankers are back with a bang. Or, more of a gurgle and the sound of crunching metal. 2 ai startups executives and one banking president killed under suspicious circumstances. We’ll look at the circumstances.
**Update January 2020: Nuno Ribeiro da Cunha, banker to Africa’s richest woman is found dead at his south Lisbon holiday home.
**Update August/September/November 2019: A few high profile ‘suicides‘ to add to the list.
**Update March/April 2018: Changed the dates and included some more up-to-date references for the banker deaths. New deaths added.
**Update October 2017: There was a number of deaths in 2017, most of them I picked up second hand. As I’ve said before, I try to stick to the main players. I’ve added the deaths for this year to the list.
**Update October 2016: Yep. The list keeps growing. Just focusing on major players, or cases where ‘foul-play’ may be involved. I’ve done a little research into the causes of all these bankers dying, which can be found at the bottom of the article.
Having had to spend too much time on youtube recently, has led to the accumulation of the latest and most credible conspiracy theories.
Perhaps the most interesting, is the demise of the common-or-garden ‘master of the universe’. Banker, as they were once known.
They’ve been having problems with mortality recently.
And there’s a very long list of them.
“Everyone is expendable”
I remember this guy telling me a story about the Porton Down scientists in the 70’s, and how they all went missing or died, after conducting a lot of ‘hush hush’ experiments.
I was perhaps 26 at the time. Youngster.
Also, David Kelly, our ‘Walter Mitty’ style friend the nuclear inspector who blew the whistle on the ‘dodgy dossier’, and, ironically said he’d end up dead in the woods.
3 weeks later he was found dead in the woods…..
These bankers are no different.
If any one of them decides to have an attack of conscience, the whole NWO and shitty gravy train could come off the rails.
So here’s the list.
(Photo By Dennis Gill 07926643703 Suicide Marylebone guy falls or jumps from building and lands on metal rails takes fire service over 3 hours to cut the dead body off the metal railings leaving residents very upset as it took them over one hour to cover the seen Body on fence for over one hour for all to see up setting for locals this all happened on Montagu Square at the corner of Montagu Place leaving residents very distressed)
List of dead bankers 2026
Simon Andriesz
88. September 23rd, 2026 – Simon Andriesz: Managing Director, BGC Partners. Under witness protection after revealing links between banker turned sex trafficker, Jeffery Epstein and US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick. Mr Andriesz death exposed a litany of failings by the protection authorities who were supposed to be protecting him. Particularly the UK’s FCA. To quote Andriesz – “it took no effective action to protect me. The consequences have devastated my career, health, finances and family. A regulator that depends on whistleblowers cannot abandon them after they speak up.” The FCA failed to protect him after his identity was revealed saying he had moved beyond their ‘duty of care’ according to the Public Interest Disclosure Act, later admitting that it had made an error. The damage had already been done. Ahmet Latif, a former FCA information disclosure manager, has told an employment tribunal that he was dismissed after raising whistleblowing concerns about the regulator’s own internal processes. He alleged that senior FCA leadership repeatedly failed to act on his warnings. Simon Andriesz, stabbed in the back by the FCA, the very organisation tasked with protecting him. Verdict: Death by asphyxiation. Source 1. Source 2. Source 3.
Jonathan Bloomer
Stephen Chamberlain
Mike Lynch
87. August 19th, 2024 – Jonathan Bloomer, Stephen Chamberlain, Mike Lynch: Morgan Stanley International bank chairman, Vice President Autonomy, Chief executive Autonomy respectively. You don’t get any more high profile. You don’t get any more suspicious.
Informative video
Stephen Chamberlain and Mike Lynch developed an ai learning model with the ability to read and analyse web content. Be they images, text or videos in the same way a human might, but at the speed of ai. (IDOL – Intelligent Data Operating Layer). The software was bought by HP (Hewlett Packard) for $11.7 billion in October 2011. In November 2012, Hewlett-Packard announced that it was taking an $8.8 billion accounting charge after claiming “serious accounting improprieties”. Mike Lynch and Stephen Chamberlain faced a Serious Fraud Office investigation and a number of other court cases in the United States and England. Lynch and his colleagues were finally acquitted in June. The trip on his yacht Bayesian with his US Attorney and friend, Jonathan Bloomer amongst others, was to celebrate. The yacht sunk under suspicious circumstances on 18th August off the coast of Sicily. ‘I’ve never seen a vessel this size go down so quickly’ – Karsten Borner (69), who attempted to rescue crew members on the night of the sinking. Stephen Chamberlain was killed in a separate incident whilst out jogging near his home in Cambridgeshire. Verdict: Boat sinking – Still under investigation. Bike accident – Still under investigation. Source.
