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  1. post-30159-0-48595000-1437523457_thumb.jpost-30159-0-02180000-1437523497_thumb.jpost-30159-0-15694800-1437523525_thumb.jpost-30159-0-52296900-1437523548_thumb.jpost-30159-0-85918500-1437523580_thumb.jGood morning peeps,

     

    It's 7.55am here, sky is blue and temp is a beautifull 28degC. Our little villa is very peacefull and all the girls are still asleep. There is a 'fountain wall' that runs into the swimming pool, but it doesn't come on until 9.00am, so very quiet until a motor bike goes past.

     

    Girls went shopping and hair dressing yesterday and I was forced to sit at the bar in a nice pub on the beach, watching the tourists (female variety) and having a few Carlsbergs. It's a tough life. Had a lovely meal in a nice restaurant last night. 4 X 3 courses, a bottle of wine and some soft drinks for a 100 quid - not bad at all.

     

     

     

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  2. Grace,

     

    That is a lovely letter and reminded me of something that happened last August at the stern-on moorings just under Wroxham bridge. We were moored up and a boat was trying to reverse into the space next to me. He was obviously treating the reversing like a car by turning the wheel in the opposite direction and he was getting nowhere. I told him to leave the wheel full to his right and head for me and then using a little forward throttle, to turn his stern away from me and into the mooring. Once moored up, he said "that was his first stern on mooring" and thanked me for the help. I said "we all had a first time" and it is now over. Lovely feeling.

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  3. Morning Polly,

     

    Talking about brakes on a sail boat - and this is a serious question - Can you make a yacht "reverse" using the sails. I've never seen it done intentionally and I just wondered.

  4. Good day to you fellow Forumites.

     

    I thought I would let you all know that the pilgramage to visit my outlaws (some of whom I haven't seen for 10 years) starts next Sunday 19th July for a month.

     

    We will fly from Riyadh to Doha in Qatar next Sunday evening to catch a direct flight from there (10 hours) to - wait for it - Bali - YIPPEEE.

     

    For those of you who don't know, my wife is Balinese and I promised her that if we got 2 holidays a year on the Broads, I would go with her and the girls to Bali.

     

     Hopefully, we can turbo charge the visits to the family and it should be over in a few days, leaving loads of time for lying by the pool, or a quiet beach and using the local beers to keep cool.

     

    I don't know what the internet connection is going to be like, but I will do my best to keep in touch whilst away.

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