Friday 24th August - Swaffham, here we are!

Friday went to plan. Hooray! we collected the Camcorder from Kings Lynn (Needed a new DVD driver, a repair that would have cost us over £300) and we headed over to Castle Acre Priory.

The Cousins wanted to see a bit of our English history, and from a totally unplanned conversation the previous night, we decided to hit the Priory.

Complete with the repaired DVD Camcorder (which the Teenage One has been told she will never take out with her again) and had a look around Castle Acre Priory. Owing to the fact that there would have been a fairly large admittance bill for us all to go in, we elected to walk around the priory in the surrounding field.

It had stopped raining by the time we got there, but the field the priory use for walking around was flooded around the last corner, so we could only walk around three quarters and had to head back the way we came.

At dinnertime, we again had a pub dinner, this time each of us paying for our dinners in the Ostrich pub and resturant.

Then we met up with our cousins from Bury St Edmunds, who are staying over here with the Mother-In-Law, and walked around the big church & graveyard.

So many children and young people died in the 1800's and 1900's, we saw so many graves of babies, children under 10, and lots of people who had died in the 20's. There are a couple of war graves there too from the First World War.

To end the day, we spent an hour in Swaffham Castle, a magnificant ruin, with so much still remaining today that experts have drawn accurate impressions on how the castle actually looked like in the 1200's.

Many photos and films were taken on our day out. Now, today, our Austrailian cousins are out walking around Norwich with the Mother In Law and their Bury St Edmunds Cousins. I and the wife are staying in today for cleaning, and as I'm on a 12 hour night shift tonight, I don't really fancy walking around Norwich all day then going to work all night. Our lack of money also plays a part in our not going out today as well.

Eddie2Socks - if you're reading this, I'll see you at your stand tomorrow sometime (Sunday).