Wild Walk – 2nd October 2025

Gulls on the rocks in Sheringham

Today, I varied my daily walk after I visited our local hairdresser’s in Sheringham.
I left the hairdresser’s and began to walk towards the busy High Street.
  A couple walking a yellow Labrador were walking towards me as I made my way towards the seafront. Three small mixed-breed dogs passed by with their owners. One was a Cockapoo-type dog, a Pekingese-type, and a Dachshund.
A pair of feral pigeons flew up to a rooftop, where I noticed a few starlings flying around.
  The pathways to the promenade were packed with many people enjoying a mild afternoon out, taking in the sea air.
  I reached the seafront wall and took several photographs of a group of gulls and some small birds perched on large rocks on the beach.

Gulls on the beach
Two ships on the horizon

Two ships were visible on the near horizon, and using the distance focus on my mobile phone, I took a couple of photographs.
Google Lens later identified these as a container ship and an offshore supply vessel.
  As I began to make my way through the town centre, I noticed a couple walking a pair of young Dobermans. Many gulls, feral pigeons, and starlings were flying around the buildings, scavenging for food.
  I then began walking homeward along Holt Road where I photographed a beautiful golden coloured acacia tree. Some tiny pink sorrel flowers were growing wild and brightening up the drab weeds alongside the pathway.
Today, I walked for 1.85 miles in 38 minutes.
Google Fit awarded me 28 heart points.

ELEVEN HOURS

MONDAY 12th OCTOBER 2020 ~ FLASH POETRY 

PROMPT ~ Eleven Hours

ELEVEN HOURS

by John Yeo

The feeling came through like a bolt from the blue

The first hour passed quickly, the idea was exciting 

My mind resonated with love through and through.

During the second hour I decided to approach you

I hesitated for the third hour, your love was inviting

The feeling came through like a bolt from the blue.

The long fourth hour my feelings hard to construe 

As the fifth hour arrived and left like lightning 

My mind resonated with love through and through.

Then came the sixth hour with my thoughts askew

Melding into the seventh the idea so enticing

The feeling came through like a bolt from the blue.

Hour eight I stopped thinking yet the time still flew

On the ninth hour with the fires of my feelings ignited

My mind resonated with love through and through.

Hour ten and my confidence just grew and grew

Your reply came through like a bolt from the blue

At the eleventh hour I knelt down and asked you

My feelings resonated with love through and through.

© Written by John Yeo ~ All rights reserved.

Wild Walk 1st October 2025

Monterey Cyprus tree

  The weather was cool and cloudy today as I walked along the roads and walkways around the Corner House dental practice in Cromer. The houses around this area were built in the late Victorian era, and the trees and private gardens are well-established.
  A single corvid flew high over the rooftops as I walked along Saint Mary’s road in Cromer. I passed a man walking two dogs and spoke to him; he said one of his dogs was a Cockapoo, and the other was a Portuguese Water Dog. Oddly, both of these dogs looked remarkably like each other; they were both chocolate brown in colour with curly coats.
  Many established shrubs were growing and thriving in the front gardens as I passed. Some beautiful floral displays and rosebushes in bloom brightened up the sides of the road.

Roses and Cyclamen


A man was walking a mongrel-type dog along a pathway behind the houses.
Two jackdaws flew over a rooftop and settled on a concrete ledge under the gutter.
  When I arrived at the end of the road I saw an interesting sight. Two men, one quite elderly, were seated on a couple of chairs next to a wheelbarrow, outside a garage full of gardening tools next to a colourful, neat garden. I couldn’t help thinking that is a great way to spend time while gardening.
  I photographed a marmalade hoverfly sipping nectar from a dandelion flower.
An impressive, large Icelandic Sheepdog, accompanied by a young man, passed by on the opposite side of the road.
I turned back to where the Kuga was parked, passing an impressively tall Monterey Cypress tree.
Today, I walked for 3.02 miles in 1 hour and 16 minutes.
Google Fit awarded me 22 heart points.

Southern Hawker Dragon fly