Peacock Lane

A stunning day here in Norfolk...completely opposite to the rain-soaked day we had yesterday.
I took my camera for the short walk into Holt this afternoon, and realised that I had walked past this little fellow, perched on the porch of an art shop at the top of Peacock Lane, for years and have never noticed him before.
A house in Peacock Lane was the home of Dorothy Galton for a time, a lady who had a fascinating life.  Dorothy Constance Galton (14 October 1901 – 27 August 1992) was a British university administrator who was suspected by the British security services of being a Russian spy. Born in north London into a family with strong left-wing links, she was personal secretary to Count Mihaly Karolyi, exiled socialist president of Hungary, and later became secretary to the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London.
Dorothy joined the Communist Party of Great Britain, travelled several times to Russia, and Kim Philby, who was actually working for the KGB, took an interest in her. She was under some form of surveillance for much of her working life but no conclusive evidence of espionage was ever found against her. In retirement she became an expert in beekeeping and wrote several books on the subject.