Finally, a month after arriving in Colchester, we get out to see one of the local attractions, the Castle Park. It is a quite attractive town park, and even more scenic than St Neots’ riverside park. It has a river (of sorts), more like a stream, and is laid out on the hillside below the castle (which we did not get as far as!).

I have changed jobs again. Idesta wanted us to move to Leeds as my job had become too senior to work well with me commuting 150 miles. We didn’t really fancy moving to Yorkshire, and was pleased when another opportunity opened up with Eastern Data Processing in Essex.

Again we had to relocate, but this time to Colchester, which is proving to be a very nice place to live.