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Nice to see posts from the Nogs, welcome back Howard. Always enjoy reading about your boating experiences, Keep 'em coming.
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I don't have the knowhow or the equipment for photos I'm afraid. I just about manage to use the computer for the most basic stuff. Sorry.
Carole
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On Friday we decided to head off to the boat for a few days arriving just after midday. got unloaded settled down for a quiet afternoon with the papers and then off to the Ferry Inn for dinner. It was very quiet in there thanks to the somewhat grim weather probably. We enjoyed a very nice meal and then back to the boat for a little t.v. a nice glass or two of red and than to bed. Saturday morning it was our intention to meet up with Sam and Graham (Lulu on Luna). We arranged to see them at St. Benets Abbey moorings. We had a small drama as we left our mooring when we discovered that our stern thruster had developed a fault and wouid not work to starboard.SAm and Graham were there well before us and knowing we were under way Sam texted to warn us that the padddle boarders were around where we were heading So I texted back not to worry and that we were at ramming stations! We negotiated the paddle boarders without incident and moored next but one to Luna. We enjoyed a lovely couple of hours chatting before they left to go back onto their boat and we had a light lunch before spending a peaceful afternoon watching the comings and goings on the river. The weather was still dull and chilly. Sunday we woke to much the same with a little mist thrown in for good measure. Sam and Graham headed off to Womak and shortly after we headed off to Horning where we found to our great surprise the whole staithe unoccupied. We moored, plugged in and spent a lovely day.,the latter part in brilliant sunshine, watching the river activity before heading back to our mooring at Ferry at about 5.00pm. Fortunately as we were reversing onto our mooring a fellow berth holder appeared and took our ropes so the defunctive thruster didn't cause a problem. we ate dinner on board and watched a little t.v. before going to bed. Monday we did little or nothing but relax and early evening Gary from Sheerline popped in on his way home from the yard and fixed our offending thruster. this morning it was an early start, well earlyish, clean the boat (inside) pack and then home. a v thoroughly enjoyable few days
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This time of the year is great for Rhodedendrons and Azaleas. When we lived in North London we always used to make a point of going to Kenwood, Hampstead, on a Sunday afternoon where there was a spectacular show of both these shrubs and where they used to serve a delicious candlelit afternoon tea accompanied by a pianist.
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My daughter and son-in-law stayed at the Wroxham Hotel for a few days last August and we took a temporary mooring at Barnes while they were there. We elected to eat at the hotel the first night for the convenience as much as anything. The food was so excellent and the waiters such great fun and so thoroughly entertaining we made it our regular for their whole stay.
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What a lovely thing to happen on such an auspicious day.There's nothing quite like a granddaughter to brighten your world. Warmest congratulations.
Carole
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We watched till they returned to the palace. What a great show they put on. About the concern that there would be some trouble makers trying something on. With the cream of our military in attendance in their hundreds , many with fixed bayonets, anybody that tried something dodgy would have come seriously unstuck! That's if the great crowd didn't lynch them first! What a great show it was. I felt for our poor queen she looked terrified. The military were magnificent in their splendour and a credit to us as always. I glowed with national pride at the whole spectacle.
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Tony and I will watch it on the t.v. at home. No one does pomp and ceremony like we Brits. And with so much anti establishment being bandied about these days it will be great to watch something that says something good about our great country. I'm also deliighted we will have "Queen" Camilla. That's only right and proper.
Carole
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34 minutes ago, Gracie said:
You stick to delivering chocolates Mt, my address is.........
I have a hospital appointment today, always worrying but I'll be okay, hopefully I'll have chocolate tonight
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Hope all, goes well at the Hospital Gracie,.I know how worrying that can be.
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16 hours ago, Chelsea14Ian said:
I've not seen any JR this year.Dont know what's going on.
We've getting them in Aldi for the last 2-3 weeks
Carole
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when my daughter was in her early 20s but still living at home. she decided she wanted to get another dog to fill the hole left by the death of Toby our beloved blue roan Cocker Spaniel the previous year. Another Spaniel was going to have too much to live up to which wouldn't have been fair so she chose an English setter. His name was Raffles. A name he lived up to in that he was an impeccably bred thief! He was also as mad as a box of frogs and an absolute oaf into the bargain! At the same time a friend had acquired a chocolate coloured Doberman Bitch puppy called Elsie who was as big a lunatic as was Raffles. She and I used to take these two loveable rogues for long rambling walks in the coluntryside every afternoon staying out for hours with them in the vain hope that perhaps they may be so tired by evening we may get a couple of hours of peace, to enjoy a quiet glass of wine or even maybe watch a favourite tv programme. It rarely happened. Elsie grew up to be a disciplined well trained dog who fitted in well on the farm that was her home. Raffles - was exactly the same until he died aged 14.
