SteveO

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Well let's give it a go. We can always revert to Plan A if we don't have enough quizzers. All being well, topics will be: ROUND 1 – CHOCOLATE ROUND 2 – CRYPTIC BROADLAND ROUND 3 – SHIPS OF THE FAMOUS – REAL AND FICTIONAL Half-time break ROUND 4 – THE FINAL FRONT EAR ROUND 5 – RECIPES ROUND 6 – GENERAL MAYHEM Quizzers old and new are very welcome to join us at https://www.nbnplus.co.uk/chat/ around 8.30 on Friday. Just enter a username. No password needed.

Due to totally unexpected circumstances, I am now in a position to run my quiz tomorrow, rather than in 2 weeks time per the above post. If you could indicate whether you would be able to attend, please do so and if we have a sufficient number of participants, I will post topics and it will go ahead. If not, we will stick with the 4th November as being the date of the next quiz.

Trust me, they'll be down by Thursday. That's the day they sign on for their benefits.

I have one too, and I fully agree. Ours is mainly used to check that the dinghy we tow is behaving itself and to see what's coming up behind us.

I remember years ago, mooring our little Freeman at Reedham Ferry and taking the kids to the playground up the road, leaving Mrs O in charge of the boat. We returned to the sound of revving engines and screaming from the wife, who was hanging on to the pulpit of a large. probably hire, boat which was reversing at high revs away from ours. It turned out he had tried to turn against the current to moor - a manouvre that went badly wrong and resulted in him nearly T-boning the Freeman. I gave him both barrels of my Yorkshire invective (after covering our children's ears) and persuaded him to bring my wife back slowly and carefully, which he did. As he reversed off, never to be seen again, his passing shot, in a broad Midlands accent, was "That's what fenders are for innit?".

I have eaten and enjoyed braised eels in Japan and smoked eels in Germany and the Netherlands but I don't think anything would persuade me to try jellied eels here. My imagination tells me that they would be very bony.

Sadly, I think that with East Anglia sinking and sea levels rising, all we can do is slow the the inevitable and enjoy what we've got while we've got it. It seems likely that, ultimately, nature will do Packman's work for him and the whole place will become salt marsh, fit only for a bird sanctuary.

Well having paid my money and traipsed round the NWT's reserve at Hickling several times at different seasons, never seeing anything that could remotely be called interesting or rare apart from evidence of some kind of wasp that lives in dung-heaps, I don't think the wild-life argument holds true. That damned bridge should be dismantled stone by stone and re-assembled at the MOTB, if people think it has sufficient historical merit.

She was reigning monarch for the entire 69 years of my life, and you could always rely on her to say and do the right thing. Her sense of duty was second to none and her actions and manner commanded loyalty and respect from all but the most churlish of her subjects. Many of our politicians could have learned valuable lessons from the example she set. Rest in peace Ma'am.

This evening's quiz was well-attended and was won by UncleMike, who will be our QM next week. Second was Tigerhawk, with Polly in 3rd place.

By way of a reminder.

Topics for Friday night's quiz are as follows: Three of a kind Cryptic Broadland 20th Century Foxed Half time drinks - normally just after wine-o-clock Quotes and Sayings Brand Loyalty General Mayhem As usual, extra points will be awarded for successfully predicting the answer to the next question and generally amusing the QM. The place: -https://www.nbnplus.co.uk/chat/ no password needed The time: around 8.30 pm on Friday 26th August. I look forward to seeing you tomorrow

We'll be attending. All the way from the sunny Costa Geriatrica.

I can't believe you left the Whimp's sails at home. Could you have jury-rigged something out of Windjammer's jib?

Great holiday tale Polly. It was great to see you all last week. Hope the Skin-So-Soft did the trick.

Hands up all those who didn't notice anything different.

I have noticed that with the weak £ and the strong $, the price of tat isn't what it used to be. We used to go in, not wanting anything in particular, and come out with £50 worth. Now, not so much.

Good luck with the treatment Ian. Hope it goes well and has a successful outcome.

I dared not ask.

Having just been "stiffed" to the tune of £4.75 for half a pint of soft-drink dispenser diet coke by a well-known hostelry in Horning, I don't think the hire industry is the only one that needs to be worried about customer resistance.

Hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

We drove up from Kent to Norfolk yesterday via the A12/A140 and I was struck by how few cars were on the roads. The rivers also don't seem anywhere near as busy as they have been over the last couple of years. Perhaps people are counting there pennies.

At 29 degrees in our galley , we decided against cooking this evening and marched on to the New Inn, Horning. Mrs O had scampi, I had a fish cake salad and our cabin boy had a bacon and cheese burger. The food was delicious and not badly priced as these things go. Only snag was that the place was infested with wasps and there were no sunshades over the tables. There were plenty of spaces vacant on their moorings for any latecomers willing to spend a non-refundable £10 on an overnight stop.

I seem to remember that the Bell at Salhouse used to have one, but looking at Google Maps it doesn't seem to be there now. Even the one by the Fur and Feather at Woodbastwick is looking neglected and I suspect, no longer in use.