JennyMorgan

Well, what do you think?

A comparison would be good.

Best stick to holidaying on the Broads then.

Poppy, I just knew that you would like that last one!

48b. Chief Executive Officers who insist that they know what's best for the locals......... Well, I had to get that one in, didn't I!

48. Incomers who insist that they know more about the area than do the locals. Okay, so some do, but stop rubbing it in! 49. Car parking in Norwich. 50. People who whinge about not being able to pass under Potter Heigham Bridge because it is too low. Not true, it's simply that their boat is too high .

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/environment/initiative_captures_the_sound_of_the_dawn_chorus_over_the_broads_as_partnership_welcomes_ideas_for_next_recording_1_4551932 Whack your volume up for this one!

12. And then resorting to describing it as the sticky-out-bum bit of Britain. And the 'back passage' to that bum is? Personally I usually refer to Lowestoft as the nipple of England, people do seem to grasp where it is when I say that!

Don't doubt this one, 'tis the long established modus operandi.

Using sweeps on the Thames: Sorry, no sign of kedging though.

I had in mind kedging as a means of providing forward motion rather than control, as in warping and kedging: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warping_(sailing) The other place where such control was used was on the Thames. Many, indeed very many years ago, on BBC TV, there used to be an annual Thames lightermen's match showing large barges being controlled as Warp has described plus the lightermen using large 'sweeps' for additional help. Used to fascinate me.

When a sailing boat looses its main source of power, wind, most crews, being fairly resourceful, resort to one of the following:a quant, a paddle, a floorboard, the engine, drifting with the tide, mooring at nearby pub, kedging, crew to walk along the bank towing boat, seeking a tow from a friendly 'stinky' (there are a few), whistling for a wind, pumping the sails, take the opportunity to sweet-talk the fore-peak floosy, take advantage of the lull in the wind for a thorough bowel evacuation or quite simply grab a nap and sleep off the lunch-time session. Motor boat owners, on the other hand, having lost power, lift up the floorboard and look helplessly at their inert engines, waggle any and everything that looks waggable and then enter a state of complete helplessness culminating in a panic attack and a call to the Coast-Guard. People who sail are just so much more pragmatic and cool, probably comes from practice!!

Have never thought of sailing along between the posh sheds of Potter as sailing along the street but it is a valid and amusing comment. Just one thought though, cars and lorries don't normally tack (zig zag) down the high street!

That explains the hat then!

Lots of pictures here: http://likalika.rajce.idnes.cz/Ve_stopach_Arthura_Ransoma_-_Norfolske_reky_Broads_3/

A bit more interesting reading: http://neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz/norfolk-broads-a-arthur-ransome-dni-/p_zviretnik.aspx?c=A160517_212030_p_zviretnik_kosa

Quite right too! Oh, 'spose I had better add one of these: , just to avoid WWIII breaking out

Hi Bill, over the years I have heard the term both as 'roger' and 'roger's blast, one presumably as an abbreviation of the other or quite simply a clarification of detail. Both terms are in various Norfolk books & dictionaries. Robert Malster, in his book 'The Norfolk & Suffolk Broads' writes thus: Roger, Sir or Rodges blast, A sudden, violent whirlwind. Forby, in his Vocabulary of East Anglia (1830) gives 'Roger's Blast', a sudden and local motion of the air. Christopher Davies in his book 'The Norfolk Broads and Rivers (1883) also refers to the phenomenon as 'Rodge's Blast. Malster goes into some detail as to the origin, tracing its use back to 15th century. As to whether I have been Rogered, comprehensibly or otherwise, I admit to one such occurrence when from absolutely nowhere such a blast hit a fleet of racing Waveneys. Several were dismasted or swamped, one actually sunk, sails were ripped and from being last in the fleet I survived and became first, actually the only one still sailing. Trouble is the race was then abandoned so I missed out on a very rare occurrence, one of actually winning a race.

A quote from the article that is well worth highlighting: But Mr Green added: “He warns you what to expect from the natives and says they’re a lot cleverer than you think - don’t take them for fools.” (As if any of you would!)

Yep, goblins and fairies and most notably ones that pass wind, hence the Norfolk term 'Roger's Blast'

Was that in the burnished, stainless steel catagory then?

Shhhh, maybe it was Charlie that I was attempting to wind up!

Robin, Andrew is quite right, it just has to be done, and be filmed. Don't let Charlie put you off, even if he is right!

Pointless, maybe; thought provoking, probably. Worth reading, I thought so.

Robin, are you going to do Wroxham Bridge in reverse? All the best people do it!!