marshman

Always try that guy at Woodbridge - he usually has some https://www.andyseedhouseboats.co.uk/index.php

You mean the prospect of litigation they were bound to lose! But it took the complaint to the CMA for it to happen...!! Holiday companies as a whole are still being intransigent - but people are still flying, and booking, with Ryanair and the others! The best way to stop this practise is not to book with them!!!

You are right in that it is now mandatory for all powered craft to have a holding tank, no just hire. In a sailing boat, I think, although it is powered, it is merely auxiliary power.

Do you include all full members on this site as "numpties?" Some views may well differ from others, but it is a Forum - what else would you expect?

I think Hunters have been trialling the outboards for a year or more - I guess it was only a matter of time before they converted more as it did save them time having to collect boats at the end of the week from differing points!!! Still those grey tanks get full more quickly than the pumpouts if you stay in the shower too long - the only shower in a Hunters boat is over the side with your own bar!

Perhaps one of our Moderators rates "respect" highly, which is why he uses it a lot?

I think it may have a toilet inside.....? Indeed if its like his other modern boats, they have quite flash bogs and showers and grey water tanks - not a bit like bucket and chuck it!!!!!

For what its worth, Multicell based in Norwich are a good source of new batteries - I have always found them helpful.

People like bright and airy boats - the lack of a rail is no big deal to me. Indeed if there were one it would make it more difficult to get on and off. What is good, is that there are still new small boats being built and you can thank Len for that!! Lets hope he continues!

Griff you will be pleased to know I had to nip up andeven do mine - after about 15mm of rain today!! You will be pleased to know I thought of you up me steps!!!

I didn't want to make that point about social distancing as well but to me many seemed to be adhering to the rules adopted almost all over the world - except here! Add to that and they also outside.......! Given that almost 1.2 million people work for the NHS, then I would almost guarantee some were amongst the crowds - although of course I don't actually know that....!

Scrumpy - how do you know that some of those very protesters are NOT NHS or care home workers? Would that not rather spoil the point you seem to be trying to make? As has been said before, a picture can tell a thousand tales... !

I can remember the moment when we scored precisely - I was standing on Earls Court Underground station with hundreds listening to some bloke relaying the game from his trannie. The bizarre thing was no one was getting on Tubes in case they missed it!!!!

Pete - I don't think that was exactly what I was trying to say! I think my reference was meant to be more about the second home owners, who I suspect are the type of people who would use a food shop as run by your neighbour - but it is the former who have brought more money to the area to enable that shop to flourish in normal times. Without them Southwold will certainly struggle, but I can see the day trippers bring less benefits, and often more hassle, especially as councils are keeping many toilets shut!

Thats not the point I was making - the picture wasn't even here but they used it because it was a picture of a crowded beach and just because it was related to the article, they wanted you to believe it was here! And so most did! ( In fact I have remembered - it was said to be taken at Waxham Sands where the owners said they too had been inundated - so they used a library picture from elsewhere!) And sorry Bexs, "your" beaches belong to everyone, just as the hills in the Lake District and the Peak District belong to us all, and used also by people from Dorset! Like the people of Southwold who want the money, but not the people; you cannot have it both ways!

I loved that photo of crowded beaches the other day purporting to be in the UK - it wasn't it was somewhere abroad ( I forget exactly where! ) It perhaps proves the point that we hear, and see, just what we want to!

Griff - I may have spoken too soon! I have just looked at the rainfall radar and we are about to get some! I will let you know if I need help with my gutters!!

Some of us live in Norfolk Griff, and whilst we do have really heavy rain sometimes, I think that whilst you may have had it, I recorded less than 10mm over the last 24 hours! No you cannot come here - the county is FULL!!

Sometime or other, some of you guys really must find more positive things in the outlook and concentrate on those For one thing, I do not think they are actually very close to even calculating accurately the R number, so why are some so fixated with it? Despite all those people who consider otherwise, few, if any, other Europe countries have seen a second wave after relaxing the lockdown, so why are you all so insistent it is just around the corner? Remember too, most of these countries only have a 1 metre social distancing regulation and they do not appeared to have suffered unduly as a result of that? And of course it is difficult to hear tales of Kate Garroways experiences, but in all honesty, how different is that to a fit and healthy person suddenly being hit by a massive stroke, but surviving as a vegetable - there is no shortage either of tales of people being hit by an unknown brain tumour and many other diseases. So why does this tale seem to hit you all so hard when in the past you have not even known of other people with harrowing conditions. We are all mortal and death is there at the end of the road for all of you at some stage - its called the pattern of life! I know the scale is different but you do not hide indoors every winter because you might die of flu - or do you? Sometimes I think you just forget about those who die every year from unknown and/or unavoidable death but sadly thats life and something you can never avoid however, or whatever, precautions you take. I suspect some of you must be glued to the TV every day soaking up every nuance - I don't think mine has been on this week at all! I have a quick check on my phone every morning to see whats going on and then I listen to nothing more. There is always good news around but everyone is obsessed - and don't tell me how may people have died please. Its not irrelevant but remember many many people have had it and survived, and whether you want it or not, we are going to continue and the world will still go round! Remember perhaps our experiences pale into insignificance if you look at places like Syria and the Yemen - the ordinary people there did not ask to killed by loony factions fighting a war, nor those who die of famine, nor those of malaria. We have a future - please look forward to it!

Colino - are you saying that there are excessive queues over Wroxham Bridge? There are people around who actually live here and use it who have no problem going home at night!!!!

Hi Vaughan - the reason, I guess, we cannot stay overnight is that opens up the can of worms about germ ridden furriners coming in to their second homes- none of these places like Southwold can really decide what to do! Some residents of Southwold have been pleading on the one hand, to keep them away, whilst on the other, some businesses who these people support, have been asking for special help to keep going!!! There is also a lot of poncy Conservative MP's in these areas ,who probably not local, pretend to be for the sake of the electorate. Even Great Yarmouth has been pleading with people to stay away - or the councillors, safe with their expense claims, are!! You couldn't make it up!

The really intriguing factor about this new facemask campaign which has been gathering pace, is that it is largely union led - and oh, Sadiq Khan! The transport unions such as RMT, ASLEF and the TSSA seem to think its a good opportunity to slow down the fact that in reality they just don't want to work (never have! ) but they have now been joined by that most upright of unions the BMA, another very left wing setup, despite all its pretensions. Although the campaign gathers pace, its built on pretty flimsy evidence and to fine people for not using them, is, IMHO, a step too far. How indeed do they expect many of the old, a large sector using for buses for example, to be actually able to buy them???? Still won't affect me too much as I can no longer find a bus to use!!!!!!

Andy - better down and write a few risk assessments then! I suspected this was on the cards when we were discussing different ways of working perhaps - nows the chance to get some money back into the system I hope. It really does need it!

Don't worry Smoggy. You are not a nut case - if the erstwhile Smithsonian Institute says that copper surfaces kill the Covid19 virus in around 4 hours, I would tend to feel that belief confirmed! Unless, of course Trump has removed an odd Director or two and withdrawn funding but even so I would be tempted to believe them!!!

Nor me - I already had my air raid shelter full but sadly no one bothered to inform me it was the wrong threat about to strike....!!