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Broad Ambition - Underway on the H2O
JennyMorgan replied to BroadAmbition's topic in Holiday Tales & Blogs
'Tis like being married, us blokes can never, ever win! -
Broad Ambition - Underway on the H2O
JennyMorgan replied to BroadAmbition's topic in Holiday Tales & Blogs
That's boat owners for you, miserable lot! -
That complaining was back in November, before any of us saw the finished article. Mine is already up on the wall, in a place of honour, ready for New Years Day! It arrived in time for Christmas. The reproduction quality and production is superb. Personally I have nothing but high praise for the team, and not just over the calendar.
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Tim, I am so sorry. Thanks for sharing your life with us.
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French whipping? New one on me, is it fun?
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A nice leather covered pulpit rail? Not when mirror polished stainless bling is the only way! Ladies wear gold, boats wear stainless steel!
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Relevant add-on to the above: http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/environment/broads_funding_cut_by_1m_over_the_last_five_years_but_rising_again_by_2020_1_4832705
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Norfolk wherries, Broads One Designs and various Drascombes have sailed to Holland so for BA it would be a doddle, weather permitting. Think of the duty free as well as the koffee-shops and obliging ladies on offer, perhaps a Lad's week?
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You learn something new everyday! I never knew that Saffron Walden was the source of the M11. However, Lowestoft is the most Easterly point of the UK thus I would have thought that adjoining Oulton Broad is the nearest Broad to Holland therefore Norwich is irrelevant, bit like their football team. Just a thought, Broad Ambition has gone to London, Holland next?
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Griff, in regards to the Broads/inland waters I reckon you are absolutely right about pulpits. I put davits in the same category too. What a pain in the head they can be at stern-on moorings. Okay, davit fans, they are great when under way or at sea, that I accept, but most of us spend more time tied up than we do under way. However, as Griff has said, not gospel but they are not for me.
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Oulton Broad by road to Stanstead Airport & the the M11 is about 95 miles. Oulton Broad to Holland, in a straight line, is about 110 miles so there is not much in it.
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I've had a quick play with the picture of Iain, some might prefer him this way, some might not.
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Not the Broads but applicable to many parts of the Broads and Great Yarmouth in particular: http://www.lowestoftjournal.co.uk/news/woman_clings_on_to_lifebuoy_rope_for_half_an_hour_to_prevent_husband_from_being_swept_out_to_sea_at_southwold_1_4829824
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When will Burgess and Packman realise that their pompous posturing is doing absolutely nothing whatsoever to close the ever increasing void between themselves and the boating community? This has been out in the ether for several days, we had done well to avoid it for so long!
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I only ever saw the Quo just once, at Chichester, when Pictures of Matchstick Men had just become a hit. Rick is one of many: http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/remembering_the_stars_who_died_in_2016_1_4830753
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Broad Ambition - Underway on the H2O
JennyMorgan replied to BroadAmbition's topic in Holiday Tales & Blogs
Fairly severe frost this morning and it hung on until about mid-day. You're lucky having an undercover berth. -
To Jean's comment I would add that I have lost a real friend that I never met. I rather suspect that we shall all miss Iain's quiet wisdom. Farewell my friend. If a wreath or flowers are to be sent I would like to contribute.
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Tim, having recently been where you now you have my deepest sympathies, not an easy place to be in.
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It's certainly been high at Oulton Broad with fairly minor flooding but thankfully the wind has dropped off. My problem is that I am now the proud possessor of a hefty load of reeds and debris that has floated over the end of my garden. I feel a big bonfire coming on!
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Not sure that I see the need for shore power either and certainly don't see it as a way forward. Dependency on a very limited resource, e.g. a shore power hook-up, means limited moorings and increasingly early stopping times to ensure a connection, a factor that will surely make these boats unattractive to the more experienced hirers. Personally I would want a boat that is reliably independent of shore power, not reliant on it.
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It's sunrise! Exact location, sorry, don't know. Somewhere between Thurne Mouth & Horning, best I can do. Three Rivers Race to give you the time of the year for where the sun rises. Since I really don't see the attraction of Horning & Wroxham I don't tend to head up that way too often.
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My folks were all well impressed with our calendar! July, North Bay, Oulton Broad September, River Bure. November, River Bure.
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It turned out to be mulled cider followed by a pint followed by another cider . . . . . . . . . nine hours later & my head is clearing! everybody!
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And from me to you Barry, have a good one.
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The quandary is a simple one and I'll give an example. My wife and I went to Bungay the other day, gosh, those fish and chips were good, we thoroughly enjoyed them as we wandered along the street street peering into shop windows. Then I read the EDP report, their rating was either one or zero, arghhh, why was I still alive?
