living on the North Norfolk Coast

Since last Thursday, excluding Friday, the weather has been pretty abysmal.  Winds and rain were starting to get monotonous but at last, today it’s been a whole lot better.   We have both been out in the garden this morning, Peter has taken down the French beans, consigned the courgette plant to the composter and cleared the leaves, trapped around the chard plants.  While he was doing this, I raked and swept up the leaves in other parts of the garden and by the time we’d fini

What do you do, when it rains and the winds blows all day, as it did yesterday?  Well, I decided to tackle some tasks, the sort you save (or put off) for days like these.  In the morning, I cleaned the insides of the kitchen cupboards, polished the brass and descaled the kettle.  All pretty boring but with my earbuds in, with music filtering through them from my Mp3 player, the tasks didn’t feel too arduous.    Over the past few days, I've tackled some of what I term as, annu

Since my last blog life has been fairly routine.  The only thing I have to write about are, the notifications posted at the bottom of Madams Lane.  There are more, further along and up into Northrepps.  These cover, the proposed changes to the classifications of sections of Madams Lane.  I can’t find any details as to why these changes are deemed necessary and can therefore only speculate – could they be to further facilitate access to what I presume is a communications base

I have used most of the quinces, Jim Paine gave me at the Gardening Club meeting, and made the membrillo (quince paste) he recommended.  I can’t at this point say whether we like this or not, simply because we haven’t tried it yet!  Jim suggested eating it with cheddar cheese, which we always have in the fridge, but online Manchego is recommended or a similar very hard cheese.  This is not a cheese we have that often (sometimes used as an alternative to parmesan), therefore t

We are well into autumn.  The days are shortening, trees are shedding more of their leaves and I’m wearing gloves and a scarf, on our morning walks.  Added to this, summer flowers are fading and most of the summer vegetables, on Peter’s, plot have or are coming to an end.  The garden has been demanding our attention and with leaves cleared, lawns mowed and edged and a hedge trimmed, by yesterday afternoon we were pretty well up to date.    Last week, I took delivery of the st

I completely forgot to mention, in my last blog, our first sighting this year of the pink foot geese.  This was on the morning of 1 st ...

We went out yesterday morning, in the rain, for our usual weekly shop in Mundesley, after which we drove to Sheringham where I made an...

With low tides, first thing, this week we’ve been able to walk along the promenade (dipping down onto the beach where the slumps are and...