But needs must as they say. Noticed the chemist was opening this afternoon but, apart from that, there was little to report from the village.
Our back garden was a mess this morning with the grizzly remains of a pigeon which had obviously fell foul of a cat overnight. There were feathers and guts everywhere. So a burial and then it took ages to pick up all the feathers.
One side effect of this lockdown is watching much more television than normal. last night I watched the British comedy/drama Yesterday which centred around a singer songwriter from Lowestoft of little talent who has a road accident and recovers to find his friends have no knowledge that the Beatles ever existed. So he passes off their songs as his own and becomes a huge international star. The plot is pretty ridiculous, the film just assumes that you can suspend believe but it was vaguely entertaining. I found it interesting as I started my working career in Lowestoft.
A number of days ago I mentioned Walberswick in this blog and promised to write some more. Walberswick is a quaint little place opposite Southwold in Suffolk across the River Blyth. The kind of place I would like to be at this precise moment.
Walberswick was a major trading port from the 13th century until the First World War. For many centuries it was a thriving centre for trade in bacon, timber, cheese and corn and the fishing trade.
The village is supposed to be haunted by a phantom coach drawn by headless horses and driven by the murderer Tobias Gill who was hanged in the area in the 18th century.
At least half the current properties are holiday homes and over the years Walberswick has been the home or the haunt of the rich and famous notable amongst which was artist and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh who lived there from 1914. It is possible to walk from Walberswick to Southwold across a bridge over the river but there is also a small ferry that takes people across from one to the other.
The photographs featured today were taken by Anne over the past few weeks during walks around the area.