Wot I Did On My Birthday, by IDV (aged 44 & fourteen halfs*)

 Well, yes, I did go for a walk as the photos above attest, but the evening before, I actually went out.  With actual people (four friends).  To a bar (for cocktails)!  Yes, I know.

 

 Anyway, we went to Shoreline in Cromer because I didn't fancy spending all night standing in a noisy, packed pub getting hot and bothered (and not in a good way) and not hearing what anyone was saying.  I had three cocktails - a Cromer colada (basically a piña colada with apricot rum or schnapps or something), a Garden sour (a Spring special made with rhubarb gin, lemon juice and syrup), and an Ameretto sour - and didn't have to open my purse once because my lovely, generous friends bought them!

 Shoreline doesn't seem to have a website but they are on IG and FB (I'm not linking to them as I don't approve of the whole Meta thing, but if you're curious you can find them under shorelinecromer).

 

I neglected to take photos of the place or the cocktails, so I nabbed these from the web.  It was not raining or wet when we went.

  Right.  That's Saturday night out of the way.  Here are the rest of the photos from Sunday morning's birthday walk with Bitey. 

 We walked into Cromer along the beach and met a couple of friends (one of whom was out with me on Saturday night) and their dogs - a black lab and a Dobermann.  We got coffee and hot chocolates on the prom(enade) then went back along the beach a little way and up the steps to the lighthouse.  It was there that we parted, my friends going home in Cromer and me and Bitey walking back along the cliffs to Overstrand:

 

The sky was quite blue, as you can see in this photo.

You can tell it's the sky because there are a couple of sea gulls in it (if you embiggen and squint).

 

 

Speaking of blue, look what was waiting for me when I got home:

 

My nieces (aged nearly 10 and nearly 13) made it.  There is still some left.

 

 

 After I'd stuffed myself with party food - incuding half a black forest gateau - I walked back into Cromer to see Ryan Gosling in Project Hail Mary at the cinema.  Both he and the film were very engaging (I've only seen him in Murder by Numbers which I don't remember as it was so long ago, and Blade Runner 2049).

 

 

 

* but we don't count the halfs.