Daytime Pursuits

Daytime pursuits for the first week or so involved a slightly hectic balancing act of seeing relatives and old friends.

James and Jane had given us a lift up to somewhere near Duxford where we met in a very rainy McDonald's car park with Nicole's folks and proceeded to Necton where her Grandad lives.

To be honest I don't remember that much about it. It seems like an awfully long time ago. But I'm pretty sure that humus was consumed by me, and that we went out for a drink at the Servicemen's CLub in Swaffham before proceeding Southwards again.

Mum's that night, and very nice it was to see her and her home improvements, then fall asleep in front of the television (I assume).

On our first proper day in Ipswich, after my trip to Flix, we met up with Sam along with Adorable Amelia, Sarah with Potentially-Mad Max and Faye with No-Accent Esmee. We went to the local "Soft-Play Centre" (new terminology for me) where huge edifices of avoidable death for infants towered over us drinking crap coffee.

Instead of availing ourselves of crap food we went down to the docks where we consumed at Pizza Express. Jolly civilised considering the average age.

Then we popped in to see Dad and Shirley at Gavin Mansion, obviously good to see them too, before nearly falling asleep as the sun fell and jetlag set in and having to bail out.

The next morning I do believe and very early start was had by me and I drove down under the bridge and down to Pin Mill where I was forced to avail myself of the local facilities between tramping around on the muddy quays amongst the quaint old shippery.

The rest of that day is a bit of a mystery... but now I think of it, I volunteered to mind Esmee at Faye's house so we stayed there that night. So, thinking back, that might have been the day that Mum and I went out whilst the girls took an afternoon nap to check out the local churches.

The remarkable thing about that was mistaking the field at some church in the middle of nowhere for its car park... and being unable to get the car out of the field again.

Only when Mum procured help from the locals did salvation present itself in the form of a 4 wheel drive. Relief all round. The wind blew very cold over the flat lands of Suffolk that afternoon!

So that night I fell asleep at Faye's house in front of the TV.