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34 minutes ago, kpnut said:
You never know, we may go back to the days of artisan shops: blacksmith and fancy wrought ironwork, chocolate maker, sewing lady etc etc. Wouldn’t that be nice?
I was lucky to grow up in Wroxham with Eric Stevenson, one of the last of a long line of blacksmiths living at the bottom of my road. I suspect there's probably a fair bit of his handiwork around Wroxham and Hoveton and in surviving wooden broads boats. He also did a lot of work for churches and cathedrals, including wrought iron for Norwich Cathedral and Westminster Abbey. Aside of being a proper old craftsman, he was a lovely old boy and I can remember him teaching me and my sister how to craft a proper bow and arrows on one occasion.
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If anyone's travelling that way this afternoon, the A14 eastbound carriageway is currently closed at Rowley Mile near Newmarket. A car has hit a petrol pump at the services causing a fire.
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States the place is dying, yet pictures a stand-alone butcher's shop and independent hardware store. In my local area, we lost most small businesses like that 10-15 years ago. As I understand it, Nicholsons is getting a Morrisons Daily store soon, so there's obviously some support for investment. I know at least one local business has also just moved into larger premises.
The drug issues probably wouldn't have been so prominent in the days when Stalham had its own police station, but obviously it's far from alone losing that. There have however always been drug issues in surrounding areas, including Hoveton.
I think a lot of social issues in the area can probably be traced back to the appalling standard of education provided by the high school for many years. I only went for a couple of years, thankfully moving to Broadland High for the last couple - but, when I was there, kids basically did what they wanted in some lessons and bullied some weaker teachers into allowing them to skip any sort of meaningful education. I think a lot of kids left with woeful exam results, inevitably getting stuck locally and in low salaried employment.
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1 hour ago, Happy said:
It has been stated on here that the boat does not have a 'Broads' licence. If that is correct I take it the Authority will do something about that too? Let's make it fair for all the LEGAL boat users
Cambridgecabby has suggested that a monthly payment schedule may not show up on the Toll Checker (which is down anyway), so the current situation is unclear.
I think this is actually an interesting point. Elsewhere on BA's WhatDoTheyKnow freedom of information request list several questions have been asked about what ERP system the authority uses. The responses stated that they do not have an ERP.
For those not familiar, an ERP is a comprehensive software suite, often referred to as a company's "single source of truth". It generally streamlines efficiency, reduces the need for staffing (often dramatically), gives ad hoc financial reporting in a few clicks and allows easy publishing of account information, etc on websites. The fact BA don't have one appears to be a massive shortcoming and suggests those in charge have a poor grasp of technology. It also suggests there may be cost savings to be had by reducing staffing, and explains why clear financial reporting can be less than forthcoming.
Either way, if an owner has a payment schedule in place, queries on the toll checker probably ought to show a more appropriate response. Returning a response saying it's untolled for an owner adhering to an agreed payment schedule appears to be potentially defamatory to me?
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1 hour ago, Meantime said:
It is good, but in the meantime the damage and division is still being done elsewhere. At least the publicity seeking, self serving Youtuber, will get a few pennies out of it.
Google demonetize videos with violent content, copyright violation or profanity. Sometimes the process is automatic, sometimes it's triggered by signals like people disliking or reporting it.
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9 minutes ago, Mouldy said:
There are another two individuals that have been subject to the same abuse, about whom I suspect no have no knowledge at all.
See 1st post on this page.
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30 minutes ago, Happy said:
This sounds like a trial without a jury to me
I know a lot about two of the individuals involved.
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18 minutes ago, Mouldy said:
So, what about the couple on board Moonlight Shadow, who tried to moor at the same Staithe and suffered the same thuggish reaction? Are we saying that they should be categorised as the individual on the Freeman? Frankly, I think not.
Do you have anything at all to substantiate that these are the same anglers?
The boat owner has been charged with abusive/threatening behaviour towards BA staff recently. It's no issue to mention this, as he posted the charge sheet himself, as some sort of apparent brag.
To me, the fishermen look like a couple of old boys who are unlikely to go looking for a confrontation - and, more than likely have been told to f'ing move or similar and unfortunately now put themselves at risk of similar charges.
Have you honestly never got into a similar confrontation in the pub, on the road, or similar?
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That's usually the case - one of the local day boat hire places was using the countdown to the close season as a marketing tactic the other day. Knowing a few fishing obsessives, it seems like the close season is akin to quitting smoking or drinking for some.
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10 minutes ago, kpnut said:
But the parish council should be informed of an incident on their property. Doesn’t matter if between boaters and anglers / dog walkers and anglers / two people having a fight or anything else.
I'm surprised a couple of the locals didn't show up - especially the notorious lady or Jed Stone.
