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| A bright robin came looking for crumbs |
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| Goof refreshments from the sweeet, little tea room, |
Sunday, 22 September 2019
Visit to Holt Country Park
A warm, sunny Sunday and we enjoyed a visit to the country park with its Hattie’s Tearoom…
Friday, 20 September 2019
Reunion!
A tearful but joyful reunion when we briefly met our old friend, Ade, after his excellent performance under his stage name, Harvey James, in the Summer Show at the Cromer Pier Theatre this afternoon. We look forward to catching up again when he returns for the Christmas show!
Monday, 16 September 2019
Good holiday break.
After a nice holiday we’re now back home and back on line.
One night at The Holiday Inn, Norwich prior to flying from Norwich Airport to Jersey
Back garden views of The Pontac House Hotel, St Clement, Jersey…
Views from the front of the hotel…
Tide out
A coach tour of the bays of Jersey gave us a better idea of the island and the places we wished to visit when we hired a car for five days.
In many places decorated statues of gorillas were on display to be sold to raise funds for the Zoo to improve and add to homes for real gorillas...
"Florilla" at St Catherine's Bay.
An illustration of the Jersey cream 99 Ron fell in love with - the real ones melted too quickly in the hot sunshine!
We enjoyed mostly good weather, with many hot, sunny days and only one reallybad one so counted ourselves very lucky.
We returned on Friday 13th (without incident !) and extended our holiday over the weekend with dinner at The Wheatsheaf that evening and a pleasant afternoon on Saturday watching "The Norfolk Broads", a female duo singing 40s music as part of thre 1940s weekend in Sheringham area.
On Sunday afternoon a drive through the local countryside which has as many narrow roads and lanes as on Jersey!
One night at The Holiday Inn, Norwich prior to flying from Norwich Airport to Jersey
Back garden views of The Pontac House Hotel, St Clement, Jersey…
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| The main entrance, at the back off the car park. |
Views from the front of the hotel…
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| From our balcony |
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| Tide in |
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| Our bedroom with double and spare single bed. |
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| The bar |
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| Internal and Pavement service with appropriate music at The Blue Note Bar, alongside a popular Lotto kiosk in St. Helier. |
A coach tour of the bays of Jersey gave us a better idea of the island and the places we wished to visit when we hired a car for five days.
In many places decorated statues of gorillas were on display to be sold to raise funds for the Zoo to improve and add to homes for real gorillas...
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| At Gorey Pier |
"Florilla" at St Catherine's Bay.
We enjoyed mostly good weather, with many hot, sunny days and only one reallybad one so counted ourselves very lucky.
We returned on Friday 13th (without incident !) and extended our holiday over the weekend with dinner at The Wheatsheaf that evening and a pleasant afternoon on Saturday watching "The Norfolk Broads", a female duo singing 40s music as part of thre 1940s weekend in Sheringham area.
On Sunday afternoon a drive through the local countryside which has as many narrow roads and lanes as on Jersey!
Thursday, 15 August 2019
Summer BBQ
Peter and Linda’s new project was taking over The Wheatsheaf pub//restaurant//and b @ b at West Beckham and this evening they did a BBQ and live music of blues, folk and rock ‘n roll by The Diamond Geezers with the restaurant open for indoor eating - and of course the bar open for both.
Sandwiched between very rainy days, today was at least dry with a little sunshine although breezy and the evening was well attended.
Just two miles away - our new home...
Sandwiched between very rainy days, today was at least dry with a little sunshine although breezy and the evening was well attended.
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| All the restaurant tables were taken. From the inside looking out ! |
Tuesday, 13 August 2019
Unsettled Summer,,,
The weather this summer has certainly been unsettled - and has reflected our personal lives!
Family decided to start a new venture in moving from mid-Norfolk to North Norfolk. We decided to stay put for a while to see how they got on before possibly moving in the same direction, A week later we were given a month’s notice as the owners of our bungalow decided to put it up for sale! So mid-June saw all of us heading in the same direction to places just 2 miles apart. Moving house is so stressful and demanding and the older you get the more demanding it becomes but we had help from the removal people which helped a lot.
We arrived to find it a no-signal zone so are unable to use our mobile phones at all - no signal until about a mile up the road ! TV signal unsettled but with the help of a TV signal booster that is now ok. BT forgot to connect the phone on the day we moved in so no phone(s) or broadband. Several visits by BT over the next couple of weeks eventually sorted that out. Then we decided to get me a new computer. My other being very slow - half the work was done by a friend of a friend who abandoned the job quoting health and the demands of other jobs. We gave him a few weeks for the benefit of doubt - then, a month after moving, abandoned everything for a week and took ourselves off to the Suffolk coast, having rescued our home from the large number of now-empty boxes and heaps of packing paper!
Now, heading for yet another month and my computer work almost complete by a professional - the last week ir so by remote control - I am able to write this piece for my blog and hope I don’t have any problem in loading it and some photos! I am tired and no longer wish to feel unsettled !!
Mid July we enjoyed the garden at Warner's Gunton Hall, Lowestoft
The heatwave hit for our stay there so we mostly used a shady spot and also slept a lot and felt much better for it.
Now a light at the end of the computer tunnel has cheered and started to waken my brain again.
Family decided to start a new venture in moving from mid-Norfolk to North Norfolk. We decided to stay put for a while to see how they got on before possibly moving in the same direction, A week later we were given a month’s notice as the owners of our bungalow decided to put it up for sale! So mid-June saw all of us heading in the same direction to places just 2 miles apart. Moving house is so stressful and demanding and the older you get the more demanding it becomes but we had help from the removal people which helped a lot.
We arrived to find it a no-signal zone so are unable to use our mobile phones at all - no signal until about a mile up the road ! TV signal unsettled but with the help of a TV signal booster that is now ok. BT forgot to connect the phone on the day we moved in so no phone(s) or broadband. Several visits by BT over the next couple of weeks eventually sorted that out. Then we decided to get me a new computer. My other being very slow - half the work was done by a friend of a friend who abandoned the job quoting health and the demands of other jobs. We gave him a few weeks for the benefit of doubt - then, a month after moving, abandoned everything for a week and took ourselves off to the Suffolk coast, having rescued our home from the large number of now-empty boxes and heaps of packing paper!
Now, heading for yet another month and my computer work almost complete by a professional - the last week ir so by remote control - I am able to write this piece for my blog and hope I don’t have any problem in loading it and some photos! I am tired and no longer wish to feel unsettled !!
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| Early May - before we knew we would be moving - we enjoyed a short break of John Petters' jazz.in Norwich |
Mid July we enjoyed the garden at Warner's Gunton Hall, Lowestoft
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| Gunton Hall |
The heatwave hit for our stay there so we mostly used a shady spot and also slept a lot and felt much better for it.
Now a light at the end of the computer tunnel has cheered and started to waken my brain again.
Thursday, 25 April 2019
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