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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2016 13:32:16 GMT
Glorious day today, currently in Ely fir beer and ice cream, will see what the next few days bring
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2016 13:33:01 GMT
Title should have been ferking, stupid phone and operator
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Post by ammodels on Jul 16, 2016 13:47:27 GMT
Is the fens connected to the Broads can you access the broads without crossing the tidal wash bit?
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Post by JohnV on Jul 16, 2016 13:53:46 GMT
Nope ...... it's either by sea or by road
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2016 14:14:38 GMT
As John says, the broads are only accessible by sea or road.
Talk of linking via thetford and beccles but thankfully it will never happen.
The worst thing that could happen to the broads is to give easy access to the bloody narrow boat bloggers.
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Post by ammodels on Jul 16, 2016 17:30:08 GMT
Be very easy to build a canal over that way, from memory there arent a lot of hills to have to build locks for.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2016 19:43:03 GMT
Be very easy to build a canal over that way, from memory there arent a lot of hills to have to build locks for. For the greater part it's flatter than a plate of piss. There is a bit of a contour change around mildenhal and thetford and again back down beccles way. The A11, B1066 and A143 give a good idea of the topography of that part of the world. I'm sat here on the Lark listening to an irrigation pump sing it's heart out. 8-8 for engines to be run? Forget it if you want your daily bread The wombles of CWDF would have a fit. I fancy the pump is run by a 6 pot perky BTW...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2016 21:23:53 GMT
For the greater part it's flatter than a plate of piss. There is a bit of a contour change around mildenhal and thetford and again back down beccles way. The A11, B1066 and A143 give a good idea of the topography of that part of the world. I'm sat here on the Lark listening to an irrigation pump sing it's heart out. 8-8 for engines to be run? Forget it if you want your daily bread The wombles of CWDF would have a fit. I fancy the pump is run by a 6 pot perky BTW... this post has some wonderfully evocative pharses of the sort you wouldnt normally combine! the juxtoposition of Lark and irrigation pump singing hearts out is just sublime!! and "flatter than a plate of piss".... marvellous! Thank you I thought the Lark bit quite good for a simple boy from Northamptonshire, BB must be rubbing off on me... The Lark is a tributary of the Great Ouse incase you were wondering. As for the plate of piss, it was a request for a surface finish from the drawing office to the machine shop at Perkins of Peterborough. My late God Father told it to my Dad and it's always stuck
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 16, 2016 21:55:09 GMT
They grow carrots down that way in Breckland Heath so I learned in Geography.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2016 7:49:35 GMT
They grow carrots down that way in Breckland Heath so I learned in Geography. Wheat and horse flies at the moment. The irrigator didn't quite make it all the way across the field. That old perky was quite soothing, dunno why folks get their knickers in a twist over the 8-8 thing
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 17, 2016 7:53:24 GMT
I see you got your 'rs' in a trist!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2016 8:00:29 GMT
I see you got your 'rs' in a trist! I'm not so hot at typung on a phone
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Post by peterboat on Jul 17, 2016 8:28:51 GMT
I see you got your 'rs' in a trist! Yes its very important not to get ones a'rs in a tryst! Cheeky
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Post by phil70 on Jul 17, 2016 11:07:38 GMT
They grow carrots down that way in Breckland Heath so I learned in Geography. Wheat and horse flies at the moment. The irrigator didn't quite make it all the way across the field. That old perky was quite soothing, dunno why folks get their knickers in a twist over the 8-8 thing You fins that you don't notice the pumps after a while but the bloody horseflies' are a whole different thing. Always go for the legs, I currently have 9 bites on my legs, they come up in blisters, from the knees down I look like Spotty Muldoon. (at Islehan on the Lark) Phil
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2016 12:55:51 GMT
Wheat and horse flies at the moment. The irrigator didn't quite make it all the way across the field. That old perky was quite soothing, dunno why folks get their knickers in a twist over the 8-8 thing You fins that you don't notice the pumps after a while but the bloody horseflies' are a whole different thing. Always go for the legs, I currently have 9 bites on my legs, they come up in blisters, from the knees down I look like Spotty Muldoon. (at Islehan on the Lark) Phil I'd got it in my head you were at Little Ouse moorings. Mrs G is on the throttle now, heading back to prickwillilow, wished I had seen your post sooner, We'd have looked you up! What a day to be out boating in the fens, horse flies aside it's glorious. Mrs G is winning the bite count, she's a bit tastier than me though
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