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Purely for the sake of research Mr Nog. The Broadland marina bar has 4 hand pumps, only three on currently. Adnams ghost ship. Greene king ipa and Lacons fireside. I can confirm the ghost ship is very drinkable

I maybe wrong, but I believe it is now turned off when the ranger hut closes at the end of the season. It frequently trips when the tide overtops and when the ranger is around he resets it once safe to do so. Obviously with no ranger presence over the Winter I think they now just turn it off.

However, can you update a website quickly and easily from your phone? Does a landlord want to learn how to use Wordpress? On the other hand a landlord can quickly pick up their phone, take a picture of today's menu and post it on Facebook in less than 60 secs. Whilst it may not work for everyone, it still gets the word out quickly and cheaply to a wide audience. I have a Facebook account, I don't "do" Facebook. I use it to my advantage. I don't check in to venues, I don't post what I had for breakfast, or where I'm going etc. I have an account purely so I join groups of interest to browse. There is a group called Food on The Norfolk Broads. I've joined it purely to browse the useful content that gets published there. I looked at the group briefly yesterday morning and found copies of Valentines Day menus from about 10 different establishments around the Broad. Now I could have looked at a number of local pubs and restaurants websites, most would have had a copy of their normal menu. but I bet you pretty much none had their Valentines Day menu on the website. I off course would have had to search for the websites or already have them bookmarked. Or, I could go to the Facebook group and peruse 10 or so menus in one simple action, decide on the best and then here's the best bit, if using Facebook from the phone, just click on the phone number on the Facebook page and be ringing the pub to try and make a booking. I realise it doesn't work for everyone, but in the same way as this forum has it's place, for some Facebook is a very complimentary addition to their daily interaction to social media. Let's not forget, this forum is social media, just in a different form to Facebook. What I do find amusing is the number of people who post here saying I don't do Facebook, but for those that do, there is such and such, a letter, or post that has been made, then eventually someone gets permission and it gets posted here second hand. If you want to know what's going on in the world, some people read a newspaper, others watch the TV news, some even do both! For me keeping up with the world of Broadland means using this forum, browsing certain Facebook groups, the other forum when it was working and the occasional glance at the EDP website. I use all of them for their best bits.

I knew you wouldn't let me down

I wonder if this helps?

I wonder if Howard recognises where I am now?

It's now run by Moss and Co. I think there is three hand pumps with a staple of Greene King IPA and two others on rotation. They have about 6 or 7 other pubs so tend to have a fair selection of guest ales.

You jumping on the train to Beccles or staying in Oulton? You could do worse than give the bar at Broadland Marina a try.

Quite simply it is about speed and ease. Unless you are very tech savvy you are going to be paying for another company to develop, design and host your website and then carry out updates as needed. Then you have to contact them again and ask them to remove any special offers when they are no longer relevant. The more you are prepared to pay, the more responsive to short term and last minute amendments your web hosting company will be. On the other hand pretty much anyone can create a Facebook presence and take five minutes to update it in the morning and it is instant. For instance your oven breaks down and you make a quick post on your Facebook page that you will be open, but apologies there will be no hot food today. It's quick and instant. Or you email your web hosting company who may not react to the email immediately. Then when they do, it's a day or two later and your oven is now fixed, but now you need to get the update removed from your website. etc etc. Or do you phone your web hosting company and expect them to stop work on whatever else they are doing to make an update to your website for one day! Last minute special offers are not quite so time dependent, but still far easier to spread the message on a medium you have control over, such as your Facebook page. Then you have to understand a little about how Facebook works. If you look at a page regularly then updates and notifications will start to pop up in your feed about things that maybe of interest to you. So you regularly check the Facebook page of the Stag, and they post a special Valentines dinner menu, then there is an above average chance the next time you go to Facebook it will pop up in your feed and whilst you may have forgotten about Valentines, or had no plans to go out, you might think twice, take a look and make a booking. If they updated a webpage, unless you go regularly to their webpage you would be non the wiser. That might suit you, but push advertising gets results for those companies that use Facebook.

Kind of correct. In my first picture in this thread it is there, but behind the tree. This grab from Google street maps shows it clearer in its new location. I'm assuming the railings where reassembled in sections and no one paid any attention to the order they were in originally?

So I'll start this as a quiz first of all. Anyone spot the error in reassembling the bridge at Castle Mall? I cannot see any logical reason for why it was done. Was it done for a reason? or because no one noticed at the time?

