Norfolk notes - On the beach
Stroll on the beach in shorts, sandals and sweat - this October sun is unseasonable but welcome and a sure sign of global warming, as sure a sign as the blokes on the beach with hi-vis vests, diggers and bulldozers that are shoring up the sea defences.
As usual the coast is dotted with bird-watchers. The latest accessory appears to be camouflage wraps for their huge telescopes. So you have a chap in a beard (last years accessory - long suffering wife) in a crimson cagoul stood behind a telescope wrapped in enough webbing to conceal the band of the Third Battalion Highland Hardnuts. Points are now being awarded for size, girth and colour of telescope jacket. I wonder if the jacket is to keep the telescope warm?
Further along the beach - sea fishermen. What a sport! This has to be the perfect recreation. You get a fishing rod, cast far far far far out into the sea, rest the rod on a tripod and then...watch the sea. That's it. For excitement you can cross your arms.
This has to be the greatest sport ever, basically you just cast off, then sit down, open a thermos, get the crab paste sarnies out and settle down to listen to a play on Radio 4.
One of them even had a tent.
As usual the coast is dotted with bird-watchers. The latest accessory appears to be camouflage wraps for their huge telescopes. So you have a chap in a beard (last years accessory - long suffering wife) in a crimson cagoul stood behind a telescope wrapped in enough webbing to conceal the band of the Third Battalion Highland Hardnuts. Points are now being awarded for size, girth and colour of telescope jacket. I wonder if the jacket is to keep the telescope warm?
Further along the beach - sea fishermen. What a sport! This has to be the perfect recreation. You get a fishing rod, cast far far far far out into the sea, rest the rod on a tripod and then...watch the sea. That's it. For excitement you can cross your arms.
This has to be the greatest sport ever, basically you just cast off, then sit down, open a thermos, get the crab paste sarnies out and settle down to listen to a play on Radio 4.
One of them even had a tent.
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