JennyMorgan

As does consent from Authority members.

Logical Northern thinking!

If the darn thing is to big and more land needs to be bought then why not build it smaller or choose another, smaller design? This whole farcical project just can not have been thought through.

Or even on the 14th! Like 23.59.59!

Based on the valid premise that the Broads is the the very centre of the universe then anywhere North of that is up North, obvious really. Indeed anyone living outside that halcyon area is by Norfolk standards a foreigner, even those of us from Suffolk, despite Albion and Ardea being built besides Oulton Broad and Broadside being brewed in Southwold!

According to a long held Norfolk tradition anything North of Sutton Bridge is up North, anything South of the Vauxhall Bridge is down South.

My investigative talents came up with Staffordshire! That's North of Kings Lynn, isn't it? Apparently the load's width in itself was safe & exactly spot on as declared but apparently an extra mirror and rear facing camera was needed.

NBN or KFC?

Re NBN Burgees, would there be any room left for one on a Cloggie? Dutch boats do tend to carry a great deal of patriotic linen on their masts without even more!

Perhaps a shove stick would be useful for pushing away from lock walls and the like rather than a distant bottom. Mr Leighton's picture could make a nice screen saver. Yes, it does have a certain charm.

Carbon Fibre would be good!

Oil on canvas painting titled 'Chaff' by Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922). Feel free to right click and save any of 'my' pictures. I'm quite certain, judging by the perspective, that the artist used photographs for reference if not for copying. Re short quants, the Dutch often have, in English, 'shove sticks' that they use to help work their barges through locks. It would seem quite likely that Norfolk wherrymen working the Upper Waveney locks might have done the same.

I had a workshop. ex chicken shed, at Southwood Farm.

For those of you who wonder what this Bosham place that Chris & I talk about looks like I have posted a few pictures. Coincidently we both did much of our courting down there. The first picture includes a punt, not dissimilar to our Broads punts.

I remember one that lived up Furzefield Creek, along with a pretty barge yacht called Dinah and registered at Lowestoft.

A Wherry at Ellingham Mill on the Waveney. I've printed this one on fullscap, looks good on the wall, amongst other wherry pictures.

Their online brochure tells us that it is one of the oldest marinas. However I wonder if Lowestoft's Yacht Basin, 1890's, might be even older, at least in the context of purpose built pleasure boating facilities.

Just an afterthought, especially the 'cat', why not deliver by sea?

They come from up North, is that a good enough excuse?

This appears to be the company that was hauling the red catamaran and they appear to be a very professional set-up: http://maponsonby.com/

I had a 38 foot Hillyard centre cockpit jobby for a few years. Grand sea-boat and comfortable but I did need a thick skin! 'Humorous' comments about her dated appearance were legion! Pretty she was not but she was sound and very well built. Her electrics were a disaster though! I couldn't giver the time that she needed or deserved.

My friend's old boat is here: https://www.norfolkboatsales.co.uk/print.asp?id=620 Due to his age and increasing lack of mobility he used her as a motor dayboat for the last few years of his ownership and she proved ideal for that.

The things that some folk do whilst in bed. That is admirable dedication to the NBN cause!!

Is that a low fat 16 ounce one?

Spoil sport! I've had one or two quite fruity p.m.'s over the years from new members!