• Food,  Gardening

    Harvest home

    It is our church harvest festival tomorrow and I made an apple cake with yet more of the garden’s never ending bounty. In total, the Scouts picked over 200kg of apples and took…

  • Gardening

    Last mow of the lawn

    Definitely colder today, and quite a few leaves are coming off the trees.  I want to have a big push next week to “put the garden to bed for the year” – hopefully…

  • Travel

    Ballater

    A few months ago, J and I went to Balmoral and Braemar.  We had been going on to Ballater as well that day, but it was getting too late so we said we…

  • Cats,  People

    In which Saphy misses R…

    We were down in J’s basement watching some TV this evening (before it got dark because it was AHS and that is scary enough in the daylight).  I brought Saphy in as it…

  • Gardening,  Nature

    Royal Oak

    I gathered these acorns at Sandringham and am going to plant them.  Hopefully they will grow into huge oak trees which will be around long after we are all forgotten. The other things…

  • Travel

    Going Home

    We set off on the most beautiful day and travelled though the flat green fields of Norfolk and Lincolnshire. J remembered that we were entitled to use the LNER first class lounge in…

  • Travel

    Little Walsingham

    Today was the real purpose of the holiday, to go and see J’s old house which we sold 18 months ago.  He was in real trepidation because this was his childhood home, and…

  • Travel

    Hunstanton

    Today we went on the famous Coastliner Bus to see the famous stripy cliffs at Hunstanton. I do not like buses in general, but I make an exception for the Coastliner which runs…

  • Travel

    King’s Lynn

    An extra post just to say that in between all the other things – we also had a good look at King’s Lynn where we staying.  It is actually well worth a look…