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Re the photo above - turns out the all-weather lifeboat was called to assist a broken down fishing boat about 10 miles off Spurn point and had to tow it into Grimsby before returning to station. The 'new' lifeboat station is just down the prom next to the Spa (where the old boating lake used to be - for those that know Brid) - must be quite a sight watching that thing trundling down the prom with the lifeboat on the trailer - and then onto the beach for launching!

I have just seen your post about your relative's accident. My car was driven into last April by a lady who admitted liablity right away. No-ne was hurt in the accident just the cars. Her insurance company (Arriva) arranged a repair with a local company and within an hour after it was booked in for the repair, I received a phone call about the accident, which I realised was from an ambulance chasing tout trying to persuade me to contact a solicitor who he was recommending to claim personal injury. He was not pleased when I told him I realised what he was and demanded to know who had given him my number. He was so hard faced that he tried to infer that I was in the wrong for asking him questions, then put the phone down! I received another similar call a week or so later from someone else. I assume that it was someone from the car repair company who passed on my name and phone number, but it should be illegal for solicitors to pay people to pester the public to make false claims, which is perhaps what happened to the woman who had the accident with your daughter's OH.

Happy New Year to everyone. Sorry to hear your news Kj @KjellNN- hope you're back home soon and on the mend. Must have been pretty grim being in hospital over Christmas - here's to a speedy recovery.

Has anyone else noticed - the date of posting is now only showing the month and the year? Makes following what's happening a bit difficult. Perhaps @Rowena can flag this up?

We didn't get the winds anywhere as near as strong as they were forecast (makes a change!) but after a half decent day, yesterday, we've now reverted to the usual grey, dull overcast stuff we seem to have had for ages.

Had a productive morning - managed to repair a broken lug on one of the caravan locker doors, using a plastic welding gun bought from you know where. Saved both the massive expense of a new door plus months of waiting for it to be delivered from Germany😀. Rather pleased with myself.