I refer to the newspaper coverage of Hethersett winning the then prime minister David Cameron's Big Society award. We were the first village/town/city in the country to win this.
It was a magical time for the village and one I will never forget. Our winning award (which actually was a piece of plastic) is now in a cabinet in Hethersett Library.
There's a certain irony that I was featured in the article which ran in the EDP newspaper because yesterday I was contacted by the Media to ask for my views on the fact that Hethersett has just about the lowest COVID death rate in the entire county - just two deaths since last March. I was asked whether I could attribute this to anything specific and the only thing I could think about was our community spirit and the way most people had followed the lockdown rules without question.
I also pointed out that there are so many people in Hethersett prepared to help those less fortunate. This meant that elderly people have been allowed to stay safely indoors as there is always somebody to collect shopping, prescriptions etc.
And that view was certainly apparent by an interview I did for the Media with Anne Larner describing the part she has played in helping to supply food to those in food poverty during lockdown. Anne told me that the problem is a serious one and much more widespread than at first thought. I submitted a story with photos to the EDP and hopefully it will appear in the next few days.
I'm always learning and yesterday I did my first ever podcast interview. I popped along to see Nev and Paul from Park Farm Gin. We had a chat about their set-up which I turned into a podcast that is now available on my various channels and which you can access at https://anchor.fm/peter-steward.
I was intrigued to see in the Guardian newspaper that community groups can buy old red style BT telephone boxes for just £1. These are being used in different parts of the country for a variety of things such as small libraries, defibrillator homes and even mini art galleries.
I wonder if Hethersett would be interested in one of these? The last public telephone in our village was at the junction of Mill Road and West Croft. It was quite an ugly grey one and nothing in the same league as the famous solid red ones.