Just being

These days I feel we appear to be afraid of clutter, splatter and untidiness. The past is indeed a foreign country, but should we be obsessed by the need to hide it, rebuild… Continue reading

Mind the road ‘cos you might get squashed

“Minding roads” was part of my road safety training as a youngster and is a piece of advice I am attempting to pass on to some of the local toad population. You’ve got… Continue reading

Careful what you touch it could be hot!

Some of my regular readers may remember about two years ago I visited Fransham Forge – a modern craft forge in the centre of Norfolk; some seven or eight miles from Dereham. I… Continue reading

NSPCB

You don’t recognize it – hardly surprising I suppose because I only just made it up. It’s going to be the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Boats. Much as I… Continue reading

It sort of marks the beginning

In the days when I had a real job instead of that as an itinerant photographer, I used to cycle past one house on my way to work each morning where the owners… Continue reading

Well seasoned and not well seasoned

Last week the old project manager and I thought we might go and have a look at a really remarkable piece of woodland about four miles east of Fakenham, just off the main… Continue reading

Farmers don’t really plough these days

That’s what I was told. Hmm! Not sure I agree. This chap certainly doesn’t and I’m sure if the horses had a vote they wouldn’t either. And what about Plough Monday …or do… Continue reading

They come and they go

On the whole Cromer is a fairly quiet seaside resort – no tower, no permanent fairground, no theme park and only one medium sized pier. A bit like Norfolk as a whole, enough… Continue reading

You’d think you could get tablets for this!

Boxing Day 2024 dawned at the delectable seaside resort of Cromer in North Norfolk where hundreds of people descended on the town just after 10am. – many of them highly dressed or decorated,… Continue reading

Just hanging around the Christmas Tree

I hope you had a good Christmas. It wasn’t exactly hide yourself indoors and toast your feet in front of a huge fire was it? Maybe now it will snow and make us… Continue reading