Tuesday

 Good morning, everyone,  It was a wet old day yesterday, rather more than the 'light rain and a gentle breeze'.  To be fair, they got the second bit right but rather underestimated the first bit.  Nice for ducks and seagulls!

So, yesterday, I got my early shopping done, just as the rain started, very light and intermittent.  The drive to Framlingham was pretty easy - it's not at all a difficult route.  I was very glad I had my waterproof with me though, as the rain got harder and more persistent.  I walked the walls, grateful that the wind was only light, looked at the exhibition, had a very welcome cup of coffee with my breakfast fruit, visited the nearby church and strolled around the streets.
The drive back was certainty a fair bit damper than the drive there!

Turning 360 degrees smoothly is a lot harder than you would think.
Again, thanks to Eileen and others who suggested uploading videos to YouTube first.  As you can see, it worked and it's definitely a Good Thing to know.  I wonder why Blogger wouldn't recognise my videos though; YouTube had no problems with them.
Next step is to start learning how to edit - but not this week!

After lunch, I decided to brave the rain and stroll around.  I went to the little Southwold Museum to see if it was open and it was so I spent a good half an hour in there before crossing the road to St Edmund's church.  I had a good nosey round but saw that on Thursday afternoon there's a free guided tour so I'll be going back then.

Poor old St Ed - I don't know if you can see but he's stuck up there, all tied up and awaiting his fate

Cromwell was a right philistine - these are what would be beautiful pictures of various Saints, angels, prophets, etc, on the rood screen except that all their faces have been destroyed by Parliamentary soldiers as they followed their orders to destroy anything that smacked of 'popery'.  What awful destruction of something that must have been loved and beautiful of its kind.

I know it sounds awful but I had to smile - poor old Ed again, this time all shot through with arrows and looking remarkably unbothered by it all.

More seriously, I'm looking forward to the guided tour on Thursday.  It's a very interesting church.

I had intended to walk to the pier but it really was rather wet so I came back to Rest Cottage instead and engaged in an online 'conversation' with my friend, Val.  She and Mike are in Southwold today, visiting a couple of friends (who I know but not very well) but we came to the conclusion that they just wouldn't have time to meet up with me as well, which is fair enough.
However, she contacted Sutton Hoo and has booked there for the same time as me tomorrow, bless her, so we will meet up at the entrance.  Isn't that lovely?
Val obviously enjoys driving distance a lot more than I do.  :-)

Today is a 'home' day.  It's more or less half way through the holiday now or will be by this evening.  You know how you bustle around, doing lots of interesting things and then, about half way through, you have as 'weary day' before you perk up again?  I think today will be that day so I'm staying local.

I'm going to take some time to chill this morning, wash my hair, do a bit of tidying up, and so on.
Then another walk to the harbour, perhaps, or along the pier and around that end.  Early evening, I will be driving to Kessingland to the SW group there - because it's there!!  It's a very straightforward journey, not too far and YouTube Street View even shows the SW poster outside the church centre.

Are you having a good week?  Did you have rain yesterday or was it more local?  Take care and have a great day.  xx