A few photos of last night's scratch trio gig at the delightful Hermitage, Acle. To our delight a decent and appreciative crowd turned out to listen / stomp / join in for four hours of rock and blues standards. We'd only had one short run through, but Tim Parker (Knight Moves) Garth Coupland (The Divide) and I (Serious Risk) put together a great afternoon's live music! Back in two week's time!
Thanks to friend Sue, Linda and I were able to spend the day with her and Peter roaming around four wonderful estates that are rarely open to the public. Starting at Wolterton Hall, we carried on to Barningham, then Hunworth, finishing off at the incredible Sheringham Hall.
Each estate was unique in some way: two had lakes, two had woodland, one had amazing topiary, all had vegetable gardens and all had rich wildlife.
Here are a few photos to give the general idea!
There were times over the past year when I thought my public performing days were over: apparently not! Tim, Garth and I are gigging at 'The Hermitage', Acle on Sunday afternoon (4.30 until 7.00-ish)
Now if only I can get over the sore throat that's been preventing me singing for a week, we should be OK!
Beautifully clear skies just after sunset last night: the waxing first quarter Moon was conveniently placed for a few photos using just a 300mm prime lens.
Just a reminder: if anyone is free tomorrow night (Thursday) at 7.30pm I'll be giving a Zoom talk about meteorites and where they came from! It's free and accessible to anyone with basic scientific knowledge!
Here's the link:
Brian and I had already arranged to have a morning out, so when I heard that the 'UEA Caspian' had moved to Potter Heigham, we made that our first stop. As we walked towards the first scrape, a helicopter flew up: instantly I picked out the Caspian. Although somewhat distant, we enjoyed decent views, before carrying on around the reserve. Nothing much else to report apart from a few Beardies, Buzzards and Avocets (Although Drinker and Garden Tiger Moth caterpillars were interesting)
We moved the short distance to Hickling NWT but there was too much water in Brendon's Scrape for waders. We added a Muntjac, a few Willow Warblers, Avocets and booming Bitterns to the list before leaving for home just ahead of a heavy rain storm.