86. January 21st, 2020 – Nuno Ribeiro da Cunha: Private Banking Director, EuroBic. 1st Banker death of the year and in keeping with the mysterious sets of circumstances that surround the other banker deaths on this list. Nuno Ribeiro da Cunha was banker for daughter of the president of Angola and Africa’s richest woman, (Forbes estimates her wealth at $2.1 billion), Isabel dos Santos. Ms. dos Santos’s father was president of Angola for 38 years until September 2017. When his successor, João Lourenço gained office, he launched a corruption drive. Prosecutors in Angola were alleging that Ms. dos Santos carried out transactions with government-owned companies that resulted in a $1.14 billion loss for the state. On 19th January, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), gained 700,000 documents linking Ms. Dos Santos to preferential business dealing of the government in land, oil, diamond and telecoms deals over the period of her father’s tenure. Earlier this month, Mr. Ribeiro da Cunha was found bleeding from several knife wounds to his wrists and stomach by a household employee in one of his holiday homes on the coast south of Lisbon. Earlier this month, Nuno Ribeiro da Cunha, 45 years old was discovered in what police describe as a ‘suicide’, consistent with hanging. Mr. Ribeiro da Cunha was a suspect in the wide ranging investigation into the deals of Ms. Dos Santos. The national director of Portugal’s judicial police force, Luís Neve, said on Tuesday, “everything suggests that no third party was involved” in the banker’s death. Verdict: Suicide. Source.
85. November 29th, 2019 – Thomas Bowers: Former Deutsche Bank employee and Head of US Wealth-Management. Bowers ‘line managed’ wealth management and private banking through a number of less senior private bankers and ‘wealth managers’, one of them being a Rosemary Vrablic. Vrablic managed the portfolios of a number of clients, one of them being a Mr. Donald Trump. Through the auspices of Mr. Bowers, Deutsche Bank provided lines of credit to Trump on the basis of using him as a ‘loss leader’ in order to attract other High Risk/High Return clients. From 2010-2015, Deutsche/Trump relationship soared, culminating in a loan to Jared Kushner, who had previously been banned from doing deals directly with Deutsche due to his father being a convicted felon. The FBI were investigating Thomas Bowers as being the ‘Gatekeeper’ to documents detailing Deutsche Bank’s High Risk/High Return strategy at that time. Bowers was found dead with neck injuries consistent with hanging. Verdict: Suicide. Source.
84. September 25th, 2019 – Aivar Rehe: Former CEO of Danske Bank, Estonia, was found dead in his own back yard on Wednesday 25th September. The Danish bank is being investigated in Estonia, the US, Denmark, the UK and France for handling $230bn that flowed through its Estonian branch on behalf of non-residents from Russia and other former Soviet states between 2007 and 2015. In keeping with the similar deaths on this list, police were opaque – “The body has no signs of violence, neither does anything point to an accident,” police said, declining to provide further details out of courtesy to Mr Rehe’s family. There will be no investigation into his death, they added. Another one for the list. Verdict: Suicide. Source.
83. August 10th, 2019 – Jeffery Epstein: Limited Partner at Bear Sterns and Liquid Funding Ltd. Convicted pedophile. Jeffery Epstein was jailed and facing charges of pedophilia and child trafficking. Placed on suicide watch on the 25th July after being discovered with markings around his neck. By the 9th August, suicide watch had been removed, (by the DOJ), and Epstein was found with neck trauma, ‘consistent with hanging’, in his cell by prison officers. Perhaps the most notable aspect of Epstein was his high profile connections. Previous businesses were in financial fixing for those of $1Bn worth or more. His early introduction to Bear Sterns where he started his career had been through a high profile introduction from one of his pupil’s fathers at the school where he then worked. Jeffery Epstein with his ‘black book’ represented one of the greatest existential threats to the international elite. His actions, and his connections to the rich and famous are well know. His trial was a chain of domino’s waiting to fall. Funny that he should find himself dead. Verdict: Suicide. Source.
82. August 8th, 2019 – Adrian Hill: Former head of HFC Bank, First Direct and M&S Bank; and one of the key players in bringing sub-prime mortgages to the UK lending market. Mr. Hill was under investigation by the FCA, most notably for overcharging credit-card customers on late payment fees and the legitimacy of his ‘Let-to-Buy‘ business. Apparently, he had taking to talking to himself under his breath, buying expensive pictures and suffering night-terrors after sending FCA managers a picture of himself with a hunting rifle and the caption – “I’m going to intellectually slay you” and likening them to the Stazi. Found dead in covered pool. Coroner verdict. Suicide. Source.
