My Day

[grendel]

I just cooked some of my apples, basically just peeled them, put them in a dish, a tiny splash of water and 10 minutes in the microwave, perfect apple sauce, or stewed apple, no sugar leaves the result slightly tart, so great for either use. With custard it perfectly balances the sweetness.

[MargeandParge]

7 minutes ago, grendel said:

I just cooked some of my apples, basically just peeled them, put them in a dish, a tiny splash of water and 10 minutes in the microwave, perfect apple sauce, or stewed apple, no sugar leaves the result slightly tart, so great for either use. With custard it perfectly balances the sweetness.

Ole Marge has a freezer full. Yummy pies ,blackberry and pork all make wonderful company. Kindest Regards Marge and Parge 

[YnysMon]

My dining table got taken over today. Harry was building himself a new computer.

He's got it going this evening...it's got so many fans in it, it looks like it's about to take off.

[MargeandParge]

Blimey reminds me of my youth a 70s discotheque . Very impressed. 

Kindest Regards Marge and Parge 

 

[kpnut]

I would urge anyone who fancies it to pay a visit to Kings Lynn if on the way to or from the Broads or just for a day out.

Not knowing what time we’d get away from the boat last night after ‘handover’ to the daughter and family, I booked a travelodge at Kings Lynn. 
Today we followed the town trail from a map that I picked up in the tourist info centre. It’s online too. 
I’d been told it was a historic place and that’s certainly right, not that I can remember much of the detail now (my brain’s not very good at retaining history). 
The trail is probably a couple of miles in all, but with plenty of stopping off opportunities. We found a lovely independent baker/cafe in Saturday market by the Minster for a cup of tea and a temporary relief from the drizzle/rain. 
Photos give a good flavour, but I didn’t take any of the beautiful gardens, complete with little becks to walk beside and majestic lines of trees (which dropped even more rain on us rather than sheltering us). 
We parked in Boal Strret carpark, £3.30 for the whole day and with very quick access to the portside and the town trail. 

Nice sculpture of fish drying racks

one large mooring post!

A fishing vessel of some sort, probably cockles but I’m not sure they’re still allowed to fish for them, so maybe other shellfish  

The way out to the sea

A plaque showing the height of the tidal flood in 2013

The Customs House

The Minster with its tide clock on the right hand tower in the photo  

It suffered in the flood of August 2022. You can see the salts coming out on the tiles on the floor of the nave. 

Also in Saturday Market is this impressive building - combined town hall, guildhall, goal and another bit I can’t remember. That’s where the tourist info centre is, also a museum we didn’t go in. 

A wonky window

And an old street. There were plenty of them. The cobbles (more like knapped stones than cobbles) were quite slippy in the rain, especially with two spaniels trying to urge us along!

I do NOT like shopping, but I was quite impressed with the shopping area. It was large with lots of variety (even if not very many independent shops) and I only saw 3 empty shops in total - remarkable. 

[kpnut]

I’ve never actually seen the Wash so looked for a road to take us to it. Google showed the ‘Wash viewpoint’ by following a right turn immediately before Sutton Bridge on the A17. 
The road followed the river Nene for a couple of miles, dead straight, to reach a carpark. It didn’t actually go as far as Google said, so we walked the last three quarters of a mile, along a bridleway along the flood bank. I would not want to ride a horse along there mind you, as firstly there was a narrow gate to get through and then the whole path was narrow along the bank with a steep side on one side. It was a stunning walk in a wild and woolly sort of way. I thought the Broads was flat but this beat that. It was misty and we got soaked by the rain that we could see sweeping towards us. 
One or the photos shows two lighthouses at the carpark and on the opposite bank. The one by the carpark was the home of Peter Scott, the naturalist before he moved to Gloucestershire and set up the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust reserve at Slimbridge. It’s a holiday let nowadays. 

the mouth of the Nene is there somewhere

One massive sluice gate

The lighthouses in the distance

I think the floodbank walk goes on for about 9 miles or so in the Kings Lynn direction. There is also a path on the opposite bank of the Nene that presumably goes west. I’m going to look up the lanes etc round that area and do some more exploring in the future. 
 

a different view of Sutton bridge

A change of soaked shoes and socks was required before the drive home. The dogs were very content and Tony slept most of the way too! 

[YnysMon]

Thanks Kate. I've been thinking that Kings Lynn might be a good day out when we are on the boat in the winter and don't want to cruise. Thanks for the photos, it does look like an interesting place. 

[dom]

10 minutes ago, kpnut said:

I’m going to look up the lanes etc round that area and do some more exploring in the future. 

If you go up the opposite bank, you can get to Holbeach Range and walk along the edge of the area the RAF use for bombing practice. Sutton Bridge isn't the most exciting of areas though, not least because there's no real beaches, just miles of mud. I'd tend to come inland a bit and take a look around the Downham Market area, where you've got things like Shouldham Warren and the Great Ouse. Alternatively, head up around Hunstanton, which is much more interesting with some beautiful coastline. I love the area around Sandringham and Anmer and there's some great woodland for walking dogs, which is stunning in Rhododendron season.

