JennyMorgan

A toss up between bream and roach I suspect! For me the bream fishing has been very good.

Not really, there is only so much in the way that the BA can restrict access.

You can 'park & ride' to the N&N, if you are mobile that is!

Is it really a lot less? I will state the obvious, 1% is one in a hundred and ten in a thousand, that 1% could so easily be a loved one. We all go eventually, but do we need to hasten the event?

Regretfully the virus isn't.

No.

This lockdown is just for four weeks, twenty eight days. Where's the problem in staying put for heavens sakes? Common sense dictates that minimalising travelling and contact with others will help constrain the virus so why not support this lockdown?

A real national park says 'come boating'. A sham national park says 'don't come boating'. Someone has boobed, but who?

Blue badges are a godsend! In the meantime might I suggest that they should apply to moorings on the Broads.

Turning an ignition key, and maybe pressing the starter button, is surely a day's exercise for some!

Quite a few that I know! Their season ends, like the BA's yacht stations, at the end of October. Their boats are either slipped and into storage, or winterised, during November before the first heavy frosts come. This is especially so where varnish work is concerned.

The same can be said of the Broads Authority. Sound advice is what people want, nothing more.

People don't seem to stay very long at DEFRA!

If that was this morning then our good friend Marshman had better get a move on with his winterisation program!

The above, probably, also their usual alacrity in grabbing any opportunity to stop boating. It strikes me that once again the BA is exceeding its remit, as well as jumping the gun.

Perhaps Broadsedge is in breach of contract by excluding boatowners from their boats.

I will suggest that Broadsedge has over stepped the mark. Indeed I'd suggest that they are taking over all responsibility from the boat owners. Not sure how insurance companies would view that, theirs and yours.

Blindness might also be a problem!

In a nutshell visitors to the Broads may be coming here and understandably expecting that National Park rules and Covid guidelines will apply. Should the uninformed visitor, unlikely I know, end up in court, then the defence might be that the Broads claims to be what it isn't. Seemingly ridiculous but not an impossible scenario. As has been suggested elsewhere, perhaps now would be a good time for DEFRA to come off the fence, provided that they come down on the 'right' side, my side!

I too saw the same F/B posting as Griff. Another poster there raised another issue, namely as to where is the boundary of the mythical Broads national park? If we take the BNP road signs as an indication then the afore mentioned NP legislation could cover a great deal of land outside the generally accepted Broads area. Will this come back and bite JP on the bum? I doubt it but that's not to say that I wouldn't welcome it!

https://www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk/news/hemsby-lifeboat-calls-for-broads-boaters-to-avoid-navigating-by-nightfall-1-6913408

So here's what us anglers can do! https://anglingtrust.net/2020/11/04/fish-safely-locally-and-respect-the-rule-of-two-during-lockdown/?fbclid=IwAR3tJmKm8C4rjWKMMb3z-_rK8VEzZhGBAbf_KhW55gjY9Dim77mmqaS3idk

Whoops, I should have written Snettisham, silly me!

It's a real beach!

The construction industry is still open, time to construct a new boat? All that said, we can surely combat Covid 19, if we all work together. In the meantime we had a frost this morning, time to drain the cooling system!