JennyMorgan

In a nutshell most of us need and generally appreciate information. What some if not many of us don't appreciate is the constant drip feed of annoying propaganda, especially as it's based on a false premise. A communication department is a useful and worthy role, the same can not be said of the Authority's office of propaganda and misinformation!

Tom, it would be nice to think that members of your hardworking, indispensable(!!) department have read and inwardly digested the gist of Fred's wisdom. In the meantime stay safe, and thanks for keeping us informed.

Non jobs?

However many people are employed in 'communications' I wonder. In that press release two names are mentioned, any more out there?

My feelings exactly. Well said, Fred, and thank you.

Many NHS members are working longer hours, for no extra money. They are paid a salary and that is that.

I don't see why social distancing shouldn't quite reasonably be applied to all the relevant transactions.

Thank goodness for Facetime! Does't replace a hug and just being together but it is contact. One of my four is a prescribing/consulting pharmacist at a local hospital. She is resigned to the probable fact that she will inevitably become infected and then will be cut off from her two, wonderful young boys, that is her greatest dread. Despite that she is still working, indeed working longer shifts, bless her.

Financially this virus obviously has both winners and losers. That we can't get out and spend, spend, spend means that some folk will inevitably reduce their debts, others might even increase their nest eggs, some might realise that they can manage perfectly well without new this, that and the other. Inevitably there will be folk who will simply go ballistic when it's all over. Will our habits change? For many of us I suspect that the answer is 'yes'. Whatever happens, I predict that changes on the High street will accelerate as a result of this pandemic. As for the self employed, good news for those who operate within the 'system'. I have mixed feelings about those who live outside that system, those who can not or will not be able to illustrate a level of earning in order to justify a claim for assistance. Odd Jobbers for example, some of whom avoid paying tax quite simply because so long as they have enough, have no great aspirations, they just want to avoid the aggro of the system?

Vaughan has mentioned the JPH at Gt Yarmouth, one of the nurses from there lives very near to one of my four daughters, that nurse is now quarantined at home, with Corona Virus. How can anyone have anything but praise for these people?

I was cleaning my decking today! Being glass fibre I soon had it looking good, along with the hull !!

We even had a neighbour put up a barrage of fireworks at 8.00 on the button!

One of my daughters lives in Beccles, a near neighbour of hers is a nurse who has contracted Corona Virus. That brave lady has put her own life on the line for people she doesn't even know, as are two of my other daughters. Beyond that it is getting nearer and nearer. Have a good honk!

Vaughan, I appreciate and respect your opinion and experience on this topic. Having had direct experience with at least one of the personalities involved I quite simply preach caution, regretfully we need to look beyond the trees.

A decision of free choice I hope. I wish you well in your impending retirement, apart from a creaking skeleton and accelerating decrepitude I can thoroughly recommend it.

Alternatively use cable ties to fasten the flag to the pole!

Can't blame you for that, good chippy. In fairness, whilst the Potter Chippy comes in for some criticism, I have never had any reason to complain. How's this for topic shift?

A very relevant question and one that has been repeatedly been asked. Not sure what the full total is now but last time I checked it worked out at about one BA employee per mile of waterway. I think that it's called 'empire building', probably reflects in his salary grade.

Without reading back through the thread I really don't have a clue! Perhaps it was something to do with adjacent waters?

Hopefully you have a flag halliard, a string that goes in a loop from the pulley to the cleat. Tie that string to the flag and pull the flag, toggle at the top, up to the top of the pole.

Isn't it nice, we are having a good debate and no one is taking exception to opposing opinion. Thank you.

Maybe, but my observation was in regard to the tolls in general and the example of the Peto's Marsh mooring 'one off payment' in particular.

Andy, you are based on the River Yare, you must see the tide flowing past your front door! The same can be said of the Waveney that flows past my front door. Both Beccles and Norwich are 'ports' with a right of access to the sea. If your property deeds are anything like mine then there will be a clause in there stating that you have a right of access to the sea, as in riparian rights. It is also accepted by Parliament that the Broads are tidal, as indeed they are. Dr Packman, for whatever reason, researched this very topic and has accepted that the Broads are largely tidal. as indeed they are. Next time you visit Potter Heigham, buy a bag of chips and grab a seat by the bridge, nibble away and watch the water passing under that bridge, maybe not the tidal range of the Yare but undoubtedly a tidal flow.

Andy, as to your recent, more lengthy response. The right to navigate the tidal Broads is no different to the right to walk a footpath, for which we are not charged a toll. The toll is a means by which us users pay for our fair share of the costs for the maintenance that allows us to exercise that right. The Authority might not place a horse's head on our pillows but it can and does threaten legal action, legal action that should apply equally to all and sundry. I willingly pay my toll, about a pound a day and since I use a boat on two out of three days it is good value so no argument with that. My ongoing argument is in regard to the obvious manipulation and deceit by the powers that be on this issue.

I've seen visitor numbers on hire boats on more than one occasion, not that it matters😊. The issue is not entirely as to whether a toll should or should not be paid, it is whether it should be paid on the due date or whether indeed it would need to be paid on a boat that won't be hired out this year. Unused hireboats tend to be stored afloat nowadays thus, technically, their toll will be due on April the first, as it is for private boats. As I wrote previously the adjacent waters issue is a pernicious, unwarranted tax but nevertheless it is the law, and it should apply equally to all or not at all. As to how much of the toll is paid on hire boats this year, well, do any of us know for sure? Perhaps people have jumped to conclusions but my understanding is that 'stored' private boats are due a toll whilst 'stored' hire boats are not. A lack of clarity has not helped but perhaps that is understandable, all things considered. What I do agree with is that tolls should not be demanded for boats that not being hired.