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I suspect they will have raised the barrier at Herbert Woods basin under the foot bridge, the fish tend to gather in there when the saline water comes up the Thurne. At the right time they raise the barrier to stop the salt water entering. Only drawback for boats is that they can't get in or out.

I don't know anything about fishing licence, but with the title 'idiot' I felt qualified to post!!

She must have been doing a very obscure search, I just put in dwp, and first site was the official site 0800 and 0345 numbers. I do, however, take note of the point of your post.

Just what I was going to say Peter, but I think I would have been more blunt. While we're about it, just turn all the Broads into marinas.

Barry, It was Basil Curtis, his brother owned the shop on the left just before Acle bridge. By the way it was nice to see you early September at Martham Development sheds. Long time no see.

Trouble is, the way things are going in the UK, there are going to be more breweries than there are pubs to sell the ales.

"Watneys Norwich Bitter, rabbit pie in the Black Horse on the Horning to Wroxham road". Is the Norwich Bitter linked to the Black Horse, Steve? Bearing in mind the Black Horse was a Lacons/Whitbread pub, not Watneys/Grandmet.

Jonzo is quite correct, Roy's is very keenly priced. The good thing about their meat is that you can buy a sensible quantity for one or two people, most of the big supermarkets only seems to offer packs/portions to feed the 5,000. Their wine is very keenly priced, try to buy a, say, Chilean Merlot for half price, £5.50 instead of £11.00 in one of the big supermarkets.

Long live the isolation of the Broads. If you want riverside tesco type stores then take your boat somewhere else where they cater for you.

Kindle Fire HDX 8.5" and Nokia 520 Windows phone, perfect combination. What I can't do on one I can do on the other, for a lot less money than iPhone/iPad combination.

Get your facts correct 650xs, Royalls is in Hoveton, as Nigel quite rightly displays on the boats.

So your daughter not only has a galley, she also has a kitchen!!

This was computer generated, if you read the 'blurb' he says it took him a week to create. It's such a shame that in this day and age you do not know what is real and what isn't.

Don't know where you tried to more in Wroxham yesterday Chocofluff, but there was loads of room Faircraft Loynes. Not so much by the car park, but right down the end where they turn the hire fleet round.

"There were some really old planes doing fly pasts including Spitfires and Lancaster Bombers, that's what my dad said they were called anyway, whatever they were it was spell binding" I should think they were spell binding, you were watching the first public flying in over fifty years of two Lancasters. The Canadian one has come over here to join the BBMF Lancaster for some public displays.

Hence why it is called a rond anchor, for anchoring in the rond. Which reminds me of many years ago, just before you got onto Hickling broad, can't quite remember where. There was a very large piece of rond had broken away and totally blocked the navigation. As it was in the depths of winter not a huge amount of chaos ensued. They manoeuvred it out of the channel and was kept in place by driving some old telegraph poles in front of it.

Do have her spayed, We had a lab who had phantom pregnancies and had mastitis a couple of times. She was diagnosed diabetic at the age of twelve, which the vet reckoned her not having had pups all that time and not being spayed could have contributed to it. She eventually went blind as a result of being diabetic, but still survived four more years.

Sissy Lants shop on the staithe at Horning. Open every day of the year including Christmas day. You could buy a single egg, couple of slices of bread, and many other strange quantities.

Coots joining up on mass is not a change in behaviour. It occurs every winter, it's only when the breeding season when they fight like hell and disperse.

Strow, I think you will find that when there is a surge of salt up the Thurne, many thousands of fish take refuge in Herbert Woods basin. This is about the only place that the EA can be sure of keeping the fish safe. I think that they have a statutory power to close the barrier should they deem it essential. We moored by the footbridge to lower mast in september and the EA had a large group of people there showing them the raising and lowering of the barrier. They closed off the basin to boats for nearly an hour.

Barry, Someone was indeed using a blow torch, but trying to cure a leak onthe flat roof of an extension at the back. Unfortunately this extension was north facing and on that day there was a very strong northerly wind blowing which caused some sparks to blow into the thatch. The wind was strong enough that at the fires height the flames were reaching the far side of the river

The Bure Court caught fire on the sunday morning of March the 16th 1975. I was one of the last to leave on the saturday night. Tom had just opened a traditional bitter bar, which boasted 7 real ales, only the week before. This pub was actually on the main river on the corner of the dyke leading to Summercraft. I was invited to the opening night of the Lodge at Salhouse which was exactly one year later on March 16th 1976.

Yes they are very good Perry. Peter and Nigel Edwards started sometime in the late 80's basically going around the boats in their van. Now they have some 15+ people and always exhibt at LBS at Excel. We are a trade customer of theirs and have been since they started.

Fascinating pages Carol, such a shame the whole canal could not be completly restored.