What a shame the rain put parents and children off the Summer Reading Challenge event yesterday. I got to Stalham library with plenty of time, however, only six children and their parents were there to listen to me read A Squash and a Squeeze; I even sang the refrain but they were too shy to join in. Let’s hope the weather will be better for the big draw on Monday 3rd August.
The Pantaloons are performing Much Ado About Nothing in our village today. Luckily for me, the village hall and football pitch are opposite our cottage and I will be watching from a bedroom window. It’s also the last day of Worstead Fair today and I’d like to spend some time over there.
Norfolk is a beautiful, fascinating place in which to live, with its varied coastline that stretches from the Wash right over to Great Yarmouth and beyond, and a multitude of villages with names such as Little Snoring, Ashmanhaugh, Happisburgh and Docking. There is so much history in the landscape and its buildings. We took the scenic route to drive over to Dereham to visit a friend yesterday and passed the gorgeously Gothic church at Booton. A church with an interesting story is Holy Trinity Church at Ingham, which is next door to The Swan, a fourteenth century former coaching house with a superb restaurant. According to local legend, two stone knights, Sir Oliver de Ingham and Sir Roger de Bois, are said to wake up once a year on 1st August and engage in battle with a Middle Eastern soldier. Now that would be a great starting point for a ghost story.
writing in north norfolk 