Rush On The Broads!

[JennyMorgan]

http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2016-08-22/how-the-ancient-craft-of-gathering-rushes-is-making-a-comeback/

[Timbo]

Nice to see the old crafts kept alive...but I wonder how long before Dr Doom adds basket weaving to paddleboards and bird watching to a marketing strategy aimed at dragging 20-30 year olds from Ibiza to the Broads?

[MauriceMynah]

If you want more youngsters to come to the broads there needs to be more in the way of facilities for clubbing. Personally I'm all in favour of clubbing youngsters.

[JennyMorgan]

Loads of club on the Broads, NBYC, WOBYC, BASC to name just three. I believe that the BNP is also hosting the 18 to 30 tiddly-winks world championship aboard Canadian Canoes on Whitlingham Gravel Pit next year as a major alternative to Ibiza. 

[marshman]

Not sure this is "new" news - I think this has been going on for a few years now. Good to see the practice being revived but i guess it masy be volunteer led!

[JennyMorgan]

It is a commercial concern, Marsh, although I suspect that the owners might claim to be volunteers! The owners are the Trumans as in boatyard at Oulton Broad. It was originally seen as one way of making use of redundant loft space in the old boatshed. Now it has outlived the boatbuilding side of things.

http://www.waveneyrush.co.uk/the-history.php

[jeffbroadslover]

5 hours ago, MauriceMynah said:

Personally I'm all in favour of clubbing youngsters

Just make sure nobody is watching or you may finish up in bovver.  lol

Jeff

[Maxwellian]

Didn't take this one long to wander off course. Did it at a rush.