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Keith SkipperEastern Daily Press |
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...
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...
I stood on the headlands watching man and machine in the old quest for a straight furrow.
I stood on the headlands watching man and machine in the old quest for a straight furrow.
I have read, met and interviewed a cavalcade of outstanding East Anglian writers over a busy career as journalist, broadcaster and lover of good...
I have read, met and interviewed a cavalcade of outstanding East Anglian writers over a busy career as journalist, broadcaster and lover of good...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Norfolk loyalists have remained deeply suspicious about changes dressed up as progress ever since that crafty reprobate Maximum Secondhomeicus...
Norfolk loyalists have remained deeply suspicious about changes dressed up as progress ever since that crafty reprobate Maximum Secondhomeicus...
Norfolk has been my precious planet home for eight decades - plus a few thought-provoking months since our general election, the 22nd “...
Norfolk has been my precious planet home for eight decades - plus a few thought-provoking months since our general election, the 22nd “...
Ticking over is the new affluent. That’s the unanimous verdict from Norfolk’s least trendy pub where sound thinking rivals sensible drinking as...
Ticking over is the new affluent. That’s the unanimous verdict from Norfolk’s least trendy pub where sound thinking rivals sensible drinking as...
Poring over yesterdays’ newspapers smoothed into bottom of drawers or boxes brought swift solace to domestic childhood chores for those of us too...
Poring over yesterdays’ newspapers smoothed into bottom of drawers or boxes brought swift solace to domestic childhood chores for those of us too...
I admit freely to pedalling and parking my trusty old bike of belligerence down this crowded cul-de-sac of controversy several times before.
I admit freely to pedalling and parking my trusty old bike of belligerence down this crowded cul-de-sac of controversy several times before.
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...
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...
Even the most crusty of old Norfolk curmudgeons must occasionally scan the heavens and admit with a winsome smile: “Times do change!”
Even the most crusty of old Norfolk curmudgeons must occasionally scan the heavens and admit with a winsome smile: “Times do change!”
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...
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...
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”.
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”.
It looks like grim business as usual – only far worse – while election bravado manifests itself as acute danger for what remains of our brutally...
It looks like grim business as usual – only far worse – while election bravado manifests itself as acute danger for what remains of our brutally...
I heard it suggested how “scattergun voting” in our recent General Election brought Norfolk and Waveney its most politically diverse spread of...
I heard it suggested how “scattergun voting” in our recent General Election brought Norfolk and Waveney its most politically diverse spread of...
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...
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...
We taught ourselves to count and do takeaways via Ten Green Bottle Hanging on the Wall.
We taught ourselves to count and do takeaways via Ten Green Bottle Hanging on the Wall.
My footlight follies with Rackheath Players in the 1970s mustered a passing nod as I compared lines with someone watching closely in the village...
My footlight follies with Rackheath Players in the 1970s mustered a passing nod as I compared lines with someone watching closely in the village...
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...
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...
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.
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.
That querulous quartet of apathy, bombast, cynicism and derision are ready to bite deeply into our democratic process yet again as general election...
That querulous quartet of apathy, bombast, cynicism and derision are ready to bite deeply into our democratic process yet again as general election...
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...
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...
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...
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...