JennyMorgan

Reedham Ferry and Waveney River Centre at Burgh St Peter, booking probably essential.

Simple answer is to buy a fridge that uses either source. I picked up an el cheapo Chinese jobby from a car boot sale in the spring, brand new for twelve quid and it's been blessed brilliant, keeps the white wine, milk for the tea and my maggots at a perfect temperature!

Of course some folk neither have the information nor the experience with which to make an informed choice.

So they lugged her out two abreast then did they?

There are some that might argue that we should have the right to drown if we should so wish.

I know a few jokes about Dozy Micks!

How easily it could be a certain other old buffer, this time on Womack! It behooves us all to look at our limitations.

Someone has mentioned frail folk, ummm, tin hat time but perhaps us 'frail' folk should be asking if boating is for them/us. Someone else mentioned straps being too short, that suggests to me that someone is perhaps too big, at least for safe boating. As passengers, maybe, but deckwork & mooring might be risky. I've asked this one before but how will you get back aboard should you have the great misfortune to fall in? There was a recent newspaper report where the casualty was so large that the air-ambulance had to be used as a crane! I certainly would have problems if I were to fall in now, sobering thought! Best I could do is to rely on being towed to a slipway and be dragged out, a vest would be ample for that. We have Sailability on Oulton Broad, many of their folk are acutely disabled, they wear vests and buoyancy aids!.

I do wear a vest, not that I have had to rely on it, yet. I can swim whilst wearing it and I can put a coat or smock on on top of it. I can also throw it to someone in the water. It also serves as a cushion! The main thing is that I can store it afloat and I know that I can grab it and rely on it, even in the dark.

Personally I prefer a well fitted life vest. Straight forward & utterly reliable.

As a 17/18 year old hanging around Kiel, Hamburg, Cuxhaven & Bremerhaven I knew nothing about the politics of the time, nor did I really care if I'm honest, I was just there to sail boats and visit a few clubs! A different world back then. However I do remember the passion & desperation of the many displaced persons that were abundant back then. One night we were wind-bound in Bremerhaven, moored close to a breakwater with the instruction that we were not to land for whatever reason. We had a 'pongo' aboard from the British Kiel Yacht Club as extra crew, he understood German which was a help. Sometime after dark two women were calling out to us from the breakwater. We thought that they were ladies of the night but we were skint and all of said said no/nein but clearly they were desperate so our useful pongo tried to strike up a conversation. The conclusion was that one was mum, the other the daughter. The mother seemed keen to get her daughter out of Germany and to the UK. Anyway, when we arrived back in Lowestoft the HM Customs rummage crew was waiting for us but we were all legit. Maybe just pure coincidence but we were just four students and a member of the Royal Tank Corps aboard a rather tired Virtue sailing boat that had crossed the North Sea in a gale. Skint but we were not people smugglers! All I brought home, apart from memories, was a boot shaped glass from Cuxhaven that had caught my fancy. Germany was a vibrant, somewhat confusing country back in the early sixties.

I must add that what I saw was a fortified barrier as such but I don't recollect the Wall. There was a very clear, threatening barrier, at least that's what I saw. Afraid that I missed the time limit to edit my previous comment.

My Sarah's lump was a piece that she retrieved herself but there is no way of identifying it as anything but a bit of rubble with paint on one side. I also suspect that many souvenirs of the wall are less than original! Going back to the 1960's I was in Germany as a civilian and I was made very welcome, clearly I was not there as a part of the occupying force thus my presence was welcomed rather than resented. At that time there was no Wall but the war damage was still widely tangible, especially in Hamburg. I always remember that every time I went to the pub toilet at least one Holocaust survivor would come up and show me the numbers tattooed on their arm and want to shake my hand, even buy me a drink, simply because I was English.

One of my daughters was visiting West Berlin at that time as a member of a schools orchestra. East Berliners quickly made the orchestra welcome, the boarder opened and they opened their homes to them. My daughter ended up staying with a family who were brewers and they kindly gave her a bottle of liqueur lager to take home to her dad, lucky me! Her other souvenir was a lump of wall, I still have the empty bottle and a brewery stein. The orchestra played on both sides of the Brandenburg Gate as a part of the impromptu celebration, carrying their instruments and music stands through the newly opened gate.

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As with any garden reasonable precautions have to be taken, e.g. no trip hazards and no broken glass or barbed wire on top of walls and fences. Landmines and gin traps are also questionable. Not so long ago the owners of a riverside property near Acle was instructed to remove a bankside fence so that in an emergency people could moor and land and also that the rescue services could access a casualty.

It is only in recent times that there has been a breakdown in the traditional cooperation that has long existed.

I understand that a number of prominent local landowners have withdrawn their co-operation.

I think the issue here is one of willingness and that has not always been apparent. Hoveton Great Broad is a prime example and although pushed the Authority has yet to make any efforts to regain historical access and navigation across the Broad despite clear evidence that it was once common practice. Plus now a huge amount of public money, lottery fund, is being used for restoring the Broad. The Authority owned land at Geldeston Lock that was originally purchased by their predecessor in order to provide access to the Upper Waveney (Lowestoft to Bungay Navigation). Regretfully the Authority sold that land thus scuppering any hopes that that navigation would be reopened.

I watched it on ITV, no probs there, apart from the blessed adverts!

England was beaten by a clearly better team that was both stronger and more skillful. Seemed to be less flab amongst the Springboks too! Sad for England, impressed by South Africa.

Don't forget 'balance'!

Not so naughty after all. It was an opportunity that some would argue was a lost one. I suspect that the prospects of legal confrontation acted as a deterant to thorough research.

I do believe that there was some disappointment in that the report didn't produce a comprehensive and definitive document which would result in an increase of access by the public.

With both NBN forum & NBN F/B I wouldn't have thought that was a big ask, if the price is right.