On Thursday the local police beat officers will be at Cafe Kin from midday to 2 pm, chatting to local people and finding out just some of the village issues.
On Friday I'm off for a visit to Home Farm Gin to check out the state of their building work. Saturday sees former pupils of Old Hall School return for a picnic in the grounds courtesy of Norfolk Police who have turned it into a training school following its shock closure a few years ago.
On Sunday there's a special family re-wilding day at Rectory Meadow. It's not actually families that are being re-wilded but areas of the village. The idea is for people to learn about re-wilding in an informal atmosphere.
Next Monday I'm talking to the Mothers' Union on "Hethersett Heroes Part 2." This follows the success of "Hethersett Heroes Part 1" which must have gone down ok because they have asked me back!!
I have uncovered quite a few unknown characters with interesting histories who were either born or lived in the village. I will talk about some of these after Monday's presentation.
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Got up early yesterday morning to write a piece for the Eastern Daily Press/Norwich Evening News from last night's parish council meeting. It's really a continuation of stories I have been submitting to the Media for some time.
Hethersett's medical facilities are in crisis and local councillors have written to the new Health Secretary, to our local MP and to NHS England pointing out what should be obvious - with more and more houses being built and more and more people moving into the village, the existing infrastructure is at breaking point and the medical services can no longer cope with doctors, nurses and other clinicians suffering stress and burn out with the demands being put on them.
My article went straight onto the EDP 24 site and you can read it at: https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/health/humbleyard-practice-pressure-in-south-norfolk-8159360.
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I love it when readers respond to my blogs and give me cause for more research. I wrote a few days ago about the Wells to Walsingham Light Railway.
Shelagh Jones responded with: "Were you aware that the rails used on the Wells to Walsingham started life on the Battlefields of Europe. They were laid, I think, by the Brits to transfer food and weaponry to the front?"
So far I haven't found out any details of this, but hopefully will be able to when we visit it. One thing I did find out is that the four mile section of track used to be part of the Wymondham to Wells branch line which was closed to passengers in stages from 1964 to 1969 under the cuts by that man of little foresight Beeching. How wonderful would it be today to get onto a train at Wymondham (about two miles from our home) and get off at the other end on the North Norfolk coast?
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Yesterday was another scorcher and so what better thing to do than go into Norwich for a morning's gardening? Why stay in the shade when you can boil and sweat it out pulling up weeds?
A number of trustees of the Norfolk Family History Society set about clearing weeds and tidying up the front and back of our headquarters at Kirby Hall in St Giles.
Weeds had grown in profusion during lockdown and it didn't make a welcoming sight for visitors. After a few hours, it looks much tidier and we are hoping to attract a lot more people once we are fully functional again. I hope you appreciate the sartorial elegance of our weeding team with me third from the left.