Hard - but important - to look away from the news at the moment. Granted, it’s easier in some places than others…
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Wells next the sea?
mar 8, 2025, 11:30 pm • 0 0 • view
I haven’t listened to the news for 2 weeks sadly including not listening to you. The news is so depressing and scary right now. Nothing personal
mar 8, 2025, 1:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Our usual view from above Cresswell beach in Northumberland, a favourite spot for Patch too.
mar 9, 2025, 2:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Always good to get out in nature
mar 8, 2025, 11:56 am • 2 0 • view
Norfolk?
mar 8, 2025, 12:45 pm • 2 0 • view
Keeping an eye out for small boats 🤣 I know someone who has fisher price binoculars.
mar 8, 2025, 3:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Wells James?
mar 8, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Nice blue sky
mar 8, 2025, 12:11 pm • 2 0 • view
Whoft? or maybe Molford St Malcolm
mar 8, 2025, 11:58 am • 1 0 • view
Agree, it’s really hard to pull yourself away from the illness of Trumpitise
mar 8, 2025, 12:19 pm • 3 0 • view
Dee estuary,Neston in Cheshire.When news gets bad,I am lucky enough to be able to get here every day.
mar 9, 2025, 7:28 am • 1 0 • view
Stiffkey??
mar 8, 2025, 11:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Desolate.
mar 8, 2025, 11:54 am • 1 0 • view
Burnham Overy Staithe?
mar 8, 2025, 6:39 pm • 1 0 • view
🎯
mar 8, 2025, 6:44 pm • 2 0 • view
Glorious, especially on a sunny day like today. Bramble loved her first trip there last year. Enjoy!
mar 8, 2025, 6:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Got to be Norfolk. Maybe Blakeney? Or Wells? Haven't been for a few years but we love it
mar 8, 2025, 3:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Pretty much.
mar 8, 2025, 9:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Lovely day to bury one’s head in the sand for a few hours.
mar 8, 2025, 12:26 pm • 3 0 • view
Where is this? It's beautiful
mar 8, 2025, 5:44 pm • 4 0 • view
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mar 8, 2025, 5:49 pm • 3 1 • view
Fermanagh. It is very peaceful
mar 8, 2025, 5:46 pm • 0 0 • view
I must see this for myself, in person. It's amazing
mar 8, 2025, 5:50 pm • 1 0 • view
You would be very welcome. The locals are lovely. Lots of great walks in the area. Just wrap up. Even when its sunny its about to rain.
mar 8, 2025, 5:53 pm • 1 0 • view
This sounds encouraging
mar 8, 2025, 5:56 pm • 1 0 • view
If you like outdoors its an amazing place. Lots to do in and around the Loughs.
mar 8, 2025, 5:59 pm • 0 0 • view
I love outdoors. I live in the stix already. But those views....
mar 8, 2025, 6:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Then its perfect. I lived in large towns and cities for most of my life. Never going back. Newcastle in Co Down is also worth a visit but a far more challenging hike.
mar 8, 2025, 6:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Somewhere in Norfolk ? Beautiful
mar 8, 2025, 1:06 pm • 3 0 • view
Walberswick
mar 8, 2025, 11:54 am • 1 0 • view
North Norfolk coast is lovely, but it’ll never beat the north Northern Ireland coast.
mar 8, 2025, 11:58 am • 1 0 • view
It's well worth getting away from the news, and more so, social media. The anguished wailing that permeates this place is doing my head in. I dread to think what it's doing to those folk who are on here 18 hours a day.
mar 8, 2025, 12:02 pm • 3 0 • view
North Norfolk? Blakeney / Cley way?
mar 8, 2025, 1:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Burnham Overy Staithe ♥️ one of my favourite places in the whole world.
mar 8, 2025, 2:11 pm • 3 0 • view
are you shelling for Lion bar's? 😖
mar 8, 2025, 9:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Big sky. Wells-next-the-Sea I speculate, and good weather.
mar 8, 2025, 12:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Wells next to the Sea
mar 8, 2025, 1:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Norfolk?
mar 8, 2025, 12:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Burnham Overy?
mar 8, 2025, 11:52 am • 7 0 • view
Looks like Blakeney
mar 8, 2025, 12:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh yes, it is Blakeney
mar 8, 2025, 12:31 pm • 0 0 • view
No, def not Blakeney. Lisa says Burnham Overy Staithe
mar 8, 2025, 12:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah Lisa’s right. Should’ve stuck to my guns.
mar 8, 2025, 1:34 pm • 0 0 • view
You were right first time!
