Not quite the bare necessities
Sculthorpe
5 · IX · 2026
The Meadows Farm Shop
5th September 2026
Strawberries, highland cattle greetings cards, an emergency galvanised bucket for sunflowers. Find them here.
The Poppy Line at Weybourne
Weybourne
31 · VIII · 2026
Weybourne
31st August 2026
We'd been hearing about the little train that runs from Holt to Sheringham for a while, and today was a chance to hop on board. The railway has been celebrating a Festival of Rails programme of summer events this week,
Thornham
THORNHAM
27 · VIII · 2026
Thornham
27th August 2026
Thornham has become one of my very favourite Norfolk places and I visit whenever I can. It needs a dedicated post for the light, the air, the usual wonderfully bleak isolation that pulls me back summer, or winter. So here is a
A little trip to Sheringham
SHERINGHAM
23 · VIII · 2026
Sheringham
23rd August 2026
A little trip to Sheringham
Everyone had told us that we should go to Sheringham. It has a little train, apparently, but we didn't go on that. A walk for Fergus in Pretty Corner Woods, which apparently include the highest
A walk in Stiffkey
STIFFKEY
23 · III · 2025
Stiffkey
23rd March 2025
A walk in Stiffkey
What a beautiful, warm weekend it was in North Norfolk recently when we took a little trip to Stiffkey. Different people tell me that it's pronounced Sookey or Stookey but I'm not sure about
The Canadian
There's something romantic and epic about long train journeys. I have travelled for days across India and China by train, where your carriage becomes a village with all its assorted characters and their comings and goings. (The reality is not as romantic, of course). Sadly, I think I&
Montreal
My son James chose to go to university in Montreal, and was eventually offered training for a job and accommodation there by the father of his girlfriend. In October 2021, in Covid times, on my way back to hermetic Hong Kong from London I had to spend three "washout&