living on the North Norfolk Coast

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

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

It’s going to be a very much cooler day today.  I’m writing this mid-morning and already I’m missing the warmth of the sun. The other...

I’m enjoying the summer weather, but are the hoverflies?  As soon as the temperatures rise, numbers arrive in our conservatory, as if out...

From time to time, you hear the phrase ‘the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing’ .  This certainly applied to the...

I'm totally impressed with the result Fix My Street was able to achieve, regarding the broken tarmac pavement in Cliff Road. Reported to...

While I was looking at various yard sales on Sunday, I was asked if I could find out why there are no red and green dog signs on the...

Back when Overstrand had a WI group, it became a tradition, in June, to take an evening walk followed by what we termed as a ‘strawberry...

In my blog for 29th May, I mentioned (actually, it was a bit of moan) about Sanders putting up QR codes instead of printed bus...

After two consecutive Thursdays of ‘iffy’ weather which dampened the weekly car boot sales, this Thursday saw a great turnout of...

At the Gardening Club’s June meeting, Andrew Sankey spoke on the subject of ‘Colour in the Garden’.  I thought this would cover, having...

The wobbly curb stone on the High Street, which I reported to Fix My Street, who then forwarded the details to Norfolk County Council...