shewhomust | On the road again

So yesterday we set off for Norfolk, to spend a week with the Bears. Had the roads been kind to us, we would have had time for a leisurely lunch and to drop our luggage at the cottage before meeting their train. The roads were not kind, and we only reached the station before the Bears did because the trains were not kind either. So we were able to relocate from the heritage railway to which the satnav had led us, to the actual station at which rhe train arrived, in the rain. We succeeded in cramming all four of us, plus luggage, into the car for the half hour drive to Blakeney, and now here we are.

Today the sun was shining. First business was gathering provisions to see us through the weekend, which we achieved by a visit to a fancy farm shop (called Back to the Garden) and a walking tour of Holt, an eighteenth century town obsessed with owls. We brought our purchases home, lunched on the patio, and this afternoon I went out to explore Blakeney. In the course of these two walks I have taken many, many photographs: flint-clad houses! the last of the summer's hollyhocks!

But these will have to wait, because it's time to cook dinner.