living on the North Norfolk Coast

The posters, promoting the forthcoming Christmas events are dotted around the village.  Rather than covering these, here in my blog, I have taken photos of the posters and included them below (click on the individual posters to enlarge).  As you can see there will be plenty to see and join in, as well as refreshments to be enjoyed, in the lead up to Christmas.  I am looking forward to seeing the Christmas trees in the church.  There was a brilliant selection last year, all wi

We’ve been using the local bus service again.  On Wednesday we took the last of our vinyl records, including Elton John, The Kinks, Jean Paul Jarre, T Rex, Rolling Stones etc. to the Another Planet shop in West Street, in Cromer.  Our first visit was a few weeks ago, taking my collection of Beatles records, including two rarities sent to members of the Fan Club at Christmas.  Marc, the shop owner, was impressed with the condition of my records (I was always very careful with

I nearly forgot; today is a blog day!  What I did forget was, to add a thank you to the end of my last blog, for all the help I received with the Poppy Appeal.  So, thank you to Derek, Martin & Peter for assisting with counting the donations, to the Methodist Church for once again letting us use the church for the count, to Overstrand Post Office for facilitating the banking of the donations, to St Martins Church for donating the collection from the Remembrance Day service, t

When Peter and I purchase goods online, we look at the ratings for the individual items and if buying from Ebay, at the sellers too.  However, after a recent experience, I’m not sure I can trust all companies to be honest with their ratings.  To briefly explain; I ordered some fresh fish from a different company to the one we have been using.  It arrived last Friday, well packaged in a lined cardboard box with ice packs to keep the fish cool and in good condition.  However, t

I can safely say, November is my least favourite month of the year.  I associate this month with dampness and the start of cold weather.  However, up until Friday it really has not lived up to what I expected.  This year, November has generally been mild and despite a few glitches, not bad at all.  All change on Friday; it was awful, a day of rain and totally miserable.  It’s been pretty grim since then – what I expect in November – and it will probably carry on like this.   

I am a bit further on, with my recipe plog for Youtube, than I anticipated.  This is mainly down to a damp day, keeping me indoors, when I made a fair bit of progress and then later, I added some background music.  The next step will be to export the file and run it through with Peter, to check and see if any corrections/changes need to be made.  After a fair bit of consideration, I think I will cut the stepping stones into the grass.  At the moment, the garden is all about c

I’ve started working on a new vlog for my YouTube channel.  This covers my recipe for pork with celery and given it’s not that easy to film while cooking and narrating at the same time, I have chosen to use photos instead, with a voice over.  I suppose I shouldn’t call it a vlog (video log).  Maybe plog (photo log) would be more appropriate.  I could call it a phlog but this would probably get confused with flog, meaning to sell something.  Unless, I can think of another term

So far, the temperatures have been above average for November, at times wearing a jacket or coat have been quite unnecessary.   On Sunday, I was determined to get out in the garden, to clear the leaves and have a general tidy of the main border at the back.  It was a bit damp first thing but just as soon as the light rain, reduced to mizzle, I was outside, after which it soon stopped completely.  As I made my way along the border, I was joined by a frog who seemed quite conte

It’s been fairly quiet here in Overstrand, during the half-term school holidays.  It was however, different in Cromer on Wednesday, when I went to the hairdressers, as well as a short visit to Sheringham on Thursday, to collect my glasses from the opticians.  Both towns were busy and driving back through Cromer on Thursday, quite a number of people seemed to be oblivious of passing vehicles, stepping off pavements and walking across the road, rather than heading to the crossi

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...

It’s been a blustery week but this afternoon, the wind has calmed down.  Hopefully, tomorrow I’ll be able to clear fallen leaves.  The...

I really should have looked at the weather forecast for Saturday into Sunday, before I started raking up leaves.  I was happily out in...

During the course of this week, the new fencing on the car park has been completed.  This was started last Friday and the length now...

It’s a year since the village’s garden centre closed - residents continue to say, how much they miss it.  Since its closure, as well as...