living on the North Norfolk Coast

My latest vlog is available on YouTube.  Many thanks to Peter for filming the last part, where I needed both hands to successfully...

I have been having thoughts how best to present my next vlog.  I am planning to demonstrate one of the simple recipes (none of them are...

According to the media, this May was the warmest on record.  Really?  At times, the media may spout out a lot of twaddle and tosh but in...

The last couple of days I have been thinking about our family visit next weekend.  Six in total is too many for us to accommodate so they...

I have two websites, this one and Clifftop Publishing where I showcase my books.  I use Wix for both sites and with Clifftop Publishing’s...

A very enjoyable and informative talk at the Gardening Club this week.  Dr Ian Bedford, expanded members knowledge about wasps.  These...

So, what do you do when the weather is rubbish at the weekend?  To us, it doesn’t really make any difference whether it’s at the weekend...

Shrouded, for the most part, by trees it is nigh on impossible to appreciate the architecture of Overstrand Hall.  However, on Sunday,...

We have had some spells of sun and reduced rain showers but boy, has that wind been cold and feisty with it.  So, what do you do when the...

Quite a full week since my last blog, well it has been compared to my norm.  Nothing of great note, just the hairdressers in Cromer,...

Ken Able talked about Pelargoniums at the Gardening Club on Tuesday afternoon.  Before covering different varieties, he dispelled what...

I'm starting off with a quick update on the accident on the promenade, which I mentioned in my lasIt blog.  The villager suffered a...

Following the latest cliff slump below the Sea Marge, at the weekend the Council barricaded and closed this section of the promenade. ...

After reading the article in the Smithsonian magazine (see my blog for 8th February), I purchased the book by Peter Wohlleben and titled...

I have pretty well come to the end of my winter list of ‘things to do’.  There is one item, which is likely to feature on my winter lists...

The first meeting of 2024 for the Overstrand Gardening Club was on Tuesday afternoon.  The club are planning a trip to Cambridge...

Each year, during the winter months, I check the links on my websites, to make sure they still connect. What I have not done in the past,...

Lovely to hear again from village Glo Begley with an update on the new defibrillator, installed on the wall of the White Horse pub; it is...

Some welcome sunshine on Saturday which would have provided a good opportunity to get out in the garden but I had applied cleaner to our...

I am on, what is termed as, a roll and busy tackling my list of winter things to do.  Last year’s blogs are now printed, my glogs (garden...