Village People South Norwich edition - Feb/March 2017 (Early Spring)

South Norwich edition

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A walk down memory lane

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CONTENTS FEB/MAR 2017

Out & About 8

Good news from our region

12 Going, going, gone! Antique predictions for 2017 14 Ladies who lunch visit The Boars in Spooner Row 17 A new campaign in towns “Standing up for sitting down” 19 Mama Mia! Abba’s iconic musical comes to Norwich 20 Village notice board 24 Our top ten tips for a happier relationship

37 How to sell your house this season 41 Tom Blackmore & the school inspector 42 On your plot signals the first signs of spring 45 Garden jottings from Ken 46 Dark and seductive, this year’s spring fashion is anything but pastel 48 Exercise your brain cells with our crossword

33 51 Go ahead Gissing - how £1 million lottery funding is being put to good use 55 Memories of Pulham St Mary

Shopping 61 Fantastic competition to win a personal styling session at John Lewis 62 Regional reads – what we are loving this issue

Home & Garden

Health & Beauty

26 Village wanderings take a walk around Geldeston & Beccles

69 Heath Q&A: cures for constipation

28 Great recommendations for local businesses

71 Read part 6 of The Stowaway Cat

Jobs, Money & Business

30 Featured artists – Norwich contemporaries

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33 Refreshing Waters spotlights the inspiring Mary Berry

73 Smart money secrets – peer to peer lending and how it can benefit you 75 Lest we forget – the 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum in Dickleburgh celebrates 77 Looking for a new job? Read our top tips on creating a professional first impression 78 Find a local business or service in our directory

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Quarterly, monthly, bi-monthly? We’re often asked how many times a year we publish, so to answer the question, it’s bimonthly. But this doesn’t fully answer the question as the dictionary description of bi-monthly is ‘occurring or produced twice a month or every two months’. And before you cry out that you know the answer, it is of course, every two months. That’s a lot of magazines a year if you bear in mind that we print 50,000 copies of every issue; 300,000 to be precise!

We now reach over 200 villages in South Norfolk and we really love hearing from readers if you have a story to share about your village. In this issue, we cover the amazing success of one of South Norfolk’s smaller villages who has won itself nearly £1 million of lottery funding for community projects over the last two years. Walking round its quiet lanes, you might be tempted to call it sleepy, but I think you’ll agree from reading our article that it’s anything but. Can you guess which village I am talking about?

With spring just around the corner, would you like the chance to have a new look? Well this issue’s competition is just for you as we have teamed up with John Lewis to offer one lucky reader a personal styling session at John Lewis in Norwich. Hop onto our website where you can follow our easy instructions of how to enter.

Just a reminder that we’re very happy to support anything and everything local and community based so if you are organising an event this year, or you know someone who is, do remember that you can promote your events for free with Village People by submitting them directly to our website www.village-people.info.

With thousands and thousands of readers, it’s the best way to get free promotion in the region.

Until next time readers, well two months to be exact!

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Good News FROM OUR REGION VILLAGE PEOPLE CONTINUES TO SUPPORT THE LOCAL COMMUNITY We LOVE everything local and are looking forward to another year of supporting local community events.

We’ve donated money to many popular local events over the last eight years including Wynterfestt in Wymomdham, a summer community picnic

organised by Waitrose, a Christmas lunch for those living alone in South Norfolk, not to mention purchasing the cabinet in the coffee shop at Waitrose that houses an exhibition of the most amazing art from students at Wymondham High Academy.

Do pop over and have a look

when you are next doing your weekly shop!

2017 is already off to a positive start and we are thrilled to be able to sponsor an art exhibition at Wymondham Arts Centre in July. Watch this space for more new ws on this in a futu uree magazine.

South Norfolk Youth Symphony Band from Wynterfest

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ALL UNDER ONE ROOF

ARE YOU BRAVE ENOUGH TO TAKE ON THE CHALLENGE?

Only the Brave, East Anglian Air Ambulance’s obstacle course challenge event, is back for the second year, taking place at the Elveden Estate near Thetford on 1 and 2 April 2017 to raise money for their life-saving charity.

There will be six races in total over the weekend with three each day. People can enter individually or as part of a team and they can choose between a 5 or 10 mile mud run with over 40 obstacles; running, crawling, climbing, and scrambling to the finish line. And this year, it’s bigger, better, and muddier than ever before!

East Anglian Air Ambulance needs to raise over £11m this year to keep its helicopters in the sky and Only is the Brave is one way to help achieve this.

