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| Richard peruses the hotel's information in our room at the excellent Waveney House Hotel in Beccles |
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| View through the dining room window |
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| What shall we have? |
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| Beccles Marina on the River Waveney |
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| Beccles Fen |
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| River Waveney |
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| Waveney House Hotel |
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Monday, 27 October 2014
Beccles 19 October 2014
Our garden in October
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| Our new raised beds needed filling with topsoil so we had 4 cubic meter bags delivered. Of course it all had to be moved from the drive to the back garden... |
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| One bag down, only three to go! |
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| The end result was worth the effort |
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| Richard made a compost bin with the waste from the raised beds topped with a lid made from old bookshelves. Our garden is a windy spot but I don't think this one will blow away - over-engineered or what!? |
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| Another large bag to be emptied! Fortunately the wood store is in easy reach just behind the bag. |
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| Before |
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| and after |
Brighton 3 October 2014
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| Richard enjoys some essential refreshment after an exciting bus trip to the Marina and back |
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| View from the Pier |
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| All that remains of the West Pier |
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| The void under the road had been used as a store for the few remaining fixtures from the West Pier. These have now disappeared and a new development is obliterating all signs of the walkway that used to link the Pier to the seafront. |
Queen Elizabeth visits Cambridge
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| 450 years after her last visit, Queen Elizabeth I returned to Cambridge |
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| The Royal Procession leaving King's College Chapel after Evensong |
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Saturday, 20 September 2014
Open Cambridge 2014
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| Open Cambridge is an annual event when normally private buildings and gardens are open to the public. This is the Senior Combination Room at Sidney Sussex College, where the tour was given by the Head Porter. |
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| The kitchen garden in the Fellows' Garden, Trinity College |
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| The dining hall in Westminster College, one of Cambridge's less well-known Colleges and well worth a visit |
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| A corner of what was the private dining room for the College President |
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| View from the College of the junction of Queens' Road and Madingley Road. When the College was built in 1899 it was on a leafy lane on the outskirts of the city; very different now! The windows may be old but they made a very effective sound barrier. |
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| The library |
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| You don't get plumbing like this nowadays! |
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| One of a series of 12 stained glass windows in the Chapel. My photo doesn't do it justice. |
Our garden in September
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| Giant tomato - 37cm circumference, weight 570g - and all very edible! |
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| A mixed bunch of tomatoes, and more to come |
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| Man at work! The timber sides of our raised beds are rotting so I decided to replace them with some made of recycled plastic. |
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| One down and 6 to go. I think we'll need several cubic meters of topsoil! |
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| The grapes are doing well this year |
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