It really did make that area of the village so special last year and the display raises money for the Finnbar's Force charity which supports research into brain tumours in children. The charity also supports families with children suffering from the disease.
Like so many charities, Finnbar's Force has suffered during lockdown with many fundraising efforts having to be cancelled, although individuals have still been busy riding, cycling, walking and many other ways of getting money from sponsorship. My favourite was the jelly bucket challenge which I assume consisted of having slimy jelly poured over you. Sounds horrible!
I sent a piece into the local papers about the charity and the Christmas lights and you can read it at:
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/christmas-lights-to-brighten-up-hethersett-for-finnbar-s-force-1-6895375
There is also a copy of the cutting that appeared in the Norwich Evening News yesterday at the top of this page.
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A few days ago I gave a list of words and phrases that really annoy me such as degrees of uniqueness.
There was a good response from my readers who listed others. Words like basically, ultimately and phrases like "At the end of the day". Another of my hates is young people who use the word like in virtually every sentence (and sometimes multi times in the same sentence).
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This is my anorak part. There's a programme on daytime television called Rip Off Britain which is fronted by three "oldies" - Gloria Hunniford, Julia Somerville and Angla Rippon (that's Rippon and not Ripoff). I put them in order of age but was I correct? My order had Somerville as the youngest, Rippon as the middle and Hunniford as the oldest. That proved to be correct. Julia Somerville is 73, Angela Rippon is and Gloria Hunniford is 76 and Gloria Hunniford is (would you believe) 80.
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And finally today, Trevor Radley has put a very interesting piece of maths on Facebook and you know how much I like figures and maths.
Trevor's posts are always interesting and he should write his own blog! Anyway here goes.
If you take the year that you were born and the age you have reached or will reach this year and add them together.
Every person alive will come up with the same answer which is the number of this year i.e 2020.
Apparently this only happens once in every 1000 years so you can definitely say that this year is unique in more ways than one.