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I started listening to it, but fell asleep!

I guess you never watched Jeremy Beadle then! Mainstream TV used to pay £250 for funny clips of other peoples misfortune. People laugh at other peoples misfortune, they always have, and that's the part that slapstick comedians are often exploiting. How many times have you watched a work colleague do something stupid and tried not to laugh and then once you know they nave calmed down and are ok, everyone laughs about it and takes the Mick for the next few weeks. You see someone slip on a banana skin, it is funny once you know they haven't seriously hurt themselves. Once you know it is only someone's dignity that has been hurt, people laugh at such incidents. The laughing induces endorphins which often reduces the stress in such situations.

Steady on there Vaughan, both voyeurism and being a Peeping Tom in their truest definitions are nasty activities and illegal. You may not agree with people filming in a public place, but it is not illegal. Its a fact of life that cameras are everywhere these days, you cannot even walk down most streets without appearing on someone's door bell video camera. More so when you visit a tourist spot. Try walking across Tower Bridge in London and not appearing in anyone's pictures or videos. Chances are if you trip up and fall over, it will be caught on camera! Someone will laugh at your misfortune. Everywhere I drive my dashcam captures the journey and everyone and everything I drive past. It's not going to change. The only thing you can change is whether or not you choose to take the time to watch the videos on Youtube, Facebook etc, and, or read the comments. It's a fact of life that other people laugh at other people's misfortune. Some comedians make an art form out of this to elicit laughs. Even the Queen had a chuckle when Sir Norman Wisdom pretended to trip up as he walked away from the Queen after his knighthood investiture at Buckingham Palace.

I believe it's true for all fines that they are paid to HM Treasury and go into what is known as the consolidated fund. What I cannot understand is why Thorpe figures so heavily in the comments section when I'm betting most of those prosecuted reside around various other areas of the Broads. More than likely the Upper Yare / Wensum (excluding Thorpe and the Upper Ant. A classic case of tarring all with the same brush! I do find this article somewhat akin to Clickbait as it appears every year about this time of year. It's nothing new. Was speaking to a ranger recently who said they will soon be doing their May tour of the marina's, which he wasn't looking forward to. Then they do another later in the year and eventually the persistent few get prosecuted and another article appears in the EDP around March / April as a reminder for the honest to pay their tolls for this year.

Hi, on looking again, I think the length of the sections for low water slack may also be too long as well. I've looked at a few differing days and on 1st May around 1pm the animation shows the flood as far as the mouth of the Chet, and everything above as low water slack. Because the rivers drain the land they continue to ebb until the incoming flood meets the outgoing ebb and then starts to hold it back and then eventually pushes it back. So Norwich would certainly still be ebbing and probably all the way down to Cantley at least, if the flood has just reached the mouth of the Chet.

At first glance all looks pretty good. One slight critique is that your animation for the New Cut appears to show the tide ebbing from some mid point towards both ends of the New Cut. In actual fact when the tide is ebbing the current runs from the St Olaves end towards the Reedham end. The reverse happens when the tide is flooding. It runs all the way along the New Cut from Reedham to St Olaves.

There'd be a reason for that! Take a closer look.

I don't remember Richard ever posting on this forum that he moored at OBYS. It might have been common knowledge amongst those that know him and then posted about the last time they stopped and had a chat with him and where they were when it happened etc, and bit by bit it became common knowledge, but was it with his permission? or blessing? This is a friendly forum and that leads many to believe they are having a chat with friends down the pub and letting slip far too much personal information. I liken it more to people having a chat in the Big Brother household with about two or three thousand people watching in from home. It annoys at least one forum member that I occasionally change my forum name or picture. That is part of my privacy and my personal choice and i have my own reasons for doing so. Those who know me know who I am and I make no secret of it.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't know what chicken puffs are I thought maybe they were similar to cheese puffs, but they are a savoury snack, and I cannot for the life of my think why you'd put them in a freezer. Gracie, I have the perfect oven for you. My boat oven has gone faulty and won't go above gas mark One. Your family would thank me for it, if you want it.

No, he moved moorings some time ago.

So first they want £20 to transit through the port, and now they want to stop lifting the bridge due to safety concerns around systems that have been working just fine for the last few decades! The bridge has always jammed occasionally. The barriers haven't been changed or moved any closer recently! Seems like they don't want boat traffic through to the Broads at all. Perhaps time for Norfolk County Council to take the port back into public ownership.

The forum is still down and I've no idea if it will be coming back. It's been down some time now. A friend was asking me about Richard only last week, which reminded me that the next time I'm in Oulton Broad I'll take a walk past his boat and check in on him. If you take a look at the Facebook page for On a Roll there are some contact details, although I don't know if they are still current.

