Tuesday 24 November
So, this evening we have been told that the tier restrictions will be relaxed a little over Christmas to allow up to three households to mix together.
This means that both my dad and Lisa’s mum will be able to meet up with us all, and spend Christmas day together.
My journey to work this morning had none of the magical natural experiences that happened yesterday. Back on the A12. But on my way home I took a more rural route and wondered what was rummaging around in the hedgerows that I was whizzing by. The dark obviously making them even less conspicuous than they would be during the day.
The Gents Film and Leisure Club have come up trumps today. It does too long ago that we were walking the coast is Suffolk in the torrential rain a matter of weeks ago.
Ernst Sillem, one of the canoeists remembered in the plaque and memorial on the beach at Sizewell, died last week. Paul translated the newspaper report for us. When he was seventeen, during occupation, he broke into his school and painted anti-nazi slogans on the walls. He then managed to get a job as a farm hand near to the coast. This is where, with a group of twenty-one comrades attempted to row across the north sea to join the allied army fighting Germany. Sadly his canoe started sinking in bad weather and he was picked up by a German boat and he eventually ended up at the concentration camp in Dachau.
And it was Ernst who dedicated the memorial whe. It was unveiled. He was the last of the group alive until he passed away last week. One of the many amazing stories told by the East Anglian coast.
The Bald Birder 