ChrisB

Dont forget to see Lincoln's "Potter"

I am glad that I don't have to do the dusting in your house Alan! Beautiful piece of workmanship.

That is to say nothing to do with the month of May! But the two can get entwined depending on how the season fairs!

I believe it refers to "May" as in the blossom of the "Haw" or Blackthorn. Etc

Draught Double Diamond was the equal of Red Barrel imho.

For the first time in four or five years we have lots of hedgehog poo about the garden, so they are there but have not seen them. We are out on a limb and see from our raised position Fallow, Roe and occasionally Red. Unfortunately a lot of Muncjac as well, who have had all our Tulips and Bluebells plus I suspect a lot else besides this year. Rabbits are also extremely plentiful this year, no "Mixi" about and are in and out on lightening raids before I can get my gun.

Here in North Norfolk it has been generally a cold Spring. Which will delay the activity of Amphibious creatures but there has been plenty of spawn in the sheltered ponds.

There are very few that will have a "go" at toads. They secrete a foul taste from the skin on their backs.

We liked it, great city centre location and the rooms were first class. I would not call the food "fine cuisine" but it was very good. However we do tend to have only a main course as we are not huge portion people. Check car parking with them for you dates it can be a bit of a problem if there are conferences. Not too much if you get back say late afternoon but a problem if you eat elsewhere and get back after eight.

Forgot to say Lincolnshire is a wonderful county and Lincoln a very interesting city. Hell of a climb to the castle and Cathedral for me now though. Parking can be a bit of a problem but The Hilton at Lincoln is super! Great rooftop restaurant overlooking Brayford Pool and it's Marina. Great city break location.

I used to stay at the Petswood 30 years ago. We used to go to hand over three Austin Rover cars as ground support for the BBMF at Conningsby for their show season. Very happy memories of the dinners and speakers. Does it still have that piece of pine tree over the bar that returned stuck in the fusilage of a Polish aircrews plane? They went in that low!

A boat with a mast makes a much better reflection in the water in my opinion.

I do a similar walk along Fleet Dyke, turn right along the Bure to the pumping station then turn right onto the track back to Tiled Cottage and back to Fleet lane and the Boat Yard. But the track from the pump to Tiled Cottage is not a public footpath. I have pass the land owner tending his herd and he does not seem to bother.

I have just checked my OS 1:25000 Norfolk Broads on Viewranger and it is shown as a track not a public footpath.

There is a bus route all the way along the north coast from Cromer to Hunstanton. It is called the Coast Hopper Service. Cromer is easily reached by train from Wroxham as is Sheringham. Sheringham then has it's heritage steam trains on thr Poppy Line that run to Holt, which is also worth a visit. The bus is a really good way to enjoy the coast road as you are so high and can sit back and enjoy the view.

I think if you are not local then once in a while a houseboat is a good bet. There is a lot more to Norfolk than the Broads. Using the car will open up the delights of the North Coast. Cromer and Sheringham have much interest but the wilds of the Seamarsh Coast, Cley and Salthouse reserves, Blakeney, Morston, Wells, Holkheim, Burnham Overy and Brancaster Staithes. Will truly inspire, trust me. You will not be disappointed.

Read Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning DBE. The BBC was a very poor interpretation of the true written word. Jamaica Inn and Indian Queens are the very embodiment of Bodmin Moor and Cornwall for me and Daphne that Western Lands true artistic ambassador.

Dogs prefer sober owners.

you would have thought this would have been more widely reported.

I apologise if this offends anyone but I have lifted this from "Over the road"

Or as my college lecturer said " You can't see it, you can't smell it and when you feel it, it is too bl÷#dy late".

And have you seen the price of a good Wick recently! They say our parafin lamps will be a thing of the past by 2030 here on the North Coast of Norfolk. But I think it is wishful thinking.

Park and Ride every time for me. Not prepared for the damage any more in St Stephens or John Lewis. Cars just get bigger, but the parking spces are still based on the dimensions of Austin A30s, Standard 8s and Ford Anglias.

Get the high speed rail link sorted, and the next round of roads and Norfolk will be no different to the home counties. I was watching my DVD of David Dimbleby's "Picture of Britain" (2005) last week. In the "Flatlands" episode he praises the unique character of the area which he attributes to it's remoteness. And how the locals like it that way and put up with the longer travel times to protect that uniqueness. As I have said before living in one of the "bunch" vllages I think we will be protected in my lifetime (I'm 67) by the two bridges but Norfolk as we know and love it will be unrecognizable in twenty years. On Easter Sunday I was walking along the Paston Way nr. Edingthorpe and was stopped by a retired couple who had lived and brought up their family in Rackheath and Salhouse, they were in the area house hunting, to escape the developers. They said they thought that they were settled but could not stand the thought of being boxed in. They bought their present house so they could have country walks and bird watch without using their car, but that it will be, now, a short lived possibility.

And if he had been drinking into the early hours he would still be over the limit the next morning for driving on the roads.