Spring? Today’s forecast was initially not too bad considering the track record but it worsened considerably overnight. We had been looking forward to something dry. We are now offered more or less constant rain with a high of … wait…
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Better Than Expected
For the first time in what must be two years, we began the day in an early bright spell by mounting our bukes and cycling to my favourite butchers shop up the road in Ludham. There’s a pleasantly quiet back…
Posted in 2021-05 Norfolk
Still Up
As advertised, overnight we were pummelled by gusting 45mph winds and lashed by the horizontal rain that they carried. Our new air awning is still up and seems to have survived. I have had to engineer a solution to stop…
Posted in 2021-05 Norfolk
Testing Technology
… and you may read that how you like. 😀 We’ve been caravanning for 35 years, or thereabouts. The Caravan Club even sent us a fancy sticker proclaiming “30 Years Membership” to slap in Guillaume’s window. This, of course, makes…
Posted in 2021-05 Norfolk
Wrong Lens
The brightest part of today was forecast to be early morning, so we had just one cup of coffee to wake up, partially at least, before wandering down the road to Ludham Bridge for a saunter along the River Ant.…
Posted in 2021-05 Norfolk
Straining the Memory
Pinch and a punch, the first of the month. White rabbits, and other nonsensical phrases. We didn’t get to use Guillaume last year. I did have to tow him up to the midlands for his first annual service but that…
Posted in 2021-05 Norfolk
Party Animals
Some decent weekend weather presented us with our first attempt at entertaining, in the garden of course, since lockdown was eased. Four of us gathered to share a barbecued shoulder of lamb. On most occasions when I used to travel…
Posted in 2021 Fox Tales
Great Tit Progress
Our pair of Great Tits appear to have finished nest building. Now, something different and, perhaps, more entertaining is going on. We have patio furniture beneath the nest box – away from the house wall but basically beneath the box.…
Posted in 2021 Fox Tales
Greedy Guts
I’ve been foxed by British-bloody-Summer-Time. There’s often some timepiece that one forgets to adjust. Why must we change the clocks? Midday, 12:00, is when the sun is at its height, for Darwin’s sake. Making midday an hour past the zenith…
Posted in 2021 Fox Tales
Titcam
[Insert your very own schoolboy comment here – you know you’re thinking it.] Last year our trusty old wooden nest box was used, as usual, by a pair of Blue Tits (Cyanistes caeruleus). We could hear the chicks chattering away…
Posted in 2021 Fox Tales
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