We took Jasper to the Cozy Pets Boutique Hotel in the morning. Unlike Tabitha and Amelia he voluntarily enters the carrier - but you have to be fast with the carrier door to keep him entered. We then packed and set off for Yaxham to meet my cousin Pat and her husband Richard at Pickle and Pie. We were a few minutes early, having given ourselves contingency time to find the place. Google Maps said the place was on the right but it had hopped over to the left when we got there.

Pickle and Pie is on the site of Yaxham Waters holiday park and caters for breakfast and lunch. We had sandwiches to keep Virginia and I going, with an ice cream tub as dessert. The peanut butter ice cream was nice if you like peanut butter. We then headed off for Cromer way. I could do without driving down one track roads, and bizarre modern traffic enraging schemes. We found our way smoothly for us to the Church Rooms in Northrepps. And the fun started.

Church Rooms has style and modernity, underfloor heating by heat pump for one. The draining board was grooves in a worktop, artistic but not as useful as a traditional one. There was an absence of old-fashioned dials in favour of cryptic smart control panels.

The simplest problem was finding the cutlery. The welcome notice said in the crockery drawer. What the welcome pack didn’t say was that the crockery wasn’t in the crockery drawer. Harder was getting the boiling water tap to produce hot water - not only have you to find the hidden power switch but then solve the riddles on the unit itself to make it work. But the microwave was a pure Mensa level puzzle. Virginia solved it sufficiently to heat up the Chinese meal for two we had brought with us.

I also had fun with emails on the laptop. For some reason I don’t understand Apple Mail forgot everything in my inbox temporarily. Perhaps Apple were trying to encourage me to keep my inbox empty.

Church Rooms was fine as a base in the Cromer area. I was worried the car might slip off the muddy slope one had to park on and block the twisty one-track road outside (getting out seemed chancy as we were on a blind corner). One of the Venetian blinds was broken but there was plenty of space and modern facilities.