{"id":4464,"date":"2017-09-11T17:41:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T16:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=4464"},"modified":"2017-09-11T17:43:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T16:43:51","slug":"on-the-road-again-to-coventry-and-caddington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=4464","title":{"rendered":"On the road again \u2013 to Coventry and Caddington"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The North Walsham and Dilham canal \u2013 Ebridge lock, I think.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Feeling very autumnal today \u2013 and yesterday, in fact, when Dot and I decided to take a Heritage Day opportunity to look at the North Walsham and Dilham Canal after church. We started walking along the bank in a rather chilly wind but had to turn back and avail \u00a0ourselves of the facilities. Still, we picked up a nice map and booklet and will explore further in future. We took the opportunity to visit the cemetery.<\/p>\n

I was a bit nervous about the church bit, because I was preaching again and decided to talk about the problems facing the church,\u00a0the way it behaved like a business and so on. When I wrote it I overlooked the fact that the vicar would be there, though I was informed of this the day before when I met Chris and Ray Fiske in the old church. What was I doing in the old church? I was greeting visitors for another aspect of the Heritage Weekend. I sat for an hour in the afternoon (while Dot prepared to go to Carrow Road), and by the time I left (at 3pm) there had been just over 60 visitors in total. I had a couple of interesting conversations, though, and managed to direct two people to the Quaker Cemetery down the road, which was in fact locked. I didn’t know that. They didn’t seem to mind.<\/p>\n

Anyway, most people seemed to like the sermon, and the vicar didn’t say anything. I idid get a couple of texts and an e-mail from Debbie, though.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the week the DCC meeting mentioned last time went reasonably well, and on the Wednesday Dot and I drove to Coventry to see Andrew. We took him into the city and bought some much needed clothes, mainly from Marks and Spencer’s, but some shoes from Clarks and a watch from Hinds, the jeweller’s, not to mention a razor from Boots. We also had something to eat in the M&S cafe. Andrew seemed quite hungry, although he’d had lunch, which we hadn’t. Helen and staff at Minster Lodge were very pleased to see us, or if not, pretended well.<\/p>\n

On the way back we were warned by our satnav that we should travel by an alternative route through Papworth\u00a0because of a traffic jam on the A14.\u00a0I had already decided to do this anyway, but it showed the satnav was on the ball.<\/p>\n

The next day (Thurs) we had a Footprints meeting at Mundesley. This was odd, in that on the way there I was feeling decidedly under the weather, but immediately on arriving I felt bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and contributed to the meeting in a much more positive way than I normally do. Afterwards I called in at Jessie’s, where I had dropped Dot, for lunch.<\/p>\n

Another big day on Friday, but not till late, after I’d had a go at the Footprints minutes and the sermon. We drove down to Caddington to meet the school returnees at 4.30pm, having purchased something to eat at the Co-op. We were delivering Oliver’s birthday card, small present and some cash: his main present is a computer game which isn’t released till later this month. He was already immersed in Destiny 2, the computer game of the moment, which his father had bought him.<\/p>\n

Anyway, we stayed with Amy while Oliver and his father went swimming (well, only Oliver was swimming, but his father took him), and we played Pictionary<\/em>, followed by charades. On being told that I couldn’t draw, Amy said I only had to draw quickly and with clarity. So that was all right. We stayed quite late, and on the way home\u00a0we had to find a way round a piece of the A505 that was being resurfaced. We managed OK, though we put on about six miles in order to travel what would have been less than one.<\/p>\n

Today I finished editing the holiday pictures and put some on Flickr and one on Facebook. I have the opportunity to play in a blitz chess tournament tonight, but I don’t think I will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feeling very autumnal today \u2013 and yesterday, in fact, when Dot and I decided to take a Heritage Day opportunity to look at the North Walsham and Dilham Canal after church. We started walking along the bank in a rather chilly wind but had to turn back and avail \u00a0ourselves of the facilities. Still, we … Continue reading On the road again \u2013 to Coventry and Caddington<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4468,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464\/revisions\/4468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}