MauriceMynah

Looks very much like Golden Emblem from the Ernest Collins yard.

Unlikely to get any on this site, we're all too Broad minded.

Oooeerrr Right little goody two shoes then.

In that case I'll replace it with a floating throwing line. Where can I get one of those?

I have been lead to understand that I am obliged to carry a life ring or a variant of the same on board and that it is a requirement for the BSS. Is this true? I have one, but to be honest, it's right in the way!

Trouble with that "free fuel" Peter is that it's so difficult to store!

Thanks for bumping this, It has reminded me to mention that I released the peacock butterfly just outside the back door, which happens to be under the carport. Maybe all is well after all! Nice article (link) by the way

Ahh, leaving the mudweight down was my favourite stupid stunt! I remember leaving Ranworth mooring once, nice and early on a Sunday morning to catch the tide at Yarmouth. Lots of rather unhappy fishermen near St Bennets, casting both bait, and doubts about my intelligence and parentage. Happy days!

I remember when it was made compulsory for people travelling in the front of a car to wear seat belts. The number of stories I heard along the lines of..., "I knew a bloke who had an accident, and if he'd been wearing a seat belt he'd have been killed." We used to hear them all the time! Well I'm in absolutely no doubt that if Broadsman is capsized in Salhouse broad by a fast swimming duck, and the occupants all drown because their LJs fired automatically, Clive will be the first to hold his hands up and admit his error, meanwhile I am still rather interested in whether the LJ I bought is good enough to save me or do I absolutely need a crotch strap!

Just on the crotch strap point again, I find myself wondering along these lines... If an auto LJ does NOT have such a strap, is it a case of... A. It will ride up, B. It will probably ride up C. It is a 50/50 chance that it will ride up D. It probably will not ride up E. It is very unlikely to ride up Before any form of risk assessment can be done, this rather important point needs to be known. However, I then wonder if the answer is either A or B, are the LJs "fit for purpose"? and if not, how come they are still marketed.

Ok, I know that this is entirely unrelated to the broads, but I ask my question here as the varied membership to this forum makes it just about perfect for the task! Between Christmas and the new year my sister took her daughter and her grandchildren to see a pantomime. So, it was two adults (my sister and her daughter) two boys one twelve, the other eleven, and one five year old girl. The actors each used microphones attached to their clothing. The amplification was so high that the dialogue was distorted to the point of being almost painful and no longer understandable. However more importantly the jokes and double entandre were bordering on being obscene. There was the ‘forward hip thrusting’ so popular these days and ‘Buttons’ came onto the set wearing a plastic bottom outside his trousers. My sister was close to walking out but didn’t, waiting instead for the children’s mother to take any lead in that sort of action. Only after leaving at the end of the panto did she find out that her daughter was also on the point of leaving but didn’t as she felt it ingracious to my sister who had paid for the treat. My question is this… Is it considered reasonable these days to demonstrate simulated sex (forward hip thrusting) and to put on a show containing fairly obvious (well it was to the boys) strongly worded sexual innuendo, under the heading of “Panto”? I realize that this might just be a case of my sister and I being behind the times, but that’s rather why I’m asking. While I’m at it (don’t even go there, I’m being serious for once), there is an advert I keep seeing early evening that says… “Just look at that booking view” and “What a great booking room” etc. etc. using the word "booking" in this way, every two or three seconds. Is this really appropriate for teatime family viewing?

There's little point in describing what sort of pub would be best as that will be different for every customer, what it needs to be is a successful pub. Permit the new landlord his own choice. My ideal pub is one that does little or no food, is dog friendly and has a storage cellar for children ready for their parents to collect on leaving the establishment.

Without wishing to labour a point, my idea was twofold, one, it modifies a non crotchstrap LJ to one with, and it also enables the LJ to be worn without a crotch strap per say, but with ones trousers doing that task. A third advantage also occurs to me, such a device would also hold ones trousers up. Never a bad thing!

I have an LJ without a crotch strap (self inflating) and I have an idea. I shall obtain a nylon cord with a loop at each end. one loop will have the LJ's belt attached, the other will cats paw through my trouser belt. How does that sound?

Recently, I suppose about mid December, I found a butterfly (Peacock) fluttering about in my bedroom. Thinking about it, I've probably done exactly the wrong thing. I caught it and carefully released it outside! Was that the wrong thing to do and if so, what should I have done?

Back on OP subject, they have just announced on the news that the Thames cable car is currently suspended !!! Odd that they didn't add that the Dartford Tunnel is under water.

1 sports & social club, 1 café and 1 pizza place. plus the odd pick-up here and there. Collectively they supply me with 200 litres a month which runs my Landrover Discovery, my sisters Volvo estate and Nyx. The Sports and social club charges me 25p per litre and it costs me about 20p per litre to make, so my fuel costs me 45p per litre all in.

People following my boat too close also end up smelling like a chip shop ... Love it

I drive a Landrover Discovery so I ... A. get a lovely view and... B. slow everybody down anyway

I've known a Honda 7.5hp push along a 22ft fairly heavy and rather old GRP boat with no power problems whatsoever so I'd go along with Strow and say 15hp will be more than enough at broads speeds.

Yep, I've heard it's going to be really windy round the Trossachs!

Which bridge was that one Hylander? Anyway, I've just read the comments and to be honest they reflect pretty accurately the lack of knowledge possessed by the numbskulls who made them! Total prats, the lot of them!

Be the band good or bad, be they to my taste or not, I can enjoy live music as long as it isn't played at me at 5000db. I have walked out of a pub where the band was playing music I liked just because it was playing it far too loud, yet stayed in another pub who's band was murdering some of my favourite tunes but at an acceptable volume. Landlords and managers take note... the idea is to keep us IN the bar!

Yeah, POGOF really doesn't work does it? Still, I went through the motions, and it's nice to meet up with some old faeces.

What do you want Mark?... Poo one get one free?