Murder at Rivenhall

We did a spooky murder mystery with Mcabra Mysteries on Saturday.  A great night was had by all, I hope.

Fungus

I am no expert, but I do like a bit of fungus; not only with my bacon, sausage and eggs.  These are growing at work.  As far as I know, it is Honey Fungus.  Not good to eat and sadly not very good for the trees either.

Hedgerow Port and Hunstanton

A very harsh slap on the back of the hand should be mine for my failure to post anything for such a long time.  But, work, life... always something to do... excuses etc.

So first up, I managed to 'put on' a gallon of Hedgerow Port the other day.  Not really port of course but the resulting brew should have some port - like qualities.

2kg Elderberry
1.5kg Blackberry
1kg Sloe
500g Blackcurrant  (not from the hedge)
500g Rasins
2litres red grape juice

With a high alcohol yeast and some careful step feeding of sugar I hope to push this little lot to around 18% abv

Only downside is it will not even begin to become drinkable for at least two years.

We had a lovely day in Hunstanton last week.  A good walk along the beach and haddock and chips for tea!  What could be better?

Southern Softies C90 run

So the weekend saw the most pathetic motorcycle gang in the world, once more causing havoc.  This time we were in the New Forest holding up traffic and getting in every ones way.

And boy did it rain?  We rode for eight hours and it chucked it down for seven of them.  Saturday night saw more torrential rain and gale force winds so there was no friendly badinage around the camp fire, we all just went to bed.  Typically the sun came out on Sunday as everyone packed up their battered, wet tents and headed for home.

Still great fun though!

Mike and Lucy

Well, they did it!  Mike and Lucy got married at 1pm on Saturday 3rd August.

We are so proud of you both and I am so pleased to welcome Lucy to the family as my daughter in law.  She is all we could ever have wished for.  May you have many, many long years of happiness together.

Everything went brilliantly and I hope everyone had a good time.  The sun even came out for the happy couple.  Hosting a reception for seventy people in your garden is not something to be undertaken lightly but I think we pulled it off.  A big thank you to all those that helped.

I will just put one picture on for now, but there will be more to follow.

A little trip up the river

The other day, I went for a lunch time paddle on the upper part of the River Cam.

C90s go mad in Suffolk

It is that time of year again and a very good weekend was spent holding up the traffic in East Anglia as the C90 Club did their thing.

The weather was cooler than it has been which was probably a good thing since although the bikes will not overheat, the riders can.  We camped just outside Diss and did about 110 miles on Saturday, exploring the beautiful East Anglian countryside.  Fish and chips on Aldeburgh sea front and a few beers around the camp fire in the evening; perfect.

Thanks to Andy for the use of his pictures.

Wedding preperations are well under way.  It seems only yesterday that we suggested having the reception in our garden.  Ten days to go!  So much to do!