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  1. On 05/03/2024 at 13:37, grendel said:

    I thought water oak was a southern states of american species.

    Yes, I think you’re right, but I’m sure I’ve seen oaks growing in marshy places/Carr woodland on the Broads. 

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  2. The Sainsbury’s click and collect is off the plan. I tried doing an order but couldn’t use the staff discount. After all, it’s their staff time used to pick the stuff, so thinking that we’d also get the discount was an unrealistic expectation. We should have plenty of time anyway as it’s not that long a journey from MK to Horning.

    Hopefully we should get away by around 9 to 10 am, aiming to stop off at La Hogue farm shop for brunch, with maybe time for a dog walk at the UEA campus before the Sainsbury’s shop. We aren’t supposed to get to the boat until 5pm anyway unless the previous owner on board left a day or two earlier than expected.

  3. 4 hours ago, MargeandParge said:

    Just make sure you have enough room as our old dog and bags of groceries always became the best of friends if left unattended. :default_biggrin:

    Kindest Regards Marge and Parge 

    :default_rofl:

    Indeed! We have been known to drive the last part of our journey with everyone having food bags on their laps apart from the driver.

    Mind you, I need to check out whether you can use the Sainsbury's staff discount on click and collect. 

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  4. Come to think of it, our American syndicate members have been having their start of holiday shop at Sainsbury’s delivered to Horning Pleasurecraft (as evidenced by a photo they posted on their holiday vlog on our syndicate website).

    We might as well do click and collect though, as it’s a very short detour to Thorpe Sainsbury’s once you come off the Pozzick (Postwick) interchange.

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  5. Less than a week to go now, until our next trip on Friday. Whoopee.

    Planning is apace…packing list being reviewed, menu and shopping plans mostly completed. As we now have Sainsbury’s staff discount (courtesy of Alec), I might try to do a click and collect order from the Thorpe Sainsbury’s rather than shop in Lidl or Roy’s. 

    Harry has messed up. He was intending to accompany us for the fortnight, but he forgot to log his apologies for band practices, and as the ‘A’ band has a number of concerts in April, the band conductor wasn’t happy with the idea that he would miss four rehearsals in March. Looks like he’ll have to return home after the first week.

    :default_wacko:

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  6. 6 minutes ago, addicted said:

    No.2  granddaughter has become very aware that the dawn is getting earlier. She recently changed her job and her new job was too far away from home for her to commute. So she has moved out  of her   parents'  into a house local to her new job and is sharing with her old room mates from her days at uni.  She is loving both the new job and the digs.The only problem is  that her room is at the rear of the house and in a garden backing on to hers is a resident rooster! So her nights are anything but relaxed as he is up and crowing in the very early hours. Poor  Phoebe!

    Carole

    That reminds me of the farm cottage I shared with fellow students when I was at Bangor Uni. My bedroom overlooked the milking shed, and the cows got milked at some unearthly time in the morning. It only bothered me for the first week or so though, after that I somehow managed to get used to it and slept through all the mooing. 

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  7. I'm rather upset that the Concrete Cow brewery in Milton Keynes has shut down. It was a small operation and the brewer's partner (one of my friends) told me that he had to fold up the business when his rent doubled overnight. 

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  8. 54 minutes ago, Andrewcook said:

    Hi Helen have found out what made Pozzic went under the Bed. O blimey trying to lift the Bed that must have given you both a backache still at least you got Pozzic out in the end with out Pozzic needed to go the vet.

    He quite often sleeps with his head under the bed after it has dawned. He obviously got a bit carried away and his body followed!

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  9. 3 hours ago, SwanR said:

    I hope it wasn't too early Helen. I would think that it would be hard to settle back down after that. 

    No, thankfully it was a reasonable time for getting up anyway.

    2 hours ago, kpnut said:

    One of those episodes that is a bit funnier after the event than during.
    An upset dog while trying to sort it out concentrates the mind somewhat. 

    Yes, it was slightly concerning, especially after the bed lifting didn’t go to plan. We could have called on extra manpower though, as both ‘boys’ are still at home. 

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  10. Latest Pozzick escapade…we were woken by a lot of whining this morning. Pozzie had got himself stuck under our bed (we have one with an oak frame).

    :default_rofl:
    It took us a while to get him out too. We tried lifting the bed a bit, but that didn’t work. It’s so heavy it takes two of us to lift it. In the end Graham managed to drag him out on his side.

     

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  11. 1 hour ago, Smoggy said:

    Not an option in a pizza parlour....:default_tongue:

    The Cod House is just around the corner. To be honest, we usually get a takeaway as Oakfired is an easy walk from the Yacht Station. Haven’t yet tried The Cod House. 

  12. As it's less common to find pubs that are dog friendly in towns and cities, I though it might be worth mentioning a few that appear to be (I haven't visited them all, but am going by comments left in reviews) that are near'ish to the Yacht Stations:

    Norwich (near the Yacht Station)
    The Coach and Horses (on Thorpe Road). This seems to be popular as they have a microbrewery on site. 
    The Red Lion, near Bishop Bridge
    The Compleat Angler

    Gt Yarmouth
    As far as I know the only one within a short distance of the Yacht Station is The Kings Arms on Northgate St.

    Beccles
    The Bear and Bells
    also, I gather that Oakfired at The Royal Oak, The Wine Vaults and Graze at the White Horse have dog friendly areas.

    Oulton Broad
    The Copper Smokehouse
    The Commodore
    The Waveney
    The Lady of the Lake

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  13. As Ray said, it’s earlier to list the pubs that are not dog friendly.

    Does anyone know if The Stag in Salhouse is dog friendly? I gather that the  Salhouse Lodge is, in the bar area only.

    Im assuming that The Granary in Ranworth is not dog friendly. Hope the Maltsters will be when it reopens. 
     

    By the way, I can’t find The Kings Head Loddon on Google. Has it shut down?

  14. Most cathedrals have bells, not necessarily a clock though. The bells are supposed to be related to services not time keeping.

    Mind you…our church has recently been fitted with an electronic device of some sort that strikes the bells, as a result of a bequest. It had become unsafe to climb the tower to ring the bells. So I have now got used to the bells being rung before our Sunday service. On a recent dog walk, I noticed one bell rang out the on the hour too. 

  15. Sorry to hear you had a hospital stay Andrew, hope you get back to normal asap. Good plan to get back to Norfolk, even if it can’t be on a boat.

    I’ve done a comprehensive guide for myself on which places are dog friendly, or not. Fortunately, most of the pubs are, though sometimes just in the bar rather than ‘restaurant’ area, so best to ask and book in advance if it’s restricted. I’m disgusted that Wetherspoon’s pubs do not even allow dogs into their pub gardens/outside spaces, not that I think I’m missing much. It’s just the principle. Does the owner of Wetherspoons have a dog aversion? 

    Quite a lot of cafes are dog friendly too, but sometimes only for their outside tables (like The Old Mill in Hoveton, which we really like).

    I have to update my list quite frequently though, as there has been quite a bit of turnover in pubs and cafes over the past few years. When a pub changes hands you can’t always assume that the same dog policy applies.

    The good news is that, in general, we think that Norfolk is more dog friendly than most places. 

     

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  16. 19 hours ago, Bikertov said:

    ... and there are angry people of both genders that can't spell properly :default_coat:

    Oops, predictive text strikes again. It is obviously male and didn't like what I was typing.:default_coat:

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  17. Excuse me, but I don’t think I’m any less capable of doing a three point turn than the male species. Grace you should be ashamed of yourself for suggesting such a thing.

    There are some very dozy and incompetent female drivers (of cars) and some dozy and incompetent male drivers (of cars and boats).

    Just waiting for the reactions…

    :default_gbxhmm:

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  18. 1 hour ago, dom said:

    Definitely not willows. They had fairly substantial trunks and actually look a bit like oaks in some pictures. I tend to think oak wouldn't manage to stay upright on that type of land, but I think there are a couple on Horning green, so may be a possibility.

    Isn’t there a species called water oak? 

  19. Thanks Sam. What a lovely video, though the imprint of the archive company’s name across the screen was rather annoying. I did find it amusing that early on in the film they commented on how dry Norfolk is (given this winter’s deluge) and a little further along on Potter Heigham bridge being over a 100 years old (slight underestimate there, lol). 

  20. 3 hours ago, Mouldy said:

    You’ve not met my wife, then!

    She needn’t bother!  It doesn’t matter what I do and how I do it, I already know it’ll usually be wrong!

    Hmmm.  Yep, that sounds familiar.  ‘Turn around when possible!’  Sat nag or sat nav amounts to much the same thing!

    Doh!:default_coat:

    I take it that Debbie doesn’t read the forum? Graham doesn’t either, but if I even suggested some criticism in a post what’s the betting he’d suddenly become a member? His spidie sense (or whatever) would suddenly kick in.

    So I’ll just stick with…

    :default_icon_kiss:

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  21. 2 hours ago, kpnut said:

    Painting of Sprjnger’s Retreat hasn’t even begun yet

    Oh no! I was hoping you’d be back on the rivers soon.

  22. On 01/03/2024 at 16:05, kpnut said:

    On a lighter note re:flooding and cos Smoggy and Griff mentioned getting under the bridges on another thread - 

    I had a strange dream about Wroxham bridge last night. It felt like it was in real time, full colour and motion etc. 

    I was in Wroxham at high tide according to the aweigh app and noticed the bridge only had enough space for a kayak to get under.
    Funnily enough, it was Wroxham with the environs correct and folk on the other bridge looking down, but the bridge itself was flat topped like Ludham Bridge. 
     

    You’ve obviously got a bridge anxiety or whatever going on. I’m just relieved that I no longer wake up on the first night or two when back home thinking I’m still on the boat, to the extent that I’d get up and peer out of the window expecting to look out over water or a mooring. Mind you, it only happened after holidays when we hired, not after we’ve been on Moonlight Shadow. 

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