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Not exactly My day more like my half week Having been on holiday in Norfolk I arrived home on Monday. Then back to full time volunteering on various committees 5 different committee meetings in 3 days. Three of which were to resolve the same issue. Then this morning I had to drive halfway across the county for an interview for a volunteer job. Interview, well more of a chat with four people I know very well. But they did fire quite a few good interview questions at me. Arrived home to phone call from the Chair of the committee where we had the 3 meetings, so another hour and a half going through protocol. Since 1:30 I have actually had some me time. Well when I say me time balancing the end of year accounts for the tenants board I sit on. At 5:15 another phone call not one I had been expecting as they said It maybe after the weekend, But good news is that I have been accepted for the position. I am to be a Member of the board of Directors for our local housing management company. And Relax BLUUUURGH

Thanks to Mike for stepping into the breech As I said last week on the chatroom I have had a very hectic week. 5 different committee meetings in 3 days. Then this morning I had to drive halfway across the county for an interview for a volunteer job. Heard in the last five minutes that I have been accepted for the position. I am to be a Member of the board of Directors for our local housing management company.

Growing old is Mandatory. Growing up is Optional.

Happy Birthday Or should it be ...... penblwydd hapus

"model #2 will have to have the hair a bit greyer" And a few more lines in the face?

"an old bit with an artistic wood worm look! " Are we back to talking about Timbo again?

Wow Broads Water Fever at six! Thank god there is no cure for it. I got my first dose of it at the age of three and I'm still not cured. And that's too many years of suffering waiting for my next fix.

Near to me at Capel le Ferne (Between Folkestone and Dover) There is the Battle of Britain Memorial Built on one of the big gun emplacements. They have two such replicas both of fibreglass. One of each Spitfire and Hurricane. It's quite possible the moulds to make these are the original moulds from Pinewood studios, where many replicas were made for the film Battle of Britain. Most of which was filmed three miles away at Hawkinge WW11 airfield.

Just a Shirt and Tie? I didn't know there was a naturist enclave in Ipswich.

Are you on windows 10 Tim

Why was he dragging his anchor?

Smaller ships but usually more speed.

All of these Experts/Scientists/Fearmongers. You choose which one you use. Seem to think we all have short term memory loss (well some of us do me included). What happened to the ice age we were supposedly headed for. Why did they suddenly stop call it Global warming and swap it to Climate change? Al Gore in his speech all those years ago fell for the Cause and Effect model, put about by a few of the bunch in the first line. Instead of listening to the many who said it was Effect and Cause. The US and South Africa are stockpiling oil like it is going out of fashion Why? They have almost enough of their own for years to come. Is there something they are not telling us. why all this push for electric cars, that nobody will be able to charge because nowhere can produce that much electricity and recabling a whole country, to take enough power would bankrupt them.

Yarmouth Mercury https://www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk/news/flood-risk-for-norfolk-broads-1-6081733?fbclid=IwAR0qsU05zIuSK3rAYGpTjezeJC25lHxD4v4Y0N6IvhDAEedf_P1C0dKi7So Great photo's of the floods at Geldeston. I remember that being flooded when I was a lad And I'm catching Methuselah up.

Wikipedia has this just as I remember my Norfolk geography The source of the River Waveney is a ditch on the east side of the B1113 road between the villages of Redgrave, Suffolk and South Lopham, Norfolk. The ditch on the other side of the road is the source of the River Little Ouse

I was a late starter being a lowly apprentice, money was not in good supply. I was 21 when I started to learn, 22 by the time I passed my test. My first car was a moggy minor bought for £25 the body was poor but the mechanics were impeccable as it was from a friend who worked for a morris garage. Not long after I had passed I went to a darts match down in my brothers village. On the way back I got stopped by a traffic copper, he gave the car a good looking over and because the body was poor, expected the mechanics to be the same. "Can I drive it up the road" he said be my guest but be careful of the brakes i said. Ha Ha no minor has good brakes, he said. off he drove up the road and swung it round on a junction, came hairing back down the road and hit the brakes hard, thinking it would take a long time to stop and nearly gouged a load of tarmac up with the front bumper as it nearly stood on end. He got out of the car wide eyed and said what have you done to that opened the bonnet to reveal a servo assisted master cylinder. he handed me the keys and just said have a safe journey and left. The car became a coat of many colours as I replaced panels with second hand bits. I finally rubbed it down and hand painted it with coach laquer Old English White and it looked a stunner. I finally after 3 years sold it for £50. I then bought a mk2 Cortina 1500GT serviced the twin downdraught Weber and it went like a rocket. After that went to the tin worm had a succession of Escorts and Orions. An old Riley 1.5 for fun for a while. Then bought a Vauxhall Belmont debadged 1800 GTE engined which was fun sitting at light next to an XR3 revving his engine. Hit the go pedal and lose him in a cloud of dust. Latest car is a Mazda 2 possibly the best car I have ever had.

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The old coast railway that went to Hemsby then branched off to Martham, Potter,,Catfield, Stalham and onto North Walsham Town. So many stations that the train spent more time stopped than it did running. You could change at NW by walking to the Main station, but the line finished there for the Yarmouth trains.

Ah but, is there any lead in his pencil

Having set quizzes for the last 35 plus years. Most of them for local and national charities. Gauging the intellect of an audience you don't always know, is the hardest thing. Are you asking questions to people of low or high IQ.? Are you going to just ask questions, that everyone knows the answer to? You will always offend one party which ever way you set the questions. But with most audiences, people will come up to me afterwards saying. " Thank you for that it really got my brain working". Next time how about the winning team of "Regular quizzers" split up and join other teams ?

So they can learn how to use guns and sharp knives properly you mean?

Best way would be for all the perpetrators worldly goods, laid out on a long length of steel girder. The owner of the goods wrecked by the perpetrator then appears, with a big hammer and then smashes the worldly goods to smithereens.

Hi Gang Thanks to all for a great weekend. Good to put names to faces. Also to be in your company, although the weather could have been a little warmer and drier I don't think it dampened the spirits. Thanks must also go to Polly for her organisation and to Mike (Chameleon ) for the quiz but also to him and Pat for putting up with me for the weekend Here's to next years And for a lot of you see you at Beccles in August

Does this include the drunks who manage to fall in, after a good skin full at Norwich.

Can I suggest this one and somewhere Re Yare By the way that's apollo 13 and we know that was a disaster Something wrong with the steering Brings something else to mind