Monday, 26 December 2011

10th October Setting off for Cornwall….

but first I spent a couple of nights in the camp site behind The Lovers Knot public house where I met up with Ella and her three dogs in her VW camper.  I took her up on her offer to help me put up my awning.

She took just over 30 mins to do hers, she and I took over 3 hours to sort of put mine up. I doubt if I will ever bother to do it again!

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002 The Van & the Awning

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IMG-20111012-00039 I need a bigger ladder

IMG-20111012-00040 The naming of parts

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Blandford Forum is such a nice Georgian town.  The Bastard brothers rebuilt the town after most of it burnt down.  Funnily enough there aare no extant Bastards.

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016 The Bastards’ grave

019 A Bastards Hotel

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One of the few houses which survived the fire

012 Interesting brickwork

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Two Bastards buildings

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17 September Lowestoft, Suffolk

Why would I go to Lowestoft, you may well ask.  I had a nostrum, having visited Herma Ness (north) and St Kilda (west) to add east – Lowestoft – and south (Cornwall/Scillies). 

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004 Rather nice mural

The most easterly point of the United Kingdom is quite hard to find.  There are no signposts and you have to negotiate your way through a run down industrial estate and when you get there there is a modest pavement compass (not sure what else to call it) 014

and it was comforting to find some familiar place names there

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011 and anticipated places…

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I then went across the field where the fishing nets were hung out to dry to the Lowestoft Marine museum – mainly to pick up a Lowestoft badge for Prang (which I did, but I haven’t yet taken a picture of him sporting it).  The museum was worth the visit and I kept up the tradition of being the sole visitor.

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Fishing net wracks and lighthouse

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This sign preceded the “pavement compass”

017 More about fishing….

018 Herrings

019 An anchor made of shells

020 A model of the Titanic

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This figurehead was dredged up and has been restored

and on the way back to the Van this caught my eye -

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- on a par with “Ascension is not just an island” (during the Falklands War) and “Sins are like beggars, if you give in to them, they keep coming back for more”  (seen in East Grinstead).

My next outing was on the 10th October.

15 & 16 September Snettisham, Cromer & Mundesley, Norfolk

At Snettisham:
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I think these are Greylag Geese…
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White and black…
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Snettisham is on the Wash and is where, on a rising tide at dusk, masses of birds can be seen.  Sadly the tide was out this dusk
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Cromer pier
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The Red Lion, Cromer was a favourite watering hole for Simon and I and it is comforting to see that it is still doing well.
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Mundesley….
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The Manor Hotel in the background, the Coastguard look –out which is also the museum
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Bay House/the former Rectory


14th September Lincoln

I’d never been to  Lincoln so ticked another box.

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002 The Cathedral

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Heaven and hell detail on the front

004 Arch to the Services’ Chapel

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010 A green man

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025 Naughty carvings

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031 The Cloisters with the Wren Library above (no internal pictures permitted)

012 Timber arching in the cloisters

013 Central bosses

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016 George & Dragon misericord

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Duncan Grant (one of the Bloomsbury Artists) frescoes in the Russell Chantry painted in 1959

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021 The Cathedral Imp

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The houses facing the Cathedral

033 The famous Steep Hill

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Lincoln’s former mental home