Why do I get vicarious pleasure from this story?

[RupertW]

I think they must still use the dam because I've never seen flooding upriver of Richmond to the same level as at Richmond itself. Despite the Thames barrier being used umpteen times a year it still floods over the pavement and the White Cross tables need waders then (but alas you no longer get locked in at high tide as they've opened a separate entrance).

 

[beancounter]

Re: Hoylake

In my teens I used to be a caddy at the Royal Liverpool at Hoylake. On a number of occasions, an errant shot from a golfer would flush out semi clad couples from the long grass on the dunes (cue jokes about long irons, birdies etc...)

 

[sighmoon]

Re: Hoylake

Ha ha ha

In Fowey, a local had one of those amphibious car things and used to take a short cut down one slipway, across the water, and up another slipway the other side.

One day, a chap in a Range Rover decided he could follow him...

Seriously though, I remember reading somewhere that more people drown in cars than on (or off) boats.

 

[ex-Gladys]

Re: Tollesbury

Love to see walkers who have left their cars parked outside the marina at Tollesbury on a rising spring tide.....Only gets about to door level, but enough to put a crimp in their day!