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  1. I have no time for areas of BA management but at the end of the day if the EA say no ...

    Last week I went to a meeting of river Beane restoration group. A local chalk stream/river. Affinity our water supplier has grand scheme to meander the river through a flood plain but at the end of the day EA will be the decider if it goes ahead however good the plan is

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  2. 1 hour ago, Bikertov said:

    Lol - back in the day, Horsenden Hill was where youth would drive to for a late evening with their girlfriends, if you know what I mean :default_icon_luvlove:

    That carpark is closed off now

  3. 8 minutes ago, NeilB said:

    Snap!!  And the Harrow viewpoint, although I understand the gates are locked in the evening now to prevent such behaviour!!

    Wow, flooding to hook up spots in one thread! :default_rofl:

    Yes they are at 4pm in the winter, later in summer, so the pub no longer has a carpark in the evening! Their website gave their opening hours which included Monday lunchtime but it looked shut!!!

  4. 28 minutes ago, Bikertov said:

    Yes, the area around the A41 roundabout at the bottom of Elstree Hill has been a nightmare this week, as it is a low low point. Streams of water running down the hill

    I was about to say I went through the water on Monday but it was actually the roundabout on the A411 when it goes under the M1 - it was coming down the hill from what I think might be a small pumping station?

    (it might not be the Broads but its still flooding so not a complete drift of thread)

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  5. I parked at the  Harrow viewpoint on Monday and you could see the planes coming into Heathrow and the ones coming out to the west!  The area might not get flooded but the paths are seriously muddy with running water coming down the hillsides

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  6. I was over at Merry Hill a few weeks back - agree the views are quite impressive especially as you come across the X roads at Elstree. Been plodding the footpaths around that area quite a bit recently as we have just recorded the first Hertfordshire (for 25 years they say) Brown Hairstreak butterfly eggs in the area - hence my walk yesterday!  All 9 1/2 miles and almost no blackthorn which the eggs are laid on!  Section 41 species!

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  7. Not just the Broads - this was the River Colne near Watford today. Not the best day to plan a walk alongside it as I encountered several detours....plus a bridge actually closed

     

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  8. I've been back from our NZ adventure 2 months and a lot of things haven't been sorted out! As to flights when we went to Australia we just had a two hour stopover in Singapore (same plane) but arrived early morning Sydney and just started sightseeing - by 9pm we were seriously flagging! Coming back the same in reverse but the plane was late leaving and Sydney airport was expensive! We got home shattered. So when we went to NZ we went via Bangkok with a 2 night stopover in a pretty chaotic city and very hot! By the time we got to Auckland via Sydney (we had another delayed flight and had to get a later flight at Sydney) we felt it would have been better doing it like the first time just a quick stopover....however coming back we stopped in Singapore for 2 nights and that definitely helped on the return journey - I slept more than i expected on the flight and then we hit the Elizabeth Line in the early morning rush hour and hit all the Christmas prep with a bang!

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  9. 7 hours ago, Bikertov said:

    I have had a packaged FlexPlus bank account with Nationwide for about 10 years now, that gives breakdown cover (for any car we are in), annual family travel insurance and mobile phone insurance, all for £13 a month 

    It is a joint policy with the OH, so we both get the benefits 

    My kids have breakdown cover with Eversure, very reasonable and you can extend it to cover European trips too

    Likewise!

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  10. I would hardly call this "his pretty Broads cottage" - its a house!

    I have a friend who has a 'pretty cottage' close to the Broads but outside the BA area where the original cottage is thatched and the modern parts use tile.  The rules and regulations for just this small area of thatch are quite something and would certainly put me off ever owning a thatched house especially if I had wood burners!

  11. 41 minutes ago, RumPunch said:

    At a slight tangent, one aspect of the proposal is the educational aspect. There are already very local organisations offering similar - I hope they can both co-exist

    If they are looking to get additional funding such as a grant - they need to tick extra boxes and adding education and public participation will help/is essential!

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  12. I heard via my brother that in the 1912 storm, the effect was like a tsunami as the water came down the Bure taking out anything in its way. By the time it got to Wroxham the water had spread out across the marshes. He was told this by his boatyard friend whose father survived as he was upstairs in their cottage. Pretty sure I've got the story correct

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