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Funny time of night to discover your boat is missing. 🤨

Maybe the crew were on it!

The general thinking appears to be that we’ll have a spike in covid cases during October too. Personally I think masks should still be mandatory in enclosed spaces and regular hand sanitising encouraged. I noticed in Roy’s the other day that that all the sanitising equipment on the food side had disappeared. Across the road hand pumps were still in use.

And I slept through it all!

I’ve often wondered what could be done if you arrived back at your home mooring after dark only to find a hire boat moored up. They couldn’t move, not having navi lights so the only answer I suppose is to moor up wherever there is another space and sort it out next day. Recently I watched two hire boats moor up in Cox’s boatyard moorings at Barton Turf, alongside the main river as opposed to right inside the yard. Silly thing was, there were a number of spaces along Paddy’s Lane and one at the staithe. I can only assume they misread the private signage!

Have a look in to Paddy’s Lane too, there’s usually room there. And it’s quieter.

Monday - changeover day!

I’m sure back in the 80s there was a bath tub type boat doing takeaway meals. I remember seeing it on South Walsham broad.

And that’s not exactly new any more! Certainly seems to be doing well though, see their boats quite often.

And may you have many high jinks in Hijinks Carole, I bet you can’t wait to be back on the rivers!

I read yesterday that August was the least sunniest month on record for the UK. To be honest the long range forecast for September doesn’t look too promising. However, our forecasters are not known too well for their confidence or accuracy so who knows!

It does get dark sometimes on the Broads you know!

Tonic has been in short supply round this way (south east) and in Tesco’s Stalham for a while. Good job I prefer my gin neat!

I’ve heard this time and time again over the last few weeks. Listening to Jeremy Vine last week sometime, a chap phoned in who had trained as an HGV driver. Passed all his exams or whatever is required but he can’t get a job because he can’t get insured due to lack of experience. Surely this can’t apply to all new recruits? This is also being quoted by the ‘experts’ on tv and radio so it looks as if needs to be planned and purchased as soon as in order to avoid problems down the line. Anyway, it’s time for the displays to appear in Roy’s and Latham’s!

Sounds to me as if you’ve had sight of the elusive bittern MM, more than a lot of people have.

Definitely white.

It seems to be hit and miss and, as Coryton said, items randomly running out. I was in our local (large) Tesco supermarket last week surprised to find no fresh milk whatsoever. Absolutely nothing, nada. No such problem this week, seems to be frozen peas and other frozen veg in short supply at present.

Except predictive text can go horribly wrong - and frequently does! 😵‍💫

Or grammar!

If in a pub, you’d better wait there until the blocks are frozen………..

A good question to ask directly of the BA I reckon. No doubt they’ll have a ready answer though!

We used to pop into Brooms for water early in the morning before they opened up and got going. Not possible now as the water hose is under lock and key. Also, Brooms changed their opening times yet again a couple of months ago and are now open 10.00 - 1700 daily. So no going for an early fill up or empty out any more. Pumpouts have been £18 for a single tank for the last couple of years at least.

That’s better, thank you. Next question, any access for walks?

I get somewhere in the North Atlantic using that!

Where exactly is this please grendel?