living on the North Norfolk Coast

In my last blog, I related cleaning the pond of weed and Peter constructing a moveable frame, well, our timing couldn’t have been more...

No complaints about the weather this weekend; it’s been lovely. Although the waves were pretty tame, surfers were out with their boards...

February has to be my least favourite month of the year, so I am glad there are just a few days left now before we slip into March. ...

I have been watching YouTube again. This time I was looking for advice on how to prune apple trees. We have a russet apple which, most...

There are some things I have difficulty in understanding the concepts; pruning is one. I have listened to talks at the Gardening Club...

Well here we are in 2022 and another year, Covid wise, of uncertainty. We just have to wait and see how things pan out. The village was...

On Wednesday, I made a start on 2022’s vegetables by sowing onion seeds in a pot. Since we started growing from seed, we have had some...

We have been fortunate, others haven’t, not to have reactions to flu vaccinations and more recently, to the two for Covid 19. That was...

Life is full of new encounters and a continuous learning experience, or at least it should be. We watched a TV programme, Scotland’s...

The tofu experiment worked fine but we decided the vegetables in the recipe were unnecessary. The tofu, vegetable curry sauce and rice...

The colour red signifies different things to different people. At this time of the year, as we approach the British Legion’s Poppy...

Following on from my last blog, our Saturday evening BBQ may well have been our last – the gas ran out. As cooking progressed, the...

As we move further into autumn we are seeing changes in the garden. The flowers are putting up their last flush of flowers, the fig tree...

Although there was a great sense of relief when the application, to put a 5g mast on the corner of Cromer Road with Pauls Lane, was...

What would we do without beans? Such a diverse vegetable which, depending on the type, are eaten whole (pod and beans), or just the...

On Sunday morning, I wondered whether the village fair might have to be cancelled. Rain had made the ground wet and soft. Given the...

Gardening can, what seems to be, a constant stream of battles against pests and diseases that threaten our produce and flowers. Whitefly...

Up until today, what an awful week it has been. The forecasts have been far from correct and throughout, the predictions have changed...

Since writing my last blog, the Parish Council have put up notices at the three places where they have placed traffic cones. In brief,...

Staycation is a relatively new word, used for holidays taken in your homeland which for us is the UK. Last year, with Covid restrictions...