For more information about this event and to register to take part, please visit: www.eaaa.org.uk/events/only-the-brave/

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NEW ALL-WEATHER FOOTBALL PITCH FOR LONG STRATTON MACMILLAN MAMMOTH QUIZ The Macmillan Mammoth Quiz is back, now in its 9th year with a brand new, brain-teasing quiz for 2017.

The Mammoth Quiz is Macmillan’s nationwide quiz. Simply put, it is the same quiz, being held on the same day, at the same time, throughout the country. We need you to help make the 2017 Macmillan Quiz the biggest and best yet.

Macmillan are looking for local groups and businesses across the UK to host a quiz on 24th February 2017 to raise vital funds for people affected by cancer. It’s a really fun and easy way to raise money for Macmillan, and you can hold your quiz anywhere from the local pub or bowling club to the office or school.

It’s free to sign up to host a Mammoth Quiz. You will be sent a welcome pack with a 2017 quiz and fundraising materials. All that is left for you to do is book a venue and sell tickets!

For more information visit www.macmillan.org.uk/mammoth or email fundraising@macmillan.org.uk

Norwich City FC legend Darren Huckerby has officially opened Long Stratton Leisure Centre’s new artificial grass pitch, with Canaries’ defender Russell Martin also backing the project.

The state-of-the-art facility will be used extensively by the local community, with Long Stratton High School and Long Stratton FC delivering sessions to grow and develop local football.

It includes three 5-a-side pitches and will host a weekly 9-a-side competition.

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the creation of a multisport ‘hub’ that will address the current and future sporting needs of Long Stratton and the surrounding villages.

Darren Huckerby, who lives locally and now works at Norwich City FC as their Under-16s coach, said: “What a brilliant new pitch this is! My playing days and role as a coach have made me appreciate just how important these types of facilities are, with youngsters needing to get out there and enjoy their football on top quality playing surfaces.”

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FITNESS IN LATER LIFE Our FILL programme is a welcoming, supportive and popular programme of activities for the over fifties including badminton, aerobics, aquafit, pickleball and more.

THE SOUND OF NATURE An art group is launching a new project to make music and connect with nature. Sensing Nature, a new initiative by Waveney and Blyth Arts, will explore the nature of sound and sound in nature, and will lead to bespoke outdoor musical performances in 2017.

Working with the Norfolk and Norwich Association for the Blind and a group of professional musicians, the group will partner with locally-based visually impaired singers and musicians to inspire people to become sound-aware.

Jan Dungey, co-project manager, said: “Local animals, birds, insects and other creatures make the most extraordinary sounds – from barking foxes, to melodic nightingales, to chirping crickets.”

The resultant sound trail, comprising instrumental and vocal performances, will be performed to the public at Thornham Walks, a beautiful area of woodland near Eye, in June 2017.

For more information, please contact Mike Davison from Waveney and Blyth Arts on 01379 852501 or email davisonmike@outlook.com.

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Going, going, gone!

Elizabeth Talbot, Director of TW Gaze, Diss Auction Rooms and BBC television antiques

expert predicts what will be selling fast in the auction room this year.

2016 was a very dynamic year for the auction market: activity was frenetic, interest in buying and selling was strong, prices for certain specialisms were seen to rally. So, what can we expect for 2017 and where should our attention turn if we want to follow a winning trend?

Last year saw a steady return to favour of a variety of classic auction room favourites, with competition between bidders pushing values up. Whilst fashions change very quickly in the modern consumer-led world, I see no reason why these current contenders should not shine throughout 2017 as well: 1. Local photograph postcards, especially those privately executed and produced – the rarer the image subject, e.g. floods, fires, early transport, shops and services, advertising or views now lost, the more successful the card 2. Period oak – a long-overdue return to an appreciation of England’s finest wood 3. Vintage and classic cars – this market has returned to the fast lane after dawdling, some would say almost on the hard shoulder, for a few years 4. Good quality 20th century studio pottery – especially by British potters, who have somewhat stolen the crown from Scandinavian producers in recent months

