I had a very strange one a few nights ago. I was aged 87 (no comments please) and still playing football but the league decided that games should be played indoors so I didn't have to run about as much after over 2000 games.
The other players who were all much younger weren't happy with this as they wanted to play outside.
I was playing in some sort of cup but suddenly left my body and watched myself play from a balcony with the score 2-2. My team won the cup which was presented by Donald Trump but he refused to give me a medal because I wasn't actually playing but was watching. So unscramble that one Mr Freud.
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A couple of days ago I mentioned the attempts of councillors to destroy one of Norwich's greatest assets.
It is claimed that Elm Hill has more Tudor buildings than the whole of London. I'm not sure about that but I have a feeling that many visitors to the city miss it.
I recently found a very interesting travel website called Third Eye Traveller which helped with a forthcoming trip which I will feature in coming blogs.
I looked up Norwich to see if the lone traveller had been there and indeed she had. Her article centred around Elm Hill which she loved. She suggested you should visit Elm Hill early morning because it can get busy. In all my time in Norwich (which is most of my life) I have never seen more than a handful of people in Elm Hill. It could be as busy as the Shambles in York but never is. That makes it wonderfully easy for photographers to capture the feel of the place and even the building where the Beethoven sketch from Monty Python was filmed.
Back in the 1960s, I believe it was the 1960s, Norwich City Council considered tearing down much of Elm Hill to build a modern municipal swimming pool. Norwich City Council has been responsible for some desecration in its time but this would have been the worst.
Apparently the vote was tied and went to the chairman's casting vote which was against the scheme. I can't imagine Norwich without Elm Hill. I can imagine Norwich without a city council that has made some awful decisions over the years. Thankfully one man saw sense on the Elm Hill situation. I can only fear what would have happened if his casting vote had gone the other way. That swimming pool would have long gone and been replaced by something like a shopping mall.
Perhaps the city council would have continued their desecration and pulled down the cathedral and the castle and replaced them with skateboard parks - now there's an idea. How to destroy history with the nod of the head or probably a raised hand.
As for shopping. Norwich has two malls. One seems to be thriving but the other seems to be seriously struggling - both have changed their name, as if this makes any difference. The Castle Mall is now known as the Castle Quarter and the former Chapel Field Mall is now known as Chantry Place.