Cley Visitor Centre

These garden ornaments are on display at Cley visitor centre and are for sale. It’s been a dull, cold and wet day, so this was the best I could do! A busy morning with a Sainsbury’s delivery, a cuppa with G in town, a talk at the library and then a lunch and talk at Cley. The library talk was a very interesting one about the Coroners Court by an Area Coroner for Norfolk. I liked the phrase she quoted that the Court is ‘an advocate of the dead, for the safeguarding of the living.’ I was particularly interested that if circumstances imply a risk of death in future, they have an obligation to issue a Preventing Future Deaths report. However, they have no power to do anything if changes aren’t made following the issue of the report - that’s crazy! The talk after lunch was The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon East Anglia, which was very interesting. It’s now on my list to visit West Stowe, a reconstructed Anglo-Saxon village. Obviously East Anglia was the stronghold of the East Angles, with most places having Anglo-Saxon names (I already knew that Holt is the Anglo-Saxon word for woodland). I was particularly interested in what he said about Sutton Hoo and he was particularly excited about the site uncovered at nearby Rendlesham in the last 15 years or so. More tennis this afternoon, but I found the ladies semi finals quite disappointing.