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Sunday late afternoon in Horning , two women dancing around in bikinis on top of a multi story gin palace. what's unusual with that? the club outside thermometer was registering 13 C!!! chilly...

No I prefer a defender to a discovery

They are promising half the A1270 will be open by Christmas. A1270 being the official number for the NDR. The bit not opened will be from Wroxham Road to the A47, but they are promising that by March...(I bet that's weather permitting). So from Christmas I'll be using a section of the NDR to work every day if it's open...

My mobile home faces out over fields for some miles. An opening double glazed toplight was hit and broken (inner and outer panes). We never found a round, but what else other than some sort of round could have done the damage? On the other hand, I don't know the area of the incident, but do they have bird scarers in the area? We've had them going just about all summer as they harvest one crop and plant another. Would a tourist know the difference between a bird scarer and some sort of weapon sound?

As I trundle up and down the river doing rescue boat duties over the years I've picked up many a mop with handle (and many other things) normally with no Identifying marks for ownership. I'm betting some holidaymaker lost his mop and nicked yours... The Sailing club I used to belong to In Milton Keynes, was raided by thieves who had seen the club from the M1, they hired a Luton van . Then came and broke in taking many laser /topper masts and associated laser /topper bits and pieces and also loaded some toppers and lasers into the van. They then went up north west somewhere to try to sell the gear.. Needless to say some men turning up in a Luton van trying to sell all that kit, rang alarm bells with the dealers who phoned the police. Shortly after the men were arrested and the kit returned. I don't think the owners of the kit even lost a days sailing!! Even though Norfolk and particularly North Norfolk has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. Crime does happen, mostly I think by outsiders. Every so often there is an outbreak of outboard theft which seems to start Martham way...

That is a possibility, but probably means getting a tailor made cover at even more vast expense than a good quality tarpaulin.

Yes they were for real, they were at one time being sold no questions asked to people who were using them for smuggling operations. I believe that particular company got closed down, whether that particular one was one of theirs or an innocent company I don't know.

Just thought of an interesting problem for me having an all over cover for the winter.. That's not going to make the solar panels very well, I need them to keep the batteries charged. Hmm time for a rethink....

if you go to chrome you'll just have constant requests from windows to switch back to explorer!! or Edge(YUK)

I see the headlines changed, it originally said " man rescues woman after falling into the river wensum" Pretty clever that, rescuing a woman after you've fallen in the water!! Since there has been no update saying woman dies I can only assume she luckily has survived...

A teacher's starting pay is about the same as my current pay, after 43 years working.....

A lady teacher ( from Norfolk) I knew was on her honeymoon in Australia, half way up Ayres rock (Uluru) she heard those dreaded words... Miss! MISS!!!

Grendels remarks about getting the harvest in are correct, I was going spud picking in the summer holidays in the 1970s. One problem with making a major changes to the holiday season would be the destruction of another way of life. The most common proposal I've seen from teachers is to make all major holidays the same length, of about 3 or 4 weeks. Do you fancy taking your holidays in October half term? You may wonder about my comment of destruction of way of life. At the moment should you be fit enough, you can sail at regattas through out the summer holidays. Moving the summer holidays around or shortening them would mean much reduced attendances at regattas and other summer events as you would end up with more events on at the same time.

I see boats trussed up like a Christmas turkey for the winter. But mostly with the normal canopy still on underneath. I wonder if removing the normal cover and then putting a tarpaulin on might be a good idea?

What do you mean blast from the past? it's still on now, we have that on the radio every Friday night at Broadland Model Railway Club.

I left 1988 so almost 30 years, it's the best pension they did, AFPS 75, they reduced it when AFPS 05 came in and it's been reduced again with AFPS 15. It's nowhere near enough to retire on, as I was medically down graded and booted out after 12 years.

That's it I'm now a grumpy old sod, agreed with almost everything he said. Which reminds me I must send off for my military pension..

For those of us from GWR area a Halt was an unmanned stop, whether it was a request halt, or a programmed halt. normally with a sleeper built platform and a tin shed for shelter The shortest lived halt, I believe, was at Sutton Staithe, it lasted less than 2 years... which I think didn't get a real platform or shelter..

Yacht stations, I think that quite nicely backs up my position. I think the only reason "train stations" came about was reporters / newsreaders trying to save one syllable off of their reports. I saw a remake of Colditz not long ago, the British officer said train stations on that, which he would never have done, but would have called it a railway station.

Every where is attempting to get a 3rd Crossing, last Night Mike was in Great Yarmouth doing a piece on them getting a 3rd crossing...

Which brings us to an interesting point there must be thousands of people in Norwich alone, using this stuff to clean their driveways . From there it flow into the road drains which are often not connected to the sewerage works but straight to rivers and streams...

1 salt water is heavier that fresh water, therefore when the tide starts flowing in the water beneath is flowing in while the water on top will flow out (at first) 2, The water doesn't take 4.5 hour to reach Potter from Yarmouth , it pushes the water In front of it while raising the level. Except when you go from a high air pressure period lowering the north Sea, to a low air pressure raising the North sea. Then enough Salt water flows up the system to produce the fish kills we get around Potter. 3 I've been at Horning (Technically Hoveton) above Black Horse broad, in a rescue boat being pushed by the tide upriver at 1 MPH against the wind. 4, At Potter Bridge, the tide is sufficiently strong coming in to Make it very difficult to paddle against it. 5, The tidal cycles on the broads are very approximate, I always allow for an extra Hour tide going out than coming in, which allows the rain water to escape. 6, Then you have the air pressure to contend with, and that is compounded with the wind blowing down the north sea. if the get Low Air pressure, with the wind blowing down the north sea and heavy rain. then Norfolk is in trouble as it's the recipe for floods.. A bit of an officious way of putting it but it's the only way my brain keeps a clue as what going on...

Traditionally a bus station is where omnibuses become stationary. Railway stations are where railway trains become stationary, not camel trains or trains of thought... Similarly unlike the duty womble said on the news the other day the When Peppercorn A1 class Tornado, Visited Great Yarmouth she is a railway Locomotive, not a train as the idiot said.. and not a road locomotive.. Also technically a railway locomotive is not a railway engine, because the engine on a railway locomotive is the pistons, cylinders and valve gear, which is mounted on a chassis with a boiler and all the other gubbins to make the Locomotive..

Hmm, it didn't say that on the bottle I bought, But as I said I'll take the fenders off and once they've been cleaned, wash them off before returning them to the boat...

Patio Magic is a chemical for cleaning the green off of concrete patios, it says on the bottle it's bio-degradeable. I saw it on a forum somewhere it being recommended for cleaning boat covers, so I decided to try it on my decks and hull. The north side of the boat used to go green within 3 months of washing, I've tried detergents / bleach / expensive boat cleaning stuff. But none has worked as well as patio magic and I only used it at less than half the recommended strength. It's been over 9 months now and only the bits I think I may have missed are showing any sign of green... Next time down, I'm intending to take the fenders and their ropes off and washing them down with it...