Painted Ladies, Boating and Fishing.

I spotted this lovely 'painted lady' butterfly sunning itself on our garden path...pretty as a picture.

 Had a great drive in the Morgan a few days ago on a lovely Autumn day and now it is safely ensconced in it's garage,  with winter weather no doubt just around the corner.

At the end of September we spent 10 days or so in my beloved Norfolk,  5 nights in a cottage at Ludham and then 4 nights aboard a motor cruiser from Brundall.

Norfolk is renowned for being England's driest county and all the locals said that they were needing rain.  Understandable I suppose,  but the weather did not need to be quite as violent and unpleasant during our holiday, but it was!!

                             Passing Reedham on the River Yare during a rare fine morning!

On our first day of our stay in the cottage there was a horrendous storm which brought down trees and caused flooding everywhere.....apart from a couple of half days it never stopped raining.  Quite incredible and annoying because it was only affecting the extreme eastern edge of Norfolk where we were,  the rest of the country was to a large extent fine.  Ah well!

A rainbow on our last night,  spent sadly at the yard a day early,  due to an appalling storm forecast for the following day.

We have just arrived back home after 4 days in a fishing lodge just half an hour away from us where I enjoyed some fantastic fishing, apart from an hour spent fishing in Norfolk this was the first coarse fishing that I have done for around 60 years!!! prompted by the restoration of two vintage 'Avon' rods

                                               Not a bad way to spend a few quiet hours.

Wonderful time and we shall do the same thing next year...in fact I have added my name to their list of people interested in joining the temporarily closed membership of their club,  as it is so close to us.

          A nice little carp, just one of a catch that included some excellent roach and perch.So we are managing to keep very busy during this ghastly virus saga and I am now looking forward to getting to grips again with the building of  a model of 'Endeavour',  Tommy Sopwith's 'Americas Cup' challenger in the thirties.

                                                           Sunset on our final evening.