Labrador

Yeah great, how do I get back!

Bugger, won't be able to get near the place.☺

I think you will find you could buy the Hickling estate and still have shed loads of money left over for the price of her.

I note that Enterprise Inns has changed its name to Ei Publican Partnership, do they really think a change of name can cover their ineptitude of running a pub chain?

So that's where the traffic lights went

The lights on the gas leak were removed Friday am. Having said that, the gas leak was fixed days ago, the hole was finally filled in some time Wednesday I think, then they put tarmac over that by Thursday. In all that time there was a guy in a truck monitoring the lights, cushy! Four way traffic lights on Salhouse roundabout now.

Sorry, bit confused, if you have a boat with 240v system, what is the point if they won't let you have a shore lead?

Too right, if you went Facebook only, I'd be gone like a shot.

Find an 8 year old, IT problem solved, run rings round the adults

Having had a tow across Breydon, from Breydon Marine if I remember as the mast or gaff were a bit suspect, overnighted at Yarmouth. The next day was the total opposite, clear blue sky and a gentle southerly. Ah! and the smell of bacon coming from the galley.

Remember the trip many years ago bringing her from Coldham (?) to Womack, Vaughan? I think we took nearly every mooring post out at Bernie Arms trying to stop in an autumn gale.

Not quite sure why this is actually in ' Norfolk Broads news' as it took place in East Harling, more Brecks than Broads.

Yes they certainly brew beer there. They buy out breweries, transfer the brewing to Bury and basically ruin what used to be classic beers.

Was that the one that used to fly out of a field near South Walsham Barry?

Amen.

Not surprised about the newsagents in the Precinct in Wroxham, the couple who took over a year or two ago do not seem to have any real personality or enthusiasm.

When I worked at FB Wilds in the late 60's, they were trialling the holding type toilet we all know today. However it really was in its infancy, to the extent that the toilet was pumped out using a large electric pump straight into the yard mooring basin. One Saturday the old boy concerned was pumping out a Caribbean as the cleaning women went on board, "Christ Peter what the hell you doinn, there's a tidal wave of s++t in here!" He had somehow mixed up the pump connections and instead of pumping out, it was sucking water from the basin into the toilet. Shouldn't cause a problem you think apart from the fact there was not a vent on the toilet, so they held the flap open with a wedge. Okay, so they cleaned it all up, no problem. Ah, but the Webasto was fed through a glassed in ducting at floor level. Every time the heating was switched on it was horrendous, enough to make your eyes smart.

I hope nobody is eating their evening meal. In the days of my hirefleet involvement, the toilets were basically a fibreglass box with a lid which had the bowl, seat and pump. On turnaround the toilet used to be rinsed from inside by putting a hose with bent flattened pipe (dedicated for pump out use only) down the flap and spraying the tank. However at the end of the season the toilets had their lid removed for a really good scrub out. The inside of the lid was always horrific, despite a good concentrated blast of water every week the lid had a blueish jelly layer, combined with dozens of fly pupae ( or what ever you call them). This could be the source of you flies. Carry on with your tea folks.

Which was that, Commadore, Newsons? There seemed to be so many down in that corner.

We got a right b******ING when we moored Forresters dinghy in Broadsway many years ago, one Oulton week, to go to the Commodore. The problem? we hadn't asked. Sweet as pie after that every year.

I'm afraid this latest weather situation is the Michael Fish legacy, to much over the top by the weathermen. The chances of us getting much snow over Norfolk is not that likely when it is coming out from the west/northwest, by the time it gets to us it is nearly spent. When heavy snow is forecast from the east/northeast, then take note.

Unfortunately, not a lot. Spraying the bilges where you can will only, maybe, kill the flies that have hatched. It's more a case of letting it run its course till they have all emerged.

They were just trying to keep warm?

Fair enough Scrumpy, as I said I'm not taking sides, just wanted clarification of your facts. Quite agree with the maggot bit, unfortunately if they get spilt they go down the tiniest of gaps and depending on the temperature, can take up to some weeks to hatch, something in which the yard is impotent until they appear.

I'm not siding with any one, as I don't know anything about Silverline, but having spent 16 of my 48 years in the industry on hirefleets, can I just ask, did you phone up and report these problems? If the bilge pump was going off 'most of the night' it was probably going off most of the day as well, though you might not hear it. I would hazard a guess that the flies were coming from the result of a previous hirer having his fishing maggots getting into the bilges and going through their natural cycle of turning into flies (seen this more than once on a boat not out on hire for a week and when then boat was opened up to prepare it, we were met by literally hundreds of flies). Not something the yard can foresee. Surely the shower pump button, if overlooked on your trial run, would be pointed out in your boat manual, which you would have seen when you read it, you did read it I take it, many don't bother.