I have been twittering for around 18 months now, and have always thought I was the only twitterer in Norfolk.

Imagine my surprise, when soon after athinkingman and cloudgazer started following me,I realized that not only were they from Norfolk but better still Kings Lynn.

Even more amazing is that cloudgazer is from the next village to mine.

So tomorrow Geoff and I are off for a twitter meet up with cloudgazer and her husband.

Hopefully we shall get to meet athinkingman too one day 🙂

Just another exciting day with Geoff…

How it all began…

In 1932 Geoff’s father was a warden at Overton Hall Youth Hostel in Derbyshire.

Geoff has a set of photos on flickr named Overton hall.

Last week a lady called Maggie got in touch with Geoff after finding these photos on flickr.

She now lives in part of Overton hall and is keen to collect as much history about the place as possible.

Maggie told Geoff that this weekend they intended to open the Overton Lead mine once again,and he was more than welcome to attend.

So that’s how I found myself at Overton hall yesterday going down an old lead mine.

I was not quite sure what to expect and my first reactions were ones of shock.

To get into the mine you had to be winched down 80 foot on a small seat, through a man hole.

Thankfully I  was given a hard hat to wear and a head torch.

While being winched down you became very aware of the beautiful stone that sparkled with the light from the head torch.

Once at the bottom I realised how wet and muddy it was,also how small the corridors and caves were but also how wonderful to see all the fossils and orange iron deposits.

We spent 3 hours walking, crawling and sliding through tiny gaps,amazing to think these used to be working mines where men/boys spent hours chiseling away for the lead. 

A truly wonderful day and many thanks must go to Maggie, Liz, Nick and The Wirksworth Mines research group for making it all possible.

After we all got safely out the mine Maggie gave us much needed refreshments and treated us to a tour round Overton hall.

Going up on the roof was the highlight for me, the views were spectacular and we got to see the beautiful Greenhouse and gardens.

It was hard to pick just 3 photos to post here as 273   fantastic photos were taken  but they can all be seen  here .

Certainly a day I will never forget  🙂

An old couple came into Tesco and asked to speak to a manager.

A few days earlier they had bought some disposable BBQ’s from Tesco.

when they opened one to use it they were very disappointed to find the meat missing.

The manager explained that they don’t come with meat but the couple was sure they did because the lid of the BBQ said so !

The manager had to explain that it was just a picture showing an example of what you could cook on a BBQ.

He offered a full refund and all was well.

As they went on there way the man was overheard saying to his wife…

"best we go get those other 2 out the freezer then"

Honest its true and I laughed about it all day 🙂

I have one of those wireless door bells, don’t know why because no one ever comes to my house.

But all night long the bell goes ding dong, we are so used to it now, that we just ignore it.

So if anyone was to come to our house, we would never answer the door.

I have been told that its people locking and un-locking their cars that set my bell off, the bell must be on the same frequency.

Apparently you can change the frequency of these door bells but I have no idea how

I really should try and find the instructions, before it drives me insane  🙂

In May 2007 I spent some time bonding with my eldest son.

It started my great love affair with Prison Break and Wentworth Miller.

Since then we have tried on several occasions to catch season 2 on UK TV Gold but have always failed in our attempts.

Finally last weekend I found Prison Break season 2, the whole 22 episodes, at a price I could afford.

I am in heaven…   3 episode down 19 to go 🙂

Found this great meme over at Ladybanana’s.

The rules: All you have to do is Google your first name with the word needs after it and post the results. (Yourname needs)

Here are a few of my needs….