Sometimes I'm a bit naughty with my blogs in as much as I light the blue touch paper and then sit back as bloggettes take up the cudgel (that's two cliches in one sentence).
Actually with my library comments, I wasn't trying to light any touch paper at all but it's obviously a subject that people feel strongly about. Libraries is a subject I feel strongly about. The erosion of the arts is a subject I feel strongly about.
I have to say that at Hethersett we have had some fantastically knowledgeable people in charge of the library, many of whom became personal friends and most of whom I am still in contact with in one way or another.
Long may libraries stay open and be a focal point for local communities. If there are ever steps to close libraries in Norfolk I will go what might be termed "ballistic."
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Yesterday was another busy day. I was up early to finish off the September edition of the Good News magazine and that took about three hours and still has work to be completed as I will explain in the next paragraph.
At midday we drove down to the parish church for a memorial service to Janet Mutter who was the previous editor of Good News. Janet moved away to Dorset not so long ago. She took up the helm of Good News and readers owe her a debt of gratitude for keeping the magazine going and putting us in a position of strength from where we have been able to fund improvements - the biggest of which has been going to a full colour publication thanks to grants from South Norfolk Council and Hethersett and District Churches Together. There were a couple of interesting exchanges during and after the service which I will tell you about tomorrow.
In the early afternoon we moved on to Flordon to help run the bar and barbecue at Hethersett and Tas Valley Cricket Club which was hosting a trio of Girls' Under-18s sides for a T20 cricket competition. Girls had travelled from Northamptonshire (which as we know from our local BBC is now in the East of England and a county local to Norfolk) and Staffordshire (which under no stretch of the imagination is in the East of England).
Standards were high and it was wonderful to see young ladies playing the game that we all love so much (well I do anyway).
We were quite busy on the bar and that should raise some funds for the club. We had quite a bit of rain which hadn't been forecasted.
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The final day in North Norfolk on our latest trip saw us have morning coffee in Weybourne and a walk down to the beach where we failed to hear the phantom whistler (I refer to a previous blog about the ghost of a smuggler that is said to inhabit Weybourne beach) and in the afternoon we drove to Cromer for a general look round and to find some of the artwork that has been put around the town on a special classic art trail. A few examples are included with this blog along with some other photos of Weybourne and Cromer.
But we end today with a Cromer question. Did you know that the Rolling Stones once appeared and played in the town?
Now you are all expecting me to give you details of when Messrs Jagger, Richard et al appeared in the town. Did they play the end of the pier pavilion or maybe the Hotel De Paris or perhaps Cromer Hall or even my flat in Corner Street when I lived there.
But you would be very very wrong because these Rolling Stones were a vaudeville act that appeared in the town in 1920. At the present time I know no more about this event but that won't stop me finding out more and I will let you know what I come across. In the meantime anyone who can supply any details of this - well I would love to hear from them.
Hope you enjoy the photographs.