Walsingham has two shrines – one Anglican and one Roman Catholic. A strange feature of the history of this country (blame Henry VIII) is that all the older churches tend to be CofE and the RC churches are modern. This is because the older churches were originally RC before they were “taken over”. I’ll have […]

J’s Mum’s funeral today. It was at St Peter’s church which is a lovely little country church, and it was also a very beautiful day. J and I picked a huge bunch of flowers from his Mum’s garden (the place she had loved the most) and we put them on the grave where she was […]

J’s mother did not have an automatic washing machine – she had a twin tub! I’ve honestly not seen one in nearly forty years – my Gran had one when I was a child, and I briefly (once I think!) used one in a rented house I stayed in. J and I had to figure […]

J’s Mum died rather suddenly and this, followed by his solitary occupancy of the property left it rather sad and cluttered looking. My remit for the week (as well as attending the funeral) is to pack a load of stuff away and get the house looking nice ready for sale. It is such a very […]

These are retrospective posts because when I arrived in Walsingham the utility I use to move my photos from my phone to our network went nuts and tried to back over 2000 photos up over a non-stellar Internet link so I had to turn it off. Arrived in Little Walsingham this afternoon after an interesting […]

I’m off to Little Walsingham in Norfolk tomorrow with my friend J. His Mum died in April and we are going down for her memorial service and also to “House Doctor” the house there so it can be sold. It is a lovely house though in need of a bit of modernising. I also really […]

R managed to snap a nice little stag eating a tree just outside his window. We’ve had a few deer in this year, and I hope it means that the population is coming back. I know there are too many deer in Scotland and they have to be culled, but I think they went too […]

We used to have a big patch of wild strawberries in the garden but they died off a few years ago. This week I noticed that a new patch had appeared – and yesterday I collected the first few to have ripened. They were pretty good, but I’ll be honest here (though whispering) not as […]

I made a sort of “montage” work of art for my brother’s birthday which featured a photo of every country he has visited (to date 42). Each country had a corresponding penguin (my brother has a “travel penguin” he carries around the world with him) dressed out to represent its country. I drew the penguins […]

After seeing the physio last week I’ve embarked on proper exercise for my foot. I’m walking pretty fluently indoors now wearing either trainers or sports sandles with no crutch or stick. I can walk ok in my soft soled slippers provided it is on carpets, but our house is largely wooden floors and my foot […]