MauriceMynah

Hi BB, I realised it was you a while later and looked for you on my way back. I really am bloody useless at recognising people

I have a sneaking suspicion that you aren't even in a minority with that view Wildfuzz. It seems to me that an endless succession of football contests infect our lives both within and outside the season. No sooner will we have had to endure this one and the World Cup will loom upon us.

Oh yes Mr Wildfuzz sir, and it's only a short walk from that mooring to the Recruiting Sergeant for a selection of good beer and good food.

Yep, right up to the lock, and a lovely spot it is too.

It hasn't finished doing nothing yet Poppy, that's why!

What was that about ? I have no idea what your talking about a link or something would help... pretty please

Oh and a veritable host of others Vaughan!

Sorry Keith, once again I haven't made my point clear. If I am not using raw meats, would I be marked down for not having the appropriate equipment for those raw meats, on the grounds that I might change the nature of my operation at any time. I know what common sense dictates, but do the government officials apply common sense to their rulings? I chose 'chips' and the ploughmans as examples, I'm sure if I put my mind to it I could think of others. Sorry again, but I'm not sure you are right there. My final disagreement is the keeping of cheese in a fridge. The purists will rush to tell you that cheese should be kept at a cool and stable temperature. To quote Paxton & Whitfield... (I would remind you that the standard setting for the modern refridgerator is 4c Some cheeses are best kept cool, others need a warmer environment; it depends on the type of cheese and its stage of maturity. Most hard cheeses that arrive with you will be fine at 8 degrees centigrade to 15 degrees centigrade, at warmer temperatures they will continue to mature; a cool, humid cellar would be perfect, or any unheated part of the house that has a constant temperature between 8 &15 degrees centigrade. Soft and blue cheeses need to be stored at low temperatures, preferably in a refrigerator between 5 & 8 degrees centigrade. However, my original question still simmers in the background

You mean like wot loads of people before me have done? I doubt very much that any religion is using the original text as their 'Bible' each has adapted it for one reason or another... yes even us! (King James and all that)

It's perfectly right and proper that a book, any book, can be re-written in a different perspective. The proof of the pudding is in the eating as they say. If it's good, it will succeed, if not it will fail.The bard himself has fallen victim to this, just how many versions of "Romeo and Juliet" are there? Some good some less so.

I am wondering why my question has thus far been ignored... was it inconvenient?

I'm going to fit a banana to my boat's ceiling, well better safe than sorry.

Ok, I have a genuine question. If a pub's only food is chips for example and as such does not have a full set of chopping boards, would that effect his 'rating' ? I had been thinking that if I were to run a pub, I would start off only selling cheese ploughman's lunches. It can be argued that there is nothing in a ploughman's that should be stored in a refrigarator. Would I loose points for not having one? Just wondered.

No problem Polly, It's not like you're the sort of person who'd hand me an old fasioned LJ and ask me where to stick the gas cylinder...is it! Hell I wish I'd seen that one coming!!!!!!!

I have to say that those who have 'speculated' have said nothing in the least upsetting or offensive in any way. It is certain that the family of those tragically killed will be wanting answers themselves and will be speculating every bit as much. It is even possible that they may get some comfort from what has been said here. I agree that to say things on a forum which one would not repeat in 'real life' can be constrewed as cowardly, especially if those comments were made by someone hiding behind a pseudonym. However, personally, I feel that the subject of good taste in posting would do well to be in a different thread. Ok, I know, I know, I've just added to it here. !

Fair enough! (dammit) One might have thought that someone who's far from afraid to do a bit of leg pulling would be quick witted enough to realise when he's on the receiving end! Oh how I wish!!!

Fair question, sadly I doubt you will like the answer though! Whilst the date, and probably the time may well have been mentioned here, what I had not appreciated was the significance of the event. As far as I was aware it was a local race held between a few Broads sailing clubs possibly involving up to thirty or so boats, all starting off at roughly different times. I am not a sailie, nor am I particulaly interested in sailing events. so I wasn't following any sailie threads with any great attention. Had there been a thread headed "Warning to stinkies" informing me of the magnitude of the event, I may well have paid more attention. There was not, so I didn't. I passed a boat that was in the process of mooring up near the water treatment place close to what I assume is Horning parish church. That boat had a sign on it saying "Guard boat" but who it was guarding and from what, was kept highly secret, and nobody said anything. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining, firstly it was bloody good fun and second it was one of the most impressive sights I've seen on the broads, No, If I'm making any point it is that comunication failed, in as much as I was caught unawares. as were three or four others coming through with me. I feel if anything, that my presence may have spoiled the view for some spectators, and for that I apologise. I shall most certainly pay more attention to the event in future and possibly try to be moored at the Ferry Inn to watch it.

