Wussername

Stop moaning. Norfolk is windy. Boggy. Floods. Stuck out in the middle of the North Sea like carbuncle. Wherever you live draw a circle, in that circle identify a radius. Within that radius, just a few miles is the sea and it is the sea that determines where we live and the life we live. Has been so for many generations. Climate change. Climate changes. Now and again people in Norfolk dig up an elephant. They do, an elephant or a woolly mammoth. A bit of a sabre tooth tiger. What caused their demise. Could it have been climate change? What caused that climate change? Not my diesel car, not my central heating, my coal fire, my wood burner, my holiday in the Costa Plenty.

You missed a wonderful dawn. It was magical. However, red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning. This time of year, the sunsets are memorable, every now and then a dawn which has a beauty of its own. No large hills, no mountains, just a large sky. As illustrated by Seago a Norfolk landscape artist who captured the very soul of the county. From his home in Ludham, visited by the Queen Mother on many an occasion, his paintings vividly enraptured the dawn, and the end of the day.

Miaow or what. 😅

Orange? I don't like Orange. We need a forum re-think. I think a subtle change to brown, a light coloured brown, complimented by a lighter colour brown. Who am I to suggest the colour of your boat. Pink might be good. You cannot please everybody but you can upset everybody. Only joking. Old Wussername.

I remember it well. I look forward to February. I can feel a pint or two coming on. With kind regards. Andrew

When you arrive Howard I know that winter is nigh. Your visit in February will endorse that realisation that we may have to endure one of the harshest months of winter. And then, and only then, you visit in May. A spiteful month. Do not cast clout until May is out. When you depart, all is well. Our Norfolk Nog has gone with our sadness. We look forward to the advent of Spring and hope for a summer, a wonderful summer. Thank you for your story. I have been privileged to have been "boating" on the river so to speak in mid winter. Moving boats from South to North. A flask of hot soup, a sandwich, freezing cold on a boat with no heater. Then a winter cruise with my wife from Stalham to the end of navigation at Coltishall one weekend. To the very end of navigation. A sad and delipidated sign stated at Coltishall "hire boats not allowed" I carried on to the locks, the water meadows at Horstead Mill all those years ago. The mill had gone, a few years past. The mooring at the old dilapidated lock gates was memorable. A place that few people visited by boat. In the morning we awoke to the sound of geese, huge numbers, hundreds in skeins which seemed to fill the sky, a cacophony of sound which reverberated throughout the Norfolk landscape. On our way home, back to Stalham on our approach to Belaugh we entered a reach which held hundred and hundreds of geese just floating, resting on the river, from bank to bank. There was no way through, but they just parted, these wild birds as I went through so very slowly, very quietly. Feeling somewhat guilty of intrusion. I have often felt that I should ask you why you come midwinter. However I think that I know from my brief experience. For me, sadly boating has become a challenge. I have to leave winter boating to those of sterner stuff. Not so long ago I used to help the grandchildren onto the boat. Now they help me. As Shakespeare said " Sans eyes, sans teeth, sans everything. Sometimes, on the river, they will say, "ask Grandad" It was not all in vain, was it? Thank you once again Howard. Andrew.

Roys support local businesses and farmers, I believe that the Kings Arms at Ludham/Womack, support the local butcher at Ludham. who in turn support local farmers. The Granary at Ranworth, what a successful new venture! A great venue, focused, and now in a short period of time, a go to place. I have identified a few who have confidence in The Broads. There are others, some need guidance, lack a degree of busyness acumen. This is where the BA needs to assist, not in planning, not in marketing, not in ecological matters, plenty of them about. They need to be identified as an organisation that is able to act as an advisory body to, basically help, those who need professional experience. Not for the BA to provide that help, but to use their knowledge and experience to direct those with a specific requirement towards those who have an expertise with regard to a specific issue or problem. A Broads Authority that cares. Old Wussername

An amazing photograph. I have never witnessed the like. However when I was a young boy we were never told, or would see photographs. No TV, no internet, of little importance. It happened and had no impact, presumably they just got on with it. It was a natural phenomenon throughout Broadland. The Thorpe marshes, Acle marshes, Beccles marshes, Geldeston marshes.........flooded.

