This will be on Sunday and its a major step forward in our attempts to bring more awareness to what happened on that day almost 82 years ago.
Towards the end of May a coach will once again travel from Norfolk to Le Paradis to help commemorate the event and remember those who died and also the two survivors - Bill O'Callaghan and Bert Pooley. We will once again be staying in Ypres very close to the Menin Gate where every night there is a service to honour those who died in the wars.
I provided some of the information for the Le Paradis newspaper article which described me very kindly as historian, researcher and journalist. I love all three tags but it made me think about what order I would put those things in.
Journalism was my trade. It gave me a very good living for many many years. Historian and researcher are two terms from my voluntary work. So maybe I value them a little more as both are from a matter of choice rather than from necessity.
If I had to place the three terms in order from one to three it would probably be 1/ historian 2/ researcher 3/ journalist but they are inter-changeable.
On Sunday I will just be a supporter - supporting everything that is going on. The great thing is every time I walk past the memorial in the grounds of Norwich Cathedral I will remember all those who gave the ultimate sacrifice and I hope others will too.
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Sometimes you get light relief from the strangest sources - like the current court case between Johnny Depp and his former girlfriend Amber Heard. It's bordering on the farce. Accusations, counter accusations and counter counter accusations.
Every sentence brings a new drama from two very damaged human beings. Apparently Depp has a holiday home somewhere in Suffolk. There was also rumours that he owned property in Norfolk and one ridiculous one that he was moving to Hethersett, although that may have been an April Fools' joke.
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I hate form filling. Yesterday evening I spent a good couple of hours filling in forms for a coming trip. COVID forms, medical forms, flight forms. What a waste of time. I could have been doing something important like sleeping or writing more blogs. I will be interested to see just how difficult it now is to get through an airport. I have to say I'm not looking forward to it. I think my days of flying may be coming to an end.
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A few days ago I asked whether people read books in order or just read them as they got hold of them. The consensus of opinion was that a series of books should be read in order. I did mention the Superintendent Grace series of detective novels by Peter James and I notice it's back on television shortly. Somebody asked where the dramas were set and I couldn't recall which seems stupid because I quickly remembered they are set in Brighton and Eastbourne - two places we know well.