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http://www.raf.mod.uk/reds/aboutus/hawkaircraft.cfm The RAF were flying the Hawk T1 trainer aircraft they are moving to the T2. It is likely the Arrows will also move to the T2 but what the differences are for the Arrows I have no Idea

The chain saws were still going last night on the road I live on, they have finally chopped up the fallen trees and done some surgery on the remaining trees.

Well last night I went out to a leaving work dinner (he had been there 38 years). Later this month I have the Horning Sailing club rigging out dinner and then The Snowflake Sailing Club, End of season dinner and prize giving..... Still struggling to keep to a diet...

I followed a 5mph below the limit driver this morning, past two schools , in a 20mph limit, he took forever to get past the cyclist, while he on the wrong side of the road... ( it was 06:15 this morning not many chlidren around then) The most annoying type of driver I often come across in Norfolk are those who drive at 40mph through the 30 limit villages, and then drive at 40mph on the clear roads with a 60 limit... Oh for added fun, there is a water main burst at the Coltishall Triangle at the junction of the Norwich road and the Hoveton road, just wait till they put the lights up and dig holes. That's going to cause chaos....

Not closed but very dishevelled, they are supposed to be extending the Shefield supertram system through to Rotherham. http://www.sypte.co.uk/tramtrain/ SWMBOs Uncle who died last year, was a tram / trolley bus / bus driver in Rotherham starting just pre WW2, so you were probably a passenger of his at some point..

Dartmoor is owned for the most part by the MOD and is offically a Military Firing Range, therefore the army have no problems at all!! it's the public that have to keep their head down. Very like Salisbury plain if the red flags are flying, don't even think about it... I never met Ted Ellis, but have quite often sailed against his grandson Matt ( and usually lost). I only had a problem once with access once, we were practicing for the Ten Tors, and somewhere not too far from Banwell (near Weston super-mare) we were following a public foot path right up to a gate which we opened and let ourselves through before attempting to carry on. There was a gate the other side of the garden matching that point. At this point a woman came out of the house really shouting at us and giving us abuse saying the public foot path was a bit further down the field. We did turn round and go that way. But later found out we had gone the right way in the first place, the house owners had extended their garden and spent years trying to get the footpath diverted unsuccessfully...

Yes... I'm told I could speak Greek before I started school, through playing with all the local children in Cyprus. But I lost all of it very soon after, I left Northern Ireland with an Irish accent, left Wiltshire with a proper west country accent etc... The sister born in Cyprus, had difficulty getting a passport issued because some Numpty didn't recognise that British Military Hospital Dhekelia, in Cyprus was British territory.. SWMBO is from .... Rotherham

A minute amount, My accent is lost somewhere between ( in order), Somerset / Cyprus / Northern Ireland / Wiltshire / The Highlands / Lothian / Milton Keynes / Lincolnshire / Somerset / Norfolk / Yorkshire / Norfolk / Essex / The Outer Hebrides / Northumberland / Milton Keynes / the Falklands / Milton Keynes / Saudi Arabia / Norfolk. (plus regular Visits to Lothian). Depending on how you measure it, I've moved 20 to 30 Times, though for the last 15 years here in Norfolk, it might be time to apply for a Norfolk passport soon... My brother is fluent in the Gàidhlig, and my younger sister can understand much of it. But the older sister and myself went to School in Inverness and Learnt only the English. I do know some of the Gàidhlig, but much of that has been learnt since, from my liking of History, books on the Highlands, books on the Jacobite rebellions and some books on the UK languages including an absolutely tiny amount of Old English...

You can say anything is healthy or unhealthy. There are many reports that olive oil shoud be avoided, (especially if cooking) A packet of Crisps has more vitamin C than an apple ( but less than an orange). I live in the countryside in Norfolk , What's a Bus? Bacon rolls are now restricted to Sunday morning down at the sailing club when I'll burn them off. I've been on a diet for many years as a diabetic who's allergic to caffine. Unfortunately the many years of doing sport, has now caused pain from many joints, hence a reduction in activity. So it's ever more difficult to keep this waistline under control. Pancakes tonight, yes I know we are a day late, that was unavoidable, lemon juice and sugar subsitute

Oh that definition of camping is of course the modern one. If you have an field near you shown as the camping ground that does not mean it was meant for putting tents up. The orginal meaning of camping was field sports like the old mayhem version of rugby /football or archery. The fact these events often were part of what today, would be called a fete or market, where people would put up tents and stalls led to the transfer of the name...

