RayandCarole

Well talking about food in our younger days and remembered cockling in our younger days at Wells going over to the East hills raking for cockles taking them home and boiling up in a big pan with potatoes and samphire. So that was todays project not cockling ( too old for that malarky ) but buying some raw cockles and cooking at home. Departed Holt in the trusty Jimbo, quick call at Morrisons for gin and prosecco on offer, then too Wells, no parking so couldnt try Frarys on the quay, along the coast no raw cockles to be had oh well back to Holt, into fishmonger for a bit of fish instead, and what do we spy a big bowl of raw cockles one kilo bought and healthy bunch of samphire and some raw king prawns. Cockles into cold water to flush through for few hours. Cockles, samphire and prawns cooked served with boiled baby potatoes delicious, happy memories to busy eating forgot to take pics sorry but heres the scraps Ray & Carole

Not me Ray

welcome from us too Ray & Carole

Carole will be disappointed she missed that Ray & Carole

Despite our best efforts I am afraid we are not going to be able to attend as Carole is just not up for going out at the moment. They have changed her pain meds this week so hopefully that may improve the situation. any way hope you all have a good time, the weather is looking good for you and we will be thinking of you, Just a pity the webcam is not working Ray & Carole

Well spent a nice week at Wroxham opposite the hotel, weather was mostly good, hot when sun out but a cool breeze when cloudy, a few heavy showers but managed to watch the usual fracas at the bridge and hire boats battling with the Broads Tours boats most days Big disappointment not a single NBN burgee, window poster ( had ours in the window ) or car sticker spotted the whole week Ray & Carole

Ah early teens, got my first job in a certain quayside store in Wells next the Sea. Saved my pittance and eventually purchased a sheet of 8 x 4 exterior ply and a couple of lengths of 2 x 1 pine. This was lovingly converted into an extremely dodgy pram dinghy, a mast was adapted from an aluminium tv pole, a bed sheet lugsail and bamboo spars completed the rig, the hull leaked like a seive, the rudder was a complete disaster and was dispensed with but it sailed me around Wells harbour quite successfully by judicious trimming of the sails and the daggerboard, and continuous bailing and I used to bring home a good bucketfull of cockles most weekends, happy days, and then I went to sea Ray

Oops forgotten about the innuendos, Thats certainly not what I meant Ray

My personal favourite for obvious reasons Ray

Thanks Eric G&t fingers Ray

NASA Target 2 depth sounder complete with transducer in hull fitting kit never fitted cost £105 £75 anyone Ray & Carole

Guess so, sad really, just wanted to show Carole whats on offer, as she really didnt want to struggle round to see the board outside, they don't even have a menu in the apartment handbook which seems a bit short sighted, anyway their loss, plenty of other places to spend our cash Ray & Carole

Well arrived in Wroxham this afternoon, walked around to the Wherryman all very smart, went inside and joy of joys same grumpy lady as last time, no greeting or any thing only "eating in or out", said we are staying at the apartment on the corner, could we kindly borrow a menu so we can decide what to eat tonight, no dont have enough you cant take one, noticed big pile on counter, not a hygiene issue true but customer relations issue for sure, guess where we wont be patronising any time soon. fish and chips from the chinese were excellent tho Ray & Carole

Erm the wetsuit disappeared years ago Ray

Happy days Iain flash lean and trim with hair, mind you was losing my hair after getting engaged to Carole sorry Grace keep taking the pills now fat bald and grumpy old git Ray

Well its not going as an avatar, but in my much younger days racing Fireballs, dont think I would get on the trapeze these days Ray

Well that seems a bit silly, sure some of the day boat hirers might be looking for a bite when they get back + all the peeps mooring up for the night ? mmm we shall see Ray & Carole

Hmm well from last experience it would fall on stoney ground but we shall go with an open mind Ray & Carole

Thats good news Howard, as we are staying there next week will give it a try and see what its like, just hope the staff attitude has improved as found them rather unhelpful last time we tried it Ray & Carole

http://www.edp24.co.uk/business/tourism/thousands_of_boat_owners_could_be_affected_by_broads_authority_s_proposed_changes_to_tolls_restructure_1_4603283 Ray & Carole

Hi John no I'm afraid we will not be up for the Indian, I think that will be too much for Carole at the moment unfortunately Ray & Carole

Well a quick jolly around the coast yesterday from Weybourne to Cley to get some samphire not much on offer, one place in Salthouse, quality didnt cut the mustard Back to our favourite, coming out of Cley towards Holt, campsite on the right, much better, not cheap £2.50 a bag but had it tonight and delicious, dont forget to smile for the camera Ray & Carole

Hi John We have provisionally booked room at the Wherry for the weekend, depending on how Carole is if we can make it we will come and have a walk round and say hello Ray & Carole

I have sextant kicking around somewhere a relic from my seagoing days, goodness knows where it is tho Ray

Looks like standard water bags, we use them to load test equipment offshore, they usually have a quick release dump system so if all goes t*ts up you can dump the weight. you would also need fairly accurate stability information for your boat and a careful stability calculation to get the right amount of weight into the bags or you could end up in trouble Ray