Autumn in Hunstanton… for the I’ve lost count of how many times it is now… a lot of times anyway, and I really missed it last year when we couldn’t have a get together because of the pandemic (though of course in 2019 I went to Wales with angel78 intead of Norfolk)

Five past Nine on a Saturday night and a message pings up on our messenger group – ‘Who hasn’t done Titanic’s Funnel ?’ followed a few minutes later by ‘Is tomorrow any good ?’

And so, 18 hours later, a gang of us met on Calder View for the attempt.

Angel78 and I had a weekend in Suffolk, it was a last minute thing, her father had the weekend booked but because of reasons couldn’t go, so Angel asked if I would like to go with her instead.
Now Suffolk is a county I have never been to before, (there is only one other – the Isle of Wight) so I quickly arranged things and off we went.

Flash and Grubbly were having a Community Celebration event in Greenhead Park one Saturday morning, so like a few others I went along a bit early to do the parks Lab Caches before the event… not quite early enough to get involved in the Park Run though they were still clearing up when I was walking round…

A new set of Lab caches appeared in Ilkley, all to do with Ilkley being sort of a Spa town – it was fashionable for a time in the Victorian era to come to Ilkley and ‘take the waters’ and several big hotels or ‘Hydros’ were built.
Notable visitors to Ilkley for this included Charles Darwin

We had ambled along from Westminster to St Katharines Docks on the North side of the river, now Kerry and I had limited time so we split form the rest and carried on a little faster, first doing the caches around St Katherine’s Docks and then crossing Tower Bridge to return to Westminster doing the caches along the South bank of the river