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YnysMon
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My final few days of work are whizzing past, with this coming Friday being my last day. It's very sociable too, as I've been meeting up with various colleagues and ex-colleagues several lunchtimes last week and will do this week. Actually, it's the most that I've been on the OU campus since Covid struck.
One of the colleagues I met today gave me a most thoughtful and welcome gift. It's a little book of poetry in the Norfolk dialect.
This one...
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18 minutes ago, Gracie said:
Oh my goodness me!
Lighten up people, soon be Christmas 
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Agree with the lighten up sentiment...but Gracie, really! Less of the Christmas...it's still September!
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I think some of the other notices on the helm are quite amusing too. Like the one that says to pull the stop key, only there ain’t one. And what’s that about a solar panel?
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Just about the best trip we did up Yr Wyddfa was with the boys when thy were teenagers, and it involved a very early start. It was early August and we were staying as usual with grandparents in Holyhead. We got them up about 3.30am. They fell asleep again in the car as we drove across Anglesey and made our way to Llanberis. The first half hour or so of our walk up ‘Snowdon’ was by moonlight. It soon got light and we got to the peak before 8, so had the peak almost to ourselves. The views as we made our way up the mountain shortly after dawn were spectacular.
Rather than walk back down to Llanberis, we did the Pyg track down to Pen-y-pass, where we had a hearty breakfast before catching the bus back to Llanberis.
One of those perfect mornings.
I’m pretty sure we all went for an afternoon snooze though.
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5 minutes ago, ExSurveyor said:
It has every time I have gone up in Winter, much nicer to do it in late spring I eventually decided 😁
Definitely not when frosty! It can, and often is, lethal.
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6 hours ago, Mouldy said:
There isn’t a theme park half way up Yr Wyddfa,
Full marks for using the ‘proper’ name! Having grown up in sight of it, I always thought ‘Snowdon’ was a bit daft. It’s not that often it has snow on it, even in winter.
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2 hours ago, kpnut said:
But some basics like screened off rubbish facilities, well positioned picnic benches with neatly mown grass on some moorings and the like go a long way to a good first impression. Definitely not saying that all moorings need this, but ask why Ranworth and Womack are so popular - they are little central hubs, picturesque (even with the goose poo)! Coltishall is another place with a sort of ‘continental vibe’ to it - nice pub, nicely kept green space, village nearby.
I think you've hit the nail on the head here Kate. It wouldn't take much effort and money to make a lot of the popular mooring locations more attractive.
Another thing that has stuck me has been the number of queries from hirers with young children about accessibility to playgrounds. Quite often, these are within a reasonable distance from moorings (thinking of Horning and Stokesby), but too often out of sight and not signposted. Families shouldn't have to rely on visits to a pub to find a play area for kids.
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2 hours ago, Mouldy said:
And a good many were lost when the EA re-profiled the river banks a few years ago, for flood defence reasons. In the process, they ripped out a lot of piling and quay heading, where it used to be safe to moor. A few locations have been reclaimed - there are a couple on Fleet Dyke, near the junction of The Bure, where the reeds have been hacked away, but it seems that the modern boater doesn’t have the appetite for creating more
Trouble is, by the time we get to the busier season, late July, areas that offered a wild mooring in previous years are so overgrown with nettles etc. that it would take a very determined boater to moor there. I'm thinking of a wild mooring we used just past Acle Bridge moorings and Fleet Dyke at Rockland St Mary.
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Thanks for your tale. It's a shame that the very hot weather curtailed your activities somewhat, but I guess it was better than be rained out all week.
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Wishing you a speedy recovery. Hope you get back on the Broads before too long too.
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Before we first hired I read a load of reviews of different boat yards. I must admit the thing about Barnes needing to move cars around put me off hiring with them. There were some negative reviews that were specifically about that aspect but I’ve no idea whether they were a fair reflection. The majority of customers don’t seem to be bothered.
Barnes do seem to have good policy toward encouraging customer loyalty by offering a hamper to returning customers. Assuming they still do that.
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That’s a relaxed looking dog.
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6 hours ago, Smoggy said:
I found an easy way to cut the usage of hair dryers and curling brushes to help on battery life, cheap clippers from fleabay, I doubt swmbo will go along with it but it's so much easier......
It can be done! A fortnight ago I got completely fed up of my long hair and persuaded Graham to get out the clippers. Mind you, he had cut my hair during the first lockdown, so I know he’d make a decent job of it.
