Polly

I am sure Jason has paint that colour if you think Braveheart would benefit....

Blimey! Talk about attention to detail! I feel tired just thinking about how much hard work you guys put in.

He needed your hapless apprentice for the thunder boxes, Alex!

Quite right, Clive, I think they have a river cruiser so 'translated' the query. Sorry G if that wasn't right!

I think Jon at Wayford has some if replacing. We plan to spruce ours up with Sandtex Masonry paint which I am reliably(?) informed is cheaper and better than Blakes/international. We tried a test area and it looks good.

The latter Martin if you ask me, but then I am not quite right either!

I am enjoying this. Always thought BA looked like a cheap boat! ( ducks and runs!!!!)

We are hoping to be in for beginning of May, and we know she is being well cared for.

Thanks Jill, love this 'Traditional' tale

Yes she is intensively ongoing as I write.

Yesterday morning we walked on the beach at Sea Palling and pottered on our mooring. The boat isn't in yet but it was still a tonic.

Shame we didn't know that, Griff, we too had a flying visit and stayed in Sutton Staithe Hotel Monday night. Brilliant has wintered well but there is a lot of wood to come out and be replaced this year so that will be done over the next week or two. LBBY doing its usual good job for us, we would not be able to sort her ourselves.

Great news! Love Hathor!

So the next thing is to buy a boat? Lol

I pay a toll, and will not be donating, unless rubbish disposal is available there. If I hired, I might donate regardless, although in fact a proportion of the hire charge is set against tolls.

Thanks for the great account. Do come back some day,you will be missed.

We just got back from a week in the Lake District, which did live up to the term 'magical' I think. The weather was great and the visitor numbers low, so getting about was easier than later in the season will be. We stayed in a Grade 2 mill cottage near Longsleddale...of Postman Pat fame I am told. so we were way off the beaten track, with walks just outside. Newborn black lambs were in the field next door and white ones almost everywhere. There were hosts of yellow flowers, the name of which escapes me... We did get afloat on Ullswater and Windermere so that was the essentials sorted.

JM on a day out, I would take my rubbish home, after a week or more on the boat, I would regard the rubbish as a health hazard on the journey. I pay tolls, and I support local businesses. I expect the BA to work with local authorities to provide basic sanitary cover, and I would not mind paying a bit to secure that. I think the situation is bonkers!

Crocs and reefs, barefoot for preference. I always went off barefoot in the Whimp round Malthouse Broad and once it led to an interesting outcome. Phill accepted an invitation to join me and we pottered about, then decided to sail up the dam, then turned upstream on the Bure, then got to Cockshoot. The chance for a nice walk offered, and at this point my absence of shoes was noted. it was a very enjoyable, if cautious, walk! On balance we decided not to press on to the New Inn for lunch!

Yes great post, thanks.

Lovely, thanks for sharing your holiday.

Yes Ilfracombe not Barnstaple, vile vile vile. Did I mention I disliked it?

I watched it too, it was very interesting. The wheel is awesome!

Hi Misty great to see you here and to see that you launched the boat. Good one!

Bittern, yes twice, and often heard. Swallowtail joined us on the tiller for the start of the 2008 3RR, made us late but who cared? Otters yes. Coots hatching yes, two woodpeckers on either side of the same post, was that a competition? Marsh Harrier flew close alongside when I was ghosting along in the dinghy, looked astonished when he finally noticed me and peeled off. Just a few of the breathless wonders of the Broads.