mar 8, 2025, 1:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Damn. Knew it!
mar 8, 2025, 1:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Apologies. These salt marshes just seem to blur into one.
mar 8, 2025, 1:36 pm • 0 0 • view
They do. They are glorious though.
mar 8, 2025, 3:16 pm • 0 0 • view
My mother's family originally came from Burnham Thorpe and Burnham Overy. (Note they were poor agricultural labourers and fishers - not a Chelsea tractor in sight then.) I think I should get the board game for that.
mar 8, 2025, 4:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Darn, only just seen this! Recognised Burnham Overy straight away. So beautiful and calming there. Big skies are much needed right now.
mar 8, 2025, 1:19 pm • 2 0 • view
James O’Brien. I couldn’t agree more. Had a tough week personally and the power of apricity to transfer your mood is often forgotten during the long, dark winter months.
mar 8, 2025, 7:49 pm • 0 0 • view
I used to do it occasionally too. Now I just dip into the news every week, in case I need to buy in extra tinned goods, - soak up the place I am. Not that hard to look away from the fall of America...
mar 8, 2025, 1:36 pm • 0 0 • view
“One day Lad, all this’ll be brown”.
mar 8, 2025, 12:07 pm • 2 0 • view
What, the curtains.
mar 8, 2025, 1:47 pm • 2 0 • view
Listen Alice
mar 9, 2025, 7:16 pm • 0 0 • view
“Oh go an’ get a glass of water”.
mar 9, 2025, 8:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Beautiful and therapeutic, thank you
mar 8, 2025, 2:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you
mar 8, 2025, 12:23 pm • 2 0 • view
I never knew Brentford was so pretty.
mar 8, 2025, 12:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Always welcome in lincoln to see our great Cathedral again. Just up road.
mar 8, 2025, 1:29 pm • 0 0 • view
What a beautiful day today is. For the first time in a long time, I haven't looked at the news today. Back on social media now the light is fading. I hope you've had a trouble free day today.
mar 8, 2025, 6:20 pm • 3 0 • view
Blakeney?
mar 8, 2025, 12:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Agreed. We got out and about with nature today, woodland, lakes and plenty of sunshine. Much needed
mar 8, 2025, 10:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh, yes! Thankyou….
mar 8, 2025, 3:50 pm • 0 0 • view
My daughter and son in law booked a beach hut at Wells for the day. It was -2 outside when they told me, and I politely declined the invite to join them. Feel a bit of a chump today!
mar 8, 2025, 2:46 pm • 1 0 • view
So close!
mar 8, 2025, 1:08 pm • 12 0 • view
Brancaster Staithe?
mar 8, 2025, 7:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Burnham Overy ⛵
mar 8, 2025, 8:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Is it? Knew I'd been there just not sure where along that coast.
mar 8, 2025, 8:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Looking again that's the golfcourse clubhouse at Brancaster in the background.
mar 8, 2025, 8:31 pm • 0 0 • view
I hope so. I've been there since 1973.
mar 9, 2025, 8:52 am • 1 0 • view
I knew I recognised the area. Lovely part of the world. We regularly stayed in Brancaster Staithe before we moved from Essex to Wiltshire.
mar 9, 2025, 8:57 am • 2 0 • view
Closest wins the board game ? Make my day !!!!
mar 8, 2025, 1:17 pm • 4 0 • view
With his money he could afford Suffolk and not slum it
mar 8, 2025, 12:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Harsh !
mar 8, 2025, 12:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Fair
mar 8, 2025, 12:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Me, you or both ?
mar 8, 2025, 12:38 pm • 0 0 • view
To what i said
mar 8, 2025, 12:40 pm • 1 0 • view
The Norf /Suff wars Still fighting to this day. Seriously under-reported.
mar 8, 2025, 12:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Indeed. Is the river Waveney still mined ?
mar 8, 2025, 12:37 pm • 1 0 • view
I live in Hertfordshire. No idea why anybody who can afford it would choose Norfolk over Suffolk
mar 8, 2025, 12:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Suffolker here… couldn’t agree more ! I love Norfolk but Suffolk always wins in my book (except for Ipswich)
mar 8, 2025, 1:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Ipswich is a marvellous place
mar 8, 2025, 1:31 pm • 2 0 • view
Haha, my family’s from Ipswich, but it has always been a tradition to be rude about it. Apols for any offence! 😂
mar 8, 2025, 1:41 pm • 2 0 • view
Norfolk. Suffolk Matter. Anti matter 💥
mar 8, 2025, 6:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Norfolk is awful
mar 8, 2025, 6:44 pm • 0 0 • view
😆
mar 8, 2025, 12:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Wonderful place.