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I’ve had a wonderful evening. Until about 9 years ago, which was around about time that my mother came to live with us, I played trombone in the Woburn Sands B band (that’s the training band…son Harry plays with the A band…the ‘proper’ band). This evening I rejoined the band!
Yesterday, I rejoined the Open University Choir, again having dropped out several years ago. They rehearse lunchtimes, and it had got to the stage where I had so many lunchtime work meetings, it just wasn’t doable. No wonder the choir is made up almost exclusively of retired people nowadays!
I feel I’m gradually getting back to normal life.
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Glad to hear the dog has settled. Hopefully you can now relax and enjoy it all. I love those early morning photos, by the way.
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51 minutes ago, SwanR said:
The issue of noise from the heating is an interesting one. I tend to think that if you’re boating at a colder time of year then it’s to be expected.
Yes, whilst I didn’t get much sleep, I didn’t get very annoyed about their heating being on overnight as they weren’t doing anything ‘wrong’. The experience made me rather wary of side on mooring in the colder seasons when on shore power though. If they hadn’t been on shore power there’s no way they could have left the heating on all night.
I thought it rather silly and wasteful to leave it on whilst they were at the pub though.
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I’m up early this morning. Mainly because I got up to go to the loo with the first feint light of dawn and I spotted our bedroom door was open, and no sign of Pozzick (he sleeps in our room). That woke me up properly!
Luckily, my son Alec heard him open our door a few hours earlier and came down to investigate. It turned out that Seren, who sleeps in the lounge in her crate, wanted to go out as she had the runs. Poor Alec can’t have had much sleep as she needed to go out more than once. So, good boy Pozzie for being tuned in with Seren.
He is very attached to Seren. It’s so funny when we go for walks. If he gets left behind (normally because he stops for a squirt) he can’t wait to catch up with her. It’s the only time he really pulls hard on the lead. If he gets ahead, he’ll wait for her to catch up.
Anyway, I’ve sent Alec back to bed to catch up on his sleep as he has an online interview this afternoon.
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That’s a lovely story Griff.
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6 hours ago, CambridgeCabby said:
Another noise that I have found to be quite irritating is some boats diesel heaters which have insufficient sound suppressing , and these are often left running all night.
Agree with that completely. One of the worst night’s sleep I had on the Broads was when moored next to a boat at Rockland St Mary. They kept their heating all evening whilst they were in the pub (!) and then all night too.
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2 hours ago, LondonRascal said:
This is not going to be a popular opinion but if you are on holiday - regardless of your boat or its cost and you want to heat some water up, or use the microwave onboard, is it so wrong to start your engine? Yes to many it would be seen as selfish and wrong - and I might also agree if it was say 10:30pm, but just after 8pm - no I don't really see a big problem.
I am guilty of this, indeed far later than 8pm - albeit I am on a Broad alone or some out of the way wild mooring, but I feel just a little more relaxed about this sort of thing. I think we have to learn to accept that for an increasing majority doing things that some may regard as anti-social is normal life to them, and if you do not talk to those who do this (not in an impolite fashion) they will not know they are doing anything that might annoy others. It is why I am so fed up my next door neighbour constantly complains about people 2 doors down to me, but will not talk to them because he is worried of 'making a scene'.
Well, I don't blame you at getting annoyed at your neighbour who moans to you but won't complain directly to the offenders. On the other hand, I can understand if he doesn't want to get on the bad side of neighbours, particularly if he feels vulnerable in some way. We've all seen how neighbourly disputes can get out of hand.
However, getting back to the running of engines etc. I'm of the opinion that if we start to accept that anti-social behaviour/selfish behaviour is not a problem, then we have really lost it as a society.
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7 hours ago, MauriceMynah said:
Isn't it clever how they can tell what the weather was like when William the Conqueror was born. :-)
Whoops, some punctuation missing there. At least it caused a laugh.
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1 hour ago, kpnut said:
Plenty further south 😂😂😂
Your holiday sounds very relaxing and easygoing. Wonderful.
I’m sure it’s also hotter further south! A castle sounds like a good idea on a hot day. Nice and cool inside. I recall visiting the castle where William the Conqueror was born on a scorching day. It was bliss…inside anyway.
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Good luck!
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Sounds like a very enjoyable day what with the tour of the mill and the geocaching.
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Lighten up people, soon be Christmas 
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There are other peaks. I’ve given up on Yr wyddfa, just too touristy. My favourite is Cnicht, not as high and far less risky, but has wonderful views along the coast south and west, and you have a reasonable chance of having the peak all to yourself.