Crabs on the Rampage!

Managed to get some time off over the bank holiday weekend to go and see prosepina, AO'D and educatedpork in Cambridge. I've just found out that I have very low B12, which may account for at least a few of the symptoms I've been having (notably tingly/numb extremities, fatigue and dizziness). I had my first jab of the B12 replacement therapy I've been put on last Monday with little noticeable effect and I hoped that it would kick in before I went away, but alas. Another three to go at weekly intervals, then 3 weekly, then 3 monthly FOREVER it seems. Ho hum!

Anyway. Despite much sleeping and interminable train journeys via everywhere (UK bank holiday = ENGINEERING WORK) we made it to Cambridge and thence to Cromer. Cromer is mostly famous for its crabs, which are on sale, belly up, pretty much everywhere. There's even, in typically British fashion, an annual CRAB AND LOBSTER FESTIVAL. Sadly there were no crabs... crabs the size of beach donkeys... coming down the Blackwall Tunnel!!!! clickety click! clickety clack! their outsized claws festooned with human intestines like gruesome spaghetti...*



Cromer can also be rightfully described as bracing**. I did feel quite proud to brave the flaying wind and sea-spray along with other foolhardy English (Normal For Norfolk, perhaps?). The trudge along the gritty sand was rewarded by beautiful fading light and came to a sinister end at the TERRIFYING SEXY HOT-DOG OF DOOM. Few others have seen IT and lived... I was pretty pleased with the shots I got, which are all up here.

* See Guy N Smith for details (i.e. Killer Crabs, Crab's Moon, Night of the Crabs, Crabs on the Rampage, Crabs Armada, Crabs Unleashed, Crab's Fury***, The Origin of the Crabs...)

** See also: Skegness

*** Good lord, this is a graphic novel! WANT! Let me count the ways I love Guy N Smith! 1 - Crabs! 2 - Crabs!! 3- Crabs!!! 4 - Alligators! 5 - BATS! (memorably, at spaghetti junction) 6 - Neanderthals! 7 - CRABS!!!!! etc etc etc