Normal for Norfolk?
Aug. 2nd, 2013 12:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
My mother and I were listing places in the country where we'd never been, and so of course I mentioned Norfolk, which remains terra incognita for me. My mother on the other hand visited in 1939, when she went to see her newly-married sister and brother-in-law in King's Lynn. They visited nearby Sandringham while she was there, and she tells me that she was struck by the number of men in the village who looked exactly like Edward VII. You'd swear there was a family resemblance, apparently. This is the kind of thing that doesn't make it into conventional histories, so I set it down here for us all to ponder upon.
(Meanwhile, the blatant way in which the latest wodge of cronies has bribed its way into the House of Lords has been remarked on even by the BBC.)
(Meanwhile, the blatant way in which the latest wodge of cronies has bribed its way into the House of Lords has been remarked on even by the BBC.)
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Date: 2013-08-02 12:45 pm (UTC)Rather like Bembridge. I lived on the island for about 6 years without visiting Bembridge. I remarked on this to quite a lot people, expecting them to mock me. Instead, I found that many of them said, "Ooh! Bembridge! I've never been there, either!" and spoke of it as a mysterious, distant, alien land.
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Date: 2013-08-02 05:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-08-02 02:44 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 2013-08-02 05:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-08-02 06:53 pm (UTC)I recommend the North Norfolk coast too - really beautiful.
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Date: 2013-08-02 02:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-08-02 03:04 pm (UTC)Bit rich for that twerp Farage to talk about an 'insult to democracy' though, innit?
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Date: 2013-08-02 03:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2013-08-02 05:08 pm (UTC)My other major omssion in England is the Lake District. I've been saving it up, but perhaps I'd better go while I'm still ambulant...
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Date: 2013-08-02 08:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-08-02 03:48 pm (UTC)It is well worth a visit to the area and the broads are also worth exploring. I think its little visited status comes from the fact that it's not on the way to anywhere else, so you need to make a special visit.
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Date: 2013-08-02 05:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-08-02 08:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-08-03 07:54 am (UTC)They didn't mention that on the tourist brochure.
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Date: 2013-08-02 07:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-08-02 10:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-08-03 08:37 pm (UTC)