Thursday.

This morning was such a lovely morning that we decided to cycle to a farm shop where we were meeting friends Dianah and Terry for lunch. Although Suffolk scenery is generally thought to be flat, I can assure you that,from the saddle of a bicycle, it is not so. Perhaps, from the point of view of a Welshman or a Scot, it is fairly even; but from the point of view of a Norfolk fenman (i.e. your blogger), it is distinctly undulating, with quite steep bits. Still, it was a lovely morning for a ride through pleasant Suffolk scenery (see above). When we got to the farm shop at midday we found it was so crowded that Terry and Dianah could find nowhere to park, and as the restaurant was already full we left the cycles there, and went on with Terry and Dianah to another small restaurant about three miles further on where we found a table and all had ploughman's lunches (two cheddar, one brie, and one stilton, and no, I wasn't the stilton, I was one of the Cheddars - although the cheddars turned out to be part cheddar and part double Gloucester, and none the worse for it). Very pleasant lunch accompanied by a pot of tea for three and a coffee. After lunch we pottered round the craft shop and garden shop, where we ran into Craig, (who is coming to help and advise me with this machine tomorrow) then got back in the car, returned to the original (still very crowded) farm shop, and returned home by a slightly different route though the villages. Being called for supper, so will complete this blog later (D.V.)