24th February 2024
Tomorrow is a week since we set up Cottonwood Home as part of the craft offering at Seagulls & Samphire. And we had enough sales this Saturday to cover our basic monthly fee. It appears to be working. Early days obviously. This February Half Term was not great weather and it is usually a bit of a blip that then flatlines until Easter arrives. And Easter is not till the end of March. So let's wait and see. The fitting out went smoothly as you can see from the photos. There is a bit of refining and tweaking still to be done in some areas. But this was a good enough start.
Preparing and getting it all together did however prove utterly draining. It was the first full on week we've had since the shop closed. This present week has been one of energy recharge and recovery. Both of us developed muscle strains in our chest, that seemed an odd bit of synchronicity. We've been luxuriating in days off, doing nothing, finding pleasure in our own creativity, and coffee in a variety of local cafes.
25th February 2024
A bit of a bummer this week - our car (Barbara the Meriva ) suddenly developed a gear malfunction mid week. Hubby only just got it to the local garage in time. They haven't had a look at it as yet. But they've forewarned it could be either a quick two day job or up to a month before its fixed. So we are having to get re- accustomed to being carless. Walking in and out of town. Doing smaller shops and online food orders. All things we used to do when we first arrived in Upper Sheringham and were without a car. That was seven years ago this coming April !
All the things that having a car makes easier, suddenly develop a huge layer of impediment and complexity. Buying big or heavy things makes you have to use buses more. But buses around here are few and far between, to and from Upper Sheringham. You have to think quite strategically about bus timetables and making the best use of the time between your arrival and departure.
27th February 2024
When is a minute not a minute. ie. not actually a minute in length? What is the longest minute you can ever experience? Well, you know at the end of cycle in a washing machine, that last minute, the one that takes an absolute age. You stand there impatiently waiting to open the door, watching the 1 minute go on and on, till it eventually disappears with a click. How long was that minute? Well we have timed these, just as a piece of public information gathering. So using our Hotpoint machine as the test, in a forty minute wash, that final minute is actually a minute and a half. But on a thirty minute wash, that minute lasts the enormous length of twelve minutes. You read it right, twelve whole minutes!
29th February 2024
Being carless reminded me today of the days in my upbringing in Halifax when the fishmonger would drive up the back terrace to sell off the back of his van. So much has been lost to our age of easy convenience. The consequence of which is that Upper Sheringham no longer has a shop or pub to service the needs of its locality. Though it would probably be one of the first things to make a return should our petro-economy collapse.
ITS JUST WRONG - ITS JUST WRONG - ITS JUST WRONG
The much uttered words of the week have been the above mantra, which is as far as our government can go to explain why Lee Anderson had to lose the party whip. The fact that the Tory party has a deeply ingrained problem with Islamophobia cannot be mentioned. Somehow Islamophobia has been turned by some into a mild justified response, and not at all bad, not like the filthy antisemitism some Labour party members indulge in. Oh, and Mr Anderson, it is a noticeable sign of weakness if you cannot apologise or admit you've made a mistake. Feeble masculinity often chooses to masquerades itself as taking a firm principled stance over the corpse of their reputation.
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