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    Brilliant

    in Restoration Projects

    Posted

    The Maurice-Mynah method of varnishing.
    1. Pour glass of wine.
    2. Pay someone else to do the varnishing.
    3. Drink wine.


    Similar ... pour beer or gin ... buy boat that doesn’t need varnishing.

    Tide App

    in Broads Chat

    Posted

    For springs and neaps what is wrong with just looking at the moon phases ??????


    Absolutely nothing. That’s what that app is showing you. It’s no more clever than that. Just nice to have it in one place IMHO.

    Broadshaven Tavern

    in Broads Chat

    Posted

    For their own sakes I hope that they paint the fascia and modernise the outside, like get rid of that tired 1970's blockwork and the white plastic garden chairs. Good luck to them but it has to look inviting.


    Banner and block-work still there this morning. Chair gone.

    Tide App

    in Broads Chat

    Posted

    I’m not sure if I’ve shared this before (always possible with my memory) but even if I have I suspect some of your memories are just as bad as mine and you can’t remember

     

    There are literally hundreds of apps that will give you tide times. But surprisingly not many let you enter a secondary port. So each time you want to know tide times on the Broads you have to check Gorleston and add x hours. Not the most complex maths ever I admit but sometimes it’s nice to see at a glance.

     

    I found this app a few weeks ago that lets you enter up to three secondary ports and see what the tides are (times and neap / spring).

    It’s not completely accurate as it doesn’t work on “real” tidal predictions but I find it close enough for me.

     

    This is my screen:

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    This is a link to the Apple app (I don’t know if there’s an Android version)

    Tide Clock by Frederic Marchalhttps://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/tide-clock/id303643398?mt=8

     

    I have no connection to the app other than I use it.

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    All Phones Say National Park

    in Broads Chat

    Posted

    John, I'm sorry if you think I have a sense of humour failure. I've no problem at all with making a joke about a serious situation, that's part of life. I may be being thick here, but I'm not getting the joke and my concern is you're stirring a tired old topic just to stimulate a reaction.


    I can see why you might think that but it absolutely wasn’t my intention.
    Hopefully the humour above shows that some people have taken it the way it was intended.
    Perhaps it’s just my sense of humour but I genuinely laughed out loud when I imagined the likes of JM being told by his phone he’s in the Broads National Park. Not in a nasty way, I just found it funny so I thought some others might too.
    I think it’s great that people on each side of the debate are poking fun at each other and themselves. I think it’s helped. But then I would think that.

    I realised some people wouldn’t find it funny which I why I suggested at the start to not read the rest of the thread if you wouldn’t.
    Sorry if you think I’ve done the wrong thing. I imagine some of you don’t believe a word I’ve just said but there’s nothing I can do about that. I think some people view all my posts with suspicion A lot of people I work with take everything I say the same way.
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    All Phones Say National Park

    in Broads Chat

    Posted

    They weren't even runner up for that one. Must have been all those votes for Snowdonia Real National Park that did it!


    That was just a TV program competition ... it might as well have been love island
    The BNP will always be my Best National Park.

    All Phones Say National Park

    in Broads Chat

    Posted

    How about BPNP ... Broads Provisional National Park?
    Or BNNP Broads Never a National Park?
    Or BNPBOFMP - Broads National Park But Only For Marketing Purposes?

    Or Siri says .... “I see your blood pressure is increasing, I’ve removed the NP tag. Go to your happy place Peter”

    All Phones Say National Park

    in Broads Chat

    Posted

    BNP it is, sorry, but I don't much like the taste of industrial strength, carbolic mouthwash!


    Haha
    If I were the BA I’d make everyone agree to them using the term before they’d allow you to take out a toll
    Or put the term on registration marks
    Hours of fun.

    All Phones Say National Park

    in Broads Chat

    Posted

    John, I've no problem with your blindingly obscure sense of humour! Nor did I read your thread as trying to reignite a tired, if not thoroughly exhausted topic. Not sure what sort of answer you were expecting though. 
    The funny thing about it, for me, is that the phone maps include land way outside the Broads executive area as being part of the great BNP fraud! I have questioned the Campaign for National Parks and at first the answer was that the park area coincided with the executive area. I then pointed out that Norwich has been quoted as the ONLY city within a national park and that Norwich is actually outside the BA's executive area. Their answer was that the Wensum ran through the City and as the river was a part of the Broads then the City was therefore within in the faux BNP area. I responded by asking if that really was the case then was Ringland, Taverham and Aylesham also in the BNP? I haven't had a reply to that one, now that has amused me!


    I appreciate that JM thank you.
    I was expecting (and hoping for) a little light hearted abuse as I got off grendal, Ricardo etc.
    What I wasn’t expecting (although perhaps I should have done) was the sense of humour failure by some other people.
    Maybe I won’t burn my NBN pennant after all
    You might like this if you like irony but I really wish you wouldn’t use the BNP tag
    I’d assume the BA don’t dictate what area they’re responsible for or indeed pass that information to mapping companies. Nor would I expect marketing companies to. But who does? The government? Formally?
    Does the BA area of responsibility have to even align with what the government says is the area of the [insert non inflammatory term here]? Couldn’t the area be defined as an AONB or whatever and the BA are responsible for an area within that? I know that’s not how full NPs work but should it here?
    You might have shot yourself in the foot by trying to make the two aligned

    I might tell Google and Apple all of England is to be known as the Duchy of JohnK going forward

    All Phones Say National Park

    in Broads Chat

    Posted

    John, I'm afraid I don't understand the joke, nor why you've posted. The NP subject has been debated to death on here and very recently as well. Let's just respect opinions and drop it now. 


    I thought it was amusing.
    Some other people thought it was amusing.
    Some people still seem happy to debate the issue.
    Isn’t that enough?

    The mods / owners can of course delete / hide / lock the thread if they choose to. There wouldn’t be a complaint from me.

    There are lots of things I don’t find amusing on here and that I don’t want to debate. So I don’t.

    Best Product For Mildew

    in Technical Questions and Answers

    Posted

    Well the good news is HG Mould spray worked a treat.

    My vinyl (or leather) is white so I don’t need to worry about discolouration.

     

    The bad news is I think I’ve got an engine problem.

    It ran a treat. 45mph across Breydon.

    Then started sounding rough under acceleration.

    It sounds like a dropped / broken valve to me, I hope I’m wrong.

     

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