But of course you can't do that all day. We paid a fleeting visit to a five a side tournament on the playing field and then had the grandchildren round for a couple of hours before taking them home and staying for tea, or was it dinner or perhaps supper.
Strange word ours. Are you coming to ours? Stranger is the old Norfolk saying much used by my mother - cum you on together. It was usually aimed at me on my own so I never understood the together reference.
Somehow the phrase Goin to Swafham to do a day's troshin for nothin comes to mind. Anyone from Norfolk will understand that one.
I often think that people from Norfolk have strangulated vowels with their a e I o us all mixed up.
I used to pronounce roof, stew, school and hour all wrong. Now I force myself to pronounce them correctly but it doesn't come naturally. People who meet me for the first time don't connect me with Norfolk through my accent. Grandson Elliot says it's because I went to a posh school.
I have always been intrigued by accents and can tell most of those from the British Isles and also some American ones. It does impress people when you can pinpoint where they come from to a few miles. Sometimes of course you get it horribly wrong like asking a Welshman if they come from Newcastle.
Thanks to my friend and playwright supreme Tony Vale who suggested I should host a meet the Hethersett Herald editor and Blogger. Not sure I'm ready for that yet. You would be very disappointed.
Have a good week everyone and let's hope the temperatures dip somewhat.