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No this would have been circa 1989 and definitely a restaurant, as the chef moved on to to be a partner in another business.
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Just been reading something and I've come across mention of a restaurant in The Norfolk Broads called Bennigans around 1989. I've never heard mention of it and wondered where it might have been. I believe there was a chain of restaurants in the good ole US of A called Bennigans, and don't know if it was connected or more than likely just a one of.
There just might be a small reward if anyone knows the answer, but since I don't know the answer, I'll have to take it on trust your telling the truth!
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If you still have a week left, then the best is yet to come weather wise. Enjoy and hopefully it's not too long before your back again.
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9 minutes ago, grendel said:
yes we heard you had bought a lifetimes supply of cleaning products recently.
I believe it was three Brillo pads, so more than a lifetimes supply
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1 hour ago, marshman said:
Trouble is he backs onto a National Nature Reserve - always going to be sticky that one!!!
I'm sure there's ways around it, but it all just adds to the bottom line of the project.
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2 hours ago, Mouldy said:
And has submitted planning for a massive redevelopment of the Horning site.
Unfortunately I think Mr Vole is being a pain in the proverbial at the moment.
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20 minutes ago, floydraser said:
Nevertheless, the customer felt the need to ask the question as he thought he was being short changed.
I didn't read anywhere in his question that he felt he was being short changed!!! Just a genuine concern that he didn't know how full the tank was and was worried about running out of fuel as it was a three week hire. If you don't know it is best to ask.
On my very first hire which was only for a week we called into another yard for a pump out and enquired whether we would also need to put some fuel in. We hadn't been told it would last the week and we didn't know.
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You ask the question are you expecting too much? and on the surface the answer is probably no until you consider the following. Most hires are for a week long period. A few will do a longer 10 or 11 day hire and even less a 2 week hire. You are very much in the minority and unchartered waters to some degree by hiring for 3 weeks. Hire boats go out at the start of the hire with a full tank and even in the depths of Winter are unlikely to run out of fuel on a weeks hire unless it has a leak. They come back at the end of the week and get brimmed again and the hirer pays the cost, unless it was an all inclusive deal with fuel included. To that end the hire yard doesn't really need to know what the average fuel consumption of each boat is. It is virtually unheard of for a hire boat to run out of fuel.
You are in a somewhat unique situation of being out for three weeks and are one of the few hires where running out of fuel may become an issue. The best advice and it appears to be what the yard has given you is to not take a chance and fill up. This could be to your advantage as the yard will charge you on your return at their current diesel price. If you fill up out Boulters one of the cheapest places on The Broads then you will be filling up with far less upon your return and will get back a lot more of your fuel deposit. In fact i would go as far as to say fill up for peace of mind and then if possible fill up again one or two days before returning your boat.
My own boat is an ex hire boat and has a 175 litre tank. The most I have done between fills, and the tank was no where near empty, was 280 miles. That would suffice for me pootling around the Northern Broads for 3 to 4 weeks, but then again I don't rush anywhere and like Marshman tend to go with the tides, especially on the lower reaches.
Ultimately your question is a bit like how long is a piece of string? My advice would be very similar to the hire yard. Fill up for peace of mind and look forward to a decent return of your fuel deposit.
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8 minutes ago, Chelsea14Ian said:
Is the menu the same as the New Inn ?
Pretty much the same, but the prices are different. Both the New Inn and The Commodore are a part of the Classic Inns brand of Stonegate pubs, which means the menus will be broadly similar to each other. Having said that Stonegate are no different to the likes of Greene King where even though the menu is the same between a lot of their pubs, the prices will reflect local factors such as the running costs and what they think the market will take. No different to many chains. A Big Mac in Heathrow airport is going to cost you more than a Big Mac at your local retail park.
Horning has three pubs and a small village population outside of the tourist season so probably needs to be more keenly priced to survive all year round, whereas Oulton Broad has quite a large catchment area. I also suspect they are trying to trade off the good name and goodwill created by the previous tenant Moss and Co, who did provide a good standard of food far in excess of the offering currently being provided by Stonegate.
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7 hours ago, Spray said:
It is indeed the wine bar. A new restaurant has just opened upstairs where the Indian used to be, can't remember the name though!
The restaurant is Shish Anatolia a Turkish restaurant. Seems to be popular although haven't tried it yet. I'm guessing it's the same people who own the restaurant further down Bridge road. I haven't checked but if it is the same people I would imagine the other restaurant may have closed, so effectively a relocation closer to the main night time hub of Oulton Broad.
The Copper Smokehouse has a doggy den in the garden dining area, so they must be dog friendly, although whether that is only for outside dining I don't know.
