Investigating the Eel's Boot!

I'm sure all our readers know how much we like visiting pubs. Normally this is because we like drinking beer. There are a few pubs, however, which draw us for other reasons.

One such pub is the Eels Foot at Eastbridge, near Dunwich. Our walk over Dunwich Heath just happened to start from this village, and of course this meant that it also ended at Eastbridge, just a few yards (sorry we haven't gone metric) from this marvellously named pub.

It would have cut our lovely day short, if we didn't pay a visit, so visit we did.


The non beer reason for liking this pub is illustrated in our picture. Not only is this pub located in a scenic spot and have a superbly whacky name, the landlord makes the most of the name, and goes to town with some great illustrations. There is a lovely pub sign (but we were too short to get near enough for a picture) and in the beer garden is this incredible sculpture depicting the pub name. They've taken a bit of licence actually as it's a boot rather than a foot, but we still think it's great and it makes an excellent bear's playground.

It did actually distract us from our beer for a moment or two ... that doesn't happen very often.

Lots of love, all at Bears Unlimited xxx

Does Purple Suit Me ... ?

Many of us Norfolk Branch members lived in Suffolk before we moved to Norfolk. We were therefore quite excited to receive an invitation to meet up with friends in Aldeburgh, where they were on holiday. We looked forward not only to seeing our friends again, but also to revisiting some of our old stomping grounds.


As our friends had already explored Aldeburgh, we headed for one of our favourite spots, Dunwich. We love it here. The beach is very fine, the pub and chip shop are excellent and the heath ... well, just look at it in our picture - what a blaze of colour.

There are so many paths crossing the heath, that a fine day's walking is always guaranteed. Our recent visit was no exception and we were blessed with some lovely sunny weather. This gave us an excuse to linger and to drink in the lovely views and take in all the sights.

These were not all natural ones ...


Here you see us with one of several wave sculptures created by an environmental arts group called Red Earth. As they were only there for the summer we're glad we got to see them before they were removed.

Lots of love George, Yorkie & (sorry we haven't introduced her properly yet) Rosa xxx