If we hadn't been out we would have seen the Red Arrows, they usually fly over our cottage on the way to London. We saw a bit of the Trooping of the Colour on TV when we got home.
We've had a lovely day out and it stayed warm and sunny. We went to Woodbridge in Suffolk, bit over an hour's drive away through pretty countryside and villages. We found a parking place in the town centre and unloaded OH's buggy then went down the main pedestrian street and had lunch in a pub at the bottom, in the courtyard area outside. I found exactly the knives and forks that OH had been looking for for some time, smaller one for first courses to match our main course set, not expensive either. It was a lovely kitchen shop. Then OH bought me a summer dress in Seasalt. We went to the harbour area by the river Deben and visited the museum. On the way home we drove through a very pretty village, Woolpit, with pretty Elizabethan beamy cottages with overhanging first floors, and pink thatched cottages.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
@Busy-Lizzie, we stayed near Woodbridge last year and liked it very much. We also visited the museum down by the river and had lunch at the nearby cafe. Would very much like to go there again.
Hostafan1 said:
I recently saw someone give his address as " Woodbridge, East Midlands " I'd always thought it was in Suffolk?
Well that taxi driver will have charged him a pretty penny to take him home 🤣 Woodbridge is East Suffolk … just across the River Deben from Sutton Hoo. It was my address for 40 years love
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
All the washing is in. 👏👏. I tumbled the bits that could be and hung the others inside. Rather a relief to get it off the line. We haven’t see the sun all day.
Dove I love the stories about your father’s plane experiences.
Morning folk, Elvis and I are back in the building! Thanking all those who missed me. Had a few months of health stuff, nothing terminal,but what is named"life altering" It's very personal,so not naming the beast on here. Started lists of treatment. Also my poor youngest son has had a couple of months of toothache (dentist known via dental nurse friend) reckons it's an abscess,so they won't touch it.
Pregnant daughter has pelvic disorder,plus. hips overflex
First one,you have to rest second you need to move! She's in agony,told she may end up on crutches. Ironic, she moved to be nearer us,and her blokes aunty (just a couple of roads away) to a 3 storey Victorian town house,and has an 80 mile round trip to work. Hope everyone has a good weekend
@Pat E you might be interested in this tale from Pa’s memoirs … they were in a Lancaster on a mission over the dockyards of occupied northern Italy … just as the bomb aimer released their load Pa looked up and saw another plane from their squadron directly above them as it also released its load of bombs. He shouted a warning but there was nothing that could be done to avoid the ‘friendly’ bombs hitting their plane .., of course chaos ensued but the pilot managed to regain control of the plane and despite a huge hole in the fuselage and other damage and the wireless operator being injured, he was able somehow to fly the plane back to base and everyone survived. This shows some of the damage to the plane
The pilot was given a medal.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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We've had a lovely day out and it stayed warm and sunny. We went to Woodbridge in Suffolk, bit over an hour's drive away through pretty countryside and villages. We found a parking place in the town centre and unloaded OH's buggy then went down the main pedestrian street and had lunch in a pub at the bottom, in the courtyard area outside. I found exactly the knives and forks that OH had been looking for for some time, smaller one for first courses to match our main course set, not expensive either. It was a lovely kitchen shop. Then OH bought me a summer dress in Seasalt. We went to the harbour area by the river Deben and visited the museum. On the way home we drove through a very pretty village, Woolpit, with pretty Elizabethan beamy cottages with overhanging first floors, and pink thatched cottages.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's very personal,so not naming the beast on here. Started lists of treatment. Also my poor youngest son has had a couple of months of toothache (dentist known via dental nurse friend) reckons it's an abscess,so they won't touch it.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.