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Marvellous Maytime musings with Blythe, Blogg and blossom

With local elections done and dusted, a new cricket season springing into its stride and blossoms showering down like confetti at a country wedding,...

05.05.2024 10

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Marvellous Maytime musings with Blythe, Blogg and blossom

With local elections done and dusted, a new cricket season springing into its stride and blossoms showering down like confetti at a country wedding,...

05.05.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Norfolk dialect clues could stop outsiders playing rural lingo bingo

Ask a stranger for a pen picture of Norfolk, and chances are you’ll get a mixture of passport control, Delia’s dumplings, plump turkeys, big...

28.04.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Norfolk dialect clues could stop outsiders playing rural lingo bingo

Ask a stranger for a pen picture of Norfolk, and chances are you’ll get a mixture of passport control, Delia’s dumplings, plump turkeys, big...

28.04.2024 7

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Opinion Three-and-a-half decades in, my love affair with Cromer continues

We moved our family seat to the edge of the North Sea on an April day spattered with showers and sunshine in 1988.

21.04.2024 10

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Opinion Three-and-a-half decades in, my love affair with Cromer continues

We moved our family seat to the edge of the North Sea on an April day spattered with showers and sunshine in 1988.

21.04.2024 8

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Farewell Sid Kipper who had a peculiar and hilarious take on Norfolk life

Chris Sugden was a good companion for more than 40 years along the Trans-Norfolk Highway.

14.04.2024 4

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Farewell Sid Kipper who had a peculiar and hilarious take on Norfolk life

Chris Sugden was a good companion for more than 40 years along the Trans-Norfolk Highway.

14.04.2024 20

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Cold comfort for me that farming parody wasn't set in Norfolk

I continue to feel seriously aggrieved that my favourite comic novel is set in Darkest Sussex rather than Deepest Norfolk, especially at this time of...

07.04.2024 10

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Cold comfort for me that farming parody wasn't set in Norfolk

I continue to feel seriously aggrieved that my favourite comic novel is set in Darkest Sussex rather than Deepest Norfolk, especially at this time of...

07.04.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

With a surname like mine, it's been 80 years of jokes fit for a skip

I was bred and born at a time when traditional names ruled in the heart of Norfolk. None of this flouncing down celebrity tracks littered with...

31.03.2024 10

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

With a surname like mine, it's been 80 years of jokes fit for a skip

I was bred and born at a time when traditional names ruled in the heart of Norfolk. None of this flouncing down celebrity tracks littered with...

31.03.2024 9

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Opinion Norfolk Independence Party launch moanifesto ahead of election

The burgeoning movement dedicated to bringing home rule to Norfolk before the Canaries soar into Europe has been urged to scour all cupboards for...

24.03.2024 6

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Norfolk Independence Party launch moanifesto ahead of election

The burgeoning movement dedicated to bringing home rule to Norfolk before the Canaries soar into Europe has been urged to scour all cupboards for...

24.03.2024 5

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

How best to marry old Norfolk with least damage to the new

If good literature, sound logic and a calendar close-up went together, George Eliot must have started work on Middlemarch, her seventh novel, round...

17.03.2024 6

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

How best to marry old Norfolk with least damage to the new

If good literature, sound logic and a calendar close-up went together, George Eliot must have started work on Middlemarch, her seventh novel, round...

17.03.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Opinion Feud for thought as community spirit is reduced to rows and quibbles

It may have been dear old Ken Dodd, wisecracking king of Knotty Ash, who set the tone for such a brazen brand of mischief and mayhem when he declared:...

10.03.2024 20

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Opinion Feud for thought as community spirit is reduced to rows and quibbles

It may have been dear old Ken Dodd, wisecracking king of Knotty Ash, who set the tone for such a brazen brand of mischief and mayhem when he declared:...

10.03.2024 7

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Skip on tour! A special trip to Swaffham to celebrate turning 80

Folklore enthusiasts should take care not to confuse the Pedlar of Swaffham with the Pedaller of Beeston.

03.03.2024 9

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Opinion Skip on tour! A special trip to Swaffham to celebrate turning 80

Folklore enthusiasts should take care not to confuse the Pedlar of Swaffham with the Pedaller of Beeston.

03.03.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Norfolk coat of paint on popular culture makes me feel quite emulsional

An old friend who likes to keep tabs on popular  culture tells me he’s had enough of Love Island because it hardly ever mentions Scroby -  while...

25.02.2024 3

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Norfolk coat of paint on popular culture makes me feel quite emulsional

An old friend who likes to keep tabs on popular  culture tells me he’s had enough of Love Island because it hardly ever mentions Scroby -  while...

25.02.2024 5

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Tittle-tattle and titbits help keep Norfolk communities gossiping together

Norfolk favourite Aunt Agatha put the whole business in perspective with one of her homely philosophical gems: “I dunt like ter repeat gossip- but...

18.02.2024 9

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Tittle-tattle and titbits help keep Norfolk communities gossiping together

Norfolk favourite Aunt Agatha put the whole business in perspective with one of her homely philosophical gems: “I dunt like ter repeat gossip- but...

