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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...

I have a book on lost railways of Norfolk and it shows an intact but boarded up Catfield station in 1965. So the bridge / course of the railway had not been turned into the A149 by then. Unfortunately that's the youngest picture on this section of line.

Personnally I doubt the bridge is sinking, Boats are getting very much bigger and the sea level is rising (and has been since the last ice age)

Congratulations to all, Remember you can always hand these ones back Remember to book him in for sailing lessons for 8 years time

Well, the winter racing season will soon be upon us and Snowflake Sailing Club, based in Horning will start the season with the Tri-Icyicle race. This race is a mini 3 rivers but no short legs and no Bridges to go under. Tri-Icicle: Sponsored by Alan Boswell Insurance Briefing at 9.30 a.m. The start time and location will be advised on the morning. A long passage race with turning marks depending on conditions but around Oby Dyke and Womack Dyke. Trophies for Cruisers, Keelboats, Yeomans and Dinghies. SFSC pennant for first RCC. Cruisers are welcome to moor in front of the club until the autumn down river the following Saturday. Entry Fee: £20 and £12 for single handers. Minimum PY 1250 or less. The race is always timed to try and get everyone back before sunset.. If the wind is poor then we are often towed down to say the Horning water works and start / finish there. For non-competitors then viewing points are limited on land, the pubs in Horning if the wind is good, and the walk to any river bank on the course you can get to. By boat anywhere on the course you can find a mooring, Cockshoot Dyke and St Benets straight are good places. We would hope for 30 to 50 boats but that again depends on the weather!!!

Gas for heating, it is assumed if you are up and about that when cooking you are awake enough to be going in and out of the cabin letting fresh air in. IF you use you cooker for heating and asleep or not doing a lot laying about on your bunk then you are all done up with the doors and windows shut Therefore burning up your oxygen supply. There is a regualtion In the BSS that specifies a minimum area of non closeable ventilation to the outside world... I used to sleep on my Lysander sailing boat in the winter, arm out of four season sleeping bag , reach across and light the cooker, kettle preprepared on top, with draw arm, watch frost slowly melting down the windows. when kettle boils, get half out and make the first cup of tea...

To My Knowlege BA don't provide any facilities except for an ever decreasing number of 24 hour moorings, there may be the odd parish supplied tap But I don't know of them. Oh if you've paid for a mooring you get the water for free at GT Yarmouth and Norwich yacht stations http://www.broads-authority.gov.uk/boating/facilities/yacht-stations at GY they also have showers for the cost of £1 If you go to http://www.thegreenbook.org.uk/ then click on the green book tab on the left then click on the tab for electricity water etc on there you will see all the boats yards, where you will normally have to pay to use anything.

According to the radio, Britvic wishes to close their production lines for Robertsons squash and Fruit Shoot, with the loss of around 340 jobs. Unilever share the site to produce Colmans Mustards and Mints etc, due to them sharing facilities, Unilever are now reviewing the Colmans production, if that goes it will be another 100+ jobs lost.

The Bure Valley Railway (narrow gauge) Runs from Wroxham and Hoveton railway station (well across the road from) to Aylsham alongside there is a foot path along side for most of the way.

North of Stalham, the line becomes a foot path for some miles. Then you lose it as it crosses the river / North Walsham canal (Bridge gone) You can then follow it the other side, to around Briggate. Shortly after that at the junction of the old and New A149 to north Walsham it disappears under the New A149 till you get to North Walsham Station area. South of Potter Heigham New bridge, which is on the site of the old railway bridge, most of the line has been reincorporated into the fields. I believe if you know where to look you can find some bits of the old line, the Kingsway road in Hemsby is part of the old track bed, and across the old Yarmouth road you can see more of the old line heading for California. From there it became another road that is the southern limit for California but effectively disappears from there on and onwards it went along the coast to Caister and then a few hundred yards inland near the race course to Yarmouth

If I buy Bosch these days it's in the even cheaper range of light green. That is the parkside range from Aldi. If I want a good piece of kit now it's Makita.

As I suspected at the Swan in Ingham, there have been changes, the road is now open but single lane in any direction with 4 way traffic lights. There is a huge skip outside the sad remains of the pub and accompanying houses. The end house on the corner has has it's chimney and end wall reduced the eaves height instead of chimney height. There are some metal fencing panels protecting the site. Having now driven round part of the new roundabout on the Wroxham road a couple of times, I am more convinced it's going to be a accident blackspot. It's got sorts of strange slopes on it which will catch people out.

Well one out of 6 isn't bad, Though silverline and powerbase are probably out of the same factory in China, and Metabo are German Like Bosch!! (though separate companies) is dark green the colour of all tools from Germany? excuses excuses (from me)

That, definately a surfeit of drills... Looking at the colours, one Bosch, two silverline, two older royobi or possibly hitachi or something else, then a makita? I like the holder though, something I might copy...

I could quite easily see the pub being knocked down, after all it's not a historic building after being bombed and later burnt down there can't be a lot left of the original 1835 pub and absolutley nothing of the 1040AD Mead hall.... As for replacement buildings a line of chalets on stilts matching what's along the rest of the river would probably pass the planner. However in this case, I think the pub chain is selling the pub for the cash, when you get reports like this https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2017/09/01/HSBC-pub-market-report-2017 I would bet they are selling out to build up cash reserves, as many pubcos are heavily in debt.

Just to confirm the closure of Wroxham road in the dip where the NDR is being built is going ahead from 20:00 Friday http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/politics/council-bosses-confirm-closure-of-a1151-wroxham-road-because-of-norwich-northern-distributor-road-work-1-5219259 If you go that way before or after part of the roundabout has been built, so you will be driving in semi-circles... I also note the road By The Swan at Ingham (near Stalham) is still closed, there was a lorry parked nearby with a big load of road signs this morning, so there may be some changes.

They also started building a line but almost immediately stopped building it. This line would have run from mundsley, to happisburgh to sea palling and eventually to Great Yarmouth beach Station, ( beach Station was roughly half way between the current bus depot and the beach). I did consider building a model of part of this but other areas attracted me more.

I was bought a new silver cross pram when I was a few months old by a junior Officer in the RAF while I Cyprus. Something to do with the officer coming round the corner in a car a knocking me (in the old pram) and my mother off of the road.... Saturday... CBT.. for me to use my Motor scooter, I was Ok no problems with 42 years of car driving and 6 on motorscooters, but the course included 1 who done some driving , and the other two were total beginners. This lead to a looooong day especially when one had a meltdown towards the end of the course and wanted to give up... at least it was dry and sometimes sunny. Sunday, continuing building a new garden wall for the house, got drizzled on for most of the day while the dog laid down under the Landrover and watched... I'm sure he was laughing...

I agree whole hear I agree whole heartedly, except for a couple of spectacular crashes I saw in some compilation somewhere.