The road to Thornham
A Vaccination Afternoon, Swaffham, Norfolk - 9th May 2021
It's time for Isobel's first Covid vaccination - at Downham Market, over 40 miles away - so we make a bit of a day of it by stopping off at Swaffham on the way over, where we potter around in The Works' closing-down sale and have lunch at the Red Lion - one of no less than four pubs within 30 metres, all of which are clustered around the market place. On the way we stop off for a bit to walk around the woods at Lynford Stag, and before any of that we're in Diss.
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A field of oilseed
Nosher's mad lockdown hair
The road into Thrandeston
The Sue Ryder charity shop has packed it in
A rainy Mere Street
The former Eastern Electricity building
The bottom of Mere Street in the rain
The old tourist office
A small huddle of pigeons near the Mere
A load of trolleys in the tunnel at Morrisons
Harry gets an ice cream to Lynford Stag
A stag with a red willy at Lynford Stag
Harry and Isobel walk off through the woods
Fred and Isobel in the woods
Lime-green trees
Isobel takes a photo
Lines of fungus on a tree stump
Isobel sits on a log
Harry runs around whacking stuff
Isobel finds a den
A tree with an interesting kink in it
We walk back to the car
Mundford's shop on the Mundford roundabout
A funky van from 1990
Isobel and Harry head back from the bogs
We head off into town
Brick and flint shed in Swaffham
The Works in Swaffham is closing down
The Buttercross on the market place
The boys roam around in The Works
Isobel looks at a pile of books
Looking at stationery
Fred in a mask
Fred and Harry
Fred plays with his new magic cube thing
A family of ducks crosses the road
The traffic is stopped by the crossing ducks
The ducks trundle past Iceland
The classic old-school Starling florists
Impressive flint townhouse in Swaffham
The Red Lion pub
There's some sort of moped gathering
An old tobacco shop
A line-up of classic Vespas and Lambrettas
Outside the Red Lion, our lunch pub
The ghost of a building, bricked up
The Swaffham war memorial
The former Cornhall in Swaffham, now a Costa
A derelict K6 phone box
The very-1970s Margaret's Tea Rooms
Lunch arrives at the Red Lion
Harry grins
A dog looks very fed up
We head off to explore the churchyard
St. Peter and St. Paul church
A big house with not many real windows
A duck nests by a gravestone
Fred watches the ducklings
A duck with fluffy ducklings
Fred and Harry watch the ducks
A load more ducklings
Isobel runs around the churchyard
The very grey Oasis Centre in Swaffham
A pair of very derelict vans
The tiny Myhill's Pet and Garden
The anonymous 'Tasty House' in Downham Market
Harry and Isobel in Downham Market
Harry's got a stick
The James Scott clock in Downham Market
Fred and Harry hang around
The classic Reeds Homestores shop
Isobel heads in for her vaccination
Boarded-up apartments in Downham Market
Harry leans on a wall
There's a very old building behind W.H. Brown's
Downham Market's Town Hall
The James Scott clock again
The vacant Castle Hotel
We met a friendly invisible cat in the car park
The derelict Mill House garage
Derelict petrol pumps
A derelict corrugated-iron workshop
Mill House Garage
A derelict diesel pump
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The road to Thornham
The road to Thornham
A field of oilseed
Nosher's mad lockdown hair
The road into Thrandeston
The Sue Ryder charity shop has packed it in
A rainy Mere Street
The former Eastern Electricity building
The bottom of Mere Street in the rain
The old tourist office
A small huddle of pigeons near the Mere
A load of trolleys in the tunnel at Morrisons
Harry gets an ice cream to Lynford Stag
A stag with a red willy at Lynford Stag
Harry and Isobel walk off through the woods
Fred and Isobel in the woods
Lime-green trees
Isobel takes a photo
Lines of fungus on a tree stump
Isobel sits on a log
Harry runs around whacking stuff
Isobel finds a den
A tree with an interesting kink in it
We walk back to the car
Mundford's shop on the Mundford roundabout
A funky van from 1990
Isobel and Harry head back from the bogs
We head off into town
Brick and flint shed in Swaffham
The Works in Swaffham is closing down
The Buttercross on the market place
The boys roam around in The Works
Isobel looks at a pile of books
Looking at stationery
Fred in a mask
Fred and Harry
Fred plays with his new magic cube thing
A family of ducks crosses the road
The traffic is stopped by the crossing ducks
The ducks trundle past Iceland
The classic old-school Starling florists
Impressive flint townhouse in Swaffham
The Red Lion pub
There's some sort of moped gathering
An old tobacco shop
A line-up of classic Vespas and Lambrettas
Outside the Red Lion, our lunch pub
The ghost of a building, bricked up
The Swaffham war memorial
The former Cornhall in Swaffham, now a Costa
A derelict K6 phone box
The very-1970s Margaret's Tea Rooms
Lunch arrives at the Red Lion
Harry grins
A dog looks very fed up
We head off to explore the churchyard
St. Peter and St. Paul church
A big house with not many real windows
A duck nests by a gravestone
Fred watches the ducklings
A duck with fluffy ducklings
Fred and Harry watch the ducks
A load more ducklings
Isobel runs around the churchyard
The very grey Oasis Centre in Swaffham
A pair of very derelict vans
The tiny Myhill's Pet and Garden
The anonymous 'Tasty House' in Downham Market
Harry and Isobel in Downham Market
Harry's got a stick
The James Scott clock in Downham Market
Fred and Harry hang around
The classic Reeds Homestores shop
Isobel heads in for her vaccination
Boarded-up apartments in Downham Market
Harry leans on a wall
There's a very old building behind W.H. Brown's
Downham Market's Town Hall
The James Scott clock again
The vacant Castle Hotel
We met a friendly invisible cat in the car park
The derelict Mill House garage
Derelict petrol pumps
A derelict corrugated-iron workshop
Mill House Garage
A derelict diesel pump