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We were staying with friends just outside Cape Town. While you're here they said, you must see the Swatburg Pass. So off we went. The entire road was only slightly wider than than a single carriageway and had no proper surface to speak of. There were passing points every few hundred yards which resembled small platforms that stuck out over the sheer drop of many hundreds of feet below. Apparently the road had been cut out of the mountainside by labourers in the 1800's using pickaxes and dynamite and very little improvement had been made to it since that time. Even though, as a child I had been with my parents when they negotiated some very hairy mountain roads all over the continent it was without doubt the most frightening car journey I have ever made. It wound up and up for what seemed like miles. About half way up there was an area that had beeen designated as a stopping point for photographing the spectacular views. So we pulled in.While we were there a hired Mercedes also pulled in, the driver got out looking somewhat shell shocked and approached our friends. Is there much to see he asked. is there any point in continuing. Clearly desperately hoping my friends would say no so that he could beat a hasty retreat, The look of disappointment on his face when they replied that he should definitely go on as Prince George on the other side of the mountain was not to be missed was tragic. I totally sympathised with him. I shudder to think what would have been the consequences of breaking down, There was no phone signal and it was miles from anywhere.
Carole
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When you love being on the boat as much as we do, the advancing years and the deterioration that comes with it is a worry. I' m really dreading the time when we must admit to defeat. My own balance is not as good as it was and I'm not nearly as sure footed moving about the outside of he boat as I once was. Fortunately Tony does not suffer the same problem., Which means we are o.k. for the forseeable future I'm hoping. We did make the decision to give up back in 2019. then, having sold our boat we made the "mistake" of having lunch at a hotel attached to a marina we used to moor at on the RGO. Finding ourselves surrounded with boats got us wondering if we could manage a smaller boat as our decision to give up was mostly because Tony's back condition had made keeping the boat we'd had clean very difficult. So the decision to buy Hi-Jinks was made and he manages it just fine If ever there was a good year not to have a boat it was 2020 and that is when we were between boats so we were very lucky.
Carole
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Hi Helen are you anywhere a branch of Dunelms? I find they are always able to supply anything curtain/soft furnishing related and at very reasonable cost.
Carole
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My mobile phone runs on gas so I guess this will not affect me!
Carole
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Went to the boat on good Friday morning arriving at lunchtime. Unpacked, had lunch and then Tony cleaned out the bilges in the engine bay and lazarette. We had noticed a smell of diesel on our last visit and investigation from Gary from Sheerline found a small weep on the central heating feed pipe which he sealed. Job done - no more diesel pong we settled down for a relaxing afternooon with the papers. Decided to have dinner at The Ferry. It was heaving with loads of boaters gathered there seeming to be thoroughly enjoying themselves, such a pleasure to see. Returned to the boat about 9.30 pm enjoyed a couple of glasss of Red and watched a little t.v. before bed. Saturday was a lazy day doing very little after going to the village for some papers. The weather wasn't that good, but we woke up to glorious sunshine on Sunday morning and the rest of the day didn't disappoint. We went for a walk round the marina after lunch and met and got talking to a few very nice fellow berth holders before returning to he boat to cook dinner and spend a pleasant evening with a good bottle of Merlot and some watchable t.v. Woke up Monday to pouring rain not very inviting but the thought of being home in the warm and dry was, so off home we went. Hope you all enjoyed your weekend whatever you chose to do.
Carole
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13 hours ago, NeilB said:
I’ve just added a 7 day timer to the Eberspacher, the Webasto already had one. Cost £175 but saves me the cold run to the back of the boat and back!
When we bought a Fairline Mirage back in 1995 it already had a Webasto timer so we got used to that particular little luxury over the years and have had a timer installed on all our boats ever since. the one we had on our last boat, which was neither Eberspacher or Webasto, required a university degree to work it out but I managed in the end, although I always had to refer to the instrtuctions to make any aleration. The one we have just had installed is Eberspacher and a bit simpler thank goodness. Although by far the best and simplest was the original Webasto which was practically idiot proof requiring one glance at the instructions only.
