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About YnysMon

  • Birthday 02/08/1960

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    Milton Keynes
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    Sailing, boating generally, art (especially Norfolk painted rood screens), history, reading, music (brass band, organ and anything else that takes my fancy), food (cooking and eating!).

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  1. We didn’t make it as far as Norwich. As we were passing through Brundall it occurred to me that we could stop at Brundall Gardens and visit one of the Co-ops in Brundall instead of Morrison’s, so we did that. Just as well, as it probably have been after sunset by the time we got to Norwich, completed our shopping and turned back downriver. We are moored at Rockland St Mary this evening. Another exceptionally quiet mooring. There is a road alongside, but not a lot of traffic on it.
  2. Me too, having grown up in hearing distance of a terminus. Lots of shunting noises. When I was little, must have been pre-school (pre-1965) my grandad used to take me to a bridge that overlooked the turntable so that I could see a steam engine being turned around.
  3. Graham says Somerlayton wasn’t peaceful all night; he heard a couple of long freight trains cross the bridge during the early hours. I slept through that. Currently making our way up the Yare, having stopped off at Hardley Cross to make lunch and to wait for the flow to change direction.As usual, though on theory the tide had ‘turned’ earlier, the flow was still going out to sea an hour later. We need bread and other stuff, so are aiming to go to Norwich to visit Morrisons then back to Bramerton or Rockland. We’ll have to see how long it takes us to get to Norwich though. We might have to abandon that plan.
  4. It's exposed to the west, so great for sunsets but not so good in a westerly wind. When the weather is calm it's really peaceful and perfect. Especially out of season. This evening we are the only boat here. You do get quite a bit of noise when trains go over the swing bridge, but the trains don't run overnight. There are two electric posts and lovely walks. Also, there's a 'gastro pub', The Duke's Head, just a short walk up the lane. I've been meaning to revisit since they've had new management, but an evening after lunch in The Copper Smokehouse isn't the time to go there. We've only had a sandwich this evening as we are still stuffed. The village looks nice, but doesn't have a shop nowadays.
  5. I didn't eat all my Copper Smokehouse brisket lunchtime , so the dogs had a treat this evening.
  6. So if summer is a washout it's your fault?
  7. The lunch at the Copper Smokehouse was super excellent. I recommend! I had their smoked brisket with the usual Sunday lunch accompaniments. Four large roasties, a humungus Yorkshire, mashed sweet potato, creamed leeks, roasted parsnips and carrots and a bowl of kale, broccoli and mange tout. Everything perfectly cooked and with smokey gravy to-die-for. How Graham managed a pud, I'll never know. I'll post some photos when I do the proper tale. We are now on our way to Somerlayton.
  8. The pizza was good. They didn't have vegan cheese so Graham opted for their beetroot and goats cheese option (cows milk plays havoc with my hay fever this time of the year). Who knew that beetroot would be so good on pizza. The place is called Wood'n'Dough.
  9. Nicely tucked up at the end of the pontoon at Oulton looking out onto the Broad. Graham and Harry have gone off in search of pizza as a new wood fired pizza joint has opened up close to the yacht station since we were last here. I've also booked a table for lunch tomorrow at The Copper Smokehouse. 😊
  10. Actually it was pretty cloudy early on, so we didn't get much of a dawn. It started brightening up after 7. We've started on our way again, having stopped at Burgh Castle for a walk and breakfast.
  11. Lots of photos of cake displays Liz. They looked pretty yummy!
  12. You would have been welcome Kate, had we been there. We retired at a reasonable time last night as the Aweigh app said low tide was going to be just after 7 this morning. It still said that when I checked before we left Horning at 5'ish. Just before we got to Marina Quays it changed its mind and decided low tide wasn't going to be until 8.24, so we went under the bridges about half an hour before low tide. At least that meant we didn't need to lower the canopy. We had almost 10' clearance under Vauxhall bridge. Now chugging across Breydon against the tide.
  13. Arrived this afternoon for our 18th trip on MS. Settling in for the night...
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