Sadly with no training whatsoever.

It was the way of many men folk in the day. The wife stayed at home. In her place. Not so different in that we witness in this very day in some of the deprived areas of our age.

I'll be heven a pint of two's, thank you kindly master.

Helen. No one, will ever understand. My wife and I have had to experience the love and attention being rejected by a person who we have loved and respected.

Posted 7 minutes ago · IP Where is the Bure Hump? On JP's back.

If Breydon and the river Yare is no longer considered a commercial waterway then the Port of Norwich presumably in their definition no longer exists as a port. How does this reflect on the Broads Authorities position with regard to the the rail bridge which crosses the river at Trowse and of course Carrow Bridge with regard to navigation rights?

The site has been down for some considerable time. I have had my differences with them over the years. In particular one or two of the moderators. Who seem sadly lacking with regard to the issues regarding this particular forum. Richard made an enormous contribution with regard to the introduction of the first meaningful forum with regard to the Norfolk Broads. l There were differences, difficulties, not insurmountable, but able to be recognised. To be resolved. However such was the intensity of these issues perhaps, forgiven, forgotten. Who am I to judge. Richard. I know. I have trod the path. Done the journey. Many of us have. Many before us have yet to experience and will take comfort from the majority of those who like yourself will have overcome all adversity. Respect, and good wishes from the other side.

Thanks Lurcher. An interesting post. A Norwich man myself, albeit I visit and love the city but prefer the village life. Andrew

I agree MM. At one time several years ago now, they served really good food. However the dining area was small and could not sustain the numbers required. So many public houses have been lost during the past ten or fifteen years. Some survive. The Shoulder of Mutton in Strumpshaw, miles away from civilisation, rivers, main roads,all there is to see is fields of sugar beet and yet the place is rammend several nights a week. It is a "sweet spot". Some days/afternoons the car park is full to overflowing. Cars line the road outside the pub. And yet so many pubs wither on the vine.

How can people possibly afford this imposition. Is there no compassion.

Dredging? Where Ian, I presume out at sea. Hemsby is an enourmous concern which should require more focused attention. A disaster happening, now, today, tonight, and for tomorrow. If there is no consideration for the NOW. What hope is there for the future?

Mary Celest. Of Potter.

Dredging out at sea disrupts tidal flow. I believe.

It has always been my understanding that the number of berths is irrelevant. The stability test of the craft is most important as required after a day boat capsized with a tragic loss of life several years ago. Some so called picnic boats have been allowed to carry ten people. Amazing for such a small craft, even more so when you consider that an individual can pitch up, with no experience, and venture off into the unknown having never helmed a boat in his life. As for hire cruisers, if my memory serves me correctly, there is a limit. Ten people, or is it twelve including the helm, thereafter a captains certificate is required. That leads me to another question. Who is in charge, responsible, has authority of a hire boat? Or indeed a private boat. The owner, the skipper, the captain, the master, the hirer, the helm. As a trial run driver for many years I have signed off many holiday makers. Some I have refused. Some with a heavy heart, some with no compunction whatsoever. Old Wussername.

But the Broads Authority said two areas of the Ant had been dredged in the last five years and it was 'not a high priority'. They said they had dredged 26,000 cubic metres of sediment from the Bure, which the Ant, feeds into, between 2016 and 2019. It only dredges rivers to keep them navigable rather than to stop flooding. It is the job of the Environment Agency to look after flood defences. EDP.

In September 2023 the Environment Agency and Defra announced £25 million funding for improving flood resilience through a new NFM programme. We (the Environment Agency) are managing this programme. The NFM Programme will help meet the aims of the: government's policy statement on flooding and coastal erosion. With regard to the above statement by EA I am confused as to who exactly is responsible.

Surely this is what marsh land was meant to do. https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/23936122.ludhams-buttle-marsh-peat-restoration-scheme-approved/