Saturday was almost entirely taken up with the November auction of James and Sons, which went very well. Those of you who follow @aspitweets on twitter will have seen a few highlights (a very few – not easy to live tweet when you are also recording details of the sale on the company database).
Yesterday was bright and sunny, so I enjoyed a morning walk before heading to my aunts house for Sunday lunch. This yielded some interesting photos…
The James and Sons banner.The auction room from “Data Entry Corner”Lot 731 – mine for an hours pay.
The path that has been turned into an unbridged ford – and as I learned the hard way it is more than shoe deep.
Yesterday I travelled to Norwich to take part in a research project relating to Asperger’s Syndrome/ Autistic Spectrum Conditions. The project, being run by Graham Bradley of UEA, involved three stages: an abbreviated version of the diagnostic test that confirms whether or not one is on the spectrum, then a two part intelligence/ reasoning test, first attempting to define words and then a pattern recognition exercise (I was got by one word, pavid, but as you might expect handled the pattern recognition exercise with considerable ease), the final part of the session being a computer based exercise, again themed on pattern recognition. This last involved identifying the letter H or L according to what came up on the screen. The two fundamental variants: sometimes the key letter was a large letter made up of a collection of smaller (irrelevant) letters organised in appropriate array, and sometimes it was the smaller letters that were key and the large letter they formed that was irrelevant.
Anyone who is able to get to Norwich and interested in taking part in this project can contact Graham Beales. His email address is G.Beales@uea.ac.uk and he can also be contacted on 07851 319347.
I do also have some pictures for you…
This is a sample of my aunt’s knitting skill – these pieces will form a blanket.Swaffham church on a sunny but cold dayThis is from just beyond SwaffhamThis shot was taken in Hockering.The first of the Norwich shots
Full circle – this set of pictures started in King’s Lynn and we are back there now with the Christmas lights.
I did not allow the fact that is a bleak, rainy November day to prevent me from getting out and about, and I have some good pictures, particularly of birds to share with you. My twitter following continues to grow, 450 having being reached today.
To start with the second part of my title: VJB Day stands for Victory over Julien Blanc Day – it has been confirmed today that this vile specimen of Homo sapiens will not be admitted to Britain.
Today has been ridiculously sunny for November, so I have been out and about taking photographs, many of which my twitter followers have already seen. I now share some of the finest with my blog readers…
King’s Lynn is benefiting from some pleasant weather today,and it is not just the human residents who have been enjoying it – a huge range of birds, some of which I captured in spite of still being restricted to my old Samsung. My twitter account continues to gain new followers.
Having dealt with BT I now return my usual blog posts, sharing today’s pictures, which include a glorious shot of remembrance day at King’s Lynn War Memorial…
It’s a little blurry I know, but this view is one reason why I enjoy living where I do.
King’s Lynn War Memorial on remembrance day.
The first of a number of shots featuring “Cormorant Platform”
A pair of mushrooms from above……and from the side.
The reason there has been no post on this blog since Friday afternoon is that I spent the weekend in East Rudham at a very large family gathering (my Australian aunt was over, and a veritable tribe descended on East Rudham to take advantage of this event).
Today I did everything I needed to at work, plus making a start on the imaging for the September auction, and benefitted from a rare piece of good fortune in that I left a little early because my colleague who was locking up had to go promptly, and the 15:38 bus to King’s Lynn was more than a little late, so I got home much earlier than expected, and it being bright and sunny, I have been out for a walk.
I have three sets of photographs to share with you, those from the weekend, highlights from today at work, and some from the walk (with very few exceptions wherever I go my trusty Nikon P520 Coolpix also goes), so here goes…
£5 worth of hand of pork
Unfortunately due to a mishap we never got to sample this crackling
But we most certainly did get to sample the kebabs that this little lot became.
Outdoor reared Norfolk pork means precisely what it says.
It is always a challenge to get good shots of aeroplanes.
This sunflower was growing in someone’s front gardenThese were provided by my cousin Olivia