Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on December 30, 2006 at 13:27:56 from 80.3.128.6 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Re: Grammar posted by Peter Ceresole on December 30, 2006 at 11:43:51:
the Hullabaloos, who are a broadly drawn caricature
I'm not so sure. They are alive and well on the Broads - admittedly only a tiny minority, but CC makes it clear that the Hullabaloos were a tiny minority of motor cruiser hirers at that time as well. A friend of mine was lucky not to lose his boat when rammed by a hire cruiser leaving a pub last summer - they thought it hilarious.
And they were even more common on Windermere before the speed limit was introduced.