JennyMorgan

It's been reported elsewhere that the BA's response was that it was 'none of their business'! If that is so then that is to be regretted. Granted that it is not their duty but surely it is their business, if only because it is a navigation issue.

That's probably from those famous cows!

I understand that a probable cure is being trialed in the US at the moment but also that a vaccine is still many months away. The advice to not touch faces is now being peddled by the NHS. By the way, my wife's pneumonia is on the mend but she does have to go to the 'breathing clinic' in a couple of weeks.

To charge or not to charge, that is the question! I know that I wouldn't, it can and does cause ill feeling. First come, first served is the route that I would take. No guarantees that having booked a mooring a boat will actually turn up. Plus whilst the mooring is empty and waiting it is not making money, e.g. spending customers are prevented from mooring, lost passing trade. Mooring for customers only, obvious, but when I had a riverside pub I was continually surprised at the number of folk who wanted a mooring but didn't want to use the pub. Eventually we took to charging but with a refund on meals. Despite that we never managed to dissuade the mooring only customer! Perhaps a hundred pound mooring fee with matching refund in the restaurant would be the answer!

If I ran a popular riverside pub on the crowded North Rivers then I would charge a mooring fee, not only to control the mooring but also to be able to employ an attendant. Unlike a pub car park there is an obvious duty of care and liability, it all needs paying for. If I frightened a few off then that would be no great loss as someone else would pretty soon come along and take up the space. On the other hand I don't tend to use grossly overcrowded pubs or ones that inflict mooring charges on their customers!

Back to the harsh reality. It would seem to me that anyone contemplating a holiday abroad must by now be fully aware that there is a very real risk of being quarantined, either at destination or on return home. That hundreds of flights have already been cancelled speaks volumes. Health care professionals that I personally know are worried and there don't appear to be any predictions as to when this will burn itself out. I would guess that the foreign holiday industry is in for a severe kicking this year. Will such as Spain or Greece really want to import the problem?

Loaves and Fishes, how did I forget that one! A hugely popular summertime pub but regrettably not well populated during the winter. The Ship at Beccles, really just before my time, nevertheless I shouldn't have forgotten it. Readers of the excellent 'The Art of Coarse Sailing' by Michael Green might remember an episode concerning that pub, a policeman and a hose pipe, a story based on fact only the miscreants were, in reality, my father and friends rather than the legendary heroes of Mr Green's hilarious ramblings. By the way, if you haven't read that book then it's worth tracking down, E-Bay for example. https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=The+art+of+coarse+sailing&_sacat=0

It would seem that in this case that the all the relevant Authorities have been lapse in their duties. The end of the line undoubtedly lies with the EA but nevertheless the BA has a working relationship with the EA and surely a duty of care to those who live by and navigate the river. This matter, having been reported to the BA, should have been passed on to the EA and then subsequently followed up. I would guess that the local council has also been regrettably slow off the mark on this one. It would also have been good had the 'local resident' also have followed their complaint up, assuming that it hadn't been.

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/environment/bubbling-sewage-found-in-river-yare-thorpe-st-andrew-1-6541695

Our local Lidl has it! Perhaps Lidl customers tend not to be very hygienic!

I suspect that many of us can relate to that memory. I moored up there on a solo camping trip on my Drascombe when I was headed up to Hickling. By the time I had rigged my tent and made good for the night the thought of me cooking up a curry or whatever had lost it's appeal so off to the pub I went. The beer choice was somewhat limited but hey ho, I was hungry as well as thirsty! What a meal, although I had my reservations when the plate was put before me, half a very plain, large boiled chicken and a plate of boiled vegetables but wow, that was good! The landlord made me very welcome, and I appreciated that. I returned a few days later to find the place locked up, an upstairs window still open but no one about, it was closed. I spent a lonely night moored there, grateful for my previous welcome, sad for the landlord.

The Toft Lion perhaps. I've never walked it but I suppose that it could be done. Another good boozer. http://www.toftlion.co.uk/ Can't think of any other Lions in that general area.

It was!. Whoops, I muddled them, sorry.

I really only knew it as the 'Pontiac Road House', an establishment that we frequented and enjoyed on numerous occasions, for eating rather than boozing. Prior to that, for no particular reason, we never stopped off there. Maybe because my father had bad memories of the place. He was in the Observer Corps and volunteered for seaborne activities such as D-Day where his duty was to advise American gunners as to which aircraft were friendly and which were not. He also went up in Flying Fortresses for the same reason and following one operation he and the crew went for a drink at the pub. Having flown unopposed across Europe they came under fire at Berney, you can still see the shell-fire scars on the mill's brickwork. As for John & Tracy, if they had a Pyrenean Mountain Dog then I knew them, they had managed the Waveney Inn when I managed the River Centre. They left because he wanted to be a landlord rather than a manager. Our children also went to the same school. Mr H has a lot to answer for.

Possibly the Wheatacre White Lion. It's still there, good pub too.

Thank you one and all for your sympathies and best wishes. My concerns were not so much for Lynn & I but for the elderly or unwell everywhere and to counter the underlying message being pushed out by the media, seemingly that we shouldn't worry, that we must expect us older folk and the unwell to die. Perhaps that makes it acceptable for the young and fit, but it's not so good for the elderly and unwell, or even the very young, I have a new great grandchild so that's two reasons for concern.

Berney Arms, no longer a pub, always enjoyed that place although not really a drinker's pub.

The tarred, corrugated iron, open to the stars privvy has long since departed this planet. Not sure how dear Susan coped with that infamous structure, what with her most definitely being a lady! It's not what it was, previous landlords have all tended to be characters that matched the location.

Interesting reading: https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/health/plans-for-dealing-with-coronavirus-1-6539318

I'll state the obvious, that is two people in every hundred, perhaps irrelevant to the surviving ninety eight! My wife, at this moment in time, has pneumonia following an operation, yes, I am worried.

A dog that was famous for the amount of phlegm that it deposited onto crates, barrels and bottles in the pub's cellar, urghh! Have we lost that many Broads pubs? I do remember the Langley Wherry then, before my time, the was a pub on the South side of the Yare at Reedham, the Cockatrice?. Potter lost a pub besides that bridge, forget its name now but never thought much of it.

And a condom!

The best suggestion to-date! I'll go and buy a dog.

Lycra is the answer!

I was at boarding school late 1950s when there was an outbreak of Asian flu. Ninety odd pupils and twenty or so staff. The gymnasium was converted into a sanitarium. Of the 110 or so folk in the school only two of us, me plus a staff member, stayed well. Once the flu got a hold it went through the school in days. We mustn't ignore the possibilities, a cavalier attitude helps no one. It has happened before. https://www.britannica.com/event/Asian-flu-of-1957