As you may have noticed, we shut the shop over the Easter Weekend. The Sconch family went away for a few days! Those that know us personally and that come in to the shop will know that we don't EVER take a whole day off - we are always replying to emails, messages and processing orders. But I for one was losing the plot (more than usual) and so we decided to run away for a few days.

And I managed ONE WHOLE DAY without checking emails ;)

After several false starts (bike carriers falling off the back of the car after the chain snapped, a Sconchlet needing dinner because everything was running late etc) we didn't actually leave until 8:30pm, around the time we had actually planned to arrive...

But we arrived nevertheless, and we were greeted by the lovely Rachael (you know, the loony one over at Foxglove and Gingersnap) as we were staying nearby (yes that is right, she met us even though it was midnight) and so began our holiday!

The weekend was spent mooching around Winterton, this adorable village we were staying in, trundling along the beach and a shopping trip to Norwich.

We spent a lovely first morning with Rachael's family who have a boat and tractor up on the beach...

Not sure about this tractor mummy... it is awfully high up!

All was going well until Nip had shut the tractor door and the Sconchlet had a bit of a meltdown!

We then went for a trundle along the beach... and when I say trundle, I mean we acted like loons...

And then we decided to have a piggy back... and you just know that that was going to end well...

Starting well...

Yes, that's right. She fell over backwards.

But the Sconchlet thought it was funny...

On the Saturday, the three of us went to Norwich for a day trip to look around the shops (yes, I went to a yarn shop!) and then on Sunday we had a bit of a drive around (mainly to get the Sconchlet to sleep, which was totally unsuccessful). We stumbled across this lovely little Craft Centre, which you can read all abouthere.

Alby Crafts and Gardens is a lovely collection of workshop spaces and mini galleries all set in lovely grounds with a cute tea room. They advertise that they have the award winning 'Norfolk Breakfast Egg', which of course we had to sample... basically a scotch egg, but instead of pork meat, it was surrounded by mashed potato with bacon bits, and coated in breadcrumbs and cornflakes! It was actually really nice...

The grounds were very pretty...

And the Sconchlet enjoyed looking around...

We then went on to the beach at Cromer, which wasn't a long stop on our travels, not least because we were FREEZING!

You can see what the weather was like here...a bit choppy!

But we still had a lovely time :) And I cannot wait to go back for some more 'down time'. It was just what we needed.

Sam x