Geoffers Posted April 12, 2023 Report Share Posted April 12, 2023 Such a shame they couldn't get funding. Any geological surveys showing how far inland is sand? Did you stroke the nice kitty.? I'm sure she will have snuggled in... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted April 18, 2023 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2023 I think they'll get funding eventually once the dunes have completely gone and it starts affecting the brick houses and village. I'd imagine the valley will start flooding too. They are building alot of new houses in the area too, planning has been put in for hundreds more! A few miles up the coast they have had defences for years but that stretch falls under Norwich council, this area is Great Yarmouth. Also, if the sea had eroded the dunes further north it would've flooded the broads with salt water. I had heard that many years a go the sea was alot further inland, completely covering the caravan site we're on so I'd imagine the whole area is sand or sand on a clay base. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted November 16, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2023 Some photos from our holiday to the Cotswolds a couple of weeks a go. First time there and it's a lovely area, will definitely return. We stayed in a cottage in Ebrington and visited Broadway, Bourton on the Water and Warwick Castle on the way home. The cottage was on a working farm and they have this helipad on it. It does still get occasional use too! The Man Cave in Broadway. Very expensive!! Bourton on the Water Warwick Castle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffers Posted November 16, 2023 Report Share Posted November 16, 2023 Great pics. I love the Cotswolds. Been there quite a lot and worked a bit down there and lots of places, including Tetbury where Charlie lived at the time. I remember doing an out of hours network upgrade in Malmesbury and needed to clear my head after a particularly difficult problem so went for a walk. This place was out of the way and a saw a cut through alleyway into the town area, but everywhere seemed deserted. This was around 2:30am and as I was walking through, two police officers turned into the alley. Both walked past and said "Evening" and carried on walking. This absolutely amazed me as in Liverpool it would have been a full search and questioning where I was going and why in such a quiet area. A few minutes later I saw a woman walking her dog who who stopped for a chat. No shutters on the windows or anything. Lovely place. She said about the worst they hear of crime there is drunkenness.. This was about 10 years ago I was last there and hope it's managed to keep that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted November 17, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2023 I'm definitely going to do some day trips there, Bourton on the Water is 90 minutes away and we'd like to spend the day there when the weather is nice. The only time I've been to the Cotswolds before is driving through it on the M4! I was amazed to see a proper Christmas shop there, I didn't even know they existed but they must do good trade to be open from April to Christmas Eve. We didn't see many people where we were staying but everyone was very friendly. Much more so than where we live. Hopefully it stays that way. Wish I had a spare £3k for that Kimi Raikkonen rim. Would look great on a table or shelf. The horse was made from scrapped car parts and is £10k to buy! 😐 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMARTLY Posted November 18, 2023 Report Share Posted November 18, 2023 Rich did you go to the motor museum at Bourton ? It’s about 50 miles from me so a nice day out when Dean is home. There’s also a small model village there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted November 18, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2023 I wanted to go there but we had so much we wanted to do there wasn't time. Hopefully next year if we get to do a day trip there. We did go to the model village, that was good but you don't need long to walk around it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMARTLY Posted November 18, 2023 Report Share Posted November 18, 2023 Yes you can stand in one place and see all the model village 😀 there’s a couple of nice restaurants and a nice coffee shop too 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted November 19, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2023 We ate at the Italian, it was good food. https://chesterhousehotel.com/eat-at-our-hotel/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted November 25, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2023 They got hit bad last night, the road has now gone so no vehicle access to the houses the other side of where the dunes were. I wonder if they'll make a new temporary road but it seems a bit pointless to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffers Posted November 25, 2023 Report Share Posted November 25, 2023 Absolutely heartbreaking. You can see how the rocks have really helped delay the erosion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyelcomb Posted November 26, 2023 Report Share Posted November 26, 2023 I'm not a religious person but this did come to mind... Matthew 7:24-27 The Wise and Foolish Builders 24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.” 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted November 26, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2023 11 hours ago, Geoffers said: Absolutely heartbreaking. You can see how the rocks have really helped delay the erosion. The rocks were donated from one of the holiday sites in nearby Gorleston that they used on the beach. They clearly work but it was pointless just putting those down and not adding to them. Unfortunately the council won't find any defences so everyone has just been left to it. I feel the council will be issuing eviction notices soon with no road access. Winter hasn't even started so this will only get worse. It's a crazy decision not to find defences when the village generates £80 million a year from tourists. The defences would cost £20 million, yet they've just wasted £120 million building a new (3rd) bridge and nearly £5 million on a new market in the town which everyone hates! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted December 1, 2023 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2023 Just came across this video, they really did take a battering last week! You may want to fast forward through it. The houses on stilts at the start of the video have been given 7 days to move out before they're pulled down. One of them (dark blue) has only just been completely renovated. Personally I think that was a silly thing to do but they're stripping the whole house now. This end of the road was actually eroding slower than the other end and no one expected them to lose the amount they did. You can see on Google maps the one that was being renovated (no roof) and how much dune was still left. The problem now is the brick houses are directly behind them and there are hundreds at risk. Surely the government will fund the defences before it gets that far. The cleanup operation and rehousing everyone will cost much more than the defences will. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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