With the Walk Master unable to walk and King Canape in Strasbourg, I was concerned that there would not be a quorum for pie judging, so this week we returned to an old staple, pies from G. Morris & Sons. In the event, ten turned up for our over the border expedition. We headed to Carlton Colville in Suffolk and parked at the Community Centre.
From here we headed south, first by pavement then by footpath to
Holy Trinity church, Gisleham. Here we found two scratch dials. Now heading east along a road, we were afforded views of the new (1959) Pakefield
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water tower. After travelling towards it for half a mile, we headed south again for half a mile along footpaths, passing White House Farm, then followed some debate as to which way we should be going. We continued south down the side of a field of stubble, with many junior frogs – leaping as our footsteps disturbed them.
Now we had a good view of Kessingland’s redundant water tower. We then turned left and headed away from the roar of the A12, west to Black Street and a conveniently located seat and shelter for lunch. Replete, we continued westwards along a track towards Rushmere, then after a short length of road we headed north by footpath. Don had now got his secateurs out and proceeded to attack virtually every bramble bush along the route, consequently falling way behind the group.
We arrived at
St. Michael’s church, Rushmere, some way from the village and on the edge of Carlton Colville. The church was locked but had one scratch dial. Continuing along roads to the Community Centre, we passed a garden where windfall fruit was being offered free to any one that wanted it. Stocking up on fruit we made our way back to the cars, harvesting a good number of aluminium cans. No canapés this week straight into the pies... The pies when cut, revealed a pink filling with little jelly and the aroma was of the pastry. The pie was lightly spiced and lacked flavour, mustard helping a little. The crust was good though, the pie scoring 6.3125, down from the 7.1 they scored the last time we had them on the
24th May. The standard deviation was very high at 1.81142, so a normalised score of 6.5 for G. Morris this time. Hobnobs replaced the usual Shortbread finale.
With the Walk Master unable to walk and King Canape in Strasbourg, I was concerned that there would not be a quorum for pie judging, so this week we returned to an old staple, pies from G. Morris & Sons. In the event, ten turned up for our over the border expedition. We headed to Carlton Colville in Suffolk and parked at the Community Centre.
From here we headed south, first by pavement then by footpath to Holy Trinity church, Gisleham. Here we found two scratch dials. Now heading east along a road, we were afforded views of the new (1959) Pakefield
.JPG)
water tower. After travelling towards it for half a mile, we headed south again for half a mile along footpaths, passing White House Farm, then followed some debate as to which way we should be going. We continued south down the side of a field of stubble, with many junior frogs – leaping as our footsteps disturbed them. 
Now we had a good view of Kessingland’s redundant water tower. We then turned left and headed away from the roar of the A12, west to Black Street and a conveniently located seat and shelter for lunch. Replete, we continued westwards along a track towards Rushmere, then after a short length of road we headed north by footpath. Don had now got his secateurs out and proceeded to attack virtually every bramble bush along the route, consequently falling way behind the group.
We arrived at St. Michael’s church, Rushmere, some way from the village and on the edge of Carlton Colville. The church was locked but had one scratch dial. Continuing along roads to the Community Centre, we passed a garden where windfall fruit was being offered free to any one that wanted it. Stocking up on fruit we made our way back to the cars, harvesting a good number of aluminium cans. No canapés this week straight into the pies... The pies when cut, revealed a pink filling with little jelly and the aroma was of the pastry. The pie was lightly spiced and lacked flavour, mustard helping a little. The crust was good though, the pie scoring 6.3125, down from the 7.1 they scored the last time we had them on the 24th May. The standard deviation was very high at 1.81142, so a normalised score of 6.5 for G. Morris this time. Hobnobs replaced the usual Shortbread finale.
