[They Will Get Their Money.]

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/23385913.norfolk-broads-boat-owners-taken-court-tolls/

 

BA will get your money.

 

If you stop the page as soon as it loads you can read it without the stupid subscription popup, can take a couple of refreshes.

[Swan Moorings]

Just seen this, seems a bit excessive.

[Swan Stalham]

The Swan always has a friendly welcome, the hot pork scratchings are rather nice too. The Grebe is much improved too, beer is always spot on when I stop there for a pint.

[Potter Bridge Closed To Road Traffic]

Keep the water high at Potter Bridge, keeps Deep Dyke quiet in the summer for fishing.🫣

[Potter Bridge Closed To Road Traffic]

[Pubs]

Thanks, got a few years until a pensioner, feel like it some days though, may give Acle Bridge a look.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Pubs]

Does anybody know if any pubs around the broads have any food deals going on at the moment.

 

Cheers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Ferry Inn, Horning 23 May 1964 (thatched)]

Lovely photo, I believe its reopening this Friday.

 

 

 

[Wide Load]

Classic EDP stock photo, it's probably the whole rig, lorry and trailer plus load weights 38t maximum, in my boat building days we sent out a boat we knew was in the region of 40 tons but was put at 65 tons for transport purposes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Wide Load]

Could be a tight squeeze down the dilham canal from North Walsham.

[Odd One]

Heigham Holmes is open once a year to the public, access across Martham ferry, still never been.

[Odd One]

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/23276732.norfolk-broads-national-trust-boat-cut-half-somerton/

 

Who just cuts a boat in half?

[Potter Bridge Closed To Road Traffic]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0dyf0sb?at_campaign_type=owned&at_format=video&at_medium=social&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_link_type=web_link&at_ptr_name=facebook_page&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_link_origin=BBC_Radio_Norfolk&at_link_id=8193BB24-9BDA-11ED-8B84-6C6696E8478F

 

 

[Advice For April Broads Trip (first Timer) - Take 2!]

If you can moor near the pumping station on the opposite bank to St Benets Abbey there is a footpath that takes you into Upton.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[River Ice - Dec 2022 Into Early 2023]

Always a mad angler (including me) ready to go through the ice, the sound of the ice breaking on the bow on a frozen broad still gives me the creeps.

 

 

[River Ice - Dec 2022 Into Early 2023]

Upton this morning.

[Potter Bridge Closed To Road Traffic]

In the early 90s we used to be able to take a canoe through the smaller arches (I was a bit smaller then)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Potter Bridge Closed To Road Traffic]

 

5 hours ago, Bikertov said:

So here is a thought ...

 

1) Dig / install a temporary water bypass around the bridge

 

2) Temporarily dam and drain the river in front of and behind the bridge

 

3) Once drained, support the bridge, dig out and reinstate the foundations to make them stable and stop any further sinking

 

4) While you are at it, jack up the bridge say 1 foot or so, to match the clearance of the 'new' road bridge, and re-lay the approach roads to match

 

5) Remove the dams and let the eater back in

 

6) Job done, and everyone is happy

 

 

 

It shouldn't even cost too much in the scheme of things. A bit of Lottery funding maybe ?

 

People have moved whole buildings before, and done far more adventurous stuff. The leaning tower of Pisa has had stabilising work done. It can't be too hard - really ?

 

If your going to build a dam either side put a lock type gate in it, bring the boats in, pump enough water out to get them through then then refill and away you go, sure the BA would consider that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[River Ice - Dec 2022 Into Early 2023]

Friend sent me this of Hickling that he had seen.

[Silverline Announcement]

Here they are.

[Lethal Salt Surge]

I see elsewhere they are closing the barrier at Herbert Woods later today due to another salt surge.

[Fishing On The Waveney]

2 hours ago, Vaughan said:

Clearly not the same places that you have found them to be so accommodating, on waterways all over Europe, not just on the Broads. Fishermen on the bank have the same attitude wherever I have found them.

They say that old fishermen never die.

They only smell that way.

Being a boater and angler I have found if you politely explain its the only mooring left they will generally move as long as you give them time to move their gear, have had to hold out for a minute or 2 to let them move, more often than not there is still room for them to fish in front or behind you, it's just about being nice, of course there's always the one on both sides that give all a bad name.

[One For The Drone Pilots.]

Drones don't like it if you accidentally cast your fishing line over them so I have heard, dont put up much of a fight reeling  them in though.

[Somewhere For A Family Meal Near Stalham]

The Lessingham Star is always good, off the beaten track with a  huge garden with small goats and ponies.

[The State Of Footpaths]

Since they changed many Byways to Restricted Byways near where I live if they are not used by farm machinery most are now overgrown, the odd vehicle passing along used to keep them clear.