Normal for Norfolk?

[steepholm]

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.)

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[kalimac.livejournal.com]

I keep track of these things too, and Norfolk is one of four English counties I've never been in, the others being Suffolk, Devon, and Cornwall. It's the far corners that are the toughest part.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Devon and Cornwall are handy for me in Bristol, and I like them both a lot. Suffolk I've made only brief forays into (Stowmarket, Aldeburgh for the festival): I have little sense of the county as a whole.

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...

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

It is beautiful country, and also a great place to indulge in William Wordsworth tourism, whether you want to or not. (Also, there's a pub in Cockermouth called the Fletcher Christian, which startled me for a moment until I remembered that Christian was also a Cumberland man.) It's not such a great place to buy local wool as I'd hoped. It was easier to find wool in the shops in York.