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3 minutes ago, Mouldy said:
Fellow owners on Moonlight Shadow were given the same treatment at the same place by the same anglers last week. They decided not to moor, but to move off to avoid further confrontation.
I can assure you, as a member of the Syndicate Management Team, that Moonlight Shadow is tolled, therefore has every right to be on the river.
I'd absolutely stand with them in that case - shame they didn't catch that incident on video.
There are significant differences in this case though.
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2 hours ago, Tempest said:
I would suggest the poster appears to be a witness to an event occurring and his history has no relevance whatsoever to the actions taken by the skipper trying to legitimately moor and the 2 fishermen.
If there was a few minutes of peaceful uncut video leading up to the event, I'd agree with you. In this case however, I have to ask whether the content has been carefully cropped to deliberately distort the view.
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Just now, CambridgeCabby said:
If a boat owner pays monthly it will show as unpaid , best not to assume please
I wasn't aware of that. That makes the BA's toll checker highly questionable in my view. It's gone offline in the last few days. I wonder if the two points are connected?
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3 hours ago, Meantime said:
It probably all depends on who approached them, and how they approached them. The poster of that video has a long history of being a thorn in the side of The BA.
There's clearly much more going on than just what's shown. Why is he filming in the first place? Suggests to me that there has already been a confrontation of some sort. I suspect that rather than "sorry mate, I just need to moor for 5 mins to empty my bins" the Freeman owner probably barked orders at them.
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3 hours ago, grendel said:
from what I could see they have broken a bylaw by interfering with a vessel mooring, and that is clear evidence of that act..
6 of 1, half a dozen of the other. The boat is untolled so technically shouldn't be there.
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58 minutes ago, marshman said:
Not sure the Cathedral has bells! Nor a clock in the spire!!
If you enable sound, there are regular chimes - at least on the half hour, possibly more. Not sure if it's from the cathedral (don't recall ever noticing it having a regular chime) or St.Helen's in Bishopgate.
Another thing which suprised me is that they fly in the dark. One was on the ledge earlier preening itself and it was completely dark. It now seems to have gone off somewhere.
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2 minutes ago, ptrehearn152 said:
i have this habit of looking at the worst case possible.
That tends to be the best approach with boats! People go on about boat meaning "Bring out another thousand", but I think it's all too often because they've bought things with rose tinted glasses.
Someone rebuilt an Elysian around Ely way recently (literally every bolt and screw replaced and repainted) and was selling it for pretty sensible money, but I can't find a trace of it now, so it must have sold.
There's another at Potter/Waterside on eBay with a BMC 1.5 and holding tank, but the paintwork looks a bit rough and ready.
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Definitely don't buy a petrol. It's not just the hassle of lugging fuel around, but also the risks. Apart from fire and explosion, it's also associated with a lot of carbon monoxide accidents.
It's a shame - Topsail had what appeared to be really nice original diesel Appleyard built Elysian recently with a holding tank, but they dropped the price and it sold not long after. NYA also sold one recently - again diesel and holding tank. There's plenty around, but you may need to be quick off the mark now heading into prime boat buying season.
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Seems like it might be back now.
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I suspect a lot of their code is Python, so it'll probably be a line of code indented with a tab rather than spaces, or something equally ridiculous.
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Quite a few just have a sea toilet, so will have a skin fitting in the hull rather than pump-out on the deck.
Given the age of a lot of them, sea toilets would have been extremely common when first built. The original models first produced at Ely probably ended up on the Great Ouse network a lot of the time, so pretty unlikely to have tanks fitted back in those days.
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Can you imagine being the engineer who deployed whatever broke it and now having to sit there trying to roll things back knowing half the world is impacted
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It's really frustating - I caught one sat on the edge this morning, but with its back to the camera. Every time I go back, nothing.
I'm quite surprised they nest there (particularly with bells chiming), rather than somewhere like the prison with better access to Mousehold.
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11 hours ago, YnysMon said:
Isn’t there a species called water oak?
It appears there is, but I don't think they'd have been them. The leaves appear to be quite shiny and unusually shaped, which I'm sure I'd have remembered.
Stalham On The Edge
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When I was a kid, whenever we went into Norwich, we'd tend to park in Malthouse multi-storey car park (my sister and I often going to the now long closed Noverre cinema on Theatre Street for the Saturday matinee whilst my mum shopped). I can still remember the smell from the old chocolate factory as you approached down Chantry Road. My dad worked for the GPO and on one occasion went in to do some work, coming home with masses of rejected chocolate, which the workers were sick to death of eating.
After leaving the GPO, my dad became Norwich Union's Chief Telecomms Officer - in those days, they had their own internal mechnical telephone exchanges and my dad did a lot of the changeover to newer System X and Y digital systems. Several of my school friends also went to work for NU. It's very sad that they were eventually rebranded to Aviva when they merged with CGU, as I think NU's reputation gave Norwich a bit of national credibility.