Wednesday and its sunny. So I am on the phone as soon as my GP surgery is open to book my bloods and my 28 day jab appointments for the coming week. That done I get up for breakfast and start the planning for the day. In a fit of very English enthusiasm we decide to visit Amazona the local zoo and education centre. I set about booking and find that we cannot get a time slot till 3:30 in the afternoon. I blame all those holiday makers staycationing. We book for the next day in the afternoon and go for plan B. This is constituted by a quick watch of the Olympics, long enough to see yet another gold come GBs way, and then a long walk down the beach. We set off and make our way to the beach where we don our beach shoes and and head north towards Cromer. The beach is deserted in this direction and as we make our way I become aware of the number of cormorants that are perched on the break waters.
We stride the beach taking pictures as we go. The step counters are ticking away and after a time we turn round adn make the return trip. The beach is quite a curates egg with some areas of soft sand and others with pebble ponds. At the end of our walk we climb back up to the top of the cliffs and make our way back to Sea Lavender where we retreat to the garden with drinks and Magnum ice creams. The garden is alive with butterflys and bees.
The garden is very pleasant and we enjoy the sunshine as we recover from our walk. I’ve been looking for unusual holiday breaks and we chat about possibilities. I’m keen on a writers course I’ve found at a retreat in Yorkshire. We might go for this but diaries need to be checked. There are some things that we are short of so we get shod and take a walk to “1st camp Tesco” on the way to Mundesley. Once in the shop we of course free style and ignore the list and buy spontaneously so we walk away with a strange bag of goodies including a paper with the all important crosswords and puzzles that I can do. The walk back is gentle but it does get me through the 10,0000 steps barrier. Go me. Getting my steps in is important as I am away from my home gym. I would like to avoid putting on too much weight over these weeks of holiday and busy activity. We get back to our holiday house and sit in the garden and drink coffee as we set about todays crosswords and puzzles. Time passes until we both feel peckish and we set about making our dinner. The evening starts sofa bound as I start to draft the blog and confirm tomorrows arrangements. Doubtless the evening will be full of the Olympics and perhaps some postcard writing.