I feel as the person who started this thread I must reply. I posted the thread as a warning to anyone travelling up or down the Ant, hence the word warning as the first word in the title. I mentioned it was a Hunters boat and it was mid channel. It was a very blustery day and also raining at times. Despite it being "questioned" whether the boat had capsized, it had. It was lying on its side on the bottom with the mast blocking one half of the river. Apart from saying it was a Hunters boat, I didn't name the boat, or post any pictures of the boat. Much more info has come since this thread was started, but my only aim was to warn anyone travelling up or down the Ant on the day, which is why I have restrained from the fascinating discussions that have followed. Despite passing the boat, I didn't even take any pictures. That was not the intention of my post. The boat was about three quarters of a mile downstream from How Hill on a bend. The later pictures showed it at How Hill upright, but still underwater. I assume the staff from Hunters must have righted the boat and then dragged it along the bottom to How Hill for refloating with pumps at How Hill?

It was on its side with no sign of the mast or boom. The keel was also below water, so it must have been sitting on its side on the bottom.

Good to hear its at How Hill where hopefully it can be recovered fully. There was no sign of anyone on the boat when we passed, just a hire boat keeping guard.

There is a capsized Hunters boat between How Hill and Ludham bridge mid channel. Will take a little recovering I would imagine.

So, I'm not gonna lie to you, I hear what your saying, if I've heard you correctly! I've been blue sky thinking it and could we use another word instead to start a sentence. Basically, anything but so. We could add to the forum T+Cs that since tweny tweny four it has been unacceptable to start a sentence with so, do you see what I'm saying like! So, basically, if I'm right, and I heard what your saying, that's probably the most forumites upset by one post!

Probably since the end of tweny tweny three.

Stop being such a doom monger, the forecast is actually looking pretty good for next week.

So, whilst I agree with you about the annoying trend for starting the sentence with the word so, there has to be an even more annoying trend, like, of finishing like every sentence with the work like and as if like that isn't bad enough, it get like thrown in all over the sentence like, along with it's cousin innit, like. So, like, here's a warning to make the most of the rain like, cuz I'm coming to the Broads for a week tomorrow like and it's like going to be sunny every day innit, like.

Sterling Power do a battery to battery charger that overcomes this problem. Effectively you connect a normal lead acid battery to the alternator and then the battery to battery charger between the lead acid battery and the Lithium batteries to isolate and limit current flow. They also do a battery chemistry module that can be connected to the output of your existing charger and then connected to the Lithium battery to supply the correct charge characteristics for Lithium batteries.

I'd agree about sulphation but in practice with the two batteries I've had problems with the issue has been only one of the six cells going faulty and often well within the warranty period. One was only 10 months old. These were batteries that developed a fault, as opposed to getting old and tired. A good three or four stage battery charger will desulphate a battery as part of its charge cycle. They will usually charge up to 14.8V for FLA and up to 14.4V for sealed or AGM batteries. This is more than a standard alternator will push out.

Elecsol were two brothers Dennis and Stephen Gallimore. Dennis was an engineer and the brains behind the technology. He sadly died in 2005. A year or two after is when Stephen started to buy cheap standard batteries and rebadge them as Elecsol. The business then declined until about 2013 when it was dissolved. I'm never quite sure what happened to their patents because I've not seen batteries with carbon fibres in the plates since.

Elecsol were very good and used a new technology at the time, involving carbon fibre in the plates. The guy behind the technology passed away and I cannot remember if it was his business partner, or brother who carried on the business, but at that point he decided it was far cheaper to buy cheap batteries from the far East and trade off their previous good name until he run the business into the ground. When they were at their best, they were excellent and were universally praised by the caravan fraternity for their longevity. They were not cheap, but lasted well. Unfortunately when they moved to cheaper rebadged far East batteries the premium price tag remained. The remaining partner thought it would be viable to keep exchanging batteries under warranty, but destroyed the good name the batteries previously had, until trade dried up.

By Multicell, I mean the make Multicell, they have an office in Norwich and others around the country. I used to buy Bosch leisure batteries from CostCo. I've had one of those last 15 years, but the later ones don't seem to be as good. More recently I've bought HLB700s from Halfords, but they seem to have doubled in price in recent years. The last pair I bought were Hankook XV110 which seem to get good reviews. I paid £159.51 for a pair from Battery Megastore on eBay. That included free delivery. I decided against Bosch or the Halfords batteries this time around as I really wanted to go for Lithium Ion, but think that prices still have some way to come down on them before adopting them and changing chargers etc. eBay link