Postcard from Norfolk - value for money

North Norfolk Council kindly request that the North Sea refrain from getting all over-excited and move from the left to the right of this picture.

If you live along the coast in North Norfolk, you take sea defences very seriously.  In some cases these are concrete sea walls with gates that shut and have watertight rubber edges, because everyone knows that a washer is going to keep out the fury of a Force Twelve onshore gale.  In other places there are enormous shingle banks and probibitions about what you can do on them, like nbot being able to ride motorcycles, not being able to ride horses and not being able to drive up in the dead of night and fill your trailer full of free aggregate.

There are of course those tasked with putting aggregate back.  Pulling into the car park on Old Hunstanton beach I was pleased to see evidence of my car parking fee – one which I had negotiated rather than having to pay full price no less as this was a short visit – in action.  The chap in the shed was busy with a wheelbarrow full of gravel, a shovel and some pot holes.  The car park here is grass, well, grass and mud.  But increasingly also gravel.  Good to know that if the sea ever does threaten, there will be a bloke with a wheelbarrow at the ready.