Happisburgh Pics........

 

In case you didn't read last week's, I'm on holiday with Hubby, Daughter, O and their dog. We all arrived last Friday afternoon. 

Saturday morning, after a very comfortable night, I was up before 7am however Daughter was already out walking the dog. She came back with this early morning photo of the lighthouse, we can see this from the house we are staying in. 

After breakfast three of us decided to go out, but O declined and stayed in bed. This is Mundesley beach. 

Back for lunch and O was up then. After their five hour drive from Dorchester E and her boyfriendC arrived about 1:30pm.

Our evening meal was at The Lighthouse Inn followed by another three hours of trivial pursuit hahaha, team Daughter and I eventually won! 

 

Sunday had a bit of this 

And this

Then all out to Horsey wind pump. I stayed outside with the dog while they all climbed to the viewing platform at the top of the mill, too many stairs for me anyway and they reported the top bit was just a ladder. 

We went for a lovely but muddy walk before heading back. After dinner, the yummy vegan Shepherd's pie Daughter had made and brought with, O, E and boyfriendC made full use of the games room playing pool and table tennis, staying in there long after we went to bed. 

On Monday Daughter had to drive back to Ipswich for work, she set off about 10am. The weather was really wild wet and windy so we had a very leisurely morning, in fact it was 1pm when I went up to wake O so we could all go out somewhere while it was looking a bit calmer. We just walked locally towards the beach, avoiding the cliff edges as there has been so much coastal erosion here. 

I tried to pick up the lighthouse as a souvenir, but failed. 

We waited for Daughter to get back, about 6:30ish and had a dinner of the previously bought meat pies and vegan pasties with curly fries and carrots. 

Then there was some of this. 

Daughter played a game with E and O at the dining room table. C was on his laptop. Hubby watched a Terminator film and I read my book. 

Tuesday early morning Daughter and Hubby walked the dog. Then when everyone was up we all went to Cromer. 

Obviously not the weather for lunching outside with the dog, so we looked for somewhere suitable while E went into every charity shop but sadly couldn't find anything she wanted to buy,  then we found this place that thankfully serves humans too. 

All had our fill even our dog had sausages from the dog menu. Then a walk along the prom and eventually back to the car park. 

About 4pm E and boyfriendC left as planned for Norwich to spend two days with friends and family there before they have to head back to Dorchester and work. O decided he wasn't finding enough to do here and it would be worse without E so they gave him a lift to Norwich Station and he got the train home, so now there's just three of us here and the dog.

It turned into a reading evening and Daughter had an early night. 

Wednesday Hubby managed to book Daughter's car into a local tyre place as she'd discovered a screw lodged in one of the back ones (they had wondered a few days ago why it had been very slowly going down). So a lovely walk along Happisburgh beach then a very short drive to the tyre place. 

while it was being done we found The Swan Inn at Stalham to have a meal (great fish and chips) then back to collect the car with two new back tyres.

No need for a dinner in the evening so used up some of the fridge stuff. Hubby and Daughter watched the football and I read. 

Thursday woke to a greyer day, I say woke but I'd not slept well at all and Daughter reported not sleeping much either, dunno why.  Hubby and Daughter decided to go for their long dog walk early as the forecast said later was horrid. 

A very empty beach because almost as soon as they got there the rain came quite heavily. Daughter took this photo of the very soggy pair that returned, they were soaked through to their underwear. 

Daughter had planned to leave this afternoon anyway and as the weather wasn't going to encourage Hubby and I to do any more sightseeing I also packed our things and we had lunch here to use the frozen pizzas and then headed home. Only half a day early and we would have needed to be out by 10am anyway so nothing lost really. 

The drive home was mostly in very heavy rain which helped confirm it was the right time to leave. We were also home for our usual Thursday evening YouTube quiz. Had a lovely long phone call from Son, they were both so upset that they missed this holiday, but neither of them were over their covid symptoms, horrid eh? 

Friday of course was all the unpacking, putting stuff away and three machine loads of washing (probably need another two loads to catch up but that can wait so I can make space to get it all dry indoors). 

Till next week then, stay warm.

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