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Do something different
Go somewhere new

Discover Lowestoft Ness
Most easterly point – Land’s End of the East

Investigate and explore art and heritage trails
– locations various – some details available from Tourist Information Centres and local venues.

Visit local community museums – most don’t charge!

The beguiling Sailors Reading Room Southwold seafront

Go to the library

join, use the Internet, take out great books, bad books, fascinating books – revel in a good read!

Explore Suffolk Records Office
Clapham Road Lowestoft (within Lowestoft Library) – all local history research starts here!

Walk, stroll, meander –
• Through towns and villages
– look and see: variety of building design, differing styles for differing times, status and needs

• Along shopping parades and High streets
– lift your eyes above shop fronts and fascias and discover decorative and innovative design details and foibles

• On the beach
– beach-comb: see the beauty in a single stone, imagine the history of driftwood and journeys of found things

• Find the Alfred Cory Museum
– on the harbour beach at Southwold

• Along public footpaths
– follow the signs and map routes

• Explore parks – sit, watch, talk
– reinvent the art of conversation!
Think about parks past – designers, usage, content, history, names…..Identify the plants, research and study their heritage in local library and internet – is the ‘English rose’ English?

Create your own celebrations for April 23

both St George’s Day and

Shakespeare’s Birthday among others.

Explore your wardrobe and kit yourself in red, white and blue!

Fly the flag

Explore churches and graveyards
– steeped in history and people heritage

Get creative with friends
– do things together: sing round a piano – tell stories, fictional and fact – write daft limericks – draw crazy pictures – make collages from old pictures, papers and found items. ‘Doing things’ is far more important than making ‘great art’!

Step into a high street gallery
– they’re just commercial picture shops!

No obligation to buy – judge the creative talent on show for yourself.

Watch village green cricket
‘friendly’ matches start April and season early May – quintessential English heritage: cricket, church and pub!
Match dates – see: suffolkpremier.play-cricket.com/home/home.asp
www.ncleague.co.uk

Bird spotting
Count the varieties of birds from your window and enjoy the visual variety and research. Sadly town birds are decreasing – our town bird life is withering. Free bird booklet from RSPB

– see www.rspb.org.uk
See also : www.garden-birds.co.uk

Click above face to view the Face of Waveney Exhibits
Sponsors of the Waveney Revels

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