Now then, here's a funny thing and fairly relevent to this thread. I was on my boat last week and just for a change, I wasn't alone. I had the company of my sister, Frances. She, as some of you might know, has been rather ill and has just come through a year of Chemotherapy and other medication. So all in all I was delighted that she felt well enough to stay on the boat. She now has some hair and feels confident to be seen, in spite of my calling her "my little thug". Anyway I digress, We were moored up at the Sutton Staithe when I suggested we had a trip to Coltishall, or more accurately Horsted Mill. It is one of her favourite spots so she readily agreed (and I like the Red Lion as well as the Recruiting Sergeant. It was a most enjoyable cruise with her watching and waving at all the boats and taking the helm for a while.One thing that Frances has in common with our Gracie is that she doesn't really feel too confident at the helm, so when passing Cockshoot dyke she said she thought she saw a sail through the trees so would I take the helm. Round the corner came three Yeomen sailing abreast of each other. I smiled at Frances and showed her how to get passed. I did remark that as they were running before the wind they would maintian a fairly straight course, so avoiding them wasn't much of a problem. As we neared the Ferry Inn, a few more sails came into view. I looked at my sister and said "Goodness me, look at all those!" I did my level best to avoid them but I was cornered and had to just stop and hold position while they avoided me. After they passed I continued but by then I'd realised that I'd run slap bang into some event, I assumed from the HSC. Now I thought I was in the thick of it, nowhere to tie up out of the way I just had to manoeuvre my way through. Most were running before the wind and even though there were loads of them I thought I was doing quite well. Then I reached the Horning Sailing Club and rounded that bend. There before my very eyes was a sight to behold. I don't know how many of the buggers there were, hundreds certainly but it looked more like a couple of thousand to me, all tacking and all seemingly looking at me as some small annoyance to be swatted as soon as they had some spare time. Oddly enough I kind of felt like the spectators were looking at me in the same light. I was spoiling their view!!! With that number of sailies all charging about tacking I took the cowards way out and just 'Right Hand Bank Hugged' thus spoiling even more spectators views. I was just starting to relax a little without losing focus when someone at the club let their bloody cannon off. Both Frances and I came very close to demonstrating 'Syncronised Trouser Disasters' but happily avoided that final humiliation. After what seemed an eternity, we finally got passed the last one. I thought this boating lark, and sailing in particular was supposed to be relaxing!

Not a shed load of fun for the mite either Vaughan

I talk to myself a lot... does that count?

Hmmm, Not so sure! If the Tufted Duck freehouse on Hoveton Little Broad waters edge, received a 1 star rating followed by a bunch of internet police starting threads about how anyone who eats there will die, It doesn't bode well for anyone who tries (sucessfully) to improve it's standards. How would it survive in business if improved but with so much negative comment There are far too many people who will stomp in with poor reveiws based on reputation rather than personal experience. Yes Robin, or better than ask, you could find out by going in! That establishment receives a lot of flack, even from me. I have had things from there in the past, and will no doubt go again in the future. The chips are not to my taste, but I've had worse on the broads from places recommended on broads forums. Do I trust the 'examiners' to be even handed? No I don't Do I expect the questions asked and the rules governing those questions to be purely Hygene related? No I don't. Do I think that an obnoxious landlord will be treaded as kindly as one who is eager to please? No I don't. There are many other things that I wonder, most of which do not come out favourably towards pen pushing authoritarians who spend a significant percentage of their working life making work for themselves to ensure their continued employment. Yes places need to be checked on a regular basis and if found dangerously wanting, they should be closed down. if not, they should be left alone to ply their trade. Pass/Fail Open/Closed down I can accept. Grades 1 to 5 I cannot. Making it compulsory to display said results and/or publishing them on the internet I am fully against. This view might change if as well as publishing them, there was a full report also published explaining to the General public how the grade was arrtived at, what can be done to improve it and a full justification as to how and why anyone acheiving top grade did so.

I used to like it with the Trio, so I watched this new incarnation with interest. I dislike Evans and knew nothing of Le Blanc. I enjoyed the show!

No Ray, Please don't!

I read the news today, Oh boy! Sorry Peter, I don't agree. The excess of jokes (if one is going to call it that) is only indicative of a good number of active forum users but nothing of broads related significance to report. I have no doubt that the news and stories will abound when the season gets busier and the lack of bins, lack of availability of the Spirit of Breydon, the mass riots on Jenners Island and the rebranding of the whole area into Broadland Real National Park by Sir John eventually happens.

Is Osmo's female sibling Osmo's sis?