All aboard!

As we’ve got older our family has decided that we don’t need any more “stuff” for birthdays and Christmas. Instead they have been giving us “experiences” – lunch at The Ritz, afternoon tea at Marco Pierre White’s Hotel Coco and the trip we took yesterday on the Poppy Line in North Norfolk. We’ve been on that train journey many times in the past enjoying the beautiful scenery as well as the smell of the smoke from the a number of different steam engines. This time was different though as we had dinner on the way to Holt, where the little red tank engine, called “Newstead” was uncoupled and shunted to the other end of the carriages. We’d eaten sausages and mash with green vegetables and gravy by then (with a glass of wine), all cooked and served by the lovely volunteers. Dessert on the return leg was locally made ice cream – “always for me it is the strawberry” 😉