In yesterday's blog I mentioned the Norwich Mercury and the man who brought printing to Norwich, Francis Berges. It was whilst I was trying to find out more about him that the name Rebekah Vardy came up. There is absolutely no connection between the two.
But I was surprised to find out that Rebekah Vardy was born in Norwich and suffered abuse as a child. For those with no interest in football, Rebekah Vardy is married to England international Jamie Vardy. In fact she's been married three times and has five children from three different relationships. She hit the headlines after losing a court case against Colleen Rooney who is married to another footballer Wayne Rooney. She doesn't come from Norwich.
It made me think about others I wasn't aware came from our beautiful city. I knew that quintessential Welsh lady Ruth Madoc was actually born in Norwich but how many others surprised me?
Well to be fair not many as I was pretty au fait with people from Norwich and Norfolk but I didn't know that the founder of Wetherspoons Tim Martin comes from Norwich.
Then I moved onto cricket. I love statistics and no sport lends itself to stats better than cricket. England look on the verge of another test win, this time in New Zealand. By the time you read this the match will probably be over.
I have been very impressed with the batting of Harry Brook who has amassed hundreds of runs in what is still a fledgling batting career.
One of my sporting heroes is Sir Don Bradman who ended with a test match batting average of over 99. To qualify for the list of top international batsmen a player has had to have had 20 innings. Harry Brook has only had eight to date but if he continues in the same vein as at the moment he will soon have a batting average second only to Bradman.
I pride myself that I know a fair amount about cricket and am a vice president of our local club, having previously been club chairman. But I am rather ashamed to say that I have never heard of the man second in the batters list. That is Adam Voges of Australia who played his domestic cricket in Western Australia.
Sorry to have gone on about sport as I know it alienates some of my readers but it is a passion of mine as you all know.
Yesterday was a lovely warm day in Norfolk. It was like Spring and today I'm looking to cut the grass. It was so warm yesterday that we got food from Norwich market and ate it sitting in the sunshine of the memorial garden.
There are few better places to eat than Norwich Market. The street food is excellent.
Following on from my mention of the Norwich Mercury yesterday. I took home a book from the Library entitled Norwich Stories of a City by Pamela Brooke. It mentions the newspaper in a couple of pieces. One of the articles is about street names in Norwich and how they came about.
Bacon Road was named after Richard Mackenzie Bacon, editor and owner of the Norwich Mercury who also set-up the Norwich Triennial Music Festival (now the Norfolk and Norwich Festival. His son (also called Richard) became editor of the newspaper and helped to found the Jenny Lind Hospital.