18.02.2024 3

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

I'm calling for a new Peasants’ Revolt to end crushing of our countryside

I’m feeling increasingly  sad and shocked over the  brutal desecration of what’s left of our precious Norfolk countryside and other areas...

11.02.2024 8

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

I'm calling for a new Peasants’ Revolt to end crushing of our countryside

I’m feeling increasingly  sad and shocked over the  brutal desecration of what’s left of our precious Norfolk countryside and other areas...

11.02.2024 6

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Retired head teacher turned scribe Peter is still top of his class

I have relished countless cheerful and challenging chapters with all kinds of writers from creative maestro Malcolm Bradbury and Booker Prize...

04.02.2024 4

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Retired head teacher turned scribe Peter is still top of his class

I have relished countless cheerful and challenging chapters with all kinds of writers from creative maestro Malcolm Bradbury and Booker Prize...

04.02.2024 5

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

How I turned a redder shade of scarlet under the stage spotlights

What a quirky coincidence!

28.01.2024 5

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

How I turned a redder shade of scarlet under the stage spotlights

What a quirky coincidence!

28.01.2024 6

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Tall stories from the Norfolk farming world offer leg-pulling laughs

One of the shortest and best tall stories in my big collection emerged from a brave but vain attempt to interview Spike Milligan about the serious...

21.01.2024 8

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Tall stories from the Norfolk farming world offer leg-pulling laughs

One of the shortest and best tall stories in my big collection emerged from a brave but vain attempt to interview Spike Milligan about the serious...

21.01.2024 3

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Touching reunions with much-loved books helps me through January

One of my book-loving life’s proudest boasts has to be how I treat old friends with just as much affection and attraction as when we first met.

14.01.2024 3

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Touching reunions with much-loved books helps me through January

One of my book-loving life’s proudest boasts has to be how I treat old friends with just as much affection and attraction as when we first met.

14.01.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Why protecting our precious landscape is still very much a local duty

As I peer forward to modest 80th birthday celebrations in March, I realise the Norfolk of my lifetime has fed many a rustic fantasy even while our...

07.01.2024 7

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Why protecting our precious landscape is still very much a local duty

As I peer forward to modest 80th birthday celebrations in March, I realise the Norfolk of my lifetime has fed many a rustic fantasy even while our...

07.01.2024 6

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Looking backwards and forwards at the same time is an apt Norfolk resolution

Harsh experience taught me not to waste valuable time making resolutions going in one year and out the other. It has to be much more fun lining up...

31.12.2023 10

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Looking backwards and forwards at the same time is an apt Norfolk resolution

Harsh experience taught me not to waste valuable time making resolutions going in one year and out the other. It has to be much more fun lining up...

31.12.2023 9

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Uplifting voices from the past offer a festive reality check

Christmas can be a time of overblown expectations -  “Nothing like it used to be” we mutter as another expensive festive fling shrivels away...

24.12.2023 6

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Uplifting voices from the past offer a festive reality check

Christmas can be a time of overblown expectations -  “Nothing like it used to be” we mutter as another expensive festive fling shrivels away...

24.12.2023 5

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Annual meet up with Santa reveals some Norfolk ho-ho-home truths

My annual rendezvous with Santa Claus over a bag of steaming chips on Cromer Pier found the old boy far more reflective than usual about our world...

17.12.2023 5

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Annual meet up with Santa reveals some Norfolk ho-ho-home truths

My annual rendezvous with Santa Claus over a bag of steaming chips on Cromer Pier found the old boy far more reflective than usual about our world...

17.12.2023 10

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Time to find a better path to Christmas with listening, longing and laughing

A good shiver at the end of November and start of December –“all of a dudder” is the proper Norfolk summary – helped prepare me for a few...

10.12.2023 5

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Time to find a better path to Christmas with listening, longing and laughing

A good shiver at the end of November and start of December –“all of a dudder” is the proper Norfolk summary – helped prepare me for a few...

10.12.2023 6

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Opinion BBC's widespread wireless cull is a callous insult to local radio pioneers

This season of goodwill and all it embraces hardly equates with the savage butchery carried out by what used to be taken as one of our nation’s most...

02.12.2023 10

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

BBC's widespread wireless cull is a callous insult to local radio pioneers

This season of goodwill and all it embraces hardly equates with the savage butchery carried out by what used to be taken as one of our nation’s most...

02.12.2023 10

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Looking back at the weird and wonderful medical remedies over the years

It can be extremely bad for your health to ask folk how they are.

26.11.2023 8

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Looking back at the weird and wonderful medical remedies over the years

It can be extremely bad for your health to ask folk how they are.

26.11.2023 4

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Opinion Warfront musings of Norfolk vicar make fascinating Armistice Day reading

One of my favourite Norfolk chroniclers invites grateful remembrance in this season of patriotism, poppies, anthems for doomed youth and anguished...

11.11.2023 10

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Opinion Warfront musings of Norfolk vicar make fascinating Armistice Day reading

One of my favourite Norfolk chroniclers invites grateful remembrance in this season of patriotism, poppies, anthems for doomed youth and anguished...

11.11.2023 6

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

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