The Fens

So, now I'm going back a couple of weeks to our trip down towards the south east. I needed to go to Cambridge to do a talk about the book for some very lovely young women at Cambridge Rape Crisis. Being a coward I insisted my entire pack came with me, so we booked a weekend away at chapel lodge, near Wisbech (that's it, above, another converted chapel, just like in Durham in July) and I left Annie and Millie at the holiday home, whilst I went to talk on the Saturday (www.chapellodgeholidays.com).

First of all though, we drove down on the Friday, through parts of the country I don't get to very often (and yet, they named a petrol station for me!) , and detoured a little to take in Bourne Wood and Deeping Saint James, which is my Dad's Mum's part of the country.

We only drove though, though we did stop for a run in the woods, which you can see that Millie enjoyed (note the muddy feet!) and I was very happy to think of a part of my ancestry living in this charmingly chocolate-box place called Deeping ...

The Saturday event in Cambridge went as well as possible, so far as I could tell and hopefully the group will get a lot more support from the publicity they worked hard to generate (www.cambridgerapecrisis.co.uk). Afterwards Annie, Millie and I had a lovely quiet evening, eating, drinking wine (ok, not Mill) and watching dvds. Then, on the Sunday we had a day of pure vacation and headed off to the coast in Norfolk, and a beach in Hunstanton. We made two stops there, one for Millie and I to scamper about a bit (ok, I walked) and one for all of us to look at the cliff tops and the lighthouse plus St Edmund's Chapel. Look at that for photographic composition, a dog a lovely lass, a lighthouse and a chapel ruin, all in one! lol

And - that lighthouse is FOR SALE! Imagine .

We decided to drive around Norfolk some more after this and Millie always likes to make sure the car keeps on the road, by taking a turn in charge - she knows my skills are pretty limited you see.

Next stop was Brancaster beach, for some more walk/scampering and then we found Bircham windmill! Isn't that a fine sight. You can see that it's September in these pictures, already the light is not truly summery, but we did have a memorable time down there, looking around and seeing some different places.