King's Lynn is a real dichotomy. One one hand, it has some horrendous social issues. On the other, the bit around the quay has some of the most amazing history to match anywhere in the country. If you're a reader, there's a book called 'For The King' by Evelyn Tidman, which gives a fictional narrative of real life Nicholas L'estrange in the siege of Lynn in the English Civil War. It gives you a lot of historical information in a way which is much more engaging. The L'estranges very nearly changed the course of the civil war. They're all buried in Old Hunstanton church. Alice L'estrange is often viewed as a pioneer of feminism born 400 years too early.

 

[Turnoar]

Peter Scott was one of the doyens of the developing dinghy sailing scene of his generation, olympic class helm at one with nature.

[Smoggy]

5 hours ago, YnysMon said:

My dining table got taken over today. Harry was building himself a new computer.

He's got it going this evening...it's got so many fans in it, it looks like it's about to take off.

Ditch the nerdy son and get a real one, when dining tables are taken over he should be building a motorbike not a sodding computer. 

When did dining tables lose their respect in such sad ways?

My mum never had it so easy.

 

[Bikertov]

9 hours ago, Smoggy said:

Ditch the nerdy son and get a real one, when dining tables are taken over he should be building a motorbike not a sodding computer. 

I was a nerdy son interested in electronics (personal computers were still in the future at that time)

But I still managed to strip down and refurb a Weber carburettor from my Ford Capri on the kitchen table.

Just saying ...

[ExSurveyor]

Just a nice photo to end the day 😎

[Smoggy]

On 25/08/2024 at 09:54, Bikertov said:

I was a nerdy son interested in electronics (personal computers were still in the future at that time)

But I still managed to strip down and refurb a Weber carburettor from my Ford Capri on the kitchen table.

Just saying ...

Did it still work?

Just asking.....

[Gracie]

On 25/08/2024 at 09:54, Bikertov said:

 

But I still managed to strip down and refurb a Weber carburettor from my Ford Capri on the kitchen table.

Just saying ...

Couldn't you have done the refurb with your clothes on, honestly!  Just saying 

Grace x

[Bikertov]

5 hours ago, Gracie said:

Couldn't you have done the refurb with your clothes on, honestly!  Just saying 

Grace x

I was much younger and fitter at the time ... Just saying 

[scaniaman]

Waste of a good Weber carburtooter on a Capri....just thinking.

[floydraser]

My roof tiles have just been frightened by a Douglas DC3 with it's wheels down. Before I could get here to report it, it was followed by a Spitfire and a Mustang. Something's kicking off but don't worry, it'll all be over by Christmas! 

Annual Victory show.

[Smoggy]

12 hours ago, Bikertov said:

I was much younger and fitter at the time ... Just saying 

That's handy, at least you could push it home. (keep it clean) 

[Gracie]

8 hours ago, Smoggy said:

That's handy, at least you could push it home. (keep it clean) 

Keep your gob shut Gracie 

Grace x

 

[TheQ]

It's the Broadland youth regatta today and tomorrow at Horning, actually it's on Black Horse Broad. Most will probably be towed up and back to the broad.

If you wish to watch just drop your mudweights round the edges of the broad please with this easterly the favoured end for Mooring will be the Horning end of the broad.

Just normal club racing will be on the river on sunday, but in reduced numbers as the dinghies will be of course up on the broad, and the forecast is rain....

[LizG]

2 hours ago, TheQ said:

It's the Broadland youth regatta today and tomorrow at Horning, actually it's on Black Horse Broad. Most will probably be towed up and back to the broad.

If you wish to watch just drop your mudweights round the edges of the broad please with this easterly the favoured end for Mooring will be the Horning end of the broad.

Just normal club racing will be on the river on sunday, but in reduced numbers as the dinghies will be of course up on the broad, and the forecast is rain....

I've just looked at the notice of race on the club website and racing is on both the river and broad but only today.  I wondered why on the club webcam I could seen the mark by the clubhouse was out!!

[Smoggy]

9 hours ago, Gracie said:

Keep your gob shut Gracie 

Grace x

 

There's a first time for everything...

[grendel]

Today at the boot fair I managed to get a seadoo scooter, (basically a one person propulsion unit for water use) I got it suspecting that the battery would be dead, and with no charger, so it was no surprise to find the battery missing entirely, not a problem, I can build a new one( not about to spend £600 on a replacement) I have tested it on a 20v tool battery and it runs.

[Meantime]

Oh no! more time in the Broads for Grendel then. Soon he'll be spending more time in the water than on the water! 

[ChrisB]

Lay prone on SUP and hold SeaDoo over bow end and go!