This evening we decided it was time to go back to The Peldon Rose, on Mersea Road, a few miles out of Colchester and close to Mersea Island. We hadn’t been there since about 1987, and as it is only about 5 miles up the road, long overdue. Memories of that earlier visit were very [...]
It was a lovely day today, and between us we managed to fit in a 26-mile cycle ride, the weekly shop in Sainsbury’s, a trip to a garden centre, a couple of hours in the garden, a couple of hours on the allotment, and a trip to the pub for a meal. I’ll mention the [...]
Last year we were part of the crowd in Colchester to watch the Tour Series cycle race as it did lots of circuits around a tight town centre loop. It was excellent – a real carnival atmosphere and every one really enjoyed the experience (although there -were- plenty of local people who were happy to [...]
We wanted to make the most of the spring sunshine today, and so decided to visit Ickworth House www.nationaltrust.org,uk which is just outside Bury St Edmunds . Instead of taking the main roads we drove through the countryside. The route took us through Sudbury and then past the turning for Long Melford. which is a lovely village [...]
The CAMRA Good Beer Guide iPhone ‘app’ led me to the Dove Street Inn in Ipswich yesterday. I’d downloaded it a couple of days previously, and used it to identify somewhere in central Ipswich to drink, knowing that I would be in need of a drink at the end of a day that saw me [...]
It wasn’t the greatest Easter weekend, weather-wise, and we spent a lot of it on the allotment, getting it ready for the year. We’ve now got some strawberry plants in, some sprout seedlings, sown some carrots and parsnips, and have the beds ready for a lot of stuff currently in the greenhouse. We did brave [...]
Even though we live very near to Beth Chatto’s garden www.bethchatto.co.uk which is in Elmstead Market, I have only visited once and that was many years ago.
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