title A Vaccination Afternoon, Swaffham, Norfolk - 9th May 2021 intro It's time for Isobel's first Covid vaccination - at Downham Market, over 40 miles away - so we make a bit of a day of it by stopping off at Swaffham on the way over, where we potter around in The Works' closing-down sale and have lunch at the Red Lion - one of no less than four pubs within 30 metres, all of which are clustered around the market place. On the way we stop off for a bit to walk around the woods at Lynford Stag, and before any of that we're in Diss. imgc7265 The road to Thornham imgc7267 A field of oilseed imgc7272 Nosher's mad lockdown hair imgc7278 The road into Thrandeston imgc7283 The Sue Ryder charity shop has packed it in imgc7284 A rainy Mere Street imgc7285 The former Eastern Electricity building imgc7286 The bottom of Mere Street in the rain imgc7287 The old tourist office imgc7290 A small huddle of pigeons near the Mere imgc7294 A load of trolleys in the tunnel at Morrisons imgp7230 Harry gets an ice cream to Lynford Stag imgp7231 A stag with a red willy at Lynford Stag imgp7232 Harry and Isobel walk off through the woods imgp7234 Fred and Isobel in the woods imgp7236 Lime-green trees imgp7239 Isobel takes a photo imgp7240 Lines of fungus on a tree stump imgp7241 Isobel sits on a log imgp7242 Harry runs around whacking stuff imgp7243 Isobel finds a den imgp7245 A tree with an interesting kink in it imgp7246 We walk back to the car imgp7248 Mundford's shop on the Mundford roundabout imgp7249 A funky van from 1990 imgp7250 Isobel and Harry head back from the bogs imgp7252 We head off into town imgp7254 Brick and flint shed in Swaffham imgp7258 The Works in Swaffham is closing down imgp7259 The Buttercross on the market place imgp7261 The boys roam around in The Works imgp7262 Isobel looks at a pile of books imgp7263 Looking at stationery imgp7264 Fred in a mask imgp7266 Fred and Harry imgp7268 Fred plays with his new magic cube thing imgp7270 A family of ducks crosses the road imgp7271 The traffic is stopped by the crossing ducks imgp7273 The ducks trundle past Iceland imgp7275 The classic old-school Starling florists imgp7277 Impressive flint townhouse in Swaffham imgp7279 The Red Lion pub imgp7281 There's some sort of moped gathering imgp7282 An old tobacco shop imgp7283 A line-up of classic Vespas and Lambrettas imgp7285 Outside the Red Lion, our lunch pub imgp7287 The ghost of a building, bricked up imgp7288 The Swaffham war memorial imgp7289 The former Cornhall in Swaffham, now a Costa imgp7290 A derelict K6 phone box imgp7291 The very-1970s Margaret's Tea Rooms imgp7292 Lunch arrives at the Red Lion imgp7293 Harry grins imgp7294 A dog looks very fed up imgp7295 We head off to explore the churchyard imgp7297 St. Peter and St. Paul church imgp7298 A big house with not many real windows imgp7304 A duck nests by a gravestone imgp7305 Fred watches the ducklings imgp7307 A duck with fluffy ducklings imgp7313 Fred and Harry watch the ducks imgp7316 A load more ducklings imgp7321 Isobel runs around the churchyard imgp7326 The very grey Oasis Centre in Swaffham imgp7328 A pair of very derelict vans imgp7329 The tiny Myhill's Pet and Garden imgp7330 The anonymous "Tasty House" in Downham Market imgp7332 Harry and Isobel in Downham Market imgp7334 Harry's got a stick imgp7335 The James Scott clock in Downham Market imgp7336 Fred and Harry hang around imgp7337 The classic Reeds Homestores shop imgp7338 Isobel heads in for her vaccination imgp7340 Boarded-up apartments in Downham Market imgp7341 Harry leans on a wall imgp7342 There's a very old building behind W.H. Brown's imgp7343 Downham Market's Town Hall imgp7344 The James Scott clock again imgp7346 The vacant Castle Hotel imgp7348 We met a friendly invisible cat in the car park imgp7354 The derelict Mill House garage imgp7355 Derelict petrol pumps imgp7357 A derelict corrugated-iron workshop imgp7358 Mill House Garage imgp7360 A derelict diesel pump