This is travelling UK style - trip to Norfolk and Suffolk

Sorry so far behind - must catch up on the last couple of months.

So after returning from Somerset with Sarah, I took off with Robert on a driving tour of Norfolk and Suffolk.  I made him pose for many embarrassing photos.  Luckily he is a ham of the old school and didn't mind.

Here he is enjoying a ham sarnie (sandwich) and a hot drink (coffee) sitting on the boot (trunk) of the car.  We are just about to get to Ely which is a cathedral city with the most amazing Norman church.  holy cow.

 Good Jam haul from the village fete.  It was very fun; there was lots of junk for sale, a tambola, funny games, and tea and cakes in the church.

Proper village fete.

Time to set off back to the big smoke but one more picture of Sarah and her Mum in front of the cottage.

Wells Cathedral

Part of August Bank Holiday weekend trip to Somerset was a quick whip around the ground of Wells Cathedral. Which as frequeently turns out, is a pretty interesting place with a ton of history - smack in the middle of rural England.  The present cathedral was begun in 1175 on the sight of a much earlier Saxon church from about 705.  the 1175 church was the first English Church to be built in the French Gothic style.

The adjacent Bishop's House is surrounded by a moat with swans - who apparently can ring a bell for their supper.  Now these swans also apparently feature in the film Hot Fuzz. So this post gives you both historical facts and  movie trailor what more could you want?

swans (not ringing the bell)

Somerset with Sarah

Leaving merry olde southe London behind, we set off on our August Bank Holiday trip.  Sarah has agreed to drive and I have agreed to passenger (!).  We are headed to Somerset, specifically a little village (actually the second largest village in Somerset) called Everchreech known as Evrecriz in the Doomsday Book.  My goodness my parents live in a a place that was dredged from the sea in the 20th Century and this place dates back to before the Doomsday Book which was 1086. 

Pfffft - Stonehenge?! We have Woodhenge

Here I am centred on the ley lines.  Despite being bank holiday weekend it was cold.

On our trip to Somerset Sarah took me to Woodhenge - a timber circle 2 miles from Stonehenge.  It was discovered in the 1920s from an aerial photograph.

June and Roger celebrate summer

 June embraces the summer (needless to say it was cold and windy and looked like rain).  We had just had a nice lunch at the marina were they keep their boat.

Roger points out France.

July garden

 Next update on the garden. This is the 3 July BBQ.  Adam as usual is supplying scale.  Its really flourishing. I have been spending a lot of time out there, when its sunny. When I move back to SF I'll need a garden of some sort.

Jen relaxes and the garden entertains

Bob and Jen came again to visit this summer.  You know I am obsessed with my garden this year.  Well, Jen and Bob approved!  Here's a beautiful picture of relaxing Jen taken by Bob.

We had a lot of fun in the garden this summer.