I first met Julie 12 years ago when she lived in Hethersett and was launching a Gingerbread group for single parents and I was doing an article for the Eastern Daily Press Newspaper and the Hethersett Village Web Site. Julie's son is now 14 and goes to Wymondham High School - how time flies.
Julie now lives in Wymondham and it looks as if she is insanely busy with street food events in Norwich, Hethersett, Wymondham, Diss and any other number of Norfolk places. It looks as if this style of travelling food could become very popular, particularly when social distancing rules are relaxed. It's tasty and sociable.
It was a rather windy evening which threatened to cause problems for one of the waffle stalls! Thankfully it survived.
The street food event will be in the Rowan House car park every week from 4 until 7 pm. I was delighted when somebody I know stopped me on the way out to say they had come along after reading about the event on one of my blogs.
Before I leave this subject time for an advert. There will be a major street food event at Wymondham Town Football Club on Sunday, 5th July, from 11 am until 5 pm when there will also be acoustic music and a licensed bar.
You will see some photographs from the Hethersett event above along with some of the artwork at Hethersett VC Primary School where major building work is taking place.
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Earlier in the day we ventured into Norwich again and I hope you enjoy my photographs of the City as I come towards the last few days of lockdown photography. I had a look round the back of the Cathedral in the Close to the area of land that by next year should include our memorial to the 97 men massacred at Le Paradis in Northern France on May 27th, 1940. If you want to read more about this visit www.leparadismassacre.weebly.com.
Norwich seemed very much to be returning to some kind of normal today. There were plenty of people around and there wasn't a great deal of social distancing on Norwich Market.
Shops were open, although the queues to get into Primark and Starbucks were ridiculous. The queue for Primark went across Gentlemans Walk and right up Haymarket. I don't think I would ever be desperate enough to stand in such a queue to go shopping. But then again I wouldn't drive halfway across the country to join thousands of people on Bournemouth beach!
I did go into Waterstones but it was difficult to summon up any enthusiasm for looking at books because any you browsed or touched had to be put into a basket for cleaning. I am beginning to wonder if this is all just a little too much. Other shops have very few rules. One thing that did strike me amongst the books is what I like to refer to as the deconstruction of a subject.
It used to be that in non fiction you would get a book of generalisations i.e a book about British history or The Second World War. Then the deconstruction took place. The Second World War was divided into books on individual battles and then divided even further into days and the even hours.
Rock music got divided from a band's general history into its overall output and then down to individual albums. So we ended with books on second to second accounts of England's 1966 World Cup triumph and an hour by hour account of the court of Henry VIII etc.
I am a big fan of the music of Gustav Mahler. Some of his symphonies are sublime. I have read a few biographies about his life and about his symphonies, but now he is being deconstructed. A new book by Stephen Johnson is entitled "The Eighth - Mahler and the World in 1910." I would liked to have had a look at the book but didn't fancy then having to hunt for a special basket to drop it into when I decided not to buy it because it will be much cheaper on Amazon!
We ate on Norwich Market - food as normal was excellent and very cheap. I had takeaway mushy peas poured on top of a beef pie. It looked absolutely awful but tasted absolutely brilliant.