Anyone familiar with North Norfolk?
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littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
I think I've been to that beach. Do they ring a bell when the tide turns? If it's the one I'm thinking of, the tide comes in almost at walking pace. You wander back and look behind you and the sea is still there. It's rather disconcerting.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Cheers. Just booked a table for lunch on the way back tomorrow. It's a bit of a swerve but quite doable. The roads here are so small that what looks like a 20 minute drive on the map actually takes an hour.
Doodler
You're quite nice when you smile
I think I've been to that beach. Do they ring a bell when the tide turns? If it's the one I'm thinking of, the tide comes in almost at walking pace. You wander back and look behind you and the sea is still there. It's rather disconcerting.
I haven't heard any kind of signal but can well imagine the tide coming in fast. iirc the beach goes out a long way at low tide. The pine woods seem to be increasingly full of glamping sites for Caught By The River types but reckon there will still be some good wild/stealth camping spots!
Hope it’s still as good as ever and you enjoy a lovely lunch.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Let us know how it is
The wine cellar there famous, see if they have any montepulciano to accompany your meal
Just noticed this Spymaster - shame - you could have nipped to Postwick and met me in my wood (where we were moving daughter's boat). Apart from Reedham, this is not the posh part of Norfolk tho. There are some retro seaside towns such as Gorleston-on-Sea which have not been discovered by anyone, teuchter)...and Yarmouth is always worth a visit, if only so you can be grateful you don't have to live there yourself. Used to be a fancy restaurant in Brundall - the Lavender Tree (we supplied the chef with shaggy parasols a few times and argued about the name - should surely have been the Lavender Subshrub).) You would prolly have been wet and bored though.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
We got pretty wet anyway but we knew that would happen. It just made the log fires more welcome and I reckon we incinerated half of North Norfolk. I’d forgotten about that smell you get in English villages on autumn evenings when people fire-up their wood burners. We’re back now but I’d like to get up there again. We now know the area between Hunstanton and Cromer quite well and like it a lot but there’s loads more there. The time of year and Covid regulations worked against us a bit and pubs not serving food after 2pm caught us out a couple of times but that can happen anywhere in the sticks. Good holiday.
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Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
We didn’t make it in the end. We had great weather in the morning so decided to leave early before it started pissing down. We had breakfast in Swaffham instead
‘Breakfast in Swaffham’ sounds like a Nick Drake song.We didn’t make it in the end. We had great weather in the morning so decided to leave early before it started pissing down. We had breakfast in Swaffham instead
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
This is what confused Paul in post #48. If you were on the East coast proper, that wouldn't happen.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
We breakfasted in swaffham, boys,‘Breakfast in Swaffham’ sounds like a Nick Drake song.
When we rose against the crown
We marched up to the manor house
And smashed its great door down
The squire was dead and the house ran red
Before the day was done
But we ate his food and it tasted good
As we washed it down with rum
--traditional song
You get the same sunset on the East Coast in Whitby. It’s due to the harbour entrance actually facing North.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Which is why Dracula didn't make it into the harbour
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Aye, there are loads of places on the east coast where beaches run east-west or even face west. It can obviously look confusing if you don't know the local geography though (or if you've been smoking marijuana all afternoon).
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Unfortunately most eventually end up being "discovered" by Londoners like Spymaster and then they fill up with trendy nonsense and are ruined
Yes Spymaster , get back to your favela, you’re a horrible tourist spoiling (provincial) things for cultured proper travellers. Pah, I bet you didn’t even go by train. For shame Spy, for shame.
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Starry Wisdom
Spymaster travels everywhere by palanquin
Just reading Tomblands at the moment - C.J.Sansom's fictional account of Kett's rebellion and the huge camp up on Mousehold Heath. I tend to forget that Norwich was actually the second largest UK city in the 16C (and I love the remnants of the old city walls which still ring the inner city). I bloody love East Anglia...unlike my hometown, Cambridge, the historic fabric of Norwich feels egalitarian, ever-present and relatable.
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Starry Wisdom
When I wrote the traditional song I had in mind the civil war or some later seventeenth century rising but I'd forgotten kett's rebellion too
My partner's read tomblands and recommended it to me, I'll have to give it a go
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Ok so it was the new bourgeois rising against the remnants of feudalism but the civil war was still a revolution ( despite what some idiots will pop up to claim). If London was the brain, East Anglia was the heart of that revolution.
And still we aren’t allowed our own sub forum...
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Surely the helpful ability to count to a dozen with your hands makes up for that?
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Fuck off, it’s the SW that has the extra fingers and toes.
In East Anglia we rejoice in the webbing between them.
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StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Yep, I arrived in the fens (1975) after a couple of miserable London years and felt an immediate and total affinity with waterlands, huge skies and a sense of privacy and suspicious introversion which was balm after a garrulous and nosy northern childhood.
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