Poppy Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 I bet you've missed them. We miss our boys after just two weeks away ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loribear Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 On 11/01/2017 at 11:54 PM, riyadhcrew said: Hi peeps, Our cats have just arrived. It's been along time since the end of October, but the girls are happy. Aaaaaah , yey , glad you've got your puddys back, & glad they are ok & happy, i bet they've missed you as much as you've missed them lol lori 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riyadhcrew Posted April 18, 2017 Author Share Posted April 18, 2017 Just thought that I would throw in a little update: Family is well -- ***** cats are well. I'm sitting here on the laptop at 10.00pm and the temp in my living room is over 30 degC. The AC can't handle the sunshine heat on the roof during the afternoons. Tomorrow morning - won't even need the AC until around 11.00am. Hope you are all well. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockham Admiral Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 We're sat in weak sunshine, temp about 9degs, 17 different real ales at less than £2.50 a pint..... it's hell here in Blimey! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNog Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Where is this Nirvana John? Give us a clue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockham Admiral Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 1950's, Howard..... The World's Premier Fishing Port! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjg1677 Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 What, Grimsby ?????? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwanR Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Morning Eric! Always interested in hearing what is going in everyone's own world ... that's one of the best things about being online, you "talk" to people you would never meet in your everyday life. Hope the family are all well. After reading of predicted "hottest Easter ever" on trashy news websites, the reality would seem that they got it completely wrong or the warmer weather arrived a week early. We've had some bright sunny days in Essex but a chilly wind. Hoping to get to the caravan at the weekend ... perhaps it's the tallest wind turbine in the UK that is responsible for the east coast cooling sea breeze! (See video below if it works!) P1010205.MP4 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deebee29 Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Hi Eric hope all is well with you and the family, we are off to our own Nirvana (i.e. the Broads) on Saturday so hope it's going to warm up a bit though........ but who cares if it doesn't, we'll be on a boat 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riyadhcrew Posted April 20, 2017 Author Share Posted April 20, 2017 I would gladly swap a week in Bali for a week on a boat. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockham Admiral Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 9 hours ago, tjg1677 said: What, Grimsby ?????? Yes, Grimsby! Just been down the docks for my fish uptake and back to Norfolk later this morning! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grimsby-Story-Worlds-Greatest-Fishing/dp/1780911289 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNog Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Ahhhh! Thought you meant Great Yarmouth for a minute John the 50's bit threw me Not the one near the station? Yarborough Hotel??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjg1677 Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Good book that John. It's just a shame to see what little is left of the docks and nothing of the fishing fleet. Still if we do break from eec we may get one back or am I being too optimistic???? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockham Admiral Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 On 20/04/2017 at 8:58 AM, NorfolkNog said: Ahhhh! Thought you meant Great Yarmouth for a minute John the 50's bit threw me Not the one near the station? Yarborough Hotel??? That's the one, Howard. My Mum and Dad met there in 1940; so it brings back fond memories when I sit in there with a pint! Trevor I remember the days when literally hundreds of fishing boats were based at Grimsby Docks. On any day I would see them lined up at the coaling chute, waiting to be refuelled. My father was the sailmaker of the Bacons fleet and made everything from canvas mizzen sails to fitted coconut matting for the crews' quarters. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oceandawn Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 I too remember the old docks. My Dad was a fish merchant and he used to take me to check on his freezers and then would show me the North wall where all the trawlers were stern on moored and you could walk on them they were so close. Later on when I worked for HM Customs and Excise I would walk down Fish Dock Road to the old Sutcliffe building and it was heaving with all the small businesses.All my family( KEMP|) were heavily involved in fishing. They would turn in their graves if they could see it now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockham Admiral Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 It seems to get older and more careworn every six months or so when we visit, Pauline. In its heyday it was certainly the busiest fish market in the world and the young fish filleters could certainly turn on the speed and style! (Along with myriad cut fingers!). What days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VetChugger Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 Half my family originate from both Grimsby and Cleethorpes so I used to spend lots of weeks in my summer holidays there. Usually getting off the train at Old Clee. One Auntie had a chalet out on the Humber Fities which I loved going to then walking over to the minature railway for a trip. The boating lake and Wonderland were also favourite places! Cracking big dipper which was, of course, the old wooden rattling type. That also had a lovely railway running around the base. Would always go and have a look at the leaking boot! I always wanted to get out to the Humber Forts but never did. A couple of my uncles worked on the fish dock and we had lots of wonderful fish and chip teas. A wander around Freeman Street market was also a regular favourite! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
addicted Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 back in the '70s I was living in Enfield, and my next door neighbours originated from Grimsby Whenever their parents came to visit they would always bring us a huge parcel of fresh (very fresh) fish. Delicious! Carole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riyadhcrew Posted April 21, 2017 Author Share Posted April 21, 2017 To bring this post back in a little to where it started - this is what we had this afternoon and although it didn't hit the house, it hit my daughter's school and she said it was hell. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bound2Please Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 Great picture Eric Charlie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oceandawn Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 Who would have thought that little old Grimsby had such a following!My husband's cousin actually owned the light railway at Cleethorpes.He has just died after a lifetime of devoting his time to trains.My daughter owns a chalet on the Fitties.Nothing much changes except that Tingdene Marinas have just bought the Fitties much to the horror of the owners as a protected sight will probably now disappear.Best fish and chips anywhere.Fish was in such abundance the cats in Grimsby were the best fed ever. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oceandawn Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 Wow some storm.Great picture 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riyadhcrew Posted April 21, 2017 Author Share Posted April 21, 2017 Being in the tropics, storms similar to this are fairly normal. This was a BIGGY and my daughter said they could not see the next classrooms which were only 30 metres away. She said the water was coming out a fire hose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riyadhcrew Posted April 21, 2017 Author Share Posted April 21, 2017 If a storm lets loose above the house, I will try and get a good picture of the rain hitting the pool. The water bounces 4 inches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oceandawn Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 That is some storm.Great picture Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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