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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

Surely if it is a Nanni Engine the original is a Kubota Engine so parts should be available worldwide even comes painted the same colour

He even has his own single out along with some backing singers https://www.rspb.org.uk/get-involved/campaigning/let-nature-sing?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=linkclickad&utm_campaign=letnaturesing

Polly can you add me on to Chameleon please

And not to forget It will have to be named not christened, as not to upset other religions and sent on it's way with spring water, as not to entice the recovering alcoholics back into drinking.

So will naming of ships now go I Name this ship the (Gender Neutral Name) and may all the worlds gods and deities bless it and all genders what ever they maybe who sail on IT

Cropped this one down even more f10, 250th 400asa