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Keith SkipperEastern Daily Press |
With local elections done and dusted, a new cricket season springing into its stride and blossoms showering down like confetti at a country wedding,...
With local elections done and dusted, a new cricket season springing into its stride and blossoms showering down like confetti at a country wedding,...
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...
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...
We moved our family seat to the edge of the North Sea on an April day spattered with showers and sunshine in 1988.
We moved our family seat to the edge of the North Sea on an April day spattered with showers and sunshine in 1988.
Chris Sugden was a good companion for more than 40 years along the Trans-Norfolk Highway.
Chris Sugden was a good companion for more than 40 years along the Trans-Norfolk Highway.
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...
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...
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...
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...
The burgeoning movement dedicated to bringing home rule to Norfolk before the Canaries soar into Europe has been urged to scour all cupboards for...
The burgeoning movement dedicated to bringing home rule to Norfolk before the Canaries soar into Europe has been urged to scour all cupboards for...
If good literature, sound logic and a calendar close-up went together, George Eliot must have started work on Middlemarch, her seventh novel, round...
If good literature, sound logic and a calendar close-up went together, George Eliot must have started work on Middlemarch, her seventh novel, round...
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:...
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:...
Folklore enthusiasts should take care not to confuse the Pedlar of Swaffham with the Pedaller of Beeston.
Folklore enthusiasts should take care not to confuse the Pedlar of Swaffham with the Pedaller of Beeston.
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...
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...
Norfolk favourite Aunt Agatha put the whole business in perspective with one of her homely philosophical gems: “I dunt like ter repeat gossip- but...
Norfolk favourite Aunt Agatha put the whole business in perspective with one of her homely philosophical gems: “I dunt like ter repeat gossip- but...
I’m feeling increasingly sad and shocked over the brutal desecration of what’s left of our precious Norfolk countryside and other areas...
I’m feeling increasingly sad and shocked over the brutal desecration of what’s left of our precious Norfolk countryside and other areas...
I have relished countless cheerful and challenging chapters with all kinds of writers from creative maestro Malcolm Bradbury and Booker Prize...
I have relished countless cheerful and challenging chapters with all kinds of writers from creative maestro Malcolm Bradbury and Booker Prize...
What a quirky coincidence!
What a quirky coincidence!
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Christmas can be a time of overblown expectations - “Nothing like it used to be” we mutter as another expensive festive fling shrivels away...
Christmas can be a time of overblown expectations - “Nothing like it used to be” we mutter as another expensive festive fling shrivels away...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
It can be extremely bad for your health to ask folk how they are.
It can be extremely bad for your health to ask folk how they are.
One of my favourite Norfolk chroniclers invites grateful remembrance in this season of patriotism, poppies, anthems for doomed youth and anguished...
One of my favourite Norfolk chroniclers invites grateful remembrance in this season of patriotism, poppies, anthems for doomed youth and anguished...