WELLS NEXT THE SEA

Have visited Norfolk but not been here, looks delightful, another beautiful set of photos Tet...so very quiet too.

Well to be truthful I think the impending downpour (which was horrendous!) put most people firmly in the town...we just managed to miss the rain.

these are fabulous pictures tet!
lovely light and sky.

The colours were totally stunning..pictures not good enough really...the thunderous sky just seemed to highlight the jewel colours of sand and sea...just like jade set in a gold necklace..It was one of the most beautiful memories of Norfolk I have.

a beautiful memory of anywhere!! i can see the jewel colours, its fabulous

Its actually quite a holiday hotspot for the locals I gather..Im not really surprised. Glad you enjoyed the pics.

it looks as though its not so far from where my mum was born.

Right on the Wash. I always thought it was a dull and miserable looking place with a name like that, how wrong can you be??

king john's treasure is buried there isnt it??

thats probly why the sand and sea are so beautiful, the treasure melted and coloured the place!

Aaaahhhh! The romantic poet Tet has returned!

What a lovely idea!

Lovely brooding sky! Norfolk is a mine of little gems like this.

Anyone thinking of swimming in the sea there should be aware that the river in the centre, that can be seen on one of these pictures, is very dangerous when the tide is coming in or going out.

Lovely pictures Tet,

we visit 2 or 3 times a year, crabbing with lines off the wharf since the kids where little, magic.
Youve certainly captured its essence Tety & it's a must to get a tub of seafood from the vendor in the carpark on the wharf.
Those narrow but delightful roads leading in & out Wells take you through some special quiet little villages dont they? It has something quite rare Im sure you'll agree.

Have you been to Watlington, just a few miles south of Kings Lynn either of you?

We had some seafood Bampy, my friend had jellied eels..NOT my favourite food, but the shrimps and crab were good. And yes we motored through the little villages and stopped on the way at a Fish & Chip place all by itself..flying the Scottish flag! Great F&C!
No Sticki, missed it because we were trying to get to the middle of Castle Rising village after visiting the Castle. Eventually got there but then ran out of time for the rest lol!

its only tiny, i dont think there is much there at all. its where my mum was born!!!

Its lovely around there, been many a time, it looks very stormy on some pics, you were lucky to not get caught out.
Great photo`s Tetra...

looks fab Tetra, glad you enjoyed your break to, lovely pics :o))

some lovely colours there, fabbo

Wonderful photos.

The skies in Norfolk are called the 'Big Blue Skies' Wells is a lovely little place especially in the winter there's nothing we like more than a walk through the pine trees coming out at the top end with the sea in front and the sun setting, the colours are amazing .
Blakeny is a little further along the coast where you are able to go out to Blakeny point to see the seals , we had a shock this morning in the newspaper it seems that '' they '' whoever 'they ' are , are planning on putting a cordon round these designated areas , Blakeny / Cley and some others along that part of the coast in which case people will no longer be able to visit them it will stop tourism also peoples livelihoods fishing etc. apparently it is so that they can be observed by the wild life folk .. I'm sure there's going to be some kind of fight back going on here ........

surely they need the money from tourism??? doesnt make sense to me;

i love those 'big skies' suffolk has them too; we may go to live there one day!!!????

fantastic set of photo's Tet

oh good afternoon yorkshire!

i agree they are fantastic, wish i could paint!

good afternoon sticki

is it sunny up north?

what's sunny mean, see you have your funny head on again today,

i havent got another one.

haha very amusing, as per the weather its shit, rained all day yesterday, half day today, and very cold, can't do a thing in the garden, leafs need hoovering up again but just far to wet, whats it like down your end,

dull, humid, grey and drizzly ~ not much better!!!

but scotland had sun so i thought you might have had better!!

no sun, a long way from scotland my dear,

but nearer than i am!!

yes I agree with you there dear, are you o.k. by the way.

ok, yes thanks, are you?
i was in london on sunday ~ visited oldest son ~ had a nice time.

I have just had argument with my son, guess who won,

hmmmm now let me think

this is a tough one

can i ask a friend

oh i think it could just possibly be you?

correct, your right, me dear, and all over Skype. lol

Lovely photos Tet. Love the shots of that 'moody' sky

better than being on facebook yorkshire

i wouldnt even attempt to argue with my oldest son ~ even as a youngster, we didnt debate ~ I just told him!! after that he would have won!!!

You two at it again?? Cant leave you alone for 5 mins before the fur starts flying!!!
Blimey cant believe all these comments, thanks a bunch girls and boys..weather MUST be bad!lol!
It was touch and go Lincslass..just made it back to the car!
Amy, thats terrible..places shouldnt be roped off to please one small section of the public..thats really not fair! I'll sign a petition...let me at 'em!
Sticki I really wish I could have painted this, might have a go one day when I have the time, tho I doubt I will measure up to you Sandra, we did enjoy our visit.
Bye the way, all you Norfolk bunnies, I actually climbed up to the highest point allowed at Castle Rising and walked all around the earth ramparts..wasnt I brave? (and knacked afterwards lol)

It looks lovely Tetrarch:)

OH has been here, he says its lovely, he wants to go back. Im putting this on my favourites, I just love the light in your photos.

