She was actually commenting on 1/ the lateness of the bus we were waiting for and 2/ the fact we had to run after it when it arrived as it had nowhere to pull in at our stand due to a bus not in service and a shuttle bus taking up the space. Nothing explained exactly what the shuttle bus was for. Presumably for driving shuttles around.
Nothing is as it should be - take Norwich Library for instance. I love the place mainly due to the fact that it contains books. I know that the idea of a library with books is pretty revolutionary but there it is. Norwich library is apparently the most visited in the UK (or is that England?) It's very modern due to the fact that it's in a very modern building - The Forum - which replaced the previous library when it burnt down.
But it's all a bit confusing. If you know your alphabet it won't necessarily help you in finding a book. On the ground floor they have a section which they call paperback express or something similar. This features rows of paperback fiction in alphabetical order. But then there are special displays of books that aren't in alphabetical order and which have obviously been taken from the paperback express section.
Then if you go onto the first floor there are shelves full of fiction books that are in alphabetical order, but these are different from the ones downstairs. They are also mostly paperbacks and then there are separate displays of fiction that aren't in alphabetical order. Confused? Well so was I. So if you want a specific book, say Making Millions a novel by Robin Banks, it might be downstairs in the alphabetised books or it could be downstairs on the special displays or then again it could be on floor one in the alphabetised books or on floor one in one of the special displays. You can see how this could lead to confusion.
Nothing is how you expect it to be. That's a variant on the earlier comment. There I was walking towards the market place when I heard somebody playing Walking In The Air badly on the violin. It sounded like a middle of the ability 12 year old. But when I turned the corner I saw that the adult man playing the violin was actually on a trapeze wire where he was balancing on just one leg. I viewed the slightly screechy rendition with renewed appreciation.
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When it comes to football sometimes you just have to hold your hand up and say your team just isn't good enough.
Yes Norwich had key players out for the home game against Aston Villa, but the entire squad should be of Premier Division standard and it was quite obvious on Tuesday night that a good seven of the starting 11 are not Premier Division players. Dean Smith has inherited a squad nowhere near good enough for the Premier League.
It's time to initiate Plan B. Perhaps if we insist on the opposition playing whilst wearing masks we might win a match. Only problem is to win a match you have to score at least one goal and we haven't scored one of those increasingly rare things in over 300 minutes and just one in over 400 minutes. Basically that's five hours without a goal and almost seven hours with just one. That just isn't good enough at any level of football. Rant over.
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The more I thought about Much Wenlock and the modern Olympic games (see yesterday's blog if you haven't got an idea of what I'm talking about), the more I wondered how Pierre de Coubaten the father of the modern Olympic games came to be in Much Wenlock at a meeting at the Raven Hotel.
The founder of the Wenlock Games Dr. William Penny Brookes got to know the Baron because of their shared love of physical education and Brookes' attempts to get it included on school curriculums. Brookes invited de Coubaten to the Wenlock Gamesand the rest, as they say, is history.
I had a quiet titter when I found out what was included in the Wenlock games. There were traditional sports such as football, cricket and athletics but also an Old Women’s Race and a Blindfolded Wheelbarrow Race!. It's a good job the didn't combine the two as it could have led to chaos.
Included with today's blog are some photos of Much Wenlock.