AYLSHAM, Norfolk

Sunday, the first full day of our holiday we usually take it easy and have a look at the local area.

Aylsham was just over a mile away from our so peaceful cottage.

It is Sunday morning and most places are closed so we are just having a wander round and posting a few photos randomly.

The local Anglian church

The old Bank

The old water pump

A great reflection from the other side of the street behind me

There are people sitting outside this pub having a drink

The Market Square

a parking place when non market days

A bus stop

I'm not sure what I was looking at!

I like these decorative frames outside the shop

Well it's back to the cottage for lunch before a trip to Holt this afternoon (next post)

Holiday Cottage in North Norfolk

Well let's start holiday postings where we began, and that was our cottage. Only two and a half hours from home and such a quiet and peaceful place.

We arrived late afternoon having made various stops on the way. We were only just over a mile from the small market town of Aylsham where we could stock up on anything we wanted, yet in a place of complete silence and stillness. 

The river opposite was a constant source of interest as Swans and Geese and many birds came to visit.

One evening a lone fisherman sat fishing for Trout.

View from the sitting room

and my bedroom

Mother Swan became nervous if I ventured too close and it is fascinating to see how she herded her signets away driving them into formation

watching them from the rear

Then came the Geese who could easily be coaxed out of the river if they knew they were going to be fed

They were still a little nervous though as some kept watch while others pecked away at the seed I had supplied them with

This cottage had everything one could need and more and was very modern and comfortable without losing it's 17th century cosiness. 

Notice the beautiful handmade Afghan rug

We were very blessed with warm sunny weather for October so never needed to light the log burner (shame!)

as there were storage heaters in all the other rooms.

My bathroom had this wonderful antique dresser, the kind that would have held a large china jug and bowl in centuries past

I just loved the idea of having all my toiletries, make-up, and bits and pieces right where I needed them.

There were blue tooth radios in every room so having my favourite Classics on Classic FM was a bonus.  

On arriving back to the cottage early one evening I just sat by the river listening to the sound of silence

on this old rustic bench

with the cottage behind us

The hospitality was good too. 

We were greeted with a bowl of fruit, fabulous cookies, bottle of wine, milk and a pack of my favourite 'Taylors of Harrogate' filter coffee.

Not to mention a 6ft wide bed to myself with a memory foam mattress topping and Egyptian cotton bedding.

I guess you got the message - I loved this cottage.

To come - lots of photos from some of the many good places to visit nearby.

Life, Holiday and Everything Else In Between!

It's over a month since my last post and I have been trying to rectify that but as we know sometimes life just takes over!

Apart from being busy with so much going on, (both good and bad) we have recently returned from a very peaceful and relaxing holiday. Nearly 600 photos for a week (it's OK I will not be posting them all, but will be posting some of course!). 

A lot of my IT/Computer time has been taken  up with my I-pad. Having had my computer wiped last year I was devastated to have the same thing happen to my I-pad the day before my holiday.

This all happened because I wanted to transfer my music library (which I had taken a year to upload again since the wipe-out) onto my tablet to take away with me. I-Tunes would not allow me to do it until I  upgraded to I.O.S. 9 from 8. In trying to do this it would not accept my password and user name and because one is only allowed an allotted number of tries my tablet was disabled by Apple. 

I was horrified to learn from the Apple store that the only solution (because of security) was to have it wiped clean and taken back to factory settings. I was horrified. Added to that the i-pad was not backed up in the Cloud. I had not known that one had to set the tablet to do this.

Having taken almost a year to get my computer back to where it was I was ready to throw the whole thing out of the window!! Like with all of these things I did not know exactly what I had lost until I came to use things.

The biggest loss was around 5,000 photos. Some of these photos were on my computer but not all and the hardest thing to accept was all the videos of my Grand children. Those golden moments when one just had the i-pad to hand and starts shooting! The 1,000 songs did not matter as I had just finished loading onto my computer from C.D.'s.

Apps can be downloaded from the Cloud as they automatically stay there (there were 45 in all) but all had to be re-registered etc. One of my favourite Apps, the Glo Bible, for which I paid £25, will not allow me in except for the basic Bible text therefore not being able to access the thousands of Biblical photos, interactive tours, maps and videos, even though I have it on my computer. Fortunately my documents are still in the Pages App. I am not talking about games apps by the way but useful things like Maps, Kindle, Google Earth, Facetime, Calender, Weather, radio, etc. etc. etc.

At the same time I had a very genuine looking E-mail from my provider telling me that my mobile phone was to be cut off the following day because of not being able to process  my payments. It turned out to be a dangerous Spam trying to get all my bank and security details. 

All this after a neighbour crashed their car backwards into the front of my house before abandoning it! 

Well I am sure that You have had enough of this so I will end on a pleasanter note by posting the following pictures of the October roses that greeted us on return from holiday.

This bush was over 7 feet high!

Back soon with holiday pics