Booton, 7 July 2021 - Brody's Paddle

 More 'wufs' in the early hours meant another disturbed night. This time, being very tired, I went back to sleep sometime after 7:30.  I woke a little before 10.  This morning we had a cooked breakfast to use some of the free-range eggs supplied by our hosts.  They have dark yellow yolks and a very good stronger than usual flavour.

We decided to visit a beach - Heacham South, a dog friendly beach on the North Norfolk coast.  It's about an hour's drive through some lovely English countryside. Some very narrow roads too, but nobody is in a hurry, so passing is relatively straight forward.  The car park is pay and display - cash or app.  Fortunately, we have cash.  Then over the dune to sea the see. Except, there is only mud as far as the eye can see.  We have just passed low tide, there are channels a few centimeters deep where the water is barely trickling in.  Walking out the mud gets softer and softer, now almost ankle deep, we turn and make for shore.  Brody is loving it, his excitement was obvious from the moment we opened the car.  He even chased a ball for a short while. Every time he turned, he sat down because his back legs were caught in the mud, but it didn't seem to bother him.

Back on the stony edge between the dunes and the mud we turn back to the car park.  We have a cup of tea at the cafe, and wash the mud off my legs and brody's legs and tail.  

Then off to Sheringham, another hour's drive, for some fish and chips.  Arriving in the car park, where the pay and display is card or coin, we find the card reader is not working so again use coins, but the supply is running low now.  Sheringham is a disappointment - a very high promenade, with very little along it, so we end up in town at a fish and chip shop opposite this:

We sat outside, watching the people go by and Brody dribbling.  Further down the road we bought ice cream, and then headed home, but not before I had topped up the £1 coin supply.

Listening to Wimbeldon on the radio on the way home and watching the TV when we arrived as Federer lost his match. It was perhaps the last time he will come to Wimbledon. Then having a snack and tuning into ITV for ENG v DEN.  2-1 it ended, so there is another game to watch on Sunday.