It’s been a while since I’ve done a post. In fact, the whole of the summer has passed.
So glad I moved the boat from Milton Keynes. MK is an MOR dump with plenty of weirdos. I once got assaulted by a householder in Milton Keynes in my last job working as a Field Interviewer. Was trying to confirm his address and he punched me in the mouth. Not a big bloke either.
Bonnie at Bakers lock
Glad I didn’t get to see MK with lots of people around. A lucky escape.
Still, I’m out now and enjoying the rustic charms of Oxfordshire.
I’ve moved down the Oxford Canal on the boat, and the canal has closed after me.
The whole of the Northern stretch remains closed as I write this. I don’t have to move the boat every two weeks due to the lifting of restrictions. This could be seen as a good or bad thing. Most, like me, see it as a positive, only having to move when you need water etc. Although, unlike them in the North, I’m not confined to one space. I can move if I want, and not if I don’t
Since my last instalment I’ve stayed at Summertown Meadows, Enslow and here, Kidlington.
Alex James’s Big Feastival
The ex-bassist out of Blur’s own creation. I visited this a couple of years ago. It was pretty good then, so I decided to go this year.
A showcase of food and music I guess you might call it. There’s some camping available. That usually sells out. It takes place over the August bank holiday, 3 days.
The weather held out, just about. Although there were a few sprinkles of rain, nothing set in.
I had a souvlaki pita and momo dumplings for lunch, washed down with Atlantic IPA from Sharp’s Brewery. £6.90 a pint. Not too damaging as Oxfordshire prices go.
Watched Bastille on the main stage and went to the Britpop bar where I had a little dance. One of the DJ’s was Simon Pegg. That’s right, you heard correctly, the actor Simon Pegg. Fancies himself as a DJ, Music decidedly on the fromagé side. Not really my cup of tea. Back to the main stage to watch Doves, Fabio and Grooverider. Took part in walking, eating and drinking in varying degrees as the day wore into night…
I can only faintly remember that I had a pulled pork something for dinner, and a cocktail in a bag to round the evening off.
Got lost around some woods and the river Evenload on the way back to the car. Couldn’t see my mobile phone clearly and it had gone on to battery saver.
Not so many pigs at the pig place, no more than a handful of small porkers and a skeleton staff to run the day-t0-day business nowadays.
The owners no longer live there, as they used to on ‘narrowboat Acres’, and run the farm and campsite. It’s up to the moorers, who no doubt do it as part of their rental arrangement to stay.
The weather be hot
The weather has turned somewhat HOT.
There’s a few things you can do to mitigate the heat on the boat:
Mooring at pig place
Open the windows on shaded side
Draw the curtains on the sunny side, open on the shaded side
Moor under trees
Open the front and rear doors
Turn the fans on
Take your clothes off
This is usually enough to be cool enough that you don’t take all your clothes off, and warm enough that you’re able to eat breakfast on the stern with hardly any clothes on.
The breeze has a much greater impact as it blows across the cool surface of the water than it might do blowing in through the windows of a house, say.
By the time the sun has set, and it’s become dark, things get cooler still.
I don’t think I’ve had one heat affected night of sleep in any of the days of heatwave this year or any other year.
Pictured is where I spent the ‘RED’ heatwave alert. The sun doesn’t get round from the tree until 11am, so that’s a few hours mitigated.
Below is where I am at the moment. It’s only shaded until mid morning, but it’s enough not to be uncomfortable during the hottest parts of the day.
Shaded Bonnie – Aynho Wharf
Tofte Manor – Sasha and Digweed
Old School stalwarts Sasha and Digweed do what is now an annual summertime bash about 40 miles away in Bedfordshire.
Two stops within two CRT assets, (a bridge and an overflow), meaning as CRT logs things, this counts as a ‘move’.
Tarvers Lock
It’s less than a mile, and no doubt, if you spent a whole year doing short hops…, the powers that be would deem this to be against the spirit of the ‘Continuous Cruiser’ aspect of a licence.
Since this time last year, I’ve probably done 3-400 miles.
Nowadays, that makes little difference. If your movement gets ‘flagged’ by the computer, you’ll be getting a communication.
Moving more than one ‘asset’ means that you’ve ‘moved’.
At Twyford
I see boats here that have been here since I last visited in May last year.
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