Carole
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When Tony retired and we moved from Brookmans Park, N. London to Soham we had so much tut in the loft and garage I banned use of the loft ever after and so it has remained. The only thing allowed in the loft is left over carpet. The garage on the other hand is my idea of hell! The only positive thing I can say about that is that Tony always knows where to find stuff should it be needed even if it does look like a tip. I'm a chucker outer and nothing pleaess me more than an empty drawer or cupboard. Given the chance I would have a skIp delivered tomorrow and throw the lot out (Or more like, several skips) One can but dream!
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Hi Sam, Saw in the paper that the weather at the weekend promises to be quite good so dd a forecast and that says the same so it looks as if we will be on board and maybe we can make a plan to meet up which would lovely.
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Well we made it to our new mooring at Ferry marina. Tony got the boat cleaned on Thursday and she looked so much better for it. The first clean of the season is so rewarding. Getting rid of of all that green algae that builds up during the winter and all the black streaks that run out of the rubbing strakes. Friday morning we set off at about 9.10am. I made us some bacon sandwiches en route. The weather was dire rain and wind but as the boat is a sedan we were inside so no worries. We had a troublefree cruise and berthed at Ferry at 3.10pm. The rain kindly stopped to let us tie up in comfort. We then got a taxi back to Brundall to collect the car. Arriving at NBS to find some friends had arrived on their boat . So, we went to say hello (and goodbye) enjoyed theIr hospitality very much (he's a wine merchant !) and arrived back at Ferry marina at about 6.45pm. Decided to have dinner in the Ferry pub which doesn't look much different following it's recent refurbishment except it's now painted out in a fairly ghastly shade of electric mint green . Enoyed a very nice meal, had a long chat with some fellow new berthholders just arrived from their home in Spain, and got back on board about 8.00pm. Woke up this morning to hammering rain and decided to call it a day and came home. Going back for Easter unless the weather promises to be truly dreadful in which cased we may think it out again.
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Just a footnote to the above I seem to remember that the Bally company was known as Bally of Switzerland in those days so I'm surprised to learn that they had a connection with Norwich.
Carole
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When I worked for Rayne early 1960s, A client bought a pair of crocodile shoes at a cost of probably 2-£300, She wore them out of the salon explaining that she had broken a heel on her shoes on arrival at London Airport and had purchased a tremporary replacement pair at Bally, but as they were not Rayne they wouldn't suit her feet so having worn them just for the journey in her chaffeur driven car to Old Bond Street, left them behind. While they wouldn't have cost as much as the Rayne shoes they were crocodile and would have been very expensive and my Boss gave them to me. I had them for many years.
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Mrs Charles Clore used to buy her shoes from H & M Rayne in Old Bond Street, London. Shoemakers to the Queen amongst many other people of note at that time, 1960s. Likewise Mrs. Skinner of Lilley and Skinner well known shoe shops across most of the UK.
Carole
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Gavin Ralph 07769210414 / 01603270257. We were recommended to him by Sheerline boats and found him to be excellent. I wish you joy on your new acquisition.
Carole
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We returned to the boat on Friday, a last minute decision as medical appointments had made it difficult to plan ahead. We arrived about lunchtime. On our last visit we found one of the boats adjacent to us had changed and the one in it's place was a boat we have known for many years - since about 1990 in fact. It used to belong to Tony's late brother-in-law. Sadly it was no longer in the immaculate condition we remembered. We were looking forward to meeting it's present owner. We didn't have long to wait. He arrived early Saturday morning. We introduced ourselves and filled him in on the history of his boat, which he seemed to greatly appreciate. He worked hard all day cleaning after which the boat looked much more like its old self. It's a Profile 33 which was originally built for the owner of the company. We left him to his cleaning and went for a short cruise passing the NBN c in c. We waved to you all as we passed just outside Horning, All your boats looked very smart especially Broad Ambition and Water Rail. We stayed out for a few hours returning back to our mooring late afternoon. We had thought to see if there was room for us to attend the meet at Salhouse but our central heating had developed a fault which meant we were going to have to use an electric heater making hook up essential which was why we returned to our mooring. We had a very enjoyable meal at the Ferry. We returned home Tuesday having spent a very relaxing few days aboard doing very little other than routine maintenance done by Tony.
Carole