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if you are on the river at Horning we'd get least another two boats through that gap.

As long as it's not red and orange and smoke..... I won't go near anything made by Beko with their record...

When you get spring tides the wate empties out of the broads more than normal at low tide and fills more than Normal from the sea at High tide. Added to this we had a storm over the north sea, giving low air pressure, raising the water level more. Therefore you'll get salt water surge up the broads

A great set of pictures, Luckily me and Ben the Border collie avoided being in any of them (were were watching at the start)

LandRover owners (real ones) that are no longer producedwave at each other. A nod of the head on my motorscooter As to waving on the water I do if I've a spare hand which is not often when sailing, but normally when motoring...

Rushmere, I believe was the Cruiser non finisher, I don't know why.

I've also just heard that just 2 boats failed to finish, one White boat and one cruiser. I believe the winning cruiser was Catspaw. This is their stock photo from the river cruiser class pages.

They're off!!!! The first start was 10:30, 7 starts over 50 minutes. Reduced numbers due to the weather. Course Horning, The Bure at oby dyke,. Thurne mill, Horning Most cruisers heavily reefed..

Slow down, Relax, If you can't walk as fast as the bank is going past you're speeding. Mooring up remember 0800 round a cleat, if it's a ring take the rope through the ring twice and then tie back on deck using 0800. Getting off a lee shore bank, loop the bow rope (tightly) to the mooring post behind the bows position and tie back on board, undo the stern. Climb aboard hanging a fender between the boat and bank , drive slowly forward steering into the bank, when the stern is at least 45 degrees out into the river undo rope and retrieve, reverse off...

Car drivers who think that because I have L plates on my scooter think I'm going to hold them up and will do anything to get, past.... When it's capable of any legal speed on the roads... I'm just sticking to the speed limits...

Hadric Hagrid Not quite as magical as hydraulics, but I prefer electrics..

Try being a supermarket manager trying to stack all the stuff for the last week of the Christmas rush, and then some prat at head office sends several cages of Easter eggs...

It doesn't look good for our big race the next morning... http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/weather/weather-warning-for-norfolk-and-waveney-1-5241815

I must admit that those remarks on why the broads is not / should not be, a national Park are some of the best explanations I've seen in the EDP...

Thanks for your help so far, the sign I've got has the compasses between the paws, not huge infront of the lion, and of course my sign has a crown above it's head... I had come across that Lion and compass place in the USA in my searches, in fact it's seems to dominate the net, getting in the way of the searches...

A couple of years ago I dug out of my garden what looked like a garden slab.... Until I turned it over. The sign is about 2ft6 inch high and 18 inches wide cast concrete. On it, in positive relief, there is a lion standing on its hind legs, holding a pair of compasses between its front paws ( but no set square as in a masonic symbol) and a crown floating above the lions head. Now the house is on the site of a pub closed 1895, so I'm wondering if it's some sort of brewery sign. You would not go to the effort of making a mold for this, just for one pub though.. Has anyone any ideas to confirm its origin?

Just what is it do the supply industries have against people in the countryside near Stalham? Having had the problems of the cremated Swan, the electric people are closing the road past the church. I drive back today past the cremated Swan down the hill to find the road from Ingham corner towards Lessingham closed, no pre warning, no signs until you reach the closure. Although there have been blue marks on the road for a fortnight. The diversion takes you towards Palling then turns right back to the cremated Swan!!!! They are idiots!!!!

#. is sharp (musical) or octothorpe Hash is corned beef and potato mixture Tag is a label...

Richard Bacon... Another weatherman.... also has a model railway...

I've spoken to a lady who remembers that she could not go beneath the railway bridge as they were taking it down at the time. She worked out that was 1968.. If Natural England had their way we could all have gone round the Medieval Bridge.... Out via GT Yarmouth up the coast and back in via the new coastal eastury through the abandoned sea defences...

oh dear more problems, http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/environment/broads-authority-denies-targeting-houseboat-owner-1-5237631 and I seem to remember that one of the excuses for not dredging was the contamination of the spoils... http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/environment/valuable-dredged-broads-sediment-has-many-uses-1-5237627

I would of thought Pride and Predudice more appropriate

No but this stupid version of Windows 10 is, it's stopping often, it didn't show any updates to the site (or anything else) for about ten minutes. I think there are mass updates to the hundreds of computers in this Building going on...

They went bust, too much Far eastern carp, not enough finely modelled stock. I use Emgs... http://www.emgs.org/ Or locally Great Eastern Models in Norwich http://www.greateasternmodels.co.uk/ Or Bouys toys in Cromer Or The Bure Valley Railway shop in Aylsham http://www.bvrw.co.uk/shop/model-railway/ They are the places to go for people of discernment...

Many are on wooden piles driven in, some have had this replaced by steel piling, I have seen some on horizontal railway sleepers.