Massive banging across the Thames estuary

[rwt]

As I understood it the French only got the E at the end - we got the rest of it!

 

[MoodySabre]

I live and grew up in Leigh on Sea. Foulness is a lot quieter now than it was back in the days when it was run by AWRE.

 

[ex-Gladys]

Ah Concord! It got us mid channel Poole to Cherbourg. And also when I used to work I had a monthly morning meeting at Staines. We always stopped for coffee at 11.04am as they still had the afterburners on.

I have never understood why the Concord deviated down to the channel first. Would have been much more direct to fly stright over Cornwall.

Ok, just because I was appointed a missionary in my youth to come east and educate the English! Unfortunately, you lot are so difficult I failed!

 

[Capt Popeye]

Ah well rest assured , you aint heard nothing yet ,THE REAL BIG Thames Estuary BANG has yet to happen , check ones Moorings for extra strain , sometime , ? or move moorings away from the Thames Estuary , and beyond

 

[tillergirl]

I was expecting a quicker bite. I suppose I could say you are a carp Glads given the wait for the bite but that would be a lot of codswallop and the thread would be foundering around with no plaice to go and no sole. Ruddy hell. The bite was dangling there on a perch.

I suppose I ought to bail out with a picture of a Gudgeon:

Image2 by Roger Gaspar, on Flickr

On Capn Popeye astute observation I am reminded by the time there was an earthquake at Dudley (pronounced Dudleye) W. Mids. The local paper had headlines saying 'Earthquake strikes Dudley: £3 Million improvements'. Could be help for Kent if there is a REAL BANG.

 

[Slowboat35]

I thought it was Jaywick where a major flood was expected to cause £1M of improvements.

 

[johnalison]

I thought it was Jaywick where a major flood was expected to cause £1M of improvements.

My art teacher swore that there was a Jaywick Literary Society.

 

[sailorman]

Qinetic on their Foulness texting site are one of the few UK sites licensed to make bangs on a really grand scale.

Peter.shooting u Tsr2 airframes no doubt, but atleast we now have the amercian f35 at great exence

 

[PeterWright]

Hi Sailorman,

I hope your recovery is proceeding well.

It seems I make more typos than you with less excuse than you. Texting in my previous post should, of course, be testing.

Peter.

 

[sailorman]

Hi Sailorman,

I hope your recovery is proceeding well.

It seems I make more typos than you with less excuse than you. Texting in my previous post should, of course, be testing.

Peter.

Hello peter makink slow but steady progress, typing has improver due to using a "prodder" ofc flebay, im now fighting the damn dvla, my lience was due renewl, it was revoked due to my situation, im now having to reaply, a huge can of worms, its merry go round between dvla angmy gp, once im able to drive again i can stard bot hunting

 

[sailorman]

I don't think it's deep enough for gannets off Maplin. They would risk burying their beaks in the mud and being stuck there until they fossilise. I've seen a few gannets pass by our coast, but only a few, unlike off Cork when we had the whole shooting-match doing their plunging act.

They do not like our muddy waters I only ever saw them when approx 40 lmls offshore

 

[davidej]

An ex Commodore of a well known East Coast YC was heard sending a Mayday claiming that there was a ship on fire when it was actually pyrotechnics from Foulness.

Made I laugh.

 

[johnalison]

They do not like our muddy waters I only ever saw them when approx 40 lmls offshore

They do pass by occasionally. We saw some fly past from the shore at Shingle Street a couple of years ago, maybe a mile or so offshore.