Our last full day of this year’s holiday and Alfie is zonked out!
His last beach has been explored – until the next year anyway. He’ll have to make do with the park again.
We did our best things today after a visit to the farm shop for more apple juice and the usual bits and pieces. Probably expensive but nice. Then off to the south beach at Heacham. As we parked some ponies came down the lane, harnessed to traps.
We wanted to see if we could find the boat that our friend Sue used to stay on as a little girl, when her family owned it. The Wild Duck – see the featured header image. Certainly the smartest boat there.
After the beach we drove to our old favourite – Brancaster Staithe – for the usual pot of cockles – the last of the day apparently, so we were lucky.
No visit to Brancaster would be complete without a glimpse of the Egret…
… along with the Grey Plover and the Curlew…
… and of course the various boats still there at anchor.
The weak sun today provided us with nice reflections.
We noticed that the old mussels cleaner was out and before we left a bunch of people came over and started it up. If you click on the second pic you’ll see the mussels on the fork.
These are different people that we usually see and they seemed a little amateurish and some of them inappropriately dressed for the job!
Our last day was topped off with an Italian ice cream (chocolate, blackberry and lime) in Hunstanton!
Adventures with Bessie & Madge 
That’s a super picture of The Wild Duck. Glad you finally found its location. I am just so happy to see it is still in excellent condition, having been refurbished by its current owners, and can now be enjoyed as a holiday let. It’s on my bucket list! Think i told you i sent the current owners the family photos i had from the mid 1950s – the ones i showed you in fact. Such happy holiday memories.
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Glad you like it!
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Seems like a lovely way to finish off the holiday. Happy days. Sorry to be a pain but I’m in marking mode at the moment so “week sun” is grabbing my attention! Here’s a challenge for you both – choose one photograph from your blog that will always remind you of this holiday the most. I’ve got one in mind, I wonder if either of you will choose the same one!
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Corrected sir! Only excuse is it was late. I’ve often found others that we’ve both missed and am always glad to know so I can correct. Challenge accepted and we’ll have a look. Enjoy half term.
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PS. You missed a really bad mis-spelling! I’ve just corrected it myself but I had written ‘muscle’ instead of ‘mussel’!
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OK Sean. We’ve both had a think. Mine is the header pic of Ken backing up his tractor and Dad’s is the one of the leafy walk in Richmond along the old LNER line with Alfie looking back at us. That last was nearly mine as well. We really loved Richmond.
So what’s yours?
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I love the reflections in some of these photos.
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Yes, some of them look very underdressed to be using the mussels cleaner – I’d say no wellies looks like a big mistake!
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I’d noticed the spelling mistake – looking for muscles on the workers!
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I must have been feeling tired Sue!
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