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36 minutes ago, Tobster said:
The Commodore is not as good as as it was under Moss and Co, food was ok last week, but the cost of the drinks are unbelievably expensive (medium wine £8.95) and causing the locals to vote with their feet.
Was about to say that the food is average at best, but the beer selection is ok, although I hadn't really looked at the price. It is noticeably quieter though since they decided not to renew the lease for Moss and Co and take the pub back in house. I thought maybe just the locals supporting a local business and giving the national chain the cold shoulder, but maybe it is more than that. Certainly my food a couple of weeks ago was average chain pub food.
My tip for a decent pint and excellent food is The Ivy House Country Hotel. It is hotel / restaurant or upper gastro style pub food at the price you would expect for those kind of places, however the food is really good, the menu has a good choice and I should whisper this, but Mon thru Thursday and including Friday lunchtime they are doing 25% off the food which makes it excellent value for money as well.
It is a pleasant walk through Nicholas Everitt Park and past Tingdene marina and about 200 yards and turn back inland to reach the hotel, or follow The Angles Way from Oulton Broad South rail station for about half a mile.
Oulton Broad has become my second home when in Norfolk and not on the boat and just for a pint you cannot beat the outlook from The Wherry Hotel although the bar service can leave you feeling weary, alternatively The Commodore garden is a great place to watch the sunset, but I would definitely eat at The Ivy House.
A good second for food is The Copper House Smokehouse if you like smoked / BBQ style food.
I've yet to try it but The Flying Dutchmen caught my eye on Facebook recently and the menu didn't look bad, but the exterior of the pub has always put me off and I've never bothered to venture up that way. One to be tried sometime soon.
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10 minutes ago, oldgregg said:
Is it potentially the case that 'Nisa Retail Ltd' was known internally by another division name and the independent bit is known as the 'retail' division given that it is what it functions as?
I don't think so. If you look at the confirmation statement from the previous year it runs to 133 pages and lists all the individual limited companies or sole traders who were shareholders of NISA Retail Limited. Each with differing numbers of shares. I guess depending on whether they had one shop or a few shops in a local area.
There are approx 12 entries per page and the statement runs to 133 pages, so somewhere in the region of 1600 individual shareholders owning 59760 shares between them. I don't know how much the co-op paid for NISA Retail Limited but each of the shareholders would have got a percentage based upon the numbers of shares they held, although more than likely it was a sale of convenience to offload the wholesale arm and give them access to the improved buying power of the co-op as well as the expanded product range.
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12 hours ago, andyg said:
They probably do need to. My info is 100% correct. Il stand by that. Don't take my word for it tho !! Pop into your local nisa and ask your nice local independent retailer. 😉
Somebody also needs to inform the Government then, or more specifically Companies House!!!!
Company Name NISA RETAIL LIMITED
Company Number 00980790
Confirmation Statement date 17/08/2018
Shareholding 1: 59760 ORDINARY shares held as at the date of this confirmation statement
Name: CO-OPERATIVE GROUP HOLDINGS (2011) LIMITED
I think your misunderstanding stems from the following. All of the independent shops trading under the NISA logos were also shareholders of NISA Retail Limited, which despite its name was actually the wholesaler and distribution to all the independent shops. These independent shops as shareholders of NISA Retail Limited company number 00980790 have sold that business to the Co-op, who is the sole shareholder of NISA Retail Limited. In return the independent shops benefit from the increased buying power of the co-op as well as an expanded product range and get to continue using the NISA logo's and branding. The independent shops remain exactly that, independent, but they no longer have any stake in what used to be their wholesale / distribution arm, NISA Retail Limited. The independent shops get to do what they do best, running their own independent business without having to worry about being shareholders off and having a say in running a much larger more complex wholesale and distribution business.
Whichever way you look at it, the facts are NISA Retail Limited is wholly owned by the Co-operative Group and the independent stores operating under the NISA branding continue to be exactly that, independent businesses and no longer shareholders of NISA Retail Limited.
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10 hours ago, andyg said:
Nisa retail is still owned by its members and operate on a co op based business model.
You might want to tell NISA to update their website then!!
2017 It’s our 40th Birthday!
2018 In May 2018 the Co-op completed its acquisition of Nisa Retail Limited.
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The not running engines at moorings from 8pm to 8am is becoming stealth legislation of the worst example as it potentially legitimises running them between 8am to 8pm at moorings. The fact is it is NOT backed up in any way by a byelaw and can not be enforced by the BA. The byelaw prohibits making a smoke or noise nuisance at moorings at ANY time. I would class a running diesel for hours on end as both at a mooring.
The BA have a byelaw, so why do they chose to put advice, they cannot enforce, on their mooring signs rather than the actual byelaw? It doesn't make sense!