5. Local art – the distinctive East Anglian art tradition extends over many centuries and is alive and well today; collectors tend d to be very loyal and this continues as an area for both appreciation and investment 6. Musical instruments, classic and evocative of their time – e.g. 18th and 19th century violins and 1950s/60s electric guitars, especially Fenders and Gibsons: genetic “all-so-ran” examples are not faring so well 7. Ercol furniture – interestingly it is currently the light elm colour and not the dark mahogany shades which are finding favour: this has been a complete reversal in taste in just a few months 8. Vintage and retro music systems, especially by Bang & Olufsen – sparked by the well-publicised surge in vinyl revival 9. Craftsman’s tools from bygone eras – these have never really been out of favour, but nonetheless, there has been a hearty appetite for these throughout 2016 and prices have continued to rise; I see no reason why this should abate 10. Weird and wonderful, quirky and ugly, tend to yield surprises, so never dismiss anything – often pretty and beautiful result in the biggest disappointments Whether you wish to collect and invest or divest and liquidise, a full auction calendar can be found at twgaze.co.uk

JOHN WARD (b.1938) A Studio pottery vase of slightly flattened form, pale oatmeal glaze. Impressed seal to base. 17cm high.

Sold for £700

JANET LEACH(1918-1997) A St Ives blackened stoneware vase with twin lug handles and splashes of brown glaze.

Impressed seals to side of pedestal.

Circa 1980, 20cm high. Sold for £480

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A 1926 Rolls Royce drophead coupé with mullion coachwork. Chassis No GYK36, engine No G1851 with a 3.127cc six cylinder engine producing 62 mph. This vehicle came with tools, driver’s hat and gloves, a Dickey seat and a copy of“The Rolls Royce Twenty”by John M Fascal where it is listed on page 498. Sold for £46,000

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One of my favourite up-market eateries, The Boars, has recently changed hands, and I was interested to see what changes have been made. I have eaten there half a dozen times in the past and always enjoyed the food and the company.

W

e were shown to our reserved table by a Nice Young Man, and were handed a newspaper-style menu each; there were also specials on a blackboard which caught my eye.

While we perused the options, I started on my cool draft Adnams Southwold ale, and my companion drank her San Perito.

The menu included pork, beef, duck, bream, smoked mackerel and two vegetarian options. I liked the idea of the red onion tart with goats’cheese and leeks, and my friend asked for the smoked mackerel.

Nice Young Man brought our food after about 25 minutes which gave us time to study the other pages of the menu. There is a Little Piglets section with two courses for a reasonable £7, and a Sunday menu showing the roasts – sirloin of beef, chicken, loin of pork, and a nut roast – all at £12 or £13. Interestingly, the Christmas special three course lunch with a free glass of wine was only £29, so roll on next December!

I discovered my buttered leeks hiding under the onion tart that was surrounded by red pepper pesto, the beetroot and the pomegranate seeds added a sweet and bright red touch to the meal which was generously proportioned and extremely

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tasty. By this time, my friend had all but finished her smoked mackerel and was waiting for Nice Young Man to bring her a spoon to finish up the sauce.

Cubes of garlic potato and fennel and chicory surrounded her generous portion of fish.

Both dishes had pea shoots scattered over them giving a light-hearted touch with their curly tendrils.

For pudding I had spotted an orange and Cointreau panna cotta with cranberry ice cream. It came with cranberries sprinkled over it and was delicious, and not too sickly sweet. A generous size serving at a reasonable price. My friend chose star anise and red wine poached pear with orange sponge and vintage orange marmalade which she pronounced perfect, especially the orange sponge.

A couple of espressos finished the meal off beautifully, and they were hot and strong, and

came with a lovely freshly baked Christmassy biscuit each.

I really enjoyed this meal, and the place is warm and very friendly. If you want peace and quiet away from the food, there is a dog-friendly snug with a log fire. For followers of the gin craze, there are 12 different gins on the menu, and the same number of whiskies.

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Standing up for sitting down Charity Anchor is ‘Standing Up 4 Sitting Down’ as it calls on shops to do their bit to reduce older people’s loneliness and health issues by providing seating.

A recent report found that older people are unable to engage in cultural and social activities, such as visiting shops, cafes, restaurants and theatres, as much as they would like to due to a lack of places to rest. As well as impacting economic growth, Anchor’s campaign highlights the link between poor accessibility and a lack of seating to loneliness and the related health problems it causes.

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Anchor resident Nona Hall, 93, from Attleborough, Norfollk said: “Being independent is so important to me. Even with my walker, it would be very difficult for me to make it to the shops without stopping for a rest part way. More seating would allow me to be more active and venture a bit further into town on my own. It would make it more enjoyable and stop me from missing out.”

