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Keith Skipper

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No pier pressure to dent Cromer pride

One of the characters in Jane Austen’s Emma, first published in 1816, says; ”Perry was a week in Cromer once, and he holds it to be the best of...

17.11.2024 10

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

No pier pressure to dent Cromer pride

One of the characters in Jane Austen’s Emma, first published in 1816, says; ”Perry was a week in Cromer once, and he holds it to be the best of...

17.11.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Along history’s furrows to turn over sacrifice and sweat …

I stood on the headlands watching man and machine in the old quest for a straight furrow.

10.11.2024 8

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Along history’s furrows to turn over sacrifice and sweat …

I stood on the headlands watching man and machine in the old quest for a straight furrow.

10.11.2024 9

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Worthy song of praise for a true countryside champion

I have read, met and interviewed a cavalcade of outstanding East Anglian writers over a busy career as journalist, broadcaster and lover of good...

03.11.2024 7

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Worthy song of praise for a true countryside champion

I have read, met and interviewed a cavalcade of outstanding East Anglian writers over a busy career as journalist, broadcaster and lover of good...

03.11.2024 8

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Seeking village solace to stave off winter of discontent

I see and hear the queue getting longer by the hour for those determined to make it a good old winter of discontent just as November beckons and it...

27.10.2024 6

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Seeking village solace to stave off winter of discontent

I see and hear the queue getting longer by the hour for those determined to make it a good old winter of discontent just as November beckons and it...

27.10.2024 7

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Trendybabble scourge is mangling our mardles!

This basic but bountiful business of simple communication is now far too complicated and confused despite a vast array of helpful tools lined up to...

06.10.2024 4

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Trendybabble scourge is mangling our mardles!

This basic but bountiful business of simple communication is now far too complicated and confused despite a vast array of helpful tools lined up to...

06.10.2024 3

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Norfolk’s cussed corps have no talent for surrender!

One of the harshest verdicts on newcomers’ behaviour on being afforded a hearty welcome to the finest county of them all came shortly after the...

30.09.2024 3

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Norfolk’s cussed corps have no talent for surrender!

One of the harshest verdicts on newcomers’ behaviour on being afforded a hearty welcome to the finest county of them all came shortly after the...

30.09.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

That Gal Boadicea hit the woad to defiance against invaders

Norfolk loyalists have remained deeply suspicious about changes dressed up as progress ever since that crafty reprobate Maximum Secondhomeicus...

22.09.2024 9

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

That Gal Boadicea hit the woad to defiance against invaders

Norfolk loyalists have remained deeply suspicious about changes dressed up as progress ever since that crafty reprobate Maximum Secondhomeicus...

22.09.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Rural values being swept aside on a grim tide of too much development

Norfolk has been my precious planet home for eight decades  - plus a few thought-provoking months since our general election, the 22nd “...

15.09.2024 4

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Rural values being swept aside on a grim tide of too much development

Norfolk has been my precious planet home for eight decades  - plus a few thought-provoking months since our general election, the 22nd “...

15.09.2024 8

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Having less could mean more when the economic tide turns

Ticking over is the new affluent. That’s the unanimous verdict  from Norfolk’s least trendy pub where sound thinking rivals sensible drinking as...

08.09.2024 7

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Having less could mean more when the economic tide turns

Ticking over is the new affluent. That’s the unanimous verdict  from Norfolk’s least trendy pub where sound thinking rivals sensible drinking as...

08.09.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Books keep us enchanted about yesterday as we worry about tomorrow

Poring over yesterdays’ newspapers smoothed into bottom of drawers or boxes brought swift solace to domestic childhood chores for those of us too...

01.09.2024 6

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Books keep us enchanted about yesterday as we worry about tomorrow

Poring over yesterdays’ newspapers smoothed into bottom of drawers or boxes brought swift solace to domestic childhood chores for those of us too...

01.09.2024 7

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

As a non-driver, I'll never understand our obsession with King Car

I admit freely to pedalling and parking  my trusty old bike of belligerence down this crowded cul-de-sac of controversy  several times before.

25.08.2024 8

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

As a non-driver, I'll never understand our obsession with King Car

I admit freely to pedalling and parking  my trusty old bike of belligerence down this crowded cul-de-sac of controversy  several times before.

25.08.2024 6

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Blakeney defies posh image with pioneering social housing society

An old chum of similar vintage and disposition when it comes to radical change on our precious home patch, agreed to join me on a watered-down...

18.08.2024 5

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Blakeney defies posh image with pioneering social housing society

An old chum of similar vintage and disposition when it comes to radical change on our precious home patch, agreed to join me on a watered-down...

18.08.2024 7

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Beeting the Raretreat is an ideal winter warmer

Even the most crusty of old Norfolk curmudgeons must occasionally scan the heavens and admit with a winsome smile: “Times do change!”

11.08.2024 5

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Beeting the Raretreat is an ideal winter warmer

Even the most crusty of old Norfolk curmudgeons must occasionally scan the heavens and admit with a winsome smile: “Times do change!”

11.08.2024 7

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Sad that cricket is left in the shade as soon as a new soccer season kicks off

It was just over a century ago  when the lyrical Monty Don of his day sized up The Waste Land  and planted an unlikely thought for posterity with...

04.08.2024 3

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Sad that cricket is left in the shade as soon as a new soccer season kicks off

It was just over a century ago  when the lyrical Monty Don of his day sized up The Waste Land  and planted an unlikely thought for posterity with...

04.08.2024 8

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Grey power rules as summer holiday season begins in Cromer

Countryside writer, Edward Thomas, sizing up glories of high summer in 1906, gently sighed; “We are so rich that we do not count our treasure”.

28.07.2024 7

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Grey power rules as summer holiday season begins in Cromer

Countryside writer, Edward Thomas, sizing up glories of high summer in 1906, gently sighed; “We are so rich that we do not count our treasure”.

28.07.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Housing blitz could spell end of Norfolk village life as we cherish it

It looks like grim business as usual – only far worse – while election bravado manifests itself as acute danger for what remains of our brutally...

21.07.2024 9

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Housing blitz could spell end of Norfolk village life as we cherish it

It looks like grim business as usual – only far worse – while election bravado manifests itself as acute danger for what remains of our brutally...

21.07.2024 9

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Nouveau Norfolk's big chance to become seriously stylish

I heard it suggested how “scattergun voting”  in our recent General Election brought Norfolk and Waveney  its most politically diverse spread of...

14.07.2024 4

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Nouveau Norfolk's big chance to become seriously stylish

I heard it suggested how “scattergun voting”  in our recent General Election brought Norfolk and Waveney  its most politically diverse spread of...

14.07.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

For many, 'Norfolk’ describes a language, a humour and a way of life

It must be one of the heaviest burdens any gnarled old Norfolk native is destined to bear... a strong suspicion that he’s being either patronised or...

07.07.2024 8

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

For many, 'Norfolk’ describes a language, a humour and a way of life

It must be one of the heaviest burdens any gnarled old Norfolk native is destined to bear... a strong suspicion that he’s being either patronised or...

07.07.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Time to embrace the green, green grass of home as polling booth beckons

We taught ourselves to count and do takeaways via Ten Green Bottle Hanging on the Wall.

30.06.2024 8

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Time to embrace the green, green grass of home as polling booth beckons

We taught ourselves to count and do takeaways via Ten Green Bottle Hanging on the Wall.

30.06.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Shy lad in the wings moves to centre stage

My footlight follies with Rackheath Players  in the 1970s  mustered a passing nod as I compared lines with someone watching closely in the village...

23.06.2024 9

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Shy lad in the wings moves to centre stage

My footlight follies with Rackheath Players  in the 1970s  mustered a passing nod as I compared lines with someone watching closely in the village...

23.06.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Are Norfolk farmers still deserved custodians of our countryside?

Constant alarm about loneliness and boredom blighting young lives in rural areas must be tied up with regular calls for farmers to open up pastoral...

16.06.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Are Norfolk farmers still deserved custodians of our countryside?

Constant alarm about loneliness and boredom blighting young lives in rural areas must be tied up with regular calls for farmers to open up pastoral...

16.06.2024 6

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Can people 'not from round here'  find true Norfolk integration?  

I use an occasional cosying up to the past as a means of better understanding the present and weighing up likely prospects for the future.

09.06.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Can people 'not from round here'  find true Norfolk integration?  

I use an occasional cosying up to the past as a means of better understanding the present and weighing up likely prospects for the future.

09.06.2024 5

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Be honest! What do you think about the election so far?

That querulous quartet of apathy, bombast, cynicism and derision are ready to bite deeply into our democratic process yet again as general election...

02.06.2024 20

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Be honest! What do you think about the election so far?

That querulous quartet of apathy, bombast, cynicism and derision are ready to bite deeply into our democratic process yet again as general election...

02.06.2024 30

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Chaney Gang deserve much louder legacy lines... but I am a bit biased

I  remain sad and surprised at the way wholesale destruction of the BBC’s local radio network prompted little more than a few whimpers of...

26.05.2024 10

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Chaney Gang deserve much louder legacy lines... but I am a bit biased

I  remain sad and surprised at the way wholesale destruction of the BBC’s local radio network prompted little more than a few whimpers of...

26.05.2024 8

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Why we need a Norfolk Olympics to inspire those flames of ambition

How can we follow sheer excitement of Eurovision, Bafta awards, a new Doctor Who, Championship play0offs, Folk on the Pier in Cromer , a day without...

19.05.2024 9

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Why we need a Norfolk Olympics to inspire those flames of ambition

How can we follow sheer excitement of Eurovision, Bafta awards, a new Doctor Who, Championship play0offs, Folk on the Pier in Cromer , a day without...

19.05.2024 20

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

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