JennyMorgan

For those of you who are wandering what I'm going on about please see:

They'll be coming to take you away, ho ho, tee hee, they'll be coming to take you away . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Fair comment, Lou, but this noise is a relatively new phenomenon, and arguably is avoidable. On a quiet night we can hear a pin drop. One boat using its microwave can disturb a lot of people, not just me! Surely we shouldn't just accept an increase in noise pollution without question.

Half of 'em are already here! The off-licence in Brundall survives on gin sales.

Oh dear, the silly billy! Whoops a daisy, did you see that!!

Now there's two!

Poppy, all may not be what it appears to be. Little boy might be copying his dad's technique with his latest conquest! Gently, gently does it, start with a zip.

The ski groups were certainly financed and well organised during the Broad's Bill progress through Parliament, unlike us less extreme boat types.

Shopping Malls and Marinas have something in common, both are best avoided in my opinion, but both are hugely popular. Imagine a noise free Mall? It just won't happen, even on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Solution, avoid the places like the plague! In the meantime, I just hope that Authority keeps up the pressure. As many of you know I have the great good fortune to live besides the water. Long been our way to sleep with the windows open during the warmer months. Great, love the natural dawn chorus, but nowadays that chorus is quite likely to be the roar of someone firing up their engine. Not nearly so loud is a boat's central heating, in the summer for heaven's sakes! Sound travels over the water, I have both a yacht station and a twenty-four hour mooring within half a mile of my home. Depending on wind direction either or both can be a source of early morning noise. Not always loud but nevertheless unnecessary and annoying.

http://www.edp24.co.uk/features/how_norfolk_is_leading_the_way_when_it_comes_to_gin_1_4442879

Robin wrote: . . . . . 'but because some boats simply are designed to have their engines run to supply power to cook with'. Well, Robin, quite simply that highlights the problem. yards producing or hiring out such boats need to go back to the drawing board. How hard is it to heat something up on a gas ring? Boats are boats, people need to adjust their ways & demands to being afloat.

The biggest grouse is, I suspect, that tidal flow is not a consideration when assessing a boat's speed. As has probably been suggested, a boat doing four miles an hour through the water, with a three mile an hour tide against it would only be going one mile an hour over land yet with the tide going with the boat that would mean eight mph over land. Okay, there are other factors but the theory is more or less right. Technology should surely allow tidal flow to be considered, but it isn't. However, most of us have access to GPS, either via our mobiles or gizmos such as a Garmin Etrex. On the bright side it is a fact that the BA is generally pretty realistic when it comes to prosecution, you'd have to be a repeat offender or well over the limit for them to go beyond the warning stage. I've been using the Broads as my playground for over sixty years and it's well over fifty since I was last nicked for speeding. For most of us it just isn't an issue.

Can understand folk having one of these: but not one of those foreign/Scottish ones!

Pauline, is Brilliant up for it?

Nice one, Charlie, hope it all goes to plan this time! I have a mind to follow the fleet out at Yarmouth and then to carry onto Lowestoft, tide permitting.

Strangely enough I had a Doom Bar yesterday, in Suffolk.

Us locals can always suss out a generous 'foreigner'!!

A waddle to the Stamford Arms or Triangle at Lowestoft might be on the books then?

Just need to find a pub that serves its brews in mugs rather than those nancified glasses, especially those plastic ones, urghhh!

Not talking about landlords then! Don't ask . . . . . . . . . . . .

http://adnams.co.uk/beer/our-beers/ http://www.green-jack.com/our-real-ales/ By heck we are well placed for good ales out here on the nipple of England!

Marsh, will you be there?

If I were to start a trip of good pubs it would be from the inevitable Locks at Geldeston but I wouldn't go far, just a mile or so to the Geldeston Wherry. Next stop would be the Waveney House Hotel at Beccles for a meal and a pint and then on to the Waveney Inn at Burgh St Peter, and that would be the first day taken care of! Second day I'd head to Oulton Broad, the Ivy Farm hotel for a superb lunch and fine ales. Sleep that off before an evening in both the Wherry Hotel and the Commodore. Third day I'd head for St Olaves, moor by the bridge, right outside the pub, excellent. For the evening session Reedham Ferry would be my choice. Day four then I'd head to Rockland for lunch and then Surlingham Ferry for the night and really excellent food, beer and company. Day five I'd turn round and work my way back to Geldeston for the end of my week's holiday, revisiting my choice of the best!

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The BA did, in my time, consider an idea using actual windmills. Papers were submitted and might even still be available online, if you are lucky.