Wednesday.

This morning we ( the three of  us,  i.e. Ann, meself, and  Freja)  motored over to Sudbury to do a little  shopping.  We  drove back via Lavenham, as Freja has never had a good look  round the place. She was very impressed !  We stopped off at Lavenham Church, and had a good poke round the place. It has everything!  carved wood, misericords, stained glass, etc.   We had lunch at a pub nearly opposite the church - a little nearer the town centre though. It was an excellent lunch  and not nearly as expensive as I'd thought it was going to be.  Showed Freja the town, and rather impressed her by standing in the market place, outside the Guild  hall, and telling her that if she now looked round her, every building she could see was standing at the time of the  wars of the roses. Everyone who  visits Lavenham is shown and told this, and I believe it to be  more   or  less true.

We then drove home via the villages, making a detour to show Freja St. James's Chapel (above).  It is  a  tiny thatched church  - no seating and an earth floor. It dates from the 1200s, and I believe one service per year is still held there (I think to keep it in commission as a Church). It was built originally to serve nearby Kersey Castle. There is even less  of  the castle left than the church (traces of the castle mound).  Freja was, I think, very impressed by it. It is very easy to  imagine what life in a Suffolk village must have been like in the 1200s - primitive! I should think.