Paul

Generally yes, and if you are in an area of weak signal strenth then buy one with an external antenna which makes a great improvement. That would depend on the settings of the phone or tablet, they connect to the router via a wifi signal so you can have wifi and mobile data active at the same time. If you want to ensure they use one or the other then turn off either wifi (to use the devices own sim) or mobile data (to use the routers sim)

You see what I mean? I'm still on Brian Clough's version, "If you're not interfering with play what are you doing on the pitch?"

Or the offside rule to Gracie. Come to think about it can somebody explain the modern offside rules to me please ....

Elaine is starting to get fed up of watching the highlights of last nights match, I've only had them on repeat since 06:30 this morning, nothing excessive or anything. It was a great night but I do think the press and media are over doing the hype somewhat. All that happened is that Europe's top football club, albeit deprived of their best two players and several other potential starters, four days after a gruelling, must win domestic match overturned a 0:3 first leg deficit against a team which rested their entire starting 11 last weekend, spearheaded by a has been and two of our cast offs. Still there is a good side to it all. I shall be relieving Mr Power of £340 on my next trip into town. "Liverpool to progress to Champions League Final", £10 at 33/1.

It's about passion MM, about a lifetime supporting your club, through good times and bad. The names and faces change but the colour of the shirt, the badge, they remain. Football isn't about who's got the fastest machine. History shows us it's not even about who's got the most money, at least not always. It's about passion, about dreaming, about believing. Not everybody has that, of course they don't and that's fine. Different people have different passions. The only people I find irritating are those who "adopt" a passion for fashion.

The first two weeks anyway, after that I go hungry. You do realise I'm an adopted Hobbit, and Hobbits eat two breakfasts .....

They work a bit like old arc lights, instead of passing the current through a filament inside a halogen filled bulb to produce light through intense heat they pass the current directly through the Xenon gas between tugnsten filaments causing an arc. Metal salts are added to the gas to change the colour of the bulb. You can, if you want get pink or purple HID bulbs.

Sorry MM, I very nearly missed that one, top drawer sir.

It all depends on how you upgraded them. If you replaced the whole headlamp unit then you may not have a problem as you have also taken care of the need to have either self levelling headlamps or self levelling suspension and headlamp washers which fire when then front screen is washed. If you simply used a bulb upgrade kit in your existing headlamps then that is not legal, and never was. Although these upgrade kits position the bulb precisely where the old halogen fitted the burner in an HID produces a very different light pattern to a halogen filament bulb, which the lens on halogen headlamps is not designed for and cannot focus correctly on the road. Hence you get stray beams which dazzle oncoming drivers. In an HID equipped system there is also a requirement for the dipped headlamp to remain illuminated when the main beam is activated, whereas in Halogen systems they normally extinguish as soon as you switch to full beam. What has changed is the requirements of the MOT test, not just just in relation to bulb upgrades but many after market mods such as exhausts as mentioned above. The problem is many of these things cannot easily be tested under the guise of the current test where testing stations don't have noise meters and do not dismantle anything hence often things are a judgement call or even completely missed by the examiner. I think it is quite likely in the not too distant future that the MOT test will change from a 90 minute (ish) annual visual inspection to a half to full day strip and check done every two years.

I am planning to visit all of these establishments and issue reviews. I'm just searching for a backer to fund the research.

Oh dear, talk about parking the bus ...... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48178528

On a related matter I was walking along Sir Matt Busby way earlier past Old Trafford where an old boy was washing the team coach in the carpark. I commented that washing such a large coach all on his own was quite a task. He replied "I'm not washing it, I'm just rubbing the champion's league logos off".

we could start a sweepstake on how many matches they will play before relegation is confirmed. I'm going for 32.

The noise limit for a car is now 80db, but also the law states that any modifiction to an exhaust which makes it louder than the vehicle's type approval is also illegal. This means most aftermarket exhausts are illegal. There is a big police push in Wales at the moment, also in Essex to remove non cimpliant vehicles from the road (this also includes retro fitted HID headlamps which are also illegal). You need to complain to your local POlice and Crime Commisioner if your local constabulary is not taking action against loud exhausts which are causing nuisance. If the PCC will not take action then refer the matter to the Independant Police Complaints Comission. Where we live there are local bylaws in place to prevent anti social car use, which makes it much easier to prosecute.

Must say how much I am enjoying ITV4's coverage of this year's Tour. I did hear a suggestion that NCC are prorposing a Tour de Norfolk next year. I will be entering the King of the Mountains competition.

funnily enough that's how I read it too, I thought that was probably the last time NCFC won anything .....

Sorry but that's not Walter, it's Walter's brother on leave from the army, Lieutenant Pigeon. Which reminds I once asked my Sergeant Major where the F in Lieutenant came from. He looked at me as if I had stolen thecrown jewels and barked "I don't know son, why don't you ffing ask him?"

