Dot disappeared for the day about 07.40 and has only just arrived in London.  She has not been on the train all day (it could happen), but the train she did catch from Diss arrived in London about an hour late. Hopefully by now (19.15) she should be in the meeting in Piccadilly. Why did she catch the train from Diss? Because she spent most of the day at Garboldisham with Sue Eagle, delivering some Philosophy. Went very well, apparently. She got to Diss in loads of time, but the train was so late that she caught the one before it, which was so late that it was later than the one she should have caught. Are you following this? Makes you really want to use public transport, doesn’t it? It’s not that things go wrong, it’s that whoever is in charge is so useless at putting them right. [On the plus side, the train bringing them home was on time, and the day was a big success.]

Meanwhile, as it was such a sunny and crisp day (after an appallingly wet day yesterday), I drove out to mid-Norfolk, where I intended to find a ruined church near Litcham. I started walking up a farm track, but shots were fired, and I retreated. The shots probably weren’t fired at me, but it’s so easy to get mistaken for a pheasant. I then drove up a farm track in the hope of catching a glimpse of the ruins, but without success. So I nipped along the road to Mileham, where I eventually located the castle. Not exactly visitor-friendly. Nowhere to park, and no signs. However I tracked it down and spent about half an hour walking round, over, through and across it. It’s so much of a ruin that there’s barely a square metre of flint wall remaining. Well, maybe a bit more than that, but not much. Largely grass, trees and undergrowth, though I did see a rabbit and an awful lot of animal traces. The B1145 is quite a pleasant road. Pity you have to go out of Norwich on the Fakenham road to get to it: the part that goes through Taverham and Drayton has now been reduced to 30mph, which is so difficult to keep to that I nearly had two accidents because I kept looking at my speedometer. Whoever decides these limits is totally nuts.