Build a New Life in The Country (Channel Five)

[harbourseal]

Mmmmmmmmmm...........................
I wonder - Who could possibly object to this?????????????

[Ticonderoga]

Perhaps the sons and daughters of the indigenous population who are already living in caravans, over-priced rental accommodation, or not in the area at all!

[dippygrandma]

If anyone is still interested I've found the email address for Paul Drew who with his wife rebuilt the Tin Church and featured in BANLITC programme that I've only just watched in the UK!!
His email address is: (deleted by moderator)
I have found this website very amusing especially the idea about building an encampment on the water!!
I live in Norfolk and we have similar ideas from cranky people down here - one of them is to flood some of our beautiful coastal land and villages as a form of coastal protection so maybe the houses on stilts in the water could prove very useful down here.
Keep you a troshing - a well known Norfolk saying.

[NickB]

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Please don't publish e-mail addresses on this board without the permission of the owner.

- NickB

[canUsmellthat]

Hi DippyP, is the destruction the broads by rising sea levels not meant to be unavoidable and just a matter of time??? I've visited them myslef and have to say, they are very spectacular and a lot of the place was under great land management by admirable bodies such as the RSPB. A lot of folk on this forum don't give NGOs much credence, but then they're just cretins...

[NickB]

A lot of folk on this forum don't give NGOs much credence, but then they're just cretins...

I may not have given them much credence, but I don't recall saying they were cretins . . .

Could we perhaps keep the tone a little higher?

- NickB

[a nonny mouse]

Hi DippyP, is the destruction the broads by rising sea levels not meant to be unavoidable and just a matter of time???

No, it's not unavoidable if only they'd repair/upgrade the sea defences. I lived for 30 odd years in Norfolk, some of that time directly next to the sea wall at Walcott and a few miles from Happisburgh where the cliffs are falling into the sea taking the village with them. Such a pity that those in charge at the council don't listen to those locals who know what they're talking about.

Nonny

[canUsmellthat]

Erm, wasn't talking about the NGOs being cretins, please read my comment again - perhaps aloud to yourself...


p.s. Nonny, so global warming has nothing to do with the eventual demise of the Norfolk Broads???

[a nonny mouse]

p.s. Nonny, so global warming has nothing to do with the eventual demise of the Norfolk Broads???

As it's been going on for so many years, I think global warming is a red herring in this case. Global warming seems to be the excuse thrown in whenever anybody wants to change things against the will of the majority.

Nonny

[NickB]

Erm, wasn't talking about the NGOs being cretins, please read my comment again - perhaps aloud to yourself...

Canu, some (not me of course) might say that one of the signs of potential or incipient cretinism is not realising when someone is gently poking fun at you . . .

Suggest you read my post again . . .

- NickB

[NickB]

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Nonny, my understanding was that there is a planned strategic withdrawal all down the E coast not because of GW, but because the UK is tilting and erosion is an increasing problem. Some stretches of sea defences are simply going to become uneconomic.

Agree it would be a shame to lose the Broads though - my earliest sailing memories are on a traditional Broads yacht some 50 years ago.

- NickB

[a nonny mouse]

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Nonny, my understanding was that there is a planned strategic withdrawal all down the E coast not because of GW, but because the UK is tilting and erosion is an increasing problem. Some stretches of sea defences are simply going to become uneconomic.


- NickB

Perhaps we should all go and stand on the other side of England, then, to stop the tilt.

Nonny

[Minimum]

Maybe any sea defences around our islands would be uneconomic too - after all, what is there to lose other than a load of old houses?

[spiderman]

I agree, Mini. We shouldn't fight changes in nature but accept them and adapt to them. And, Nonny, if we all stood on the other side of England, we might sink it too and that would be terrible, wouldn't it?!

[a nonny mouse]

And, Nonny, if we all stood on the other side of England, we might sink it too and that would be terrible, wouldn't it?!

Oh, absolutely