I came across the following bit of trivia the other day. The old Duke's Palace bridge across the river Wensum was dismantled in 1972 when the bridge needed to be replaced to accommodate heavier traffic. It was put into storage and when the Castle Mall development was being completed the old bridge was used as supports at the entrance to the Castle Mall car park. The Norwich Castle gardens tun across it now. The picture below shows the bridge in its original location circa 1938 Below is the modern replacement, not such a work of art. Circa 1978 Below is the old Dukes Palace Bridge in its new position at the entrance to the Castle Mall car park

I think if it was me I'd be tempted with The Fur and Feathers, followed by a walk to the rather good Stag, then an evening meal in the excellent Salhouse Lodge.

I think it might have been around 1984. The planning application to convert it into 2 private dwellings was 1996. Apparently the old pub sign can still be seen hanging in The Fat Cat at Norwich.

Just seen on Facebook that the Reedham Ferry is back and operating again. The AA road signs won't be taken down until Monday, but it is running now.

I'm glad I don't walk with you At 1.1 mile from the station to The Bell, that's some walking speed.

Did you add units to your meter, or money? My marina you add credit, so my last top up was £50 when they change the unit price you get more or less units for the credit on the meter. Similar to the BA where your £1 card buys you £1 credit on the post at whatever that days unit price is.

Just double checked and my marina, as of last July issued a notice saying they were reducing the cost of a unit from 53p to 49p. They do not charge a standing charge, connection charge or fee for the card used to top up the meter. So the unit cost includes the marina's estimate of their running costs in relation to standing charge, annual testing and provision of infrastructure, meters, cards etc. So the true unit cost would be something lower than 49p per unit. I don't use a lot of electric so for me an all price price per unit is better than paying a separate annual connection or standing charge.

It very much applies. The only situations it doesn't apply are in Commercial or Industrial, so shops, offices etc. So it does apply to Marinas, campsites and the BA. They can only sell on the electric at cost. I doubt very much if anyone is paying 77p per unit!!!!! I've never paid anywhere near that at home. Even when prices were at their highest I doubt anyone was paying 77p per unit. They are entitled to pass on the cost of any standing charge they pay, either as a separate fee, or by estimating and spreading over the total units they expect to resell in a year. If they run their own distribution and metering, cabling etc, then they are also allowed to pass on that cost, normally as a separate fee. If you are paying an annual connection fee then that should cover your share of the standing charge and your share of the infrastructure costs. Annual testing, maintenance of meters and card readers etc. Then the unit cost should be at cost price. Others will take their known costs, standing charge, infrastructure costs etc and then estimate how many units they expect to resell in a year and add an uplift to cover the fixed costs. This is open to abuse if the number of units resold is vastly in excess of the number of units estimated to be sold. However in that case there should be a refund worked out, or they leave themselves open to a small claims case. However, and this is the crux of the matter, a lot of it will come down to how happy you are in your chosen marina. There maybe an over charge, and you may want to point this out to your marina, who are under no obligation to offer you a berth next year. Unfair, yes, but sometimes that is life.

Not to forget The White Horse at Upton is on shaky ground at the moment!

The landowner already owns other moorings along there which are rented out annually. I don't see it as being any different an issue, to one of them coming back to find that someone has moored up in their mooring. These things happen occasionally. I've seen hire boats moored down Upton Dyke in what is obviously someone's home mooring. I guess if it did happen, the person would be directed to use any available mooring down the dyke, maybe, I don't know. There must be instances when occasionally for genuine emergencies people moor anywhere, even the bottom of someone's garden. Sometimes these things happen! Any other negatives that people want to discuss before the venture has had a chance to get started? before anyone has had a chance to see what, if any signage may go up. Still lots of unknowns yet. It is early days, perhaps we should wait until people actually start booking the moorings and see if any real issues develop. I know this is a discussion forum, but sometimes, just sometimes the glass half empty sentiment is really depressing! I mean what would happen if a meteor descended from space and landed next to the mooring and the vibration knocked over and smashed Gracie's new wine glass? Personally I'd be really scared for the person or thing that threw the meteor.

No, I mean Gracie's wine glass, it was even bigger! I believe it holds 3000ml. I'm sure Gracie sent me a selfie with it.

Good questions. I believe the BA signage was removed sometime last year. With regards to signage at the end of the dyke, its not a private dyke, so anyone has the right to go down there even if there is no where to moor unless you have prebooked. I suspect with the number of moorings involved there will not be a daily presence, let alone a 24hr presence. The mobile number is on the Ts and Cs, so anyone turning up to find their spot taken will have a number to call. It is a private mooring, so anyone mooring there without good reason is trespassing.

Speaking of which, has your new wine glass turned up yet?

I think part of the problem is, if you owned a plot of land back in the 1960's and someone moored for free alongside and stepped of the boat into a rabbit hole, they'd curse themselves for not being more careful and carry on mooring up. Now they're more likely to curse you the landowner for not taking more care of your land, for not putting up signs reminding them to be responsible for their own safety and be on the phone to lawyers R us to see how much they can claim from you.