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The

musical with the holiday vibe

The first ever UK tour of Mamma Mia! arrives in Norwich for a four-week stay from February 28 to March 25, bringing this much-loved sunny and funny tale of family and friendship, and Abba’s iconic and timeless music, to a Theatre Royal audience.

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amma Mia! is producer Judy Craymer’s ingenious vision of staging the storytelling magic of the songs of 1970s/80s supertroopers Abba.

Set on a Greek island paradise, writer Catherine Johnson’s storyline features a daughter setting out on the eve of her wedding to discover the identity of her father and in doing so, she brings three men from her mother’s past back to the island they last visited 20 years ago.

Enthralling theatre audiences since 1999, it has now been seen by more than 60 million people around the world, with the London production alone being seen by the equivalent of 10% of the entire UK population. To date, there have been some 50 productions of the show in 16 different languages, while the 2008 film Mamma Mia! The Movie – which starred Julie Walters, Colin Firth and Pierce Brosnan – is the highest grossing liveaction musical film of all time.

In 2011, it became the first Western musical ever to be staged in Mandarin in the People’s Republic

of China, while more recent conquests have also included a vast cruise ship which tours the Caribbean with a Mamma Mia! that can be seen by 1000 seafarers.

For Norwich theatre-goers, Judy Craymer promises a show with a big heart. “People love it so they return. In the audience sometimes one member will turn to the other and say ‘Is this your first time?’ It’s like ‘welcome to the club’. It’s also a show that people like to see in a community atmosphere. They like to bring friends and family,” she said.

The star of the show is undoubtedly the fantastic catalogue of Abba songs, but its cleverly-crafted emotional story of love, friendship and identity also strikes a chord with those who see it, casting a magical spell thanks to characters that everyone can empathise with and a storyline that tugs at the heart-strings.

Plus there is the chance to say ‘Thank You For The Music’ when audience members get to their feet to dance to Waterloo and Dancing Queen, sung by Donna and the Dynamos in wonderful Seventies spandex outfits in the show’s finale.

Mamma Mia! runs at Norwich Theatre Royal from February 28 to March 25. Tickets are available at the box office in person, by calling 01603 630000 or online at www.theatreroyalnorwich.co.uk

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10 Top Tips for a Happier Relationship A new relationship is like a young plant. At first we are caring and attentive, happily watching it grow. As the seasons pass we can become neglectful, and the plant may wilt.

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Be respectful to your partner, privately and publicly.

Be best friends for each other – honest, loyal, trustworthy, supportive, caring and loving.

Be intimate. Share some of your thoughts, feelings and experiences only with your partner. Be loving and keep it special.

During a relationship crisis, don’t assume that leaving is your only option. Explore what could get you both to a healthier, happier place.

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Village wanderings Geldeston and Beccles

The River Waveney divides this walk of two counties: Suffolk and Norfolk. Starting in the Suffolk market town of Beccles and following the Angles Way, the route crosses the river into Norfolk at the historic Locks Inn, Geldeston. Continuing through the village, a riverside walk on the north of the river then leads you back to Beccles.

Distance: approximately 7.2 miles.

Using OS Explorer Map OL40.

Start: grid ref: TM 423912, sat nav: NR34 9BH.

3 The round-towered medieval church of St Michael is Geldeston’s earliest surviving building. The village once had three pubs and a brewery: the Locks and the Wherry Inn still survive, but the Garden House retains only its name. This meandering wall looks as though its builder might have been ‘under the influence’!

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The Big Dog Ferry operates between Beccles Lido and the Geldeston Locks Inn along the beautiful River Waveney.

From Easter to October there are five trips daily, the 40-minute boat ride being an ideal way to view the wildlife and tranquil scenery. (www.bigdogferry.co.uk)

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The Waveney valley provides ideal habitat for the ‘ghost’ or barn owl. This barn owl box was one of three spotted en route.

Walked on a bright January day with fieldfares and redwings ‘talking’ of long journeys from the north. The marshes were partly flooded, tempting ‘darts’ of teal with their wild, high-pitched whistling calls. As a result of this mild winter, premature signs of spring were seen in the flowering of dead nettles and violets.

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1 The riverside market town of Beccles is dominated by the 16th-century bell tower of St Michael’s church. The town Museum is housed in the building that was once Sir John Leman High School, founded in 1631.

The town sign depicts the granting of the charter by Queen Elizabeth I to John Baas in 1584.

Walked, written and designed by Kevin Parker (keeper.kev@btinternet.com) and Kaarin Wall (kaarin@wizgraphics.co.uk) © 2014.

