Vaughan

How about Woods Dyke in Horning, before it was developed?

THAT is what I continued to pay my river toll for! Well done.

This is also the reason why sailors who are prone to sea-sickness always eat Ambrosia creamed rice pudding before they go to sea. It looks cleaner on the deck!

I agree with the sentiment but perhaps it is not in the same context . . .

There is a simple rule : Whatever you are going to do - do it to leeward!

Now THAT is what I call a "laid back" attitude!

Perhaps a bit off topic but I couldn't help noticing that we are now encouraged to go back to work but not in public transport. This makes the city council's long term and very expensive vision to close Norwich to all but cyclists, look rather foolish in that the only really safe way for us to travel now, is in our own private car!

I think, for clarity, we might leave the BA out of this equation. The Broads are not closed any more than the roads of Norfolk are closed. The conditions under which we might use the Broads - and the roads - are now up to central government. But those conditions are clearly, not clear!

There's one piece of good news - my daughter has been promoted. She is now a matron. So next time I see her, I shall have to call her Sir!

I think that is a wise approach. Another few days while we wait for clarity, won't hurt. Personally I think Boris's speech was a bit of a "damp squib" especially as most of it had already been leaked several days ago. Don't forget we still have a parliament (even if in name only) and I am not sure they have approved this yet.

But they haven't done it on Barton Broad since the late 50s!

"Back in the day", we always put a coat of linseed oil on with a rag, to let it soak into the bare wood. Follow this with a coat of half-and-half turps (or white spirit) and varnish. Next day, oh dear! It hasn't dried and it is still tacky! But no problem - the second coat of slightly thinned varnish will dry out the first one. This was done with natural varnish, such as International Blue Peter. To try this with a 2 pack polyurethane varnish may not be such a good idea!

Three months ago, did we even know what PPE meant? I agree with Marshman, this discussion has become ridiculous. I ask again, for the third time, could we keep this thread for talking about the possible effect on the Broads of this virus? There are plenty of other threads available for amateur medical opinions. I also suggest to the moderators that we don't talk politics on this forum.

Very probably!

Here's something I turned up while looking for old photos about VE Day. The date on the back of the card is December, 1949.

VE Day was a great celebration, but the war in the Pacific was not over. On this day in 1945 my father was somewhere up the Irrawady River in the mangrove swamps known as "Chuangs", just after they had re-captured Rangoon from the Japanese, on the 6th May. He, as well as "Captain Tom" Moore, served in what has always been known as the Forgotten Army. Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, supreme commander of allied forces in Burma, inspecting sailors of Royal Indian Navy coastal forces in Chittagong, just before the re-capture of the Arakan Coast. Accompanying him, on his left, is my father. Fairmile MLs of the 56th flotilla R.I.N., patrolling the Arakan coast just after the re-capture of Akyab. If you remember the "Golden Galleon" on the Broads, this is what she used to look like. Landing forces assembling for the seaward assault on Rangoon, on 6th May, 1945. Taken from one of the MLs of the 13th flotilla. My father had escaped from Rangoon when it fell to the Japanese in February 1942, in a commandeered Swedish freighter, called Hendrick Jessen. On the way out, they stopped to send a party ashore to blow up the Burma Oil Company's refinery and then actually sailed out between the invading Japanese ships, as they were not interested in a tramp steamer! She was later commissioned into the Indian Navy as H.M.I.S. "Barracuda" and became the depot and maintenance ship looking after 8 flotillas (65 boats) of Arakan coastal forces, for which my father was senior officer, so she was his headquarters. In the winter of 1941/2 she was the last merchant ship to leave the ports of Hong Kong, Singapore, Rangoon and Akyab, before they each fell to the Japanese and in 1945 she was (effectively) the first ship to sail back into Akyab, Rangoon and Singapore when they were re-taken in 1945. The first three photos are from my father's collection and the fourth is from a book published privately by officers who served in Arakan coastal forces.

I am sorry you see it that way. I was simply suggesting that this is, after all, a forum about the Norfolk Broads. The clue is in the name. But then, so what? I see the thread has already drifted into the home growing of carrots, anyway . . . .

The space between the seats in a cattle-class low cost aircraft is not enough for a human being anyway!

Excuse me, but could I suggest a point of order? This thread is called "Coronavirus and the Broads" and the O.P. is the Broads Authority. Coronavirus and its impact on family life can be discussed on one or more alternative threads.

I have to say, I agree! I think they were popular as hire boats because, as you see in the photo, even when they are standing still they look as though they are doing 20 MPH! I would certainly never recommend anyone to operate them in a hire fleet however, after a lot of bitter experience!

That was definitely NOT Jimmy speaking in the film! That was someone from the film company trying to approximate a Norfolk accent and, to my ear, failing miserably! Jimmy spoke with the accent of a B.O.A.C. airline pilot, which is what he was after the War and before giving that up to come into his father's business. Hence the B.O.A.C. bluebird emblem, which he used on the bows of all the boats. Not sure how he got away with that!

From Hoseason's catalogue of 1971. This bears out what I said on a different thread, that Jimmy would at least have made sure his phone got answered!

And the man on the left is Jimmy Hoseason.

To say nothing of the un-necessary apostrophe!

It's called "shooting" a bridge, which is what the wherries used to do.