living on the North Norfolk Coast

The sun, blue skies and warmth have spurred me on into some more spring cleaning, including cleaning the windows inside. They didn’t look dirty but the water in the bucket, which I had to change a couple of times, told a different story! Spring cleaning then continued outside. Our north facing patio doesn’t get much sun and over the winter months slippery black algae builds up. I was looking online for an easy way of cleaning this, instead of getting down on my hands and

So surprised to wake up this morning and see a sprinkling of frost on the front lawn and on the car too. We don’t have many frosts, here on the coast, so to see one mid-March was quite unexpected. Clear blue skies for our morning walk but it was very cold. My finger tips were numb by the time we were back home. Generally, it has been cold the past few days; with the winds making it feel even colder than predicted. It was exceptionally windy on Thursday when we were buffe

Watching the film ‘Emily’ (biographical and fictional drama covering the adult life of Emily Brontë), the other evening, I was taken back, to a period in my school days. This was the time, students in my school year were preparing to take their O Level examinations (those not old enough to remember O Levels, these along with CSE’s were the predecessors of GCSE’s). At the beginning of the school year, we were presented with, Emily Brontë’s novel, Wuthering Heights. This was

Earlier in the week, we enjoyed some beautiful spring days that was until yesterday when a sea fret rolled in mid-morning, blanketing us in grey. When I took the washing in, during the afternoon, it was just as damp as when I hung it out first thing! No fret today but definitely grey and cold too. Going back to when it was sunny and bright; on Thursday morning, we took a walk across the fields. We listened to bird song, saw a couple of muntjac deer, noted the blossom is

I’ve held back writing my blog (normally I write every four days), so I can include a paragraph about today’s talk at the Gardening Club. Before I cover this, I’ve got a few things to mention. Firstly, on Friday morning we saw a Coastguard vehicle at the top of the zigzag path. We discovered, why they were present from a report, published on NNDC’s Facebook page, which reads as follows - ‘ EMERGENCY RESPONSE: Yesterday, emergency services were called to a potential Unexpl

What a difference a few extra degrees of warmth brings. With temperatures rising, over the past couple of days, we’ve only needed the central heating on, first thing and again late afternoon into the evening. The door into the conservatory has been open and this is where we’ve been back breakfasting and lunching, while looking out over the garden. Yesterday, I enjoyed my mug of midmorning coffee, (for the first time this year) sat on a garden bench, sun on my face, listeni

I appreciate not everyone wants to be on Facebook or any other type of social media. I am therefore publishing the contents of a recent post on Facebook to help ‘spread the word’. . The Belfry Foundation Trust As you may know, Simon Gurney is currently the sole Trustee of The Belfry Foundation Trust. He’s planning to redistribute the assets and hand over control to those who are better placed to manage the Trust and benefit directly. Simon would therefore like to meet intere

If, after the sun and warmth on Saturday, anyone thought we’d said goodbye to the worst of the winter weather, then they were wrong - that includes me! Sunday, and we were back to rain and if that wasn’t bad enough, it then proceeded to snow. Fortunately, the snow didn’t lay for too long. Come Monday morning it had melted and with a slight overnight rise in temperature, there were no treacherous icy patches. I almost couldn’t believe my eyes on Sunday evening when I saw