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FEATURED ARTISTS – DAVIDE LAKSHMANASAMY www.davidelart.com This Italian-born, Singapore-raised, Norwichnurtured young artist talks of process as a means for discovery and understanding. Studying structure via deconstruction, fabrication and identity within his production makes for a sizeable learning experience.

Davide’s perception of the theme ‘Beauty and Decay’ features amongst other subjects in the foundations of his making. With this, the idea of ‘the beautiful’ and ‘the ugly’ are conjoined, transmitting a more pleasurable impression to the spectator.

Language within art is essential when we attempt translation. Here, we see a conversation between diverse materials working with and against one another, ultimately learning to master unfamiliar qualities assigned by the artist.

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Norwich Contemporaries dismantling and fragmenting in order to rebuild a far more accessible and interactive playground.

November 2016 saw Davide in residency alongside sound artist Bene Pooley, located at Dove Street Studios, hosted by Norwich Arts platform Dyad Creative. Suspended high above the audience, the work formed immense shadows that drenched the room; fitting, as the piece was originally mounted on the water for the Waveney River Trail. As the light and sound penetrated the weighty waves of metal, the experiential ensemble seemed to force and indent the negative space around the sculpture.

The bassy soundtrack of machinery in use lay heavy on me as I stood watching the tremendous form in very slight motion. I envisioned looking up in my innocence, to the madness of the world moving around me, voiceless and uninformed.

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The artwork below are by the artist Davide Lakshmanasamy

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instigate reactions in viewers while they observe the piece reacting to its new self. Extracting the typically grotesque from our surroundings, he forges a new ordinary, redefining the beautiful, which is attained through trial and error; through experience.

It is a practice founded on playfulness and satisfaction with collaborative experience at the heart of his intentions. This is the justification of his freedom to make. Watch out for new additions to Davide’s collection online and for forthcoming shows in East Anglia.

EMMA CRACKNELL www.emmaleecracknell.co.uk On occasion, language fails us. That is why the maker makes, the dancer dances, and precisely why the painter paints. Painting is a very traditional means of preserving a moment in time. Generation after generation have been inspired to pursue this creative art of skill and technique, encouraging contemporaries like Emma Cracknell to take on the conventional gallery’s white cube, employing this very immersive medium.

Exposing solitary instances through the application of colour, her practice aspires to provide a place within each piece for the onlooker to speculate, but most notably, to think.

Capturing a specific point, instance, occurrence, colour, or even transitory feeling, is not dissimilar to the style of highly acclaimed artist Mark Rothko. Emma sheds clarity on the difference between a photograph and a painting; how many people can feature in a piece, and how even more people can be looking at said piece,

but that no one person will ever possess the same perception; no one instant is entirely shared. It is this perception and found place within the everyday that fuels her drive towards making.

Studying for her Honours and Masters degrees at Norwich University of the Arts, which she refers to as ‘the creative island of free thinking’, Emma identified themes within her practice regarding the denial of visual information and the desire to acquire said material. This examination led to the execution of an artwork coined her final and most conclusive piece to date; the painting made for her Masters Show. It was a representation of the drive that pulled her through education, the state of euphoria gained through acquired conceptual weight, but predominantly, it was a celebration of passion. She tells me how painting is as much an asset as a personality is. How that when she paints she is arrested by this nonphysical place, buried in pleasure.

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uisine Queen and prolific cookery book writer, Mary Berry, is no stranger to Norwich. The co-judge of the hugely popular show ‘The Great British Bake Off’ visited the city to sign copies of her latest book: ‘Foolproof Cooking’. During a previous trip to the city as part of the BBC’s ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ programme, she learnt that her great great-grandfather was a Norwich baker.

The recipient of a host of awards, including the CBE, Mary has written more re than 70 cookery books while her TV career has spanned four decades. She has cooked for VIPs, teamed with various retailers to market her own products and fronted a host of TV specials while being guest of honour at glittering functions.

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institutional management at college and study at the Cordon Bleu Cookery School in Paris. After a series of exceptional breaks, she became cookery editor for a national home magazine. Widening horizons continued as she embraced new opportunities and success but her biggest break came in her mid-seventies when she was co-judge for The Great British Bake Off which wooed more than 14 million viewers when the BBC series ended last year. She has always seen the series as family entertainment. “There are not many programmes where all ages can sit and wh watch from beginning to end.” w Ass a young girl, Mary spent months in hospital – including m time in isolation – recovering frrom polio. While planning a faamily, she endured a series of miscarriages and later o ssuffered the tragic loss of her teenage son in a car h aaccident.

