Great Yarmouth Maritime Festival

I haven’t updated my blog in very timely fashion lately so let us rewind a couple of weeks to the Great Yarmouth Maritime Festival. Yarmouth has a lot of ships about and is next to the sea, there’s a lot of things named after Admiral Lord Nelson or with a nautical theme; there’s also a lot of toursists so I suppose it makes sense to have a nice event. It was free to get in but for a pound you got a sticker (which we obviously got, duh). We saw the Mayor out strolling (I think? Either that or they’re just loving the fancy dress..?).

 

There were lots of different tents along the Quay with craft stuff and food and drink.

There were also several groups in different tents singing sea shanties which I think Kim thought was pretty funny.

A huge restored ship came too from Sweden called the Götheborg and you could pay to go on it which we did.

They had a blacksmith making nails outside in the old fashioned way and all the nails in the ship were made like this because they’d tried to restore it using old fashioned techniques.

I think the front of it could have looked a bit more piratey though, I think the lion kind of looks like a dog begging for treats… but that’s just me.

We got lucky with the weather, it looked like it was about to rain all day.

So that was all jolly nice. That week we also did a nice beach walk from Gorleston.

It was pretty windy but really nice because we wrapped up.

I took some Earl Grey too and rations (fyi – the rock they’re on looks just like my old kitchen counter).

And we walked to Hopton on Sea and back and got to be nosey and look at everyone’s luxury holiday caravans.

Living it up Great Yarmouth Style!

Hello Fresh 2

A few posts back I posted our Hello Fresh meals we got, the next week we got another batch because I… stupidly forgot to cancel my order… doh.

We had some really nice recipes again, although they all needed a lot of ingredients we wouldn’t usually have.

The veggie burger was lovely though, yum yum yum. Look how big it was!

The only bad thing was the a ciabatta that came with one if the recipes had mould on it! We rang up to complain and they refunded us £5 (gee big spenders…).

  And that’s all, I have now cancelled the subscription because I am destitute thanks to my poor ill car who has been mended at great cost 😦

Sandringham

I’ve been a bit slovenly in updating my blog lately because I’ve been busy with my new job (which is going very nicely so far). The other weekend Kim’s parent’s very kindly paid for us to visit Sandringham for Kimberly’s birthday.

The gardens were so pretty and we had a very nice walk around the grounds.

The house itself was limited to the rooms you could look round but I’ll tell you one thing… the queen has a lot of knick knacks. There was tat everywhere, it might be gifts from foreign leaders etc but there was still clutter on every surface.

Then we had afternoon tea with earl grey (lussshh) and lemon.

And little crustless sandwiches (one doesn’t care for crusts!)

And a little assortment of cakes. It was all very tasty but I would have liked a regular sized scone 😦 I love clotted cream.

Luckily we missed most of the rain and goldie (the car) made it back safely. She’s got to go in for expensive work tomorrow 😦 wah