For many years I was a trustee of the playing field and my aims were quite simple 1/ to aid the effective running of the playing field 2/ to help achieve a new pavilion on the playing field and 3/ to see the field become a focal and vibrant centre for Hethersett life.
I stopped being a trustee a few years ago following an incident that led to threats to both myself and my family that I weren't prepared to put up with. This had nothing to do with my support of the playing field or the trustees or parish council. I am as supportive as ever of what goes on there and believe that the trustees and the parish council are doing a wonderful job.
My remarks about refreshments were aimed at the future post-Covid days when we really can return to normal. I am certain that the present pavilion is nowhere near good enough to sustain what is happening on the park at the present time. Just look at all those who are using the field - the footballers, the senior cricketers, the bowls club, the croquet club, cycle speedway, the basketball and kick wall, the children's play area, the table tennis table, the dog walkers, the runners/walkers and much more.
On Saturdays and Sundays the place is awash with colour and people enjoying a whole variety of pursuits. When Covid is consigned to the trashcan of viruses and we have a new pavilion it will give the opportunity to become even more of a social hub by serving refreshments and providing yet another excellent facility for the community.
The Memorial Field is already a wonderful asset to the pavilion and over the coming years that asset will hopefully improve even more.
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People of a certain age reading this blog will, as children, have enjoyed sweet cigarettes. Do you remember the sweet sticks with a red tip suggesting that the were lighted cigarettes? Us youngsters would put them in our mouths and pretend that we were old enough to smoke real "fags."
Yesterday at Cromer we won a couple of packets of these in one of the arcades. They are now quite rightly referred to as "candy sticks" and have no red ends.
I remember other "mock cigarettes" that consisted of a chocolate stick wrapped in paper that proved the devil of a problem getting off.