I’m not usually a weather-wimp but high winds coupled with sub-zero temperatures… ain’t no fun walking beach nor marsh. And so this dive into the archives.
14th February 2017 and the sun shines and the air is warm and I catch a bus and another bus and by 9:00 am I arrive at Poringland, and the second highest point in (flat) Norfolk. Two aerial masts constructed during WWII provide a landmark for miles around (here’s just one)
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From Poringland to Upper Stoke… where I stop to admire the snowdrops
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Leaving the road I follow a footpath across fields grazed by sheep
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This is “big tree” country…
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The path edges a woodland…
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where I’m delighted to see the hazel’s catkins…
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and yet more big trees (2 shots, same tree)
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Looking back…
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And looking down…
btw, the winding line is a lane and to the far side of it is one of the earliest known Anglo-Saxon burial sites in England
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The Tas Valley where in Roman times stood the regional city of the Iceni (Boudicca’s people) Venta Icenorum
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The remaining walls fail to impress me
(I’m used the well-preserved walls of C3rd Roman fort at Burgh Castle)
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Within the old town the first Christians here built their church, now dedicated to East Anglia’s own martyred Saint Edmund
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A walk by the river, finding a place to stop for my lunch. Incredible, 2,000 years ago this was the wharf; here Roman galleys and barges moored to unload their wares brought up river from Burgh Castle (just outside Gt Yarmouth)
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As ever, I hope you enjoyed the walk. I know I did. It was so warm, my jacket came off, I walked bare-armed. Today, four years on, I shiver.
crispina kemp 
Extremely good photos. I love the colours.
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Thank you. Seems so long ago.
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What an amazing and interesting place! Thanks for sharing
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Always a pleasure. I was walking much in that area before lockdown
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🙏🙏🙏
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🙂
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Beautifully captured, warm, and a great way to look back in time in a way that warms your soul.
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It was a beautiful day. So happy to share it
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Very lovely! 🙂 ❤
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🙂 Always a pleasure 🙂
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It was a pretty miserable day yesterday for walking, so I’m not surprised you looked for brighter times!
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I’ve had a horrible week. The cold has kept me in, and being kept in is frustrating. My mood began to plummet. But yay! Better times are on their way. I managed to get out for an 8-miler yesterday, though photo ops were few
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Glad things are looking up!
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Things can’t stay bad forever, can they. Or is it that we adjust… the new normal? Groan. But we must carry on.
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Beautiful photos. I especially loved the historical bits you shared: Celtic, Roman, Anglo-Saxon and medieval…the landscape has so many stories to tell. And as for the weather in the photos, it looked positively glorious for February! 🙂
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It was an exceptional year for weather, I think
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Just found this in my inbox… late but hey… still lovely!
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Never too late. Glad you found it and enjoyed.
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😊
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🙂
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