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If BA don't want to see change of use . . . why don't they buy it and run it as a pub? Roy

Thanks Robin.

Is it still the case that private boats can't use the pilot at Wroxham Bridge? Roy

The butt I am buying is made from recycled plastic, comes complete with rain diverter connecting kit, tap and is pre-drilled and plugged for different connectors and most importantly for me has a child proof lid. Roy

Just ordered a water butt on-line direct from the manufacturer. It cost me £40.99 including delivery. An upmarket supermarket's garden website is offering the same item for £131.98. Roy

The MC42 has been sold. Roy

I worked with a guy called Jerry Chambers. Not sure if his first name was spelt with a J or G, but that didn't matter to the less kind of his workmates. Roy

Moored stern on at the New Inn, Horning a couple of years ago on the first mooring downstream of the dinghy dyke. Stood at the interior helm with my head and shoulders above roof level, watching the crews of half a dozen yachts next to us getting ready to depart. The two boats next to us untied and started to raise their sails while still at the mooring. The sail on the one next to us was part way up when the big lump of wood at the bottom of the sail (boom?) swung toward me; I ducked and it continued across the top of our boat. It was a good job I was watching them otherwise I would have had a tremendous headache (at least!). Utter panic by the yacht's crew as they pushed off us (much bumping). No time for an apology I suppose, they didn't even look back. Roy

Spotted those myself last weekend. Loddon had two wheely bins. Didn't there used to be a couple of the bigger bins there? Ranworth had one overflowing wheely bin. I spoke to the ranger last year and he said the waste contractor wanted £3,000 a year to empty one of the bigger bins that used to be there. Sutton Staithe still had some big bins. Roy

Ordered smaller head on Monday p.m. on Amazon. Delivered this morning post free, a day before estimated delivery date. Less than a tenner and came direct from Karcher. Roy

My box and online listings are showing it as series 1, episode 6 - Pembrokeshire & Brighton.

Not changed much then Roy

Just looked at Wilmslow Road in Manchester, of which a large proportion of the eateries are on what is known as "Curry Mile". 40 establishments had a rating of 1 and three had a rating of 0. An improvement. When the ratings were first done a few years ago the vast majority had a 0. Roy

Bought a Karcher about 3 years ago and do use it on the boat. The cleaning head is a little too large for some of the windows. Anybody know if Karcher make a smaller cleaning head attachment. Roy

Started drinking beer a couple of years before Red Barrel etc reared their ugly heads. I could have been put off for life especially as my Broads' beer experience at the time was Bullards and Lacons (one was OK but the other was foul - can't remember which). Then I went to work in Manchester on evening shifts and discovered Boddingtons (brewed in Salford) and Hydes (brewed in Manchester). Both John Smiths and Sam Smiths were good beers in those days. By the eighties my local was Tetleys. Unfortunately they were supplied from the old Walkers brewery in Warrington and the beer was very variable; we used to really enjoy when they were on strike and the beer was then supplied by Tetleys brewery in Yorkshire. Late 1990s we holidayed for a few years near St Minver and had some excellent Sharp's beers in local pubs - can't remember if any of them was Doombar. Three years ago I spent a month on the Leicester canal ring and passed through Burton on Trent and was saddened to see the Bass brewery sign had been replaced by Coors. My tastes have changed in recent years to the paler blonde beers and on a hot day at Geldeston a couple of years ago I really enjoyed an orange wheat beer. I rarely dislike a beer - anything is better than the keg days of Red Barrel; although I did have a completely tasteless pint of Endeavour at Cantley a few years back. Roy

I've also taken Lightning under at 6ft 10 inches and reckon there was at least 3 inches clearance all round - it was a dead calm day. Probably wouldn't try it under 7 ft if there was any amount of cross wind. Didn't know about moving the nav lights to where they should be though. Roy

There are 72 points to an inch (0.9962" to be more precise). So the body depth of 12 point type would be a sixth of an inch. In "Hot Metal" days, colloquially the pica was also known as an "em". This is the square of any type body size so it is correct to speak of 6 pt. ems, of 8 pt. ems, etc. If no actual type size is referred to then the "em" means a 12 pt. or Pica em. Complete lines of type were measured in Pica ems. Half an "em" is known as an "en"; with these two words sounding similar most compositors referred to them as "muttons" and "nuts" respectively. There are also standard word spaces as fractions of the body size: 1/3 em is a "thick" space, 1/4 em a "mid" (middle) space and 1/6 em a "thin" space (two thins equal a thick); there is also the "hair" space of 1/12 em. Back in the day when you were hand setting very narrow measures (such as the instructions on the back of an old medicine bottle) the type face could be as small as five point so you needed something thinner than a hair space to justify (make all lines an equal length); cutting up bus tickets for spaces was quite common practice. If you didn't get the tightness of the line correct it could "spring" on the printing machine leaving the machine minder with tiny bits of metal splattered all over his machine. This tended to upset this hairy a*s^d section of the print industry - never been sure why because he usually had a labourer to clean his machine out while I would have to spend another couple of hours resetting the whole label with said machine minder whispering!! obscenities down my ear. Roy

Matt . . . spotted the AF43s but couldn't work out which one(s) it was. Roy

Sounds like the basis of a good idea to me. Perhaps for appearance they could be built like a conventional windmill (pump) with proper sails (non rotating) with the generating blades immediately behind them. Roy

Thanks boycee

Anybody know if the waste bins are still there at the back of the green about 50 yards from the pub.

There is are two sites I am confused about. Broadland.gov.uk website states from April 15 they will be supplying facilities at Reedham Quay and Coltishall Common but neither of these are mentioned on the Broads Authorities' Navigation Commitee's report of December 10th 2015, Agenda Item number 11, which only shows those that Broadland Council are removing. Roy N

riyadhcrew, The bins at Bramerton were removed but I think I read on here that they had been replaced. Roy

Thanks Iain. The Broads Authority website does mention Norwich Yacht Station, Yarmouth Yacht Station and Reedham Quay. I was wondering if this was up to date as last autumn the large bin at Reedham Quay was missing. I suppose it may have been taken away for emptying. Roy

Are these the only rubbish disposal sites available to private boaters: Southern Broads: Beccles Yacht Station Somerleyton Loddon Staithe Bramerton (Broads Authority moorings) Rockland Staithe Oulton Yacht Station Northern Broads: Irstead Staithe Neatishead Hoveton (Wroxham) (Broads Authority moorings between road and railway bridges) Roy