Meetings in Ardleigh, with Amanda, working out how to give a wider audience to her stunning work in schools. And then on to Brightlingsea for a meeting with Jeff, creating a year of school resources. Exciting stuff! Pictured is Brightlingsea ....

Its traditional industries included fishery and shipbuilding. Brightlingsea is a limb of Sandwich, one of the Cinque Ports and I n the centre of the town is Jacob's Hall, reputedly the oldest timber-framed building in England.

In the dim and distant past there are tales of shipwrecks and cannibalism. In the Domesday Book of 1087, the population of Brightlingsea (or Brictesceseia) was given as 24 villagers, 26 smallholders and 5 slaves. More recently, the town is famed for oyster farming and the famed the battle of Brightlingsea.

Today, it's main features include Bateman's Tower, great rows of beach huts, a skate park, an open air swimming pool (re-opening on Monday) and a boating lake. And Jeff!