Monday and Tuesday 8 & 9 September 2025

Draycott in the Moors is located mid way between Manchester and Birmingham and our travels from there to Brigstock took us south east towards Norwich. A slight diversion towards Peterborough after breakfast on Monday, saw us meet up with Shamus for a coffee, then again south easterly to Kenninghall for our next nine day cat sit. As you can guess by the obscure village names, we are in rural Norfolk, an area of farms and small villages. It is peaceful, and at the moment, the sun is shining, 24c and our little cottage on a very large block, is walking distance to the Red Lion Pub. 

Of course there is a Red Lion pub. It’s the most common name for a pub in the UK (668 of them!). This is an interesting sit, as the two cats are microchipped. The owners can locate them at any time via a phone app. The cat flap is also electronically linked to the app and can be locked both ways by the app, as well as pinging each time a cat comes and goes. Very handy indeed. Flashy can think of other uses for this technology! Every time he looks at a cat he sees $250. That’s not the value of the pelt but the nightly saving on accommodation.

Tuesday’s trip to Tesco in nearby Diss, provided some essential ingredients. Diss, you ask? The town of Diss derives its name from the Anglo-Saxon word 'dic', which means "ditch.” The name refers to the town's central six-acre lake fed by underground springs. So, there you go. Plenty of things to learn around here.

Last night we lit the fire pit and the big pizza oven. Cranked it up to 450C and had an excellent pizza and a sit around the fire until it got dark.






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