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How to sell your Historically, the best time to sell a country house was in the spring.

However, in recent years buying patterns have changed somewhat and it’s nothing to do with global warming or the change in the seasons.

When the children go back to school after the Christmas break, enquiry levels increase every day and these early season house hunters tend to be serious buyers rather than summer holidaymakers.

Therefore it’s no longer necessary to withhold marketing your property until the spring, but it is important to present your home to show it off at its best.

The presentation of your property is really important when you want to sell your home.

We have all read about de-cluttering the house and baking bread or putting on the coffee to make the house appear welcoming, but it is equally important to tidy up the grounds and ensure that the first impression of the property is good.

house this season A tip which I find makes a huge difference is putting down fresh shingle or gravel on the drive or parking areas – you would be amazed at the outcome. Secondly, rake up the leaves, cut the hedges and edge the lawns – again the transformation will surprise you.

De-clutter outside as well – get rid of old cars, boats and caravans, ensure that there is plenty of room for viewers to park and turn around. Make them feel welcome by opening the gate before they arrive and, most importantly, put those over-friendly dogs in a kennel or in their crates!

Prospective purchasers come to look at the house and must not be distracted and aside from this some people are nervous of dogs.

All or any of the above tips may seem obvious, but are well worth embracing and will certainly give you a better chance of selling and indeed achieving the best possible price.

With reference to price, pricing a property accurately is of paramount importance and it is therefore necessary to employ an experienced agent to ensure the guide price is correct.

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One such small farmer was Tom Blackmore, who farmed in our region. Tom would always have a plate of shortbread and a cup of tea ready for you and he always had a story to go with it.

Now, when the Corn Exchange closed and the agricultural reps got cars they would call round on the farmers making themselves a damned nuisance. So Tom put up a big sign in his yard saying: ‘Callers Strictly Only by Appointment’.

Tom’s son Bugsy was only about a fortnight away from finishing school when Tom badly needed a hand on the drill. He said to Bugsy: “Don’t you go back to school, boy, you come and give me a hand,” which he duly did.

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word with you. You’ve been keeping your son away from school,” he shouted across the yard. “And without permission.”

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“Yes,” said Tom, “but you can’t read can you?”

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“You certainly can’t read,” said Tom. “Otherwise you’d have read my sign up there! Now be off with you!” And Tom never heard any more from Pinstripe.

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March is a good time to dig a new pond, so the showers of April can help to fill it up. Make sure that your pond is at least 2ft deep (at the deepest point) so that it does not fully freeze over. The pond shouldn’t be the same depth throughout; create sloping banks and shallow areas to promote wildlife and make it look more natural.

A new pond can be prone to algae but filling the pond with rain water rather than tap water will reduce the problem. It also helps to introduce plants with floating leaves, like waterlilies, to create some shade.

Spring is the time to start feeding the fish and remove any heaters from your pond.

You can also clean out filters and water features for the new season. Look out for frogs, toads and newts, which begin to spawn as the spring arrives.

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ave you taken part in the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch? This annual event encourages members of the public up and down the country to watch and record all types of birds and other creatures that visit their garden over a one hour period on a set weekend in January. Individual observations are then collated, and the results build up an over-all picture of the spread of wildlife across the UK, and an indication of species increasing or declining in population.

For those of you that already take part it’s worthwhile fun and a personal challenge to beat the previous year’s count, but what can you and newcomers to this activity do to increase your odds and attract more of our feathered friends into your gardens?

Obviously, the best way to tempt garden birds in is to provide something they just can’t do without, and food is pretty high up on the list. Imagine if every restaurant in the country served free food, you would naturally choose to eat at the best and most convenient outlets, where the food is fresh, nutritious and plentiful, then you and many others would literally be flocking in! For nature it’s much the same, the quality, accessibility and variety of food available will determine the numbers and types of birds you are e likely to attract.

Cheap basic seed mixes usually contain a large amount of wheat and other bulking ingredients to help keep its cost down, but most small birds will sift through these in order to find more nutritious seeds, discarding all but the best bits onto the ground, either for larger species such as pigeons and pheasants to hoover up, or to germinate into a small lawn. Try upgrading to a ‘no mess’ mix which will contain a larger proportion of small seeds and no husks, plus any wheat that is included should have been crushed or rolