This week, the local news once again featured a sighting of a Big Cat (capitals added for effect) in Norfolk. Those of us from these parts have seen a large number of these reports in the press in recent years, and indeed going back further – move over Beast of Bodmin! Norfolk and Suffolk haveContinueContinue reading “Big Cats, the Black Shuck and Rampaging Elephants: Norfolk’s Menagerie”
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The Rise, Decline, and Rise Again (?) of Market Gardens
Last spring, some colleagues and I began a gardening group in the grounds of our workplace growing potatoes, onions, squash and a little bit of everything else we fancied. Some of us were completely clueless (myself included – I entered into the lunchtime activities armed only with an iPhone app) while others already knew aContinueContinue reading “The Rise, Decline, and Rise Again (?) of Market Gardens”
“Historic Market Town? Not us, we’re a Hanseatic Town!”
Many, many times on entering King’s Lynn I have pondered just how many people, local or otherwise, know why King’s Lynn’s urban gateways are proudly branded “King’s Lynn – A Hanseatic Town”. Recently, King’s Lynn has had a somewhat unfair reputation in my own humble opinion. As a ‘west area officer’ for several years IContinueContinue reading ““Historic Market Town? Not us, we’re a Hanseatic Town!””
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