I'm expecting the name of the pigeon.

this online railway map might be of interest http://www.railmaponline.com/UKIEMap.php

I'm not sure I can explain that any more clearly than I already have. It's quite possible to know one thing and not know the effect of that thing, that is not a contradiction. I'll take that as a no then, but that you have read it in, surprise surprise, the angling press. I doubt any of us are gullible enough to think that all you read in the press is true. If only it were, but there is no London bus on the moon and a dictator's bones never were found on Brighton beach. I've navigated Waxham New Cut, on a Bounty 27 by coincidence, I know it is very narrow up there but the reeds are cut back annually to maintain navigation to the moorings up by the bridge. The other Dyke you refer to is Catfield, I've done that one too which is generally wider. There are a greater number of boats moored at the top of Catfield which keep the dyke clear though i would imagine there is still some cutback required. You would get a Wherry up either if you had a mind to do so and cleared the reeds accordingly but please don't try and make me nelieve that anglers, good folk that most of them are, are cutting back the reeds to maintain the navigation. Be careful about your comment on punlic staithes to. If the are enacted as public staithes and not just called a staithe by tradition then they are part of the highway and none of is, anglers or otherwise have the right to obstruct them. Personally I have always found the broads big enough for boaters and anglers. What habitat is truly "natural" nowadays, a few acres of forest in Scotland, the odd stretch of moorland in Cumbria? Most of what we consider "natural habitat" is in someway managed or influenced by man, as are the Broads, as you well know. Do you suggest that we abandon them all, because the are not "natural"?

I'm not sure we would have him back, I think they were glad to get rid despite his obvious ability. Now Coutinho .....

Then consider yourself corrected, I see no contradiction there, simply two consecutive, related statements. As the second statement offers no validation to the first I fail to see how it can contradict it? Perhaps you have a different understanding of "contradict". As I agreed, however the fact that SOME fish might spawn outside of the closed season is not a sensible argument to abolish it, but to either extend it, or accept an imperfect compromise and leave it as it is, the option I would advocate. Perhaps you can link to this scientific evidence, as I cannot find it. Perhaps "authority" doesn't like this evidence because it does not exist? In fact what I did find whilst searching was advice on how to fish for both Carp and Salmon whilst spawning, posted by the angling community. That I suggest puts lie to your statement. The evidence can be seen easily enough, and I've told you where to look. I fail to understand your argument about encroachment as these swims are being cut back into the reedbed. The reedbeds either side are not encroaching the river, but I think you probably knew that. By what authority do you assume I live "without thought for wildlife habitat", that is extremely condescending. Quite the opposite in fact. I garden organically, I provide a number of natural habitats both in my garden and on my allotment for species such as bees, insects, amphibians, birds and hedgehogs. As for the bit about living in a mud hut then sadly your need to resort to such flippancy merely illustrates the total deficiency of your argument.

Many of these arguments don't add up. Anglers would have us believe that they are bastions of conservation, that they work to protect the natural environment and preserve fish stocks yet they suggest that, as some fish may not spawn with the calendar window laid down as the closed season that there is a valid argument to discard the closed season altogether and fish right htrough the spawn? Am I the only one who finds that a bit backwards? Surely the argument should not be whether to abolish the closed season, but should it be extended? Or, do we accept that it is not perfect but that it is a decent compromise? Fish are very easily stressed, nobody really knows what the inpact caused by catch and return during their spawning season would have but is there any valid reason to take that risk? It would be good to have a clear, unambiguous statement from Angling Trust with their stance on the closed season. They are after all the organisation which claims to promote this conservation but after trawling their website for some time I cannot find one. The bit about holiday prices doesn't add up as far as I can work out either. If the fishing season had such an imapct that we would see "hikes" should the closed season be lifted then surely prices in September when angling is permitted would be higher than those in May and early June when it is not (ignoring the bank holiday dates), but they are not. Having looked at a number of holiday parks, boat yards and cottage companies September is generally cheaper. But there are other conisderations too. Whatever their protestations angling causes considerable damage to the banks. You only need to cruise from Oulton down to Beccles to witness the long term impact of clearing swims. This is not just cutting reeds to reach the rivers edge but pulling them out of the margins to allow the landing of fish. In places there are permanent little bays forming where these swims have been cut. Not only does the close season give these areas some chance to recover, if not completely at least in art, but it also protects waterfowl that breed in these margins. Simply put, there is no sensible argument for abolishing the closed season. It isn't perfect, but I tend to go with the best compromise option.

let's hope it's not a case ofresurfacing the road and undermining the bridge clearance, as has happened near us recently. The argument as to who is at fault will run for years.

Passing by on the river you might think that the Fisherman's location is very remote, but right behind it are several large holiday parks, one of which we are going to sample tomorrow. Knowing the price and quality of the food normally dished up by the various outlets on these parks and the prices charged at the bar (they make the New Inn look "budget") there is a large potential market right next door.