Today Mrs Gee and I cheerfully put Gees Minor and Minima aboard the Fairy Bus To The Dungeons Brownies’ half-term excursion, which meant we had Saturday all to ourselves. Bliss!!
I planned a Romantic Excursion, and being the Weekend Ecowarriors that we are, we headed to the Cley Marshes Nature Reserve just along the coast from us, where we took the opportunity of joining the Norfolk Wildlife Trust. The Nature Reserve has this terrific visitor centre
which is simply plastered with a green roof, and bristling with solar panels and a wind turbine. If ever I write a bestseller and we build an eco-house, it’ll look like that.
But phooey to the built environment, we say – the Cley Marshes is all about watching the birds, which we did, very easily, from the many cunningly contrived bird hides, where even with a modest digital camera I saw, within minutes, a lapwing
and something I don’t think I’ve seen before, an avocet.
Thus enthused we went to Cley Spy and bought some 10×50 binoculars and a pocket-sized camera tripod (for our next visit) and then had lunch at the ever-fabulous Red Lion at Stiffkey – source of the finest pints of Wherry and best Steak’n’Chips in the world, ever.
Ah, Red Lion at Stiffkey….makes me feel nostalgic….
Ah, Bora, next time we go it’ll be on a Saturday, and I’ll treat you to one of their steaks, which are wonderful – and which for some unaccountable reason they don’t do on a Sunday, when we went.
It’s a deal!