I remember donning my wellies to pop out and take a few photos which you can see at the top of this page. These were taken in St David's Road which became impassable. The torrential rain saw the fire brigade turn up to pump the water away and for some time we were stranded (a bit like lockdown really).
I remember we were looking after our granddaughter who would only have been two at the time. Our daughter-in-law couldn't get through to pick her up and we couldn't get out to take her home.
Eventually the rain subsided and I made it to the Memorial Playing Field for the social running group. I seem to remember we ended up running round the village as the field was also very damp.
It was the second lot of torrential rain within a week. The previous week I had to brave similar conditions to get down to Woodcote in Firs Road for a meeting of the Heart of Hethersett Bereavement group. Incidentally that is still in existence. We support people who have lost loved ones. It's an informal group which normally meets on alternate Tuesdays at Woodcote Sheltered Housing complex in Firs Road. Of course, at the moment, meetings have been suspended due to the pandemic.
I was the only person to make a bid for it but it's nice to have a small piece from the history of Hethersett Old Hall School. It is now on the wall in my study.
The e-bay sale saw a number of items come under the hammer from hymn books to a table and plenty of signs. The auction raised over £180 which will be donated to the East Anglian Air Ambulance.
I have mentioned and written articles about Laurie in the past, He has had a very interesting life - being a copy boy for newspapers and then a police officer in London and he was also a teacher before moving to Norfolk on his retirement. He then turned his hand to writing books on counter intelligence in the Second World War. These are still available for sale on e-bay.
I will be featuring Laurie again in my next Hethersett Herald e-magazine out at the end of July. I am very pleased to have been asked to do some freelance work for the Eastern Daily Press, Norwich Evening News and Wymondham and Attleborough Mercury newspaper. I will be sending in a piece about Laurie over the next couple of days.
I got news last night that next year's Hethersett pantomime has been cancelled. I'm afraid this hasn't come as a surprise. It is likely that some form of social distancing will still be in place in the future which will make rehearsing impossible and would have cut down the number of people who could attend. The group have promised to come back stronger than ever in 2022.
Finally today had a lovely chat with Warwick Cooper about his Photos on the Doorstep project and of course we had our photographs taken. More about this in a future blog.