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Martham boats do sailing and dinghy hire. If not just a canoe from them.

Their closure gave several sailing clubs mud weights for their buoys, there are a lost of old shoe lasts down in that mud folks..

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Not all the bridge is medieval..

It was only in the 1960s that Dr Lambert's theory that the broads were mostly medieval peat cuttings was accepted. Prior to that they were officially thought to be natural, therefore back then the " tidal " aspect applied. Today it doesn't, however retrospective changes to various changes in broads status as public or private would be very difficult to make happen.

Vaughan you are incorrect in suggesting all tidal waters are required be open by law.. That only applies to Natural waters, it does not apply to manmade waters,. If you build a drive way to your house it does not mean it becomes a public road. If you dig a dyke to your boat yard it does not become public waters. Equally because the majority of broads are manmade peat diggings, it does not mean they are public waterways, unless established unchallenged for many years by custom and use.

I don't know about new year, I'm still waiting for my families Christmas cards to arrive from Scotland.

For added fun they are coning off outside BQ at Hellsdon, for 12weeks!!! More cycle lanes no one uses. Also road works just north of boundary road, on the Coltishall re, are about to start.

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Well in this not a national park, that bridge isn't really sinking, over the 6 or 700 years since it's been built, the land of the broads have dropped by about, 6-10 inches ( glacial isostatic adjustment), sea levels have risen by about 8 inches since 1900 after the roughly stable period 1400-1900. So the bridge height is reduced by 14 to 18 inches since it's been built. The biggest problem with boats going under the bridge is the ever increasing size of boats..not just height, but width, you look at the old woodies of martham boats, they are considerably narrower than modern boats and it's those top corners that stops boats going through.

If you observe the chain of cameras there is one that is different to the others.. That is the one just South of Catfield, it has lights on high and a cabinet at its base. I believe that that camera has been set up to work independently, and is the only one that has worked..

At RAF Neatishead in the R12 Building ( the big green block) Was a piece of kit I looked after.. it was still in use till some time between 1990 and 1994.. It sent information to another station at a massive.... 110 baud.

This page includes several of Horning of the 1930s and before, including the sign by the Swan , where the southern comfort now moors. The sign reads Horning Town Sailing Club which ceased to exist in 1938, Horning Sailing club was formed a few months later. https://www.broadlandmemories.co.uk/1900to1949gallery3.html

Ferranti that's modern stuff, I used to live in Bletchley Park The Bombe Computer.

Just make sure it's got a good handle on the back to lift them out. Most dogs will float quite happily without a life jacket until they very tired.

Thermal gloves, tick, Very warm Buoyancy suit, tick, Fur lined boots, tick, Woolley hat, tick , In twenty minutes I'm heading to the sailing club, to put the buoys out and then go sailing...

or maybe they've just taken account of the ever increasing weed problems on the broads

Sounds a good reason to go to the model railway club tonight.

Came through NDR / Wroxham road this morning no sign of any closure..

Doesn't need to be a low loader, years ago a Lysander 17ft going to a broads meeting leapt off it's trailer and impaled itself on the hand rails, (up river side of Hoveton bridge, the old flat topped metal overbridge not the current curved one), I was in the traffic for that one too.. Luckily on both occasions I was coming from the Coltishall direction.

For Radio I take a 12ft wooden mast with me , to make sure I can contact base during the Three Rivers Race. Once I fit my motor boat for TV and radio I'm intending to fit a telescopic mast to get a good height.

If BA want zero emission boats then BA are going to have to install more electric posts..

I was getting to Tescos Stalham at 17:45 no sign of the sellers there.

Didn't see a single poppy seller this year, every time I went into a Tesco's the table was bare.. Tesco's Caister has 5 water tanks above the ceiling... not a lot people know that... End of season Retirements... as on other thread... that'll be me then, 18 of my work days to go plus 15 minutes. No I am not available for hire, SWMBO has a list...

The road works on Wroxham road at Blue boar lane have cleared... So... The NDR Wroxham road roundabout is down to single lane from all directions including the roundabout itself.. Strangely the times I've been through it appears to be flowing better than normal.. And The Hoveton - Stalham road at the North Walsham junction has traffic lights and this morning they're not working properly...