Sunday.

Yesterday (Saturday) we decided to motor over to Mistley for lunch. We called in at a Garden Centre on the way  (part of the grounds shown above) and bought three plants for the garden.

We then drove on to the dribbling swan (above). The sick (?) swan is of iron and looks rather Victorian.  The impressive terrace of cottages behind the swan backs on to Mistley Quay. We lunched in the warehouse looking building to the extreme left of the photo. It has a small restaurant on the upper floor, which looks out over the estuary to Suffolk. We had our usual good lunch there, but were told that the restaurant is going to close and move some miles south and west. This  distance will then probably be outside our lunch range. Pity.

Drove over to Flatford Mill, where we saw the above Bull nosed Morris. Talked to it's owner who had just driven it there to a rally. Ann wanted to include the owner in the photo, but being a chap (and therefore rather modest and retiring as we chaps tend to be) he declined gracefully, but said that we were very welcome to photograph the equipage, which we did.

Photographed the above Tudor farmhouse just the Essex side of the border.

Took the photo of a medieval manor house somewhere near East Bergholt, when it had just started to rain. A couple of miles later the rain had turned to SLEET. What a daft long winter and spring this has been.
Woke this morning to a hard white frost and a bright, clear blue, sky!!!!

                                           I wish  my readers   a very  Good Night.