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  1. No mine doesn't, but then it's a phone nothing else although it does have a rubber jacket so it bounces and is waterproof..
  2. A question or more , Have BA increased the rates for payment before? Could the old posts be updated in such a way? What was the cost per unit to BA when the last sale price was set and what is it now
  3. I suspect they'll get away with it by including the costs of post replacement as part of "standing charges"
  4. Are you sure it's not those moving to Norfolk bring the lard with them?
  5. All I can think of is the cartoon film WALL-E
  6. That appeared some years ago on George Clarke's amazing spaces. It was also in last years repeats programmes. See here http://www.channel4.com/programmes/george-clarkes-amazing-spaces/on-demand/62967-014
  7. Just a reminder the big Model railway show for Norfolk is on Saturday, - Norwich Model Railway Exhibition Sat 8th April 2017 Hellesdon High School, Middletons Lane, Norwich, Norfolk NR6 5SB OPENING TIMES: 10.00am to 4.30pm ADMISSION: Adults £5.00 17 Layouts, and 14 Traders confirmed together with 2 demonstrations and 5 other societies Full details on page 1 of this thread.
  8. Welcome to the site, Now you may find this a hazzard or wish to watch but.... Weather permitting, Horning Sailing Club should be sailing from Horning to Thurne Lion Dyke on Monday 17th April. This is normally starts around Horning Ferry at 10:30 arriving Thurne sometime about 12:00-1300. The return race starting at Thurne Dyke about 14:00. It should be several fleets of boats from dinghies to big sailing cruisers up to a total of 30 boats, starting in half dozen boat fleets at five minute intervals, The best place to moor and watch would be St Benets straight or the church moorings Horning.
  9. There is an accumlator of bad jokes wired together in this thread, whether we will be charged with discharging our responsibility in a positive or negative connection or inducted into a Hall effect of fame, Henry ohmly knows.
  10. On another web site I attend, there are regular appeals for a groan button.....
  11. Not just Built up areas, if for instance you were lost (or more likely someone nicked the signs) you should drive at a maximum of 30 mph till you find a speed limit sign. See paragraph 2, https://www.gov.uk/speed-limits
  12. Technically the national Limit is 30mph, any faster is an exception to the limit.
  13. While In Saudi a friend was outside a car parts place and had just bought a new battery. As he wasn't sure the old one would start the car again, he took the old one out and was busy head under the bonnet doing up the new one when he heard someone run off. When he came up for air he found his old battery had been stolen!!
  14. Although modern speedometers read always less than the indicated speed limit by up to 10%, old ones some years ago had a plus or minus accuracy limit, when that changed I can't remember, it is I believe for that reason, they normally allow 10% + 2 to a speed limit. Simple things can change the accuracy of your speedometer. Just changing your tyres for a new brand with deeper tread, will mean you are going faster than you were before, for the same indication on the speedo. An unusual case I know, but I changed the gearbox on my Landrover, this also required the change of the cogwheel take off for the speedo as without it my speedo would have been out by 20% Many that accuse people of driving cars over the limit are driving a car with a speedo that is almost on it's maximum legal over read, so that they are driving around in a 30 limit at 27mph at the most often a mph or two less than that and in a 70 limit at 63mph. Using your own speedometer is no guarantee that you know what speed the other person is doing. More and more often these days I find people driving a 10mph less than the limit, that is their choice although you can be done for obstruction should the police decide that is what you are doing. But in a 30 limit an indicated 10mph less could be as low as approximately 16mph!!! or a 70 limit doing an indicated 60 approximately 50mph.
  15. We got issued with a company phone like this on one job I was working on because the landlines hadn't been installed yet. The company still complained they couldn't contact us though.... Not suprising really we were working in a secure Radio Frequency screened building. Time to get back to measuring 305hz
  16. I remmeber both those types of shoes as I worked in a shoe shop after school. The local Bobby used to also buy shoes and regularly came back and replaced them inside the guarrenttee time
  17. Having seen those cameras / speedwatch in Frettenham a few of years ago improperly using them trying to get "shots" of me on my motorscooter by raising their arm and trying to shoot over the top of a moving car. I would trust their results as much as a politicians words... (I was well below the limit about to turn right) Saying that sat in a pub, drinking heavily at a pub, taking pot shots at moving boats they'd probably be more accurate...
  18. That's why sailors use port and starboard that doesn't change
  19. Actually that's an international 2.4 metre. The 2.4 is a reference to a measuring rule, not it's length. They are about 12 to 14ft long depending on how the designer interprets the rule. There are at least 2 raced at Wroxham and they occasionally come down to Horning to race.
  20. radio controlled submarines at your command. http://rcmodelsubmarines.co.uk/
  21. https://horning-sailing.club/rclaser.php As you can see there is a sailing group of them at Horning Sailing club which sail on the River / Black Horse broad. (Wednesday Afternoons) At 0.35SqM I think that comes into the minimum size for a sailing boat and would cost £40
  22. thank you gentlemen thats something I had incorrect information on..
  23. Part of what London Rascal said with my interruptions " But...Imagine if you had all this capacity but a far smaller engine, an engine that actually did not do anything more than help re-charge batteries in an emergency. I am not talking of the set up Barnes Brinkcraft already have with their Rhapsody cruisers which are ‘Hybrid’ because really they are not truly Hybrid at all at least when you compare them to a Hybrid vehicle, but if their could be some joined up thinking electric boating could really come about. That's exactly what I've got, 24 batteries, a 48V 3kW generator, solar panels and the cables / chargers to charge up from a post if I can. The main issue is the electric posts were first put in at several moorings to try and ‘kick start’ electric cruising. The issue was they used standard 16 or 32 Amp connectors, and before long many boaters had got used to plugging in their boats to these amenities. Electric cruisers vanished and now are just for a few day boats here and there. Not quite, there are quite a few around the place, Motorboats and sailing boats with electric auxiliaries, we're just quiet about it... Meantime in the world of vehicles you have various manufactures chasing the ‘electric dream’ and this can only work if the charging infrastructure is there. What is needed on the Broads therefore are charging stations – just like that you see in many roads and service stations now, they not only have a bespoke charging socket but they communicate with whatever vehicle is being charged. In short, people cannot just turn up with any old lead and ‘nick’ the electricity. If such were to be in locations on the Broads, then it would mean that boatyards building new boats could invest in true electric propulsion and such posts would and could only be used by electric craft – sure keep the ‘legacy’ electric posts too but if people are serious about greener boating this is the only way the diesel engine is going to begin disappearing from hire boats. I think a GREAT MANY MORE POSTS that do both jobs would sort the problem. Problem for the moment is if a hire boat was all electric it could not be guarantee access to posts, if they are there, but for most areas there are no posts at all. For a large proportion of the public the posts would have to be at pubs, since you can't make a profit from the posts and they are expensive to fit and maintain, pubs won't fit them...
  24. My Dad as a child / young teenager, was sent down from Aldershot to my Grandparents quite regularly during WW2, and came back regularly carying a portion of pork. As those grandparents kept Pigs....
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