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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.

I've never owned a train set in my life.... Cyclists who think because the Council have designated your road as a "quiet lane" think you have no right to drive on it at any speed. Cyclist who go around mob handed at one of their events blocking the roads with huge mobs, and are surpised when you come round the corner on the correct side of the road, but are driving straight at them. I like annoying cyclists by driving my landrover at the correct legal maximum speed.... Therefore slowing them down... City drivers coming up here on holiday who think that driving with the white line down the middle of the car is the correct way to drive down a narrow main road. City drivers who think because there isn't a white line down the middle of the road they should use all of it. Tourists who throw their macdonalds packaging out on to the road, before they get to their caravan site.(Happens every summer near the Cremated Swan at Ingham, which must be the consumption of food distance from Roys Macdonalds...) Even though you have driven far past the last passing place on a single track road, Old ladies who then drive 10ft past the next passing place towards you and refuse to reverse, even though you have 25ft of trailer behind you... I buy carefully selected Model locomotives, carriages and wagons before converting them to EM guage. Therefore requiring me to hand build 18.2mm Gauge track and pointwork...

There are sleeping bags and there are sleeping bags, Buy a four Seasons sleeping bag of a reputable manufacture, from a climbing / hiking shop, then you'll be warm. Mine was made in Sweden many years ago and served me many times in an unheated Lysander sailing cruiser in the depths of winter..

It's been announced on the radio the A1151 Wroxham road is now open. Just for added fun at the Cremated Swan pub, In Ingham, the road heading south past the church, will be closed just beyond the church , from the 24th OCT to the 30th OCT inclusive... electricity works?

People who call Railway stations, train stations

Our show is in a Church Hall in Aylsham. So the Friday afternoon before the show those members who can go over there early afternoon, for soon as another group has finished it's use of the hall. Our club members take with them, banners/ notices, our trestle tables, and lots of bits and pieces that are required. First almost all the chairs are removed from the hall, there is over a hundred I think and some temporary staging that normally lives in there.. Then a big roll of masking tape, the drawing of the layouts and a couple of big tape measures. We then go round marking out the corners of each layout with tape,. there are also two back rooms that also need marking out. We then layout three mains supplies into the three "Islands" of layouts that are created in the hall. There is luckily plenty of Sockets round the edge of the hall, so we don't have to worry about the layouts there. (I'll have PAT tested any extension cables as required) Then the club layouts are installed, we normally put them in one of the back rooms, as once we start filling up they are more difficult to access carrying layouts. Some time in the afternoon one or two local layouts, or the odd one from further afield where we have afforded to pay for overnight accomodation arrive along with some of the traders. We help them in and show them to hteir places. We clear the back portacabin of soft furniture and layout the tables and chairs for the exhibitors meals. By 19:00 we have finished for the day, the hall caretaker wants to go home... Saturday, we arrive by 07:00 when the caretaker will arrive with the keys, We may have been via the club house in Catfield to pick up anything that has been forgotten. We put the banners out, the A board, and another club member will be doing the grand tour putting up our road signs all over the place. Very Shortly after the rest of the traders and layouts start arriving, all show to their places and assistance given where required to get them in. This year no panics over power and it all worked.. As usual a slight jiggling about of the odd layout where the dimensions declared, didn't quite line up with the details they had sent. The Ladies arrive, these were the British Legion Ladies section Aylsham, until that got disbanded. They continue to run our tea bar and do the meals in return for a share of the profits for their group from the show. Shortly after it's bacon Rolls all round and a mug of coffee. At MRC shows anywhere, you normally get unlimited tea and coffee for the exhibitors and the main meal provided free. We are unusual in providing a bacon butty before opening time.. I issue the radios to the car park stewards and the front desk so they can call for help if required. 10 o'clock Opening time All the Members and co-opted helpers take their places. 2 down at the Bure Valley Railway Car park stewarding, 3 at the hall car park stewarding. 2 taking money for entry, 2 running the tombola stall, 4 running the club Layouts, 2 running club demonstration stands, 4 of us stewarding in the halls. / replacements for others when breaks are required. 6 ladies doing the food. 16:00 close the doors, Go out and remove the banners and A board assist in the removal of layouts to vans and cars. remove our own layouts, and trestle tables . Collect the radios. Hover the Halls Layout all the chairs for the Sunday morning service. One club member does the grand tour again collecting all the signs. Be out by 19:00 Head back to the club house, deposit all the gear in piles for sorting later. Go home around 21:00 During the week the club members will sort out all the gear and pack it away, I'll charge the radios before they get put away. Next week debrief, which takes us back to the beginning. I've probably missed out a lot of what else goes on the back ground but then I don't see it all...

Just thought I'd roughly go into what goes into a model railway Exhibition. Though I must admit I'm not an organiser I'm just a labourer when required. We had our annual show last week , so this week or next we will have a debrief over how it went. Anything coming out of that will be incorporated into next Years show, which we started planning last year, the more popular layouts need booking 2 years ahead.... We have a scale drawing on card of the hall, as each layout accepts an invite a cutout is made to fit on the drawing. Each owner is asked on a form, the overall area they need and the area of the layout itself. They are also dietry requirements for the meal, the number of operators they will bring and a break down of what their expenses would roughly be required. The main thing is the book... the book contains all the invited layouts, the reserve layouts, and the traders and societies invited. Being just a small local club we can't afford to bring in layouts from outside east anglia. So whenever someone goes to a show and sees something interesting, we hope they take a picture and details of the layout and owner for the book. We have an arrangement with a few clubs in East anglia that each year we will normally send them a different one of our layouts, and they send theirs to ours. We also try to show one or two of our clubs or club members layouts each year. We try and get a range of scales, a range of interests and a range of layout sizes. So this year we had N(2mm to the foot), OO(4mm to the foot), EM (4mm to the foot but more accurate), and 009 (4mm to the foot narrow gauge). with the Smallest layout being 2ft by 1 ft, the largest being about 20ft long. For interests we had Thomas the tank engine, various layouts of different British railway companies, and american railway layouts and this year a totally weird ScFi layout which the kids seemed to like. For traders who tend to be regular each year We have the Bure Valley Railway Shop, for new items. Joe Lock from down London way for Secondhand Items, Bob Pearman from Kings Lynn for books. Then a couple of other traders which change most years. During the year there are checks with each layout operator that they are still coming, this year we lost one a couple of weeks before the show due to illness. Part two will arrive shortly with the show itself...