living on the North Norfolk Coast

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...

Cooler mornings have been the norm for the past couple of weeks but as the mornings have progressed, for the most part, it has warmed. ...

I have a fair bit to write about, so I’m going to crack on.  For starters; we’ve had rain showers today.  We could do with a lot more,...

On Saturday morning we decided to go and see if there were any more ripe cherry plums and also pick some sloes for sloe rum.  Despite the...

What a summer we’ve been enjoying, with its long, warm and sunny days when the weather forecasters, questionably, declared we were in a...

A quiet week for us but that does not mean we’ve been idle or twiddling our thumbs, while looking for something to occupy us.  It’s all...

Far from exciting news but after I posed the question, in the heading of my last blog, as to whether Sainsburys was open, the answer is;...

There have been three highlights to this week.  Two were related to some impressive achievements by our two sons – we’re super proud of...

Regular readers of my blog will be aware of the problems we experienced last year, in the village, with full rubbish bins and more...

As I mentioned in a previous blog, I started writing blogs, or diaries as I called them at the time, in July 2010.  Doesn’t take an...

The works, rerouting the path from Pauls Lane car park towards the beach, started on Thursday (see photo taken Friday morning, at the end...

After writing, in my last blog, about it being cooler on Saturday morning, a few hours later it all changed.  In the morning, we walked...