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MauriceMynah
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Mine just says "Nah, you've just got tinnitus".
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Fever tree ginger beer with Nelson's Revenge bitter.
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No update on the cycling malarkey bike is still in the car.
Well, Spring has sprung. Cruised from Stalham to Sutton with the canopy slid back. Now I'm sat in the staithe, tank full of water, tank full of diesel and third tank pumped out.
Here I sit drinking ... SHANDY... albeit ginger beer shandy and working out this last winter's fuel bill. Grand total including gas, leccy and diesel has worked out at £375 for November to March inclusive.
£100 more than last years but I can live with that!
Now, where did I stow that boat cleaning stuff.
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Hi RSF, I shall take your word on that, but I was sure that the license to take Crayfish was under the various water authorities.
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Marshman, invasive species may not be a joke, but why does the BA make it so difficult to remove some of them?
The American Signal Crayfish is very good eating but you need a license to take them, and the BA will not issue any.
I would suggest hunting them to extinction then reintroducing the native one if necessary.
If the mitten crab is also good to eat, same thing.
Not all my witticisms are without merit.
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Are they edible? Do they taste good? How do I catch them? Are they suitable for canapés to accompany a G&T?
This is typical of the EDP, the really important information just isn't there.
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Yep M&P, that's the one
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Correct M&P. I'm another one of those who "should've gone to Specsavers" !
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I wonder how much £8.16.00 (£8.80) equates to at todays prices.
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I have a litre bottle which has a 5% mix of water (95%) to 5% loo blue.
When leaving the loo with its river water in, I pour about a pub spirit measure of this diluted blue in.
It's just enough to stop smells, but not so strong as to rot seals. I've been doing this for 3 years now with no probs.
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Has Elsewhere flooded yet ?
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Well well well. It's just gone 18:00 and there's still a little light in the sky. I've heard my first boom of a bittern for this year, yes even at Richardson's Stalham they may be heard, this for me is the first real sign of spring. The second sign is a sudden and overwhelming desire to clean my boat.
Please let me make it perfectly clear, the desire for me to clean my boat, and my actually doing so are two very different things, one being a sign of spring, the other being a modern miracle.
I notice a new schoolboy member has joined us. Well Charlie, if you ever consider a waterside employment and you fancy boat-cleaning as a starter, please do let me know, though you may think climbing up chimneys could be preferable.
However, I digress. Spring is on its way, and I find my mind wandering, as most gentleman's minds do, towards engine maintenance and boat cleaning. You never know, one spring I might actually do it.
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Parking, ahh yes. I always used to say to my sister...
"It's OK. I'll walk to the kerb from here".
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This might be a stupid question/observation but has the water level at Yarmouth yacht station changed owing to the rain? (At low water)
I cannot believe it has.
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I would suggest that all the boatyards have to tread very carefully. Whilst they may disagree with BA policy on some subjects, they would not want a face off with the planning authority, nor to cross swords with the organisation which decides toll rates.
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I'm expecting my satnav to say "he looks local, ask him"
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Marshman, Please accept that I realise the record levels of rainfall has caused the flooding, however had the rivers been dredged as they should have been, that excessive water would have been out at sea by now., frightening the cod!
This is not the first time that the EA has been found wanting regarding dredging, it is however the first time to my knowledge that flooding and navigation issues have crossed swords.
Again in my opinion, the lack of dredging at the lower reaches of the Bure has negated the EA's efforts for flood alleviation at the PH part of the Thurne.
The flooding may, no, is caused by unprecedented levels of rain, but the continued water levels cannot be.
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For as long as the BA and the EA do NOT start working together, neither party need do or spend anything.
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As I always understood it, it is the BA's responsibility to maintain navigation and the EA's responsibility to control flooding. Neither has, in my opinion, succeeded in their objectives, though they have managed to achieve a position whereby they can blame each other for today's shambles.
Am I wrong?
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Once again I see the Broads being compared with the canal system. "Chalk and cheese" as the say, though I agree totally with the final paragraph of the last post.
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Great news. When does the BA start their daylight robbery regime restart?
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Yes Dom, you have kindly made my point. The original post was about drinking and helming. In reality the helmsperson is the safest person on board, drunk or sober. I am not condoning drink driving on boats but would argue that it is no way as dangerous as has been suggested.
Sure, the idiot cruising from the Isle of Wight deserves all he gets, but it's no reason to start over reacting, and looking at the Broads safety rules. A boating holiday is, within reason, a safe holiday. When common sense is left at home then there will be consequences, but we should avoid spoiling many peoples holidays because of the few prats one finds.
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"Back when I worked in a yard, we used to see 1-2 deaths most years on the Broads and invariably alcohol played a part in most."
I do not for one second dispute that, but I wonder how many of the 20 to 40 of those over a period of 20 years, were drunk WHILST helming.
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As you all know, I am but one small step away from total abstinence, yet even I can see that if the Broads Authority fails to destroy the broads as a holiday destination, bringing in tighter rules for "drinking and helming " will do the job for them.
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The Maltsters
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Very fair comment SwanR, dogs are not liked by everyone and it does annoy me to see dogs off their leads in pubs, or worse, when the dog IS on a lead, but nobody is on the other end.