So I started to list some of the topics I will be covering over the next few months.
There are the obvious ones such as the pandemic and pieces about Hethersett but then plenty of other topics I will be looking at and the possibility of starting up the Steward Strolls again if lockdown starts to bite more.
So other things I will bore you all with in the future include - my musical passions, Coronation Street's 60th anniversary (it's almost as old as I am), school and boyhood memories, Norfolk and Norwich history, Norfolk featured in literature and much more.
Each month in Hethersett Herald I ask someone to say what they love about Hethersett. The thing I particularly love about the village (and it's something that everyone says) is the community spirit. A number of years ago when we were proposing Hethersett for a national Prime Minister's award the government office which made the decision said Hethersett sounded like Nirvana (that's the transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth and not the rock band - although at times the analogy to a rock band might be nearer the mark).
Speaking of Coronation Street and I will blog fully about that nearer the 60th anniversary in December, just a comment on what's going on at present. Todd Grimshaw has fallen in with gangsters - except it isn't Todd Grimshaw. What I mean is a different actor is now playing the part. Bruno Langley has suddenly morphed into Gareth Pierce, which is rather strange because in the time he has been away - three years - he seems to have aged about 10, lost a few inches in height and lost several pounds in weight.
The problem was Langley was convicted of sexually assaulting two women in 2017 and disappeared from the Soap but his character has returned in the shape of a different actor and this is far from the first time this has happened.
There have been no less than seven Peter Barlows (including Linus Roache who is the real life son of William Roache who plays Peter's father Ken). There have been three Nick Tilsleys, four Tracy McDonalds, three Aadi Alahans, two Adam Barlows, eight Amy Barlows (including a set of twins who took it in turns), three Ryan Connors, three Daniel Osbournes, four Bethany Platts (again including twins), two Robert Prestons and three Sarah Barlows. And there's probably been plenty more like that as well.
With Todd Grimshaw the question we must ask is do we really need a return of a character that had seemed to have run out of steam. Mind you we haven't has a serial killer for a couple of years.
Bruno Langley meanwhile has released a new single entitled "Collide." I wonder if it's just co-incidence that the song has come out at the same time as the character but not the actor has returned to the cobbles?
Corrie also seems to get mixed up with the gender issues. Bruno Langley, who played Todd, was gay in the Soap but straight in real life while Rob Mallard who plays Daniel Osbourne is straight in the Soap and gay in real life. It's all very confusing for a bear with little brain.