Yesterday I went for a Steward Ramble to Wymondham with cousin Belinda Broad. So I have "nicked" her pictures which are better than mine anyway. So here they are. There are some interesting angles. The only problem with this is that i appear in two of the photos. Maybe they should have a health warning!
We did call in at the Lemon Tree tearooms to get a takeaway hot chocolate to revive the spirits.
Another of my readers - Barbara Holmes - sent me a press cutting from the Daily Telegraph. Barbara felt it covered a number of topics that are rather prescient at the moment.
The column by journalist Charles Moore talks about the book Victorian Miniature by Owen Chadwick which discusses the sour relationship and feud between the squire and parson of Ketteringham, which is of course not a million miles from Hethersett and comfortably within the range of a Steward Stroll. It includes false news and vaccine.
In 1847 a rumour spread around Ketteringham that Queen Victoria had ordered that all children under the age of five should be killed and she had started the ball rolling by killing two of her own children.
Obviously this was nonsense and arose after an order that children in the poor house should be vaccinated against Smallpox. Chadwick cites this as how credulous and ignorant rustic communities were in those days.
"If one judges by today's anti-vaxxery. such credulity and ignorance are alive and well and flourishing on social media," Charles Moore states.