There are times when it is just lovely to spend times with friends, laughing, chatting, drinking wine. However, just recently I found a different friend. She doesn’t know she is my friend and she certainly doesn’t care – but I know that I am hers. Back in February I was weeding in the garden, tryingContinue reading “Silent Friends”
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The return of a friend
Gardening is a hopeful activity. I’m easy prey for the seed catalogues when they arrive, or ‘garden porn’ as my daughter calls them. I sit in the winter gloom, flicking through the pages of ripe plums, vibrant, perfect carrots and tumbling strawberries and I can see them in my garden. It will be exactly like the photos. Exactly.
Come walking with us!
At last we have whittled down our walks to a few favourites for the beginning of this season, which we think you will enjoy. Please join me and Nigel Middleton (described by Richard Mabey in his book Nature Cure as a ‘bit of shaman’ who could ‘conjure birds out of the air’, Nigel is aContinue reading “Come walking with us!”
Spring with a side of cold
In my Enid Blyton head, spring is a time for skipping through green lanes with banks studded with pin-pricks of colour from primroses and violets that look like tiny fallen stars. Birds would sing in the spring from the hedgerows and the weak sunshine would still kiss your face with warmth. It is hard toContinue reading “Spring with a side of cold”
Life – as we’d rather not know it
There are some years that you wish would just end. This has been one of them. I had such plans to organise walks this year and was so looking forward to meeting everyone again and planning routes – but life had a different plan. I’m sorry for the lack of engagement – but I willContinue reading “Life – as we’d rather not know it”
Go west… but not too west
After vowing never, ever and under no circumstances at all would I move away from the airfield and ‘my’ corner of Norfolk, I’ve done just that. The move happened back in April but many boxes are still unpacked, cupboards in disarray and clothes still in bin bags – but on the plus side a bee-friendlyContinue reading “Go west… but not too west”
Norfolk’s Phoenix
Imagine the scene: it’s a bright, cold, cloudless day. The Norfolk sky is the kind of blue that gladdens the heart after dull winter’s days and, although the air is chill, there is the first hint of warmth in the sun. In front of you is a vibrant green meadow with a shimmering shallow poolContinue reading “Norfolk’s Phoenix”
The Joy of Rain
I knew it was going to be a good day. On the approach to Fulmodeston a Red Kite hung above the road and then, with barely perceptible movement, flicked across to the wood and out of sight. I’d picked a route around one particular path which ran through a wood. I’d often admired the woodContinue reading “The Joy of Rain”
Happy Norfolk Day!
It’s Tuesday 27th July and that makes it Norfolk Day. No, this is not something that I’ve made up, but a real thing here. We are going to celebrate everything Norfolk apparently – probably by communal tutting and making that odd ‘huh’ sound that Norfolk people do, which can only be described as a crossContinue reading “Happy Norfolk Day!”
The coming of summer
After what seemed like weeks of dull, misty, cold days the summer arrived in this part of Norfolk yesterday. It was fabulous! The air barely moved and the birds seemed too lethargic to eat. Even the thieving squirrel (who I secretly love) could not be bothered to brazenly rob the feeders but was probably restingContinue reading “The coming of summer”
Norfolk Notes 