Isn't it strange how sometimes time flies faster than at others and yet there are always 60 minutes in an hour? All a matter of perception. Minutes when you are doing something unpleasant seem like hours, but hours when you are doing something pleasant seem like minutes.
On Wednesday, I spent an engrossing two hours with our village Rector talking about his life and interests as he prepares to leave the village to take on a new challenge just 25 miles away.
The time just flew and, when I checked my watch, I found that we had been chatting away for exactly two hours while for me it seemed no more than half an hour. To read my interview you will either have to purchase a copy of our Good News magazine or have a look at my free Hethersett Herald e-magazine which will be online at the end of this month.
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The parish council has put out a plea for people to stand as councillors. We have district and parish elections coming up in early May and it will be interesting for me to see who is hoping to stay on the parish council, who is planning to retire and whether any "new people" come forward to fill any vacancies.
At the same time we will have elections for South Norfolk Council and David Bills is standing once again, which makes me very happy as David lives in the village and has done an immense amount for Hethersett, irrespective of which party he supports.
He has recently returned from visiting family in New Zealand and sent me a You Tube video from the school which his eight year old granddaughter attends in a suburb of Auckland on the North Island.
This school has developed a way of encouraging pupils to either walk or ride bikes to school. The area has imposed a 20 km per hour speed limit which itself helps to keep the youngsters safe but the idea is that they go to school in groups - safety in numbers. They use walkways and cycle paths and the whole idea has significantly cut down on the number of vehicles driving to the school and also ensuring the safety of the pupils and, of course, it's all very green.
Sadly I can't see it happening in Hethersett - although it would be wonderful if it did. We seem to be obsessively reliant on cars, even over relatively small distances. Years ago I stopped driving my car into the village as much as possible unless I need to drop something off on my way out or it is pelting down with rain.
It is now totally natural for me to walk everywhere. I acknowledge of course that being retired and not having any dependant children that I have significantly more time than most, but to me it was just a habit of breaking the idea of automatically getting into a car when I wanted to go to Tescos or the library or the village hall or the Memorial Field.
Walking for me has become a way of life and, of course, it certainly doesn't do you any harm.
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We seem to have been spared the heavy snow suffered/enjoyed by other parts of the country. Some people have been saying that it's too late in the year for snow and that Spring should have seen things warm up but I remember the Beast From the East a few years ago and that came at the beginning of March. February, on the other hand, always seems to be a mild month. I still remember going on holiday to Northumberland one February and walking around in just a tee-shirt because it was so warm.
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Well it only lasted for a year and it comes as no surprise. What am I on about I hear you cry? Well Eurovision of course.
Last year Sam Ryder broke the mould by coming second and the reason he came second is he had a good song. This year some unknown by the name of Mae Muller is our entry. Yesterday I heard her song and it's definitely bottom six. Ironically its title is "I Wrote A Song". Maybe the title should be changed to make it "I Wrote A Song and it Wasn't Very Good."
After last year, if Mae comes in the bottom six we can't moan about political voting as Sam Ryder proved that if you have a good song it will triumph (yes I know he came second because Ukraine got top spot thanks to the war sympathy vote).
So my prediction (and as Hughie Green used to say "you heard it here folks") is that I Wrote a Song will come bottom four. My further comment on the title would be "it's a shame you did dear." I am aware that she was only one of the three writers of the song.
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I have given up watching Coronation Street. Usually when we are away for any time we record it and then have a Corrie fest when we get back home. But since returning from Yorkshire we have just given up on it. Rapes, pregnancies, assault, drugs running, threatening behaviour and yet another serial killer. It's all got ridiculous. The well loved Corrie sense of humour and fun seems to have gone and when it does surface it's usually puerile and childish and all I can say is that I no longer care what happens to the characters and the storylines have got plain ridiculous and just over the top.
I will only return to watching it when they lighten the programme and it gets some form of reality back. Even in the tough as boots North of England, life just isn't like it is portrayed in Corrie.
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Congratulations to a number of local Hethersett-based and surrounding area businesses that have been successful in the annual South Norfolk Business Awards. Our Church Farm Shop was named South Norfolk Retailer of the Year, a category in which Norfolk Football was highly commended and that company started life in Hethersett before moving to larger premises in Wymondham.
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If you want banal and ridiculous answers to quiz questions, just watch Tipping Point. Here was yesterday's beauty.
Question - in 1909 the US explorer Robert Peary claimed to be the first person to reach which of the earth's extremities.
Contestant's answer - The Moon.