mar 9, 2025, 5:42 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm in the garden trying to start lawnmower!
mar 8, 2025, 12:24 pm • 2 0 • view
Trying to cross the Thames on foot?
mar 8, 2025, 11:54 am • 1 0 • view
My favourite place in the UK, and the best tonic for troubled times…
mar 8, 2025, 9:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Tide’s out on Brentford Lock
mar 8, 2025, 12:13 pm • 1 0 • view
That's Brancaster Staithe I believe
mar 8, 2025, 2:22 pm • 1 0 • view
mar 8, 2025, 5:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Wells next the Sea, I’m there in three weeks 😀
mar 10, 2025, 9:06 pm • 0 0 • view
❤️
mar 8, 2025, 7:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Check this out next time you're in Scotland 🏴 😁 bsky.app/profile/byli...
mar 8, 2025, 1:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Bit of amazing beauty and social history rolled together. @nationaltrust.bsky.social #HardwickHall
mar 8, 2025, 4:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Trying my hardest.
mar 8, 2025, 9:00 pm • 0 0 • view
mar 8, 2025, 6:02 pm • 2 0 • view
Hunstanton. Calm and peaceful ✌️
mar 8, 2025, 6:08 pm • 2 0 • view
I find it is almost impossible to be angry at the state of the world whilst simultaneously looking at a picture of a cute puppy!
mar 8, 2025, 1:54 pm • 2 0 • view
Sorry, you do you, but a muddy estuary, that almost certainly smells of poo (even sovereign poo!), and rotting fish (even Happy British Fish)... just doesn't do it for me James.
mar 8, 2025, 4:31 pm • 0 0 • view
My view, keeps me grounded, sometimes.. While it feels like the rest of the world is going to go up in flames.
mar 8, 2025, 1:41 pm • 1 0 • view
But don't go swimming James - you can't actually see E-Coli!!!
mar 8, 2025, 12:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Narf Narferk?
mar 8, 2025, 11:55 am • 4 0 • view
Indeed - the news is just another show. Someone's choice, someone's point of view. Trouble is, it matters.
mar 9, 2025, 1:31 am • 0 0 • view
Wells-next-to-the-sea.
mar 8, 2025, 12:04 pm • 2 0 • view
And yet ironically it's got M R James vibes.
mar 8, 2025, 11:56 am • 1 0 • view
This just in, traces of news discovered on remote shoreline. More on that story when we can find any way to make it relevant to the south east.
mar 8, 2025, 12:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Wells? Nice chippy on the front if it is
mar 8, 2025, 12:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Trouble is I'm seeing it everywhere. My orange cat being subservient to the Russian blue that visits us most days for the past 7 years.
mar 8, 2025, 8:03 pm • 1 0 • view
I share my home with a beautiful orange cat who happily watches the intruder cat eat his food, drink his water, and generally enjoy his life. To be fair the intruder is very cute, and if I didn’t have a cat already … but it’s the way the orange ones are so laid back 🐈🐾
mar 8, 2025, 10:07 pm • 1 0 • view
It's true they are.
mar 8, 2025, 11:02 pm • 0 0 • view
mar 8, 2025, 10:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes mate I am off to the the dump then I am walking my beautiful bonkers loving gentle dog
mar 8, 2025, 1:25 pm • 1 0 • view
mar 8, 2025, 2:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Fabulous hound!
mar 8, 2025, 3:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you Kat 😊
mar 8, 2025, 3:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Big sky! Perfect for the soul.
mar 8, 2025, 12:40 pm • 2 0 • view
You’re in my home town! Not a bad spot
mar 8, 2025, 1:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Get a crab sandwich - just don’t ask the loocals which way they voted Brexit and if they like rioting Farage…
mar 8, 2025, 2:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Rye?
mar 8, 2025, 11:52 am • 0 0 • view
Alt-text says Norfolk
mar 8, 2025, 12:23 pm • 2 0 • view
Wells or Blakeney - one of those North Norfolk seaside villages where the sea is several miles away at times! But it is indeed a perfect early spring day 😍
mar 8, 2025, 2:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Thanks, I’ll have a double.
mar 8, 2025, 1:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Your not in Kiddy anymore! Unless they have given the forest glades a refurb. Started listening to your pod, excellent work. Handing callers like the guy who was beaten as a kid, with exquisite sensitivity.
mar 8, 2025, 12:36 pm • 2 0 • view
That was so moving. Poor guy. Hope he’s ok.
