Thursday 7th
September 2017
51 degrees 20.188N
00 degrees 05.109E
Hermon Hill, London
Back in London, with dear Lindsay and Emma, their
now-crawling gorgeous baby Orla, and a cheery friend from New Zealand (Cormac.)
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| Lindsay Emma Cormac |
I am not great company, but they were all very kind
and we drank a few toasts to my much-loved stepfather, Marcel,
who died earlier in the day.
who died earlier in the day.
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| Toast! |
In fact I am not up to writing much of a blog but…this
is for you, Mum! A bit of vicarious
travel to brighten your day!
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| Feltwell |
(For various private reasons we are not going home; we
are staying on for my reunion with both cousins in a week or so, in Harby.)
I haven’t written yet about our trip to Bury St Edmunds,
with Pete and his friend Dot, who now lives there.
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| Pete Dot Pete |
It is a beautiful town, with an ancient abbey in
picturesque ruins
and a most wonderful symmetrical and ordered garden which
made me feel preternaturally serene and calm.
Yesterday we left Feltwell and the comfort and
security of Peter Green’s house. Also we
left the company of aforementioned Peter Green and his friend Terry (Tel) from the
East End of London (now a resident of New Zealand.) Terry was so very funny that we all found ourselves
shaking and aching with laughter at the dinner table. The story of his tip-out in hospital when he
was lying in bed incapacitated with two broken arms and a broken leg in plaster
will never be forgotten…
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| Pete Pete Terry |
We had quite a few hours before the hire car had to be
back in Stansted so we did a flying trip to Ely to see the glorious cathedral.
And then to Cambridge to glimpse the beautiful university
buildings.
It was very hard to get a
parking place but we managed to get one near a lovely little café – we were
very much in need of coffee. The car was
right outside a small museum commemorating polar exploration so we rushed in for
a five minute visit and a brief chat with the very knowledgeable and kindly volunteers
at the desk.
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| Google glimpsed Selwyn College for me! |
I did get a swift glimpse of the River Cam, but not of
the punts.
And then a drive around Newmarket and its enormous
race track.
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| A vast expanse of green |
We were very close to the car hire place in Stansted –
we had to go to a new depot to pick up another car before dropping off the old
one. (Complicated and boring story.) So close
but yet so far! Siri led us a merry
dance up side roads and off slipways…Poor thing was quite frantic, as were we,
by the time we found it…
And then to London, with only a few teensy minor
hiccups in the navigation process…
Lindsay and Emma are at work today so we are doing the
bare minimum. We will find a
supermarket, buy some food, cook some food, and otherwise – do nothing!
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| PS Google supplied an image of a punter for me |
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