The big difference is that in Scotland you can park/, camp /walk / anywhere that causes no damage to the property ( and does not infringe other bylaws). Travellers unfortunately are renown for cutting up playing fields with vehicles and leaving vast amounts of rubbish behind... In England theoretically you could not, until recently, do any of those things without the land owners permission, be it State / council or private. The recent changes in England mean you are now allowed to walk on land that is designated as allowable to do so, which basically means non crop growing land, that is not a garden or factory yard. But you can't go camping. Note, the right of access to things like Kinder Scout and National Parks was allowed on the fact, that you do no damage to the land by walking on it. However they often now have to close paths, because the huge masses of people walking across the peat is causing damage. So outside of things like military bases, the imposition of this new bylaw in Scotland is a major event. I know being a member of things like the Scottish Railway preservation Society, we have had problems with people trying to use the right to roam, to gain access to the Railway during open days.. And Riyadhcrews problems with travellers in Scotland very much apply to Norfolk especially during the summer holiday season, when traveller turn up and try to take over School playing fields or GT Yarmouth seafront.

Not if you work for an American Company with American spell checkers it isn't

I can't see the problem a puff is a slight extra bit of wind and a pouf is a soft foot stool...

You mean between a puff and a pouf?

The glacial explanation, which I was taught at school, along with things like the tilt rebound of the UK does bear out the 3 inches of soil and then sand when I lived near Horning. Timbo if I've got this right, þancian

Your aunty failed what?

On Sunday I went to the sailing club, to find something rather large missing... The flag pole, its got about 30ft of steel tubing then another 20 or 30 foot of wooden top mast. Seemingly the topmast broke at the metal-wood join, and the whole thing has been removed for repair. I'm told that several dinghies on the island fell over in the wind but nothing major occured. When Putting out the buoys we discovered that one of the four Mooring ropes on my motorboat had frayed through, so the bow was rubbing on the quay heading. Not suprisingly it was the windward mooring rope on the river side of the mooring. The now somewhat shorter mooring rope has been reattatched, it was the oldest one I had been planning to replace anyway. A trip up the river showed, just one private boat on it's chalet mooring had a blown in window in it's cockpit cover and a very old wooden shed that is on a plot that was abandoned until recently has lost it's roof..

I've one old full size apple tree down in the garden, some sawing has been done today, Saturday, but it was blowing 45mph today with the occasional shower. I went to Catfield Friday night, they still had no power.

The London councils built the Lakes estate in Milton Keynes and shipped everyone they didn't want out there. If your car goes missing in MK that's where it will be as a burnt out wreck.

yep I'd agree with Grendel, my version of both windows 10 and Office Pro are the latest version and are obtained through the company. We can have one purchase per person, and that will allow two computers to be loaded up. Windows 10 or Office Pro costs 10 dollars (I work for an American company) so it costs in pounds whatever that works out to be... My versions give me the option of being online or on computer. I stay on computer,... I would never use a rented software... The company long since gave up using external anti virus systems, and now all the thousands of computers round the world just use MS built in systems. I just use IOBIT advanced system care(free version) to keep everything tidied up. DON'T LOAD THEIR OPTIONAL ANTI VIRUS, it turns off the MS system.

Norwich airport is reporting around 50Mph, the metal roof of this building by the airport can be heard wobbling.

Do Sport and stay fit, Big right toe, Damaged by Yeoman owner, while racing said Yeoman , she, aged 70+ landed on it heavily. Knees damaged, volleyball and laser sailing. Lower back damaged , sliding into a base playing baseball, not helped by laser sailing, re-awoken by Yeoman sailing and moving a Reedling keelboat. Left elbow damaged, Laser sailing, still holding mainsheet when planing and washed off the deck by ploughing into a wave. We didn't get a TV till I was about 8 or 9, the first thing I remember on it was an overvalued sport being played in 1966. Saturdays, crisps, sandwich, orange squash, wrestling, rallycross. 1971, Outer hebridies, back to black and white, BBC1 only..... Never really got into watching much TV, still don't

I do occasionally tow my own dinghy and unless just across the river, it would be centre tied. From the point of view of someone sailing the other other way. The sudden appearance of an unmanned dinghy corner tied on, on a long lead, swerving out in front of you, is a definate hazard. Several times I've seen boats wrapped / trapped in the painter, between motorboat and dinghy. The confusion of sailing in one direction to suddenly being towed backwards with an off centre pull is quite dangerous. It is most useful to be able to row across from one side of a river to the packed other when needed.

My bill arrived that won't get paid until the last week in March, as usual. Also the same day came the letter from HMG showing how much tax I paid this year. At least BA spelt my name right, HMG spelt it wrong....In two places!!!