Smoggy

Bloody productive ticks strokes a gin. Definitely pakefield, I'm not that energetic.

Mermaid it is, walked past it earlier.

Can't say false advertising....

The first lock we ever negotiated ourselves was brownhill on the gt.ouse and the lockie at hermitage has warned us it was running a bit fast, confused by how a lock can run fast we found out when it was well over both gates, if it wasn't for wire fences we could have just gone around it. Yes erith was about a mile wide with picnic benches poking out of the water, Easter 2001 I think it was.

Had a nice brekkie at no.142 cafe, dogs in garden but lots of undercover with heaters (a bit over the top for august). Spent the night in the bitch in the ditch. Took train to lowestoft and currently sat outside the jolly sailor at wakefield, dog found a fellow Romanian on the beach to run about with so needs a rest....

Big thanks for passing that on, likely to be around there in a couple of days and the mutt is a right scavenger.

Thanks guys and gals, looks like it might be oulton bound then.

I gotta add, we like cold beer so phoned tonight from another pub to say 2 vanilla latte stouts poured and in the fridge please were on our way, arrived to a table pre beer matted and beer chilled ready, a proper good pub indeed. Took 20 minutes just to order a beer in the previous pub that we'd pre booked a table for food in.

The one in beccles get funny about dogs in their on street tables, I don't think it's even their property I'm sure it's council ground in which case I'll gladly get barred over a barney about it, however I wouldn't spend the money there in the first place. Dogs inside info please, the weather isn't that great this week and I'd like to stay till closing time.

Which oulton broad pubs are dog friendly these days? And which are recommended?

First time I've found this pub but worth a visit, basic pub food only but plenty of local beers at a good price and a rum cupboard to die for, and got fed on a Monday night without getting kicked out early. Vanilla latte stout at £3.40 a pint, what's not to like, a out a mile from the yacht station but worth a walk, a proper pub that is happy with dogs, and not a 'spoons'.

A vsr is cheap and a much better way to keep domestic and engine battery charged while not having one run the other flat then have engine battery for just engine and domestic battery for just domestic, if you want a jump start option just put a starter solenoid between banks .

And I've not seen any of the younger staff with a phone in their hand.

Normality seems to have resumed at last, good grub, good staff, still got customers at a proper closing time (mostly locals). Reedham is back on the map, it's been too long....

It was bound to happen sooner or later, enjoy!

That makes sense, enough boating has been missed over the last 18 months.

Is the tank above the level of the engine then? Sump filling with diesel is usually a lift pump issue or the drive seal in the injector pump giving up (usually from modern fuel attacking old seal material), there should be no other way for it to happen, I would have thought any siphon effect would need an air leak somewhere that would soon stop the engine anyway, dribbling injectors would give the game away by the smoke. I've also never turned my fuel off other than when changing filters so there's less fuel to suck through to bleed.

Mostly at me I assume, it was only ever an question, I like looking at the old woodies out and about on the water just wouldn't touch one myself as I'm way too lazy for the upkeep. On the classics question both my bikes are on a classic policy, they are only just over 20 years old.

They should have waxed the moulds better.

The main structure is clearly wood and very pretty it is too, the original point was not meant to be a dig anyone just a question, after all the main part of a boat is the hull (that is what makes it a vessel) so if the hull is 99% grp and a few wooden stringers surely it's not really a wooden boat, it's a grp boat with a wooden lid. A cork is wood but it doesn't turn a bottle of wine into a barrel of wine...... (shame)

Who is actually running it do you know? Is it the owner/son or a tenant?

Which begs the question, should they be going to the wooden boat show?

That mut looks proper comfy there Griff.

Loddon don't do signals.

And peas get a tad boring (and remind me of John Major in spitting image), proper veg please......