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1 minute ago, Smoggy said:
NOOoooooooooooooo!!!!
It'll frighten the fish.
Don't worry they're rarer than the booming of the Bittern!
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16 minutes ago, MargeandParge said:
This is unintentionally probably a very stupid post, would it be as environmentally friendly to run a petrol or small diesel generator on the deck and connected all the way,
A slight digression but very pertinent to this subject. Batteries do not make electricity, they store electricity produced elsewhere, primarily by coal, uranium, natural gas powered plants or diesel fueled generators. So to say an electric boat is zero emission or environmentally friendly is not at all valid!!!!
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3 hours ago, grendel said:
well the electric posts are designated charging posts, so in theory there should be a ruling whereby an electric boat requiring charging can commandeer a post for that purpose
I believe the first charging points were paid for, or heavily subsidised by a sustainability grant to encourage electric boating, however the problem doesn't just end with allowing an electric boat to commandeer a post for charging purposes, given that most are on public moorings paid for out of the general toll. All things being equal priority should be given to an electric boat wishing to recharge over one which is plugged in to power the oven or boil a kettle. It could even be argued that if you put credit on a meter and a higher priority user came along you could lose it as their need to plug in is greater than yours. However imagine you're moored at Ranworth or Horning and there are no available moorings left and along comes an electric boat that needs to recharge to continue its journey. Would a non electric boat that is plugged in have to move off to make space for the electric boat that needs to plug in. Would a non electric boat that is not even plugged in have to move off to make space?
There clearly needs to be an expansion of the number of electric charging points, but it is an expensive business especially in very rural areas, who pays for it? Should there be a network of special moorings purely reserved for electric only boats, and if so should it be funded from a different pot, either a government grant or an electric boat toll?
The BA really needs a clearer policy around the whole issue of electric boating and also the placement of posts, and also a clear hierarchy of post usage. Perhaps one mooring nearest to each post should be reserved for all electric boats only, with anyone else able to use the mooring, but must stay with their boat and be prepared to move on should the space be needed by an electric boat.
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EE / BT mobile seems to be fairly good in most parts of Horning now. Also if your cottage comes with WiFi, most modern mobiles now support WiFi calling where it will switch to using the WiFi to make and receive phone calls. (providing you have this turned on in the phone settings) Obviously will only work within the cottage, but you can also use WiFi calling if connected to a pub WiFi if in a poor phone signal area.
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I think we have to go by the BA Byelaws. They define that navigation lights should be exhibited between sunset and sun rise. Since hire boats generally do not have nav lights, they should be moored up by sunset. In the interpretations they also state that "By night" means between sunset and sunrise.
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3 minutes ago, MauriceMynah said:
2026
Ahead of schedule then!
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18 minutes ago, andyg said:
Do the post actually get knocked over...I can't imagine a hire craft knocking one over even the biggest dual steer job would just bounce off it
I would imagine it all depends on the age of the post and how rotten it is. Judging by the marks and scuffs you see on the posts, they get nudged on a fairly regular basis. Wood under water without oxygen never rots, or rots extremely slowly, on the other hand wet wood exposed to the atmosphere will rot much quicker. The part of the post that is constantly wet and exposed to the air due to the rise and fall of the tide is the bit most at risk of rotting. Which begs the question, when you see a missing post, how much of it is still left just under the surface of the water?
Maybe, just maybe an extra reason why they should be replaced in a timely manner.
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I believe it was a snapped off post on Barton Broad which holed a boat a few years back. In the channel on the approach towards Neatishead.
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37 minutes ago, Mouldy said:
Good point, Ray. Social media has made what used to be a molehill into a mountain. Where a simple mistake was regarded as just that, the perpetrators of such incidents are now vilified, accused of being idiots and forced to wear Ku Klux Klan style face coverings for fear of retribution by the baying masses, following making regional and national news for the heinous crimes they’ve committed.
It's worth noting that the crew on board the hire boat had already spent the night on board the boat stuck on Breydon and the coastguard were called at noon the next day, which would have been just after high tide on Breydon.
I suspect that having gone aground the crew sat it out until the next day on the hope of refloating on the next high tide and had they have been successful little would have been known about this particular incident. Possibly the high tide not being high enough or having drifted further they were unsuccessful and called the coastguard.
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1 minute ago, OldBerkshireBoy said:
Abandoned boats run aground painted red and green with solar powered flashing lights would sharpen minds.
Now there's a point. Any boat not tolled after a warning has been issued gets towed to Breydon and sunk to mark the channel. Would save on marker posts and also serve as a reminder to pay your toll.
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Where Was Bennigans?
in Broads Chat
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It's possible. All I can find is reference to his former Norfolk Broads restaurant, but it doesn't say where it was.