It happened in 2006 and made the national news. This is what the BBC had to say on 27th October (likely to be the day after the event.
People living in a Norfolk town woke up to a layer of white flakes covering the ground after a factory blasted two tonnes of semolina into the air.Pedestrian access around Haven Bridge, Great Yarmouth, was closed as cleaners battled to get rid of the sticky mess.
As they tried to clean it away with water, the powder turned into the much-loathed dessert.
The grain was thrown out of the top of the Pasta Foods silo after a sudden release of air pressure on Thursday.
John Hemsworth, Great Yarmouth Council's head of environmental health, said: "It looked like there had been a heavy frost.
"Everywhere was just white, even the grass.
"We had 10 to 15 people trying to clear it up, but as soon as it got wet it became more of a problem."
Mr Hemsworth added: "We had to get permission from the Environment Agency to put it in the river, then permission from Anglian Water to put it into the drains. It was all very complicated."
I will have to check my personal diary later on this event.
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We have regular monthly litter picks in Hethersett, organised by the wonderful Hethersett Environmental Action Team (HEAT) who do so much for the village. People still insist on chucking their rubbish down or throwing it from cars rather than put it in bins provided or take it home.
Now there's a different angle. One of our posties has taken to Facebook to complain about litter and rubbish being posted into posting boxes. "We don't want to handle your rubbish" she states.
Who in their right mind thinks "I need to get rid of this rubbish. Oh look there's a post box. I'll drop it in there. Definitely comes under the heading of anti social behaviour.
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A couple of days ago I mentioned my support over many years for women's (or ladies) football. And yesterday it brought back a few more memories.
I enjoy playing a game where you make up three or four things that you have done or that have happened to you. One is untrue and people have to guess what this was.
I always use the following:
My mother and grandmother fell out and wouldn't talk to each other for months after disagreeing over whether I should take piano exams. My mother wanted me to take them but my grandmother was very much against it.
I once walked into the Queen when she was opening a sports complex in Norfolk.
I was once hugged and kissed by footballers on the pitch at Carrow Road - the home of Norwich City FC.
There's usually a fourth one but I can't remember what that is at the moment.
Anyway the untrue one is the most likely. The one about the argument over piano playing. That is absolute nonsense. The one about the Queen came at the opening of a new sports complex in King's Lynn and was when I was with the Police and looking after the Media at Royal visits. The Queen was meant to turn right and I was meant to turn left. I still claim the Queen turned left as well and we came in pretty close contact. It was only a split second but I moved away sharpish like.
The football one surrounds the women's game. It was the day Norwich Ladies won the Women's FA Cup. This was in 1985/1986 when Norwich (different from the current Norwich Club) when they beat Doncaster Belles 4-3 at Carrow Road in a fantastic game that swung back and forth. I had been covering the cup run for the local press and had been made to feel an integral part of the team. So when they won the cup I was on the pitch joining in the celebrations.
Doncaster Belles (one of the top teams in the land at that point) had run a smear campaign against the Norwich Team that had seen Norwich featured in the News of the World tabloid rag. I won't go into that any further but you can probably find articles on the internet somewhere although I haven't looked for them.
I know the publication wound the Norwich players up and made them more determined. Norwich took the lead through Linda Curl only for Doncaster to reply with two goals in a minute, Norwich hit back to take a 3-2 lead with goals from Colk and Jackson. Doncaster equalised but Norwich scored the winner two minutes into injury time through Lawrence. There was huge celebrations in the stands.
Incidentally four years earlier, Lowestoft Belles from nearby Suffolk won the FA Cup. Today the game has become professional and so the likelihood of a relatively small Suffolk town winning the trophy is virtually non existent.
Linda Curl was one of the best strikers Norfolk and England have ever had. She was also a police officer whom I worked with. She once made the Guinness Book of Records for scoring the most number of goals in an individual first class game. Norwich beat Milton Keynes 47-0 and Linda scored something like 27. Another record I need to check.
Tomorrow I will move forward with my travelogue of the Scilly Isles.