mar 8, 2025, 6:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Did Trump take all the water
mar 8, 2025, 11:59 am • 1 0 • view
I hope that's a tide mark on that prick's mini to the left of picture
mar 8, 2025, 12:56 pm • 0 0 • view
I've barely watched a news programme since last November. Gradually letting small pieces of news in per day but I'm not doing 4 years of mental torture again like last time albeit that was worse because of Johnson.
mar 8, 2025, 12:21 pm • 0 0 • view
the views also make u realise whats worth fighting for and whats not
mar 8, 2025, 12:20 pm • 5 0 • view
What a lovely view
mar 8, 2025, 8:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Burnham Overy Staithe. My favourite beach in Norfolk 👏
mar 8, 2025, 10:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Just over a week ago I had a plan to turn off the news and just listen to music. Failed abysmally, maybe I should try again.
mar 8, 2025, 7:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Bur ham?
mar 8, 2025, 8:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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mar 8, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
The ‘big sky’ appreciation.
mar 8, 2025, 1:04 pm • 2 0 • view
It's a key way of not triggering me, James. I've doing a good job of not watching the orange thing since November, but have had a blip with the Ukraine fiasco.
mar 8, 2025, 12:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Benfleet?
mar 8, 2025, 11:54 am • 1 0 • view
Our news are the daily lives of others so yeah very hard indeed!
mar 8, 2025, 12:19 pm • 2 0 • view
Went for a 7 mile walk with the kids in the Cotswolds to a pub. Granted, not far from both RAF Brize Norton and RAF Fairford, prime targets in any war, but still managed to forget all about it for a few hours. Spring is finally here.
mar 8, 2025, 7:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Burnham Overy staithe
mar 8, 2025, 2:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Europe’s still got it. A building that the Yanks will never come close to. And I’m not remotely religious.
mar 8, 2025, 1:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes. It's extraordinary.
mar 8, 2025, 3:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Spent the day in the garden digging out brambles. Got a lot done channeling my outrage into something positive. The right eye twitch has almost gone🤪
mar 8, 2025, 6:31 pm • 2 0 • view
A little bit/lot more easier for us now. Had the Tories (or Reform!) won last July, I suspect it would be a hell if a lot more difficult.
mar 8, 2025, 12:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Wells-next-the-sea? ❤️
mar 8, 2025, 1:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Brancaster
mar 8, 2025, 12:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Nearly…
mar 8, 2025, 1:09 pm • 2 0 • view
Suffolk?
mar 8, 2025, 4:28 pm • 0 0 • view
How lovely!!
mar 8, 2025, 1:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Burnham Overy :) hope you are visiting The Hero 👍
mar 8, 2025, 3:59 pm • 0 0 • view
You should try the beach at Holkham in Norfolk James. Existential bliss within reach of "The Smoke". Only bettered by those on the Isle of Lewis with their turquoise waters, mile upon mile of sand, distant hills & when I was there, 4 others. Have to wrap up though. Don't tell Trump :)
mar 8, 2025, 7:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Looks like Mr O'B must have been just around the corner at Brancaster Staith if l'm not mistaken?? If so James, do call in on the beach at Wells too..lovely beach huts & sand dunes + forest walks beside the endless beach!
mar 8, 2025, 7:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Hard - but important - to look away from the news at the moment. Granted, it’s easier in some places than others…
mar 8, 2025, 1:49 pm • 2 0 • view
Burnham Overy Staithe?
mar 8, 2025, 4:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Is that Blakeney?
mar 9, 2025, 12:04 am • 0 0 • view
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Boat spotting with your mate?
mar 8, 2025, 12:32 pm • 2 0 • view
Hi James just a note as I am busy painting on this gloriously sunny day. I suffer with bad depression witch has been extremely challenging lately but your shows on you tube have given me the best laugh I have had in a long time so thank you and keep doing what you’re doing ❤️
mar 8, 2025, 3:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Beautiful if we can keep it that way.
mar 8, 2025, 12:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Blakeney?
mar 8, 2025, 1:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Southwold? ❤️
mar 8, 2025, 6:43 pm • 1 0 • view
We really do live in a beautiful country. Having just returned from a stint in the USA, just breathing fresh clean air again is life affirming. We take ours too much for granted.
mar 8, 2025, 7:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes. It's just all too depressing at the moment. Here's to saving our sanity as best we can.
mar 8, 2025, 4:18 pm • 0 0 • view
The wonderful Nature Reserve at Blakeney Quay?
mar 8, 2025, 1:58 pm • 0 0 • view