Monday - A walk in the woods

It's very different visiting Norfolk in Summer. It's sandals instead of walking boots, sun-cream instead of anoraks and things being open instead of sitting in the car looking at closed signs through a rain-flecked window.

The National Trust gardens are open, Sheringham Park in this case. Park up and decant into park, oohing and aahing appreciation at plants and trees.

Have seen plants and trees before of course, but there's something special about the pines and the sand and the grassland being so close to the coast. Walk across boardwalks raised over the floor of the wood, making one feel as though one is moving through a dream, observing rather than being connected to the amazing sights around one. Of course, they also form a sort of wooded Nerberg Ring for the mobility chariots in use around the place.

There are lots of these. Pensioners use them to get about and to put the fear of god into the rest of us. My particular favourite was the double seater! How cool is that, one person steering, one person navigating - like The Italian Job at 7mph. I think the reason we are seeing more mobile mobility scooters is that Robot Wars has gone off-air and kids aren't stealing the bloody wheelchair batteries any more.

I think they should manufacture an off-road version, we could then be treated to the sight of pensioners shooting around fields of long grass, like that scene in Jurassic Park 3 when the 'raptors are stalking the hunting party, leaving a wake of crushed grass.