Norfolk Branch Report Back In

George & Yorkie are safely back from their latest adventure with a lot of new material for the Friendly Planet guide that they are eager to share with you. However, we, the less frequent travellers of the Norfolk Branch, have persuaded them to hang fire for a couple of days so we can update you on some of the things that we have been up to on home turf. As the end of George & Yorkie's posts about one holiday seems to coincide with the start of the next one, we thought that if we didn't make a concerted effort to get a few words in, there was a danger that you'd be reading about our summer activities in the middle of winter.

As we've enjoyed reading the Suffolk branch's tales of their French adventure so much, we also thought we'd like to give them the opportunity to tell us more, if there is more to tell.

Anyway, back to Norfolk, it has been a busy summer so far and we'd like to share some highlights.


Not long ago the garden was buzzing, literally, with activity. This was because the chain saw gang of Blue Bear and myself (Ungi) were in action. Now, we love trees and we wouldn't want any of our readers to think for a minute that we would cut down a tree without good reason. However, sometimes there comes a time when a tree (or three) have grown too big and sad though it is, they have to go.

In the photo above you see the before 'now you see it' shot. Monkey being a very agile tree climber was giving us a hand to get ropes tied on. Below, you have the 'now you don't' shot.


In total three trees had to come down and it was a whole day's work for a gang of us to chop up the trees into logs. We ended up with quite a large stack of wood as you can see in our next picture. Sadly, being fir, the wood wouldn't have been suitable for our wood burner for several years and as we couldn't store it that long, we had it taken away.


More news on the gardening front from Tommy, the chief gardening bear, is that the vegetable beds are doing well and we have had a particularly bumper crop of broad beans. This is good news as they are one of our favourite vegetables. Below you see Tommy handing over one of his pickings to Chef Bear Oakley. They decided they would pod the beans and freeze them so we could enjoy them over a long period.


As well as producing great vegetables Tommy also fills the garden with lovely flowers. We thought the following was a great example of what his green paws can achieve.


We'll be back soon with more news of our Norfolk summer.

Lots of love Ungi, Blue Bear, Tommy & the rest of the gang xxx