Wind & Rain/Martham

And here is a fairly lengthy field recording I made of the wind and rain from the bathroom of our holiday let - headphones recommended:

A last walk around Martham

Friday, October 1, 2021

Our last day in Martham before we return home was a chilled one, spent meandering around the river near our holiday letter. A beautiful, chilled day to end our vacation.

Me meditating (photo by my daughter, Amber)

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I will miss this place...

Norwich Market Chill-Zone

I am happy to report that I passed this covid-anxiety test - negotiating the busy labyrinthine stalls of Norwich Market, purchasing food there and eating it in the public square. 

😊 

And if you want to experience more of the ambience of Norwich Market or, more specifically, the chill-zone overlooking the market, don a pair of your finest headphones and have a listen to this little 6 minute field recording I made at the time of taking the above photographs:

Brick pile, Martham

Old Bill-board, Norwich

 

19th Century Graffitti ~ Norwich Cathedral

 

Dippy in Norwich Cathedral

I really could not visit Norwich without taking the opportunity afforded to me to see Dippy the dinosaur, which is currently being exhibited in the city cathedral.  There seems something very ironic about seeing a dinosaur being celebrated in a place of Christian worship though...

After way too long of a gap, I have finally started field recording again. As before, you will need to use a pair of decent quality headphones to really appreciate the audio in the video below:

Sleeping Cat - Norwich

Atlas V

August 27, 2021 

A strange light appeared in the sky tonight as we drove along the quiet country lanes on the Norfolk Broads.

A strange light in the night-time sky over Norfolk

So unfamiliar was its appearance that talk within the car naturally turned to UFOs, the conversation fuelled by Twitter, which was ablaze with talk and images of the object (or similar objects) that had been spotted right across Britain and Europe. What the hell was going on?

Well, it was not too long before the flurry of Twitter micro-conversations, which conjectured an alien invasion (it is 2021, after all, where people are prepared for almost anything to happen) became interspersed with the occasion factual tweet. Apparently, this wasn't the commencement of a war of the worlds scenario but was, in fact, the Atlas V rocket, launched from California to deliver the Landsat-9 into space. A little after 10pm (UK time), the rocket undertook a de-orbit burn over Europe, which jettisons and destroys the lower stages of the rocket to help prevent the build up of unnecessary space debris. Being so high in the sky, the gases involved in this manoeuvre were illuminated by the sun, despite it being dark here in Europe.

Perhaps not quite so exciting as visitors from another planet, this was still a fairly rare and exhilarating sighting in UK skies and we were all excited by the unusual event.

Twilight on the Broads

 

Martham, Norfolk Broads

Norfolk Holiday - a particularly cool close to the day

 I thought this crow brought a particularly cool close to my third day on the Norfolk Broads:

Norfolk Holiday - a London cat in Norfolk

I met this little guy on the Norfolk Broads today. Apparently, he was a feral cat living on the streets of London before someone brought him here:

 

Norfolk Holiday - Deer

 

Norfolk Holiday - Martham

Norfolk Holiday - Monica