Home via LandGuard

We have been staying at Thatched Farm. They have two small cottages (formerly barns?).  I think we were in the smallest.  The location is just a few miles off the A12, well into the countryside.  It is a nice cottage even though it is so small.

2010_0924-27 Thatched Farm, Waldringfield

There are a few more pictures in the album.  One is of the solar panel generation meter at the RSPB.  It was generating a mere 790 watts while I was taking the picture.  I have to ask - are these things really worth having?  What is the energy requirement in building the thing in the first place, and is it recovered over its lifetime?

On the way back, we visited LandGuard Fort near Felixstowe.  It's a mess of development and re-development and a fascinating place to visit.  Some of the information that has been lost, which archaeologists will have to work out, is exactly what type of Radar was installed there in WWII.  It is amazing how quickly knowledge is lost.  An attempted invasion of England by the Dutch was repelled in a battle at the fort in 1677.


We then move on to look at St Johns Great Wenham, which was unfortunately locked.  We drove onwards for a while in a generally homeward direction and came upon The Carriers Arms. Lunch was good, but nothing special. 

We arrived home in time to see Basildon's parking attendants watching the school traffic, and chatting for a long time to a woman who then got in her car and drove away.  One day they may possibly get it right.