We went on holiday to Norfolk this year Tetrarch and we fell in love with it, especially its coast where we actually saw some seals swimming along the shoreline at Winterton-on-Sea. Your photos are smashing, especially the second one with the angry looking sky, very atmospheric. :o)

Well done for climbing Castle Rising Tet ,have you recovered yet ? the trouble is Tet these people who lay down these rules about our coast line etc never live in these places themselves so they don't care if it upsets peoples lives .
My OH went to a Boarding school near Winterton-on-Sea Labdancer he said there aways use to be snakes in the sand dunes - Yuk !

These islands always amaze me. We have travelled, like most of us I guess, over a great part of it. I still find it hard to believe that there are 65 million people, dozens of concrete jungles, but so much beauty, variety and history.
The only 3 things I can think of that we dont have (thank goodness)..an active volcano, a desert, and a monsoon season! I often find myself thinking thank goodness I was born British.

I often think that Tet ! it's a shame they can't get it organised properly bring the Great back into it .........

Yup, glad to be British AND have a temperate climate! But stop wishing you could paint Tet . . . you're an artist with the camera . . . really beautiful photos. Thanks so much for showing us. :))

For desert read beach, or possibly M25 - takes as long to get across it and not an oasis in sight
For volcano read hills, mountains, November 5th
For monsoon read British summer

There you are we have it all!

Fantastic photos!!

I used to tip the kids off the edge of Castle Rising earth ramparts Tety & watch them roll all the way down ( steep are'nt they ) ahhhhh !! the fun we had LOL :-)) they insisted on this game btw !!

Goodness, those were the days when we had rubber bones..done a few of those rolls elsewhere many, many moons ago lol!

LOL I remember those days and leap frogging our knees buckling under us all the way down .. My knee still hurts .. :o) Castle acre is our grandchildrens favourite near Swaffham , you must visit there next time when in Norfolk .....

Put it on my list Amy! Thank you.

I used to gig at a pub in Magdelan right next to Watlington Sticki, small world as they say !

Bampy, is there anything you HAVEN'T done?? ..No..dont answer that...or if you do be very careful..........lol!

how strange is that!!!! mind you i cannot imagine my mum at a gig so i very much doubt she would have been there and anyway you are too young ~ she moved from there a very long time ago.

it was a one night only Sticki, nice crowd drunk n loud !!
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Insatiable thirst for knowledge Tety! the whole family through the generations are creative/musical/inventive etc etc
I cant sing & I cannot do maths, married a maths teacher & I write songs & play guitar, hmmmm??? must try harder ;-))

You must try Gilbert & Sullivan Bampy, more saying than singing...and totally hilarious! Music is another form of mathematics, so you are a specialist in your field lol!

takes a deep breath - - -Behold the Lord high executioner, a personage of noble rank & title - - - - - - - - - - -tum tee tum tee tum ( forgot next bit)

taken to the county jail,
on a set of curios stances,
liberated then on bail,
on one's own recognances,
did you ever hear such a tale?
wafted by a favouring gale - - -& I need to re-think a few years back to school music classes ( of which I hated ) to remember this G & B stuff Tety, so, yep done that already !!
I might pop some stuff on youtube, working on a song I started years ago which seems to have become abit auto-biographical over the years by sheer de-fault.

yes please put it on ~ would love to see it

i bet one of you could come up with a modern version of the 'lord high executioner's list'!!!??

Tetrarch, I know Wells very well, and live near Watlington Stickitoffee. Norfolk is a wonderful county. My son has a friend in Magdalen too. Good photos Tetrarch.

oh thank you heather ~ thats really interesting ~ am i right its just very small? out in the countryside.

Thanks Heather. We had a cracking week there, and couldve stayed longer. if only...

Stickitoffee, it is quite small, but Watlington is on the Fen Line from Kings Lynn to Kings Cross so it has grown since your mother lived there. I live south of Downham Market, and the hairdresser I use, comes from Watlington. It has grown around the railway line, so luckily misses the traffic on the A10 which well and truly bypasses it. A bridge crosses the Great Ouse at Watlington which goes to Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalen. I love that name. Watlington is still a very pleasant village.

thank you again Heather!!
Mum used to talk about Downham Market and Kings Lynn, she met the Queen once ~ just walking through the Sandringham grounds ~ I think that was before security guards!!!

I know the A10 because my youngest used to live in Ely ~ lovely place also.

Wells is awesome really love the place - we are going there next year on holiday :))) I love the thundery sky photos!!!!

We have a friend who lives at Watlington Heather :o)
I know Ely as well Sticki , I use to live in a little village up the road from their called Little Thetford .. we use to go Dancing in Ely on a Sat. night ...
We should have badges to wear Paul so that we could recognise it's one of us when we are out and about LOL...

yes great idea :D

Ely is lovely isnt it. My son lives in a little place in suffolk now, about 5 miles from newmarket and bury st edmonds??

Love the pics Tet... wanted to visit Norfolk for years it looks a beautiful county:-) Hello everyone\0/:-)

Hello Bornagain nice to see you back , you are welcome in Norfolk any time :o))

hello BA ~ nice to see you again

\0/ Hello everybody...only did it so's you'd miss me:-)

You little tinker . LOL...