Most blogs I have come across tend to have a certain subject matter. I look upon mine as a mixture of thoughts, views, history, interests and hope that there's something for most people. What I try to avoid is a catalogue of my day to day activities as that would be very boring.
But occasionally I do give an insight into how my day goes and I thought I would do that for today's blog, chronicling what I did yesterday.
Firstly I had a lengthy morning telephone conversation with Dennis O'Callaghan. He is the son of one of the only two survivors of the Le Paradis Massacre and I sent him a draft of my book on the subject on Tuesday. It means a lot to me that Dennis feels it reads well and everything drops into place. He kindly suggested a few additions which I can now insert. I promised the publishers that I would send them 60,000 words and I still have 1,000 to play with.
I then caught the beginning of the England v South Africa cricket test match before going to Wymondham with the other threequarters and eldest son who is playing a flying visit from down south.
We had a table booked at the Railway Bistro. This is kind of romantic as it's on the railway station. So whilst you are eating trains thunder past or stop at the station. Noted that one of them was going to Stansted Airport which is good to know. One of my problems with Stansted (actually I have quite a few problems with Stansted) is parking. Car parking is quite a way from the airport and very costly which makes this train a distinct possibility for the future. The problem is flights are very often early morning or late night which might rule travelling by train out and then there's the problem of whether you can rely on trains to run at all.
But back to the Bistro. It was recently named the best cafe in Norfolk by the Eastern Daily Press Newspaper. It's good but I wouldn't go as far as to say it's the best in Norfolk. The setting is good though.
From there I popped into Wymondham Library where it was very stuffy. They had a portable air conditioning unit going full tilt but it wasn't making much of an impression.
Then had a meeting to put the latest Good News magazine to bed and send it over to the printers for publication at the end of the month. When I'm doing the editorial for this I have to remember that it's called Good News and should be full of exactly that - Good News. I do the design and editorial and Kim Arnall handles the advertising and distribution aided by lovely people who deliver it. It's a real team effort.
Then late afternoon/early evening it was down to Hethersett Library for a meeting of the Friends group. This year is the 50th anniversary of the opening of the library and we have a number of coming events which include:
A talk by local author Ray Rumsby at 7 pm on October 12th, This will be preceded by the AGM.
A drop in coffee morning on October 15th
A quiz on 26th November
A children's Christmas Party on December 3rd.
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Birthdays are to the fore over the next few days. Today we are having a day on a Norfolk Wherry on the Norfolk Broads. Then in a few weeks' time it's off to London for the Abba hologram show. Hopefully tomorrow I will have some pics of the Wherry trip.