Yesterday late after noon drove over to our local farm shop, bought several bits including a bowl of daffs for Hilary. Drove home via the villages and took the photos as the sun was setting (around 5 p.m.)
Tiny cottage (for sale), chocolate box pretty, but, I should think, claustrophobicly small inside.
Thatched small farmhouse in its fields.
Took this from the Churchyard, looking down on and along Kersey village street.
The porch of Kersey Church.
Today at about 1p.m. twenty three of us sat down to Hilary's birthday lunch (her birthday is on Monday). The catering was done by our mutual friends Ros and Simon Cook (very apt surname too). They gave us cottage pie, followed by trifle, puddings (various), a cheeseboard, and coffee. We were seated at table in three of the ground floor rooms of Hilary's medieval townhouse. Conversation was general, loud and very entertaining. The great thing about small town life is that everybody knows everybody else. At one point Ros (the caterer) who'd been telling some of the ladies about her eldest son (who's at university and a bit of a character) called out to me "You know my eldest, Mike. Wouldn't you say he's got the makings of an eccentric?". To which honesty compelled me to reply "I'd say, for your family he's about average eccentric, Ros, yes. But a thoroughly good chap". "Thanks Mike...... I think." The party broke up at about quarter to four. Spent the evening beside the fire Knitting (Ann) and doing the Telegraph Prize Crossword (meself, with occasional suggestions from Ann).
Should add that last night was very cold. We were told that a temperature of minus twelve degrees was recorded in town. This morning the downstairs cold water taps ran dry. Consulted a heating engineer (by 'phone) who said he thought a pipe must be frozen, but advised against doing anything except turning the heat up a little; and indeed, this evening the system seems to have righted itself without damage. The central heating goes off overnight, but will make sure there's heat tonight.
Goodnight All.
3 comments:
Looking very crisp and even and also very cold.
Here it's only -1 C.
That looks like a bit of a hill - in Norfolk?
Well actually Pat, we're in South Suffolk, and we do have small undulating hills in Suffolk. Kersey Church is on a hill just outside the village. Should stress though - not the sort of dramatic hill that you have in the west country.
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