I used to post at exactly 6 am every day, but now it can be anything from 5.30 until around 7.30 depending on what time I wake up and feel compos mentis enough.
I usually write the blog during the day, adding to it as and when. I then finish it off when I wake up and there are bloggettes that read it as soon as I publish it. I wonder if these are insomniacs or just people so excited by what I write that they are awake in the early hours in anticipation. I would suggest it might be the former rather than the latter.
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I would love to have more time to do my family history. I have already found links to the current King (yes seriously) and to the Norfolk hero and rebel Robert Kett and am now trying to find a link which I feel exists to Oliver Cromwell. It would be amusing if I could link both to the King and Cromwell.
I bet when he was leading rebels against land enclosure, Robert Kett never thought that almost 500 years later he would have schools and roads named after him. We have a Robert Kett School in Wymondham, a Kett's Close in Hethersett, a Kett's Hill in Norwich and a charity shop in our village called Kett's Kabin. Those are just four examples of the esteem this rebel is now held in and there are many more.
My family tree also includes many freemen of Norwich. Master bakers and craftsmen who were honoured by the city for their skills. Freemanship can be handed down the male line but if not taken up the line is broken. My grandfathers and father both failed to continue the line so I cannot claim Freemanship unless the rules are changed.
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Thank goodness we have no plans to travel to Europe at the moment with temperatures reaching well over 40 degrees. I would be very very uncomfortable.
When we were in Seville and Cordoba this year it got up to 34 degrees which was certainly hot enough and even then I struggled.
Here in Norfolk it's been wet and windy and around 20 degrees. Take away the wet and windy bit and that's fine with me.
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Huge congratulations to Alfie Hewett from Norwich who won the men's wheelchair doubles at Wimbledon and was runner-up in the singles.
How nice it was to cheer on a local boy. I would love to play tennis against Alfie Hewett but who would win? Answers on a postcard.