This bank holiday weekend, the Poppyline steam railway will be having a special guest arrive for all the family to enjoy. The locomotive is a replica built in 2006 and is on loan from the Beamish Museum. The original locomotive still survives and can be found in the science museum.
April 2011 was one off the warmest and dryest for many years. On the 29th this year, these pictures of Cromer pier were taken as gale force winds were battering the coast. What a difference to the 29th last year when Prince William and Kate Middleton were married.
April 2012
April 2011
The Norfolk and Norwich Festival is a celebration of creativity, innovation, beauty and diversity with jazz, classical music, comedy and dance.
It takes place between 11-26th May, something for everyone.
The Old Vicarage is a remarkable garden designed by it’s owners Alan Gray & Grayham Robeson. The vicarage was bought in 1973 with no garden at all, now it has been transformed into many individual gardens including exotic, mediterranean, vegetable, sunken garden, woodland gardens, borders and wild flower areas.
It is located on the Norfolk coast but is sheltered from the winds by dense hedges and planting, enabling unusual and tender plants to grow.
A lovely afernoon was spent strolling round the grounds with the family, finishing the afternoon with tea and cakes at the cafe.
Just a few weeks left to stroll the Abbey grounds and admire the spectacular display of snowdrops, set in almost 20 acres of woodland. Walsingham Abbey is famous for its medieval priory and as a place of religious pilgrimage.
The Norfolk Riddle restaurant is just a few minutes walk from the Abbey grounds and museum, serving delicious locally sourced food.
On a chilly but beautiful sunny morning this week, while out walking with the family, we came across a pair of whooper swans swimming on Wolterton Hall lake.
Locals and visitors alike flocked to Cromer to watch the 2012 new year’s day firework display on Cromer pier. The evening was warm and the tide was out, children were playing on the beach in the dark, people sat at candle lit tables outside their beach huts. Since the first fireworks display on new year’s day 2000 it has become a hugely successful annual event . The north Norfolk beach runners organized a run along the promenade for all ages, fancy dress optional. A torch lit procession left Cromer church at 4.30 to arrive at the pier for the count down at 5 pm for the fireworks to start.
A large gathering watched the boxing day swim at Overstrand, this year being an exceptionally warm day. About thirty people braved the water and money raised from the event was donated to the millenium group for the play ground.
While enjoying a walk from Overstrand to Cromer we came across a very inquisitive seal. Watching him for about twenty minutes coming back and forth to the shore line, and disappearing just after we left. Seals are often spotted along the north Norfolk coast, you can take a boat trip to Blakeney Point between April and October, to visit them in their natural environment. Grey & common seals can be seen basking on the sandbanks. Beans boats will take you from Morston or Blakeney Quay. Blakeney point is also famous for its bird life, a variety of terns can be seen in the summer months & during the winter large numbers of geese, ducks and teal. The National Trust took over the point and it is now an international breeding ground.
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