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What goes up …must come down!

It’s one of those general maxims in life, but it is not very often that you have the opportunity to watch it happening quite like this. Last week I visited the Old Buckenham… Continue reading

Waking up in the morning

To be honest I am not good in a morning. It may be due to the icy blast that sweeps in through the window next to my bed – or it may be… Continue reading

Somebody’s got to speak up for them

At this time of year I am aware that flower competitions are raging. Only a few weeks ago there was the Royal Norfolk Show with some wonderful flower displays. Then on the tele… Continue reading

Slowing Down

This has nothing to do with my age! Just because I have just had a birthday everyone thinks I’m on the way out. So let me say again “slowing down” has nothing to… Continue reading

The sun doesn’t shine every day

Remember when you used to buy postcards of the places you visited – did you notice that the photographs were always taken on sunny days. Even Cromer shops sold postcard views of the… Continue reading

When is a bodger not a bodger?

I always thought a bodger was someone who made chairs. “no, no, no!” corrected a chair maker. “The bodger cut wood into chair leg lengths.” So it seems feasible to me that the… Continue reading

You can’t use your bus pass here!

Well it was worth a try! Nor, despite the fact that the East Anglia Transport Museum is fairly near the sea, would they even recognise my Oyster Card. The transport museum – rather… Continue reading

Life is full of surprises

You go to somewhere like London with a definite idea of what you want to photograph but then suddenly the whole plan changes because you see something totally unexpected. I decided that I… Continue reading

Making the feathers fly

Once again one of our bird boxes achieved a nest – this year a family of great tits. If we were methodical we would have logged and documented the day when the first… Continue reading

Getting steamed up at Strumpshaw

For those who know about things like the Strumpshaw Steam Museum and the Strumpshaw Steam Rally will be surprised that I haven’t been there with the camera before now. The rally itself has… Continue reading