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Oops! We shall have to be more vigilant. We had covered the remains of a roast chicken with foil yesterday evening and left it on a worktop to cool down. Pozzick nicked the chicken whilst Graham was putting our bins out this morning. Luckily Graham managed to retreive it before he ate any of the bones. Whew!

Only you could have said that Ian. (Okay, Marina as well.)

That sounds like a good trip. Beccles is lovely. Beccles church is lovely. Hope your wife as able to visit to light her candles. I try to do that in memory of our departed parents too.

A few photos from this evening. Harry was a bit concerned he might end up falling on his head if he fell asleep. Luckily he moved...

Graham took Seren and Pozzick for a walk whilst Harry was in band practice this evening. Whoohoo! They played with each other for the first time.

What a brilliant idea. I was very impressed with the Carvery too. No wonder the meat was so good if it came from Ludham butchers. Good to see local businesses supporting each other.

Get used to it! We’ve all been caught out some time or another. Weyford bridge has caught me out several times, morphing into Watford bridge.

I found Calthorpe Broad on an OS map and almost posted that, but it looked too small and the surrounding landscape looked wrong.

How about Decoy Broad?

Obviously a dog with taste. I wonder if he gets as annoyed at the adverts as I do.

He’s had a few howls this morning. First Seren, Harry and Graham went out, then Alec went out. So it’s just Pozzick and me this morning.

Harry found a post on Faceache from one of the kayakers that found Pozzick. VID-20221015-WA0000.mp4 Bless...he was having a good howl.

I don't think Pozzick minded! Before he left to collect the mutt from the Dog Wardens Graham and I had to put our heads together to decide how we would spell it anyway. I did catch Graham calling him Pozzie earlier.

Not as many as we expected, but maybe he hasn't 'found his feet' yet! I'm sitting upstairs in my study and I somehow I know that Graham is preparing our woofs tea. Pozzick cries 'cos he just can't wait. He does sit nicely now though whilst it's being prepared.

I love this countdown business! Shame pooch can't come! Mind you, I might change my mind in December when we'll have two pooches on board for the first time.

Full marks to the Nelson Head for letting you know. That's a very cute dog that you have.

On our first trip we returned to our home yard midweek (Hunter's Yard in Ludham) and as we were coming in to the quay heading at the entrance to the yard Harry managed to knock his Dad's glasses into the drink. The yard lent Graham a rake thingy that was backed with mesh. He dredged up copious amounts of mussel shells and someone else's glasses - unfortunately not his. Fortunately, he found his own glasses later. So, if you are wondering why Graham wears a strap around his head to secure his glasses - that's why!

Can we quit the bickering now? As someone said a few hours ago, it’s getting boring. Looking forward to hearing more about Lads Week.

Glad to hear it!

Pozzick is still not going into his crate at night, even though the last few nights his bed has been in the create. He’s also being fed his meals in the create now, with the door open naturally, so hopefully that might help. Other than that he’s getting on pretty well. Because he can open doors we allow him into the dining room when we have our dinner and he already knows that he just needs to settle down and allow us to eat our meal in peace. I guess it helps that we never feed our dogs titbits from the table. Graham has taken both dogs for walks by himself several times. Both are happy in close proximity to each other and Seren only barks if she thinks we are telling Pozzick off. As he’s being such a good boy, that’s less often now. He’s also fine off the lead in our garden, even though we only have a relatively low temporary fence. What we haven’t done is left the two dogs alone in the house, so we don’t yet know whether he would scratch the doors down. We feel he needs to feel very secure before we try that.

Sorry to hear you are selling Paul. Wish I had a spare £28k or so!!

How lovely! That will make the trip extra special. What memories!

Broads for me too and I agree with every detail the Grace has waxed lyrical about (except maybe the choos, my feet are too old for those). There are wonderful places to visit around the world but I can no longer be hassled with the stress of flying somewhere and going on a big ship cruise just doesn’t appeal to either of us. I like watching some travel vloggers, so do my international travel 2nd hand nowadays. My favourites are: Kara and Nate, who mix things up from roughing it to luxury, recent episodes featuring a luxury cruise to the North Pole to simple backpacking in an American National Park. They spent their first four years of vlogging with a goal of visiting 100 countries and were very fortunate to have achieved that just before Covid struck. Flying the Nest. Australian couple travelling the world with a two year old. (Simply delightful). During lockdown (when their daughter was a baby) they converted a van and travelled around Australia but are currently in Europe. Seeing their daughter develop during their adventures as been so interesting. Travel Beans. English couple who converted a van in the UK during lockdown, spent some time taking it around the UK then Europe and have recently bought a second van in the USA, having worked out that would be cheaper than shipping their UK van to the States. That almost went pear shaped when the first van that they bought in the US burst into flames. They had a narrow escape! Kinging It. Welsh couple who take on some mad adventures like doing the Mongol Rally or driving a Tuk Tuk across India, but do so me normal travel in between. They also converted an old bus (Custard the Bus) and certainly have a ‘British’ sense of humour.

It's ages since we hired, but I have a vague recollection that we were asked to complete a feedback form by either Ferry Marina (when Len still owned it) or NBD (before Len owned it) or both.

With Grendel (obviously) being rather occupied this week, perhaps we'd best all try to avoid being too negative about Herbie Woods - after all, Grendel has pointed out that they've been very responsive. There's probably a fine line between voicing our views on which boatyards we wouldn't consider hiring from and boatyard bashing.