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One of the tastiest and most succulent legs of lamb I cooked on a bbq a couple of years back. My cooker was playing up so it was my only option. It was absolutely divine, trouble is I have not been able to replicate it since! I do like a good bbq but burgers have to be homemade and chicken marinaded so it doesn't dry out. Some veggies are good on the barbie too. But most important of all is that glass of red (or white if you prefer) as no cook should ever be seen standing over a hot stove of any kind without such an accompaniment.

Welcome to the forum Cambridge Cabby, fingers crossed your survey is good and the purchase tied up. We have used Navigators & General for our insurance and I think many others do too. We have not had to claim luckily! Boulter Marine provide a good breakdown cover, we did have to call them out last year in an emergency and they were there and got us sorted out in no time at all. Hope this helps. I bet you can't wait to get afloat in your own boat, enjoy!

Unbelievable, or is it really! I can only think that these folk have no common sense, don't read newspapers or watch/listen to the news or they think they are immune to anything going wrong.

At least that's something a bit positive to hang on to! Even the suggested pontoon moorings would be better than nothing.

Yuck!!!

It doesn't seem to be looking very promising though from what I have read in various places. If you do have some positive news, do share.

Is it always that easy to tell them apart? Somebody was bound to ask so it might as well be me!

"boat hirers leave everything from faeces to soiled underwear to tampons to KFC containers under bushes in popular mooring spots. There is no provision for such things on a dayboat so I do have some sympathy with the hirers but really there is no excuse for such desecration" I'm afraid I have no sympathy for people who dump rubbish, especially the items you have mentioned. I'm sure most hirers could find a bag of some sort to keep their rubbish in until they could dispose of it properly. I have travelled the outback of Australia quite extensively in a campervan, no disposal facilities for miles and miles and miles! Did we ever dump our garbage randomly? Not on your life! It does remind me though of one trip we did, travelling between Adelaide and Sydney. There is a vast stretch of nothingness before you reach Broken Hill. We seemed to be driving for hours without seeing any sign of life whatsoever. Until we got near Broken Hill. Suddenly a very large sign appeared - McDonald's 10 km.

I quite agree with all that and I reckon most boaters certainly do all that, mostly they have to. It appears it is almost impossible to get across why people do choose to use the posts. As the BA have run out of cards (and we are less than a month into the new system!) there must be more boaters who use the posts than we realise. I was a 'latecomer' to the Broads, in 1982 there were no leccy posts so we all had to survive the way you describe. No problem. Over my 35 Broads years there have been many, many changes, some good and some not so good. Times change and we move on, some taking advantage of those changes, others not. (The use of mobile phones does seem to have caught on though!) When all is said and done, the reason we are having these discussions remains the same - we love the Broads. (National Park or not! )

It does seem though that when the subject of electricity posts, sailies v stinkies, hirers v privateers, double mooring, Thorpe Island or continual cruisers, tolerance very often takes a step back. There are quite a number of emotive subjects and on the odd occasion a comment is/has been taken very personally. It happens on all forums but I generally think this is one of the better ones. So many opinions and so little time! It is no wonder that it is so easy to say one thing and really mean another and someone has taken offence. It does seem to me that those who have no need of, or ridicule the use of, electric posts, are mainly those who live locally and probably have no need of them anyway. Now I may be entirely wrong in this supposition and I'm sure I will be told so in no uncertain terms! Certainly no offence intended.

If I was going to add my twopennyworth to this thread, it would read exactly the same as Carole's last post! Well said lass. Don't bother trying to get any cards from the BA in Wroxham/Hoveton, they don't have any and have no idea when they will have. A poor state of affairs.

Didn't the Mustard Shop use to be on Elm Hill? I guess they either found the rent there too high or thought business might be better where they moved to in the arcade. Whichever, I am sure visitors will find them when they move again.

And we'd all be in the same places too, rather overcrowded methinks!

It's a bit like the old 'spot the ball' competition I think. You really have no idea what led up to the situation and trying to work out what could/should/did happen next is just a matter of guesswork. There are, of course, always the experts who absolutely know!

Do tell..........

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I seem to remember some problem with rubbish disposal being a fly in the ointment where these new moorings are concerned, or that may have been to do with the proposal of pontoon mooring in the area. What access to Thurne there will be is anybody's guess at this stage. Time to do some research I think and try and clarify the situation.

That is my understanding too. A length of 40 metres downstream of the new area should be underway soon. Hope so, we desperately need more mooring in that area.

Oby dyke and mill etc is just downstream of the Thurne Mouth and Boundary Farm moorings (or should I say ex-moorings?!).

If you are cruising the Bure, it's a long way back to WRC!

I rather think these will be private moorings, similar to the adjacent dyke. The planning permission was granted subject to a 40 metre length of bank being transferred to the BA for visitor moorings. I believe these will be on the main river. No doubt there will be someone who can confirm this, or otherwise of course!

Aldeby is a good mooring to use before moving on to Beccles for a day trip. It is a loss in my opinion but at least it looks as though for a fee one can still moor there. With dogs, wild mooring is often not an option and Aldeby provides some very good walkies. At the top of the drive and across the road lives (or lived) a lady who sold homemade marmalade, jams, chutneys, eggs and sometimes fruit/veg when in season. Well worth a walk to and great produce. She was selling up last year so may now be gone. It's only when you walk that you discover these little gems sometimes.

Cuddly or what?!!

johnm I think you may have misunderstood those posts, I feel sure the comments were made sarcastically. Certainly none of those forum members you have mentioned could by any stretch of the imagination be called 'intolerant'. Those Woodbastwick moorings are a sad loss and the comments would have been made as a dig at the landowners.

Welcome to one and all. Here's to a good 2017 season