Paul

regardless of what is considered local, the national lock down restrictions still state

Resetting the Mercedes oil and service lights is very straightforward using the steering wheel buttons. Any action to restrict servicing to a dealer network would contravene EU conventions. VAG group were fined by the EU for doing so about five years ago.

The photo was taken around 12:00 noon on Sunday 23rd August, 2019. If you look at the tenth boat moored to the Repps bank down stream of the bridge you can just make me out sitting in the aft well enjoying a can of Guinness and waving to the satellite....... OK, you are not convinced are you? Open the image in Google Earth Pro and it tells you the image date in the foot notes. I take the time of day from the shadows, falling almost due north would put the time around midday.

I've just shown my wife, she said no thanks, you can go on your own. Then I looked at the price, twice the price of a cruiser for our October week and I thought ......................... (text deleted)

Why would I want to pay high season prices year round?

And so there may be, but many of them are assigned to specific use and so not available to anyone. If you simply look at the total number of spaces without considering that then it might well look like there are enough spaces. They are not interested if many of those are only available on a very expensive short to mid term rental basis. Take a look at the google maps satellite view now and look how many spaces are available, for a Sunday in August there are lots of spaces not occupied. The one thing I see from that image is how many Herbert Woods boats are stuck in the yard, in high season!

I was going to suggest that but didn't want to be accused of getting the thread back on topic .....

I was in the Triangle just before we were banned the first time. I became addicted to Green Jack when they took over the Locks. It's about the only reason we walk up London Road nowadays, the shops up there have been in decline for many a year. I can't think I have ever been in the Flying Dutchman which is an embarrassing admission. Might try and put that right this summer, drop the missus and the kids in the park for a couple of hours and wander down.

That's a shame, a proper back street boozer with a nice courtyard and always a selection of decent ales. For those prepared to take the ten minute walk from the beach you got a much better lunch there than on the seafront. The Mariner's Rest in the same vicinity is in much the same mould, hope that's OK

Sad, but alas very true. We were looking at a return to the Broads in October when our half term is a week earlier than most of the country meaning we get into "low season" but prices are close to double those we paid last time we went, just three years ago. So it looks like we will be taking the caravan out instead.

I note that the plans include car parking spaces opposite .... Is that not a staithe?

But not with these as first day was last month. I think JM posted reference to these back in December.

I remember a time, even on lads week when it was pub every lunch and evening when we had to decide which pubs we would miss, and it was a hard choice. It was a case of which had to be done and fill in the gaps based on tides. I think we would be harder pressed to fill the schedule now, than have to worry about which to miss

I assumed he was talking about the Fur & Feather, the Recruiting Sergeant is still our number one eatery, just not that child friendly but as the boys are getting older we will soon be back. We like Stoke Mill as well, but not really "Broads" unless you are up for a serious walk. We love lunch at Stoke Mill then paddling at Shottesham ford with the fishing nets. It's how life used to be.

There speaks the treasurer On our last visit we ate a burger, sticky toffee pudding and a couple of pints of Nelson's apiece at nearly £70 for the two of us. It was OK, but not worth £70. We used to spend a lot of money in the brewery shop as well when we visited, which they are not getting now. They have priced themselves above the Recruiting Sergeant but the quality of food and service is well short of the RS

Good point Tempest, though your post reminds me of pubs we used to love and which no longer get over excited about. We used to make a point of having lunch at the Fur and Feather, on a sunny day their garden was the best place on earth almost, but the food prices suddenly shot up and even by broads standards became unrealistic, and it's not somewhere we would walk to just for a pint. As a result we haven't been for many a long year. I must look at their menu again and see how it compares now. The Recruiting Sergeant, along with the Crooked Barn at Oulton Broad was our number one place to eat before we had the children, and still would be if it were just us. So the fact that we no longer visit them is because of our changes, not theirs and that point should be made out of fairness to them.

The problem with the Surface Pro, as with tablets is the small screen size. I need a 17" display (19 would be better but I think 19" lap tops have died the death). Added to that the Surface Pro only goes up to 512mb which is not enough, and that is £1800+

Sorry to repeat myself but I was enjoying the cricket on Sky far more, we were winning on Sky! We are rubbish on Channel 4

Don't be disheartened, I enquired with a couple of laptop retailers about a new machine with the capability, the companies who advertise the brilliance of their technical staff and how much they can help ..... Both came back "laptops don't do that". I had to point them to models on their website which could, though they are very limited and tend to be the "tough book" type of business machine or small screen machines. The UK market is way behind in this sort of thing. Try and find a decent tablet that will make calls and it's very difficult, the likes of Apple and Samsung want you to pay £800 - £1200 for their large screen phones, and why would you do that if you could buy a £150 tablet with better screen quality, longer battery life, faster processors, more memory that can make phone calls? These devices are common in the US and Asia markets but are largely kept away from Europe. The same is true for LTE enabled laptops, manufacturers don't offer the facility on UK and European models but the good news is that many laptops have the necessary expansion ports to add them. Some, like Lenovo even install the antennae ready. Sadly my machine is an Acer, and they don't install anything they don't have to. They would make the screws an optional extra if they could get away with it. I intend to fit a US brand LTE / GLONASS modem in my WWAN slot and use a suitable dual stage Molex antenna. Comanies like Verizon, AT&T and T.Mobile all offer them in the same way they they offer USB plug in modems in the UK and most are available unlocked and support UK 4G frequencies. In theory with larger receivers than found in mobile phones signal should be very good.

It wouldn't make much difference to us, let's be blunt, the days when you could drift from one excellent riverside boozer to the next are long gone. Few of them are as good as they once were, most are distinctly average, and in some cases that is being very polite. The Ferry at Surlingham and Bridge at Acle are the only two we would make a point of visiting any more. There are one or two others we will visit if we are in the vicinity but wouldn't make a special trip.

nothing new fangled about wankels, been around for donkey's years

I'm just wondering if anyone has done this before and if so what was the performance like?

"I am Rome, and where I walk is Rome", Aulus Plautius, AD 43 (possible) "I am National Park, and where I walk is National Park", Dr John Packman, AD 2020 (probable)

this little 1953 classic will do me. Has a proper steel hull, oozes charm, pretty as a picture and yours for £285k, that's about four and a half million change from the Spirit.

The quality of the varnishing is very good, but it's not really that pretty and the interior looks very dark.