Autumn, Apples and Sweetcorn

 The weather turned really autumnal here yesterday, although it was sunny up until 4pm when there was a fantastic thunderstorm with rain and hail and the electric went off for an hour.

 

The wind had knocked five of the Charles Ross apples off the minarette trees while I was away so they were quickly peeled and stewed. There are still a couple left and a few eating apples on the Falstaff tree.

My own sown sweetcorn is finally ready for eating - very delicious. I shall eat a cob most days until they've gone, there are only half a dozen and some very small ones. Everything else is definitely finished unless the courgette plant  puts on a late spurt.

After the days away out and about  visiting places I'm going to have a quiet weekend at home. Although I do need to do a shopping trip - I'm fresh vegetables (apart from the sweetcorn) and fresh fruit less, and I need eggs. Plus the bread maker needs to go on and I'd better go and get a few beetroot from BiL's garden.

I'll sort out photos of the the places I visited on the coast ready for posts for next week.

Have a good weekend.

People Said "Have a Holiday". So I did!

 I didn't go far, just an hour to the coast and stayed in a semi-detached lodge. With sea-view from the decking and the sound of the sea with the door open.

And very steep steps down to the beach - I didn't bother to go down. Too much for my dodgy knee I reckoned.

 In 1968 or 69 a small boy in the first year of Grammar school was killed when there was a cliff fall here - it's mainly sand. Not rocky like cliffs in other parts of the country. We were told in school assembly and some of the girls burst into tears and another fainted. 

The site also had tent/caravan/motorhome pitches and some that looked as it they had been parked there all summer or even longer.

I got plenty of Vitamin D, the sun was glorious. The weather is always better on the coast, the air is softer unless there's a North- East wind of course!  although it turned wet a couple of afternoons. I slept well - which proves how disturbed I get by the odd bits of passing traffic at home.

I ate out each day - that was a real treat. It was a good opportunity to visit some of the churches in this bit of Suffolk  and villages I'd not been to for ages. So lots of church posts to come and some posts about  the places I visited too..

A good change of scenery.

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Pakenham Water Mill

 I last visited the water mill a few years ago on a National Mills Day. This Craft Day looked interesting and there was nothing else happening so I went to have a look.

Ladies spinning and weaving

I'd never seen a Bow and Arrow maker at any event before

Stanton Folk were there making music

 

The Owl and Raptor group. Owls are bred bred in captivity so the are used to being out in daytime and being admired

A stick maker had all sorts of interesting walking sticks

West Suffolk Beekeepers had their honey show and a warning that these hornets have been seen in south Suffolk this summer. 

Some photos of the information signs in the mill itself

The Mill Wheel is huge

On special days they fire up the original bread oven and use their own milled flour to make several different loaves for tasting.

The Maslin loaf on the right was lovely. That's what everyone would have eaten in the medieval period when rye, oats and barley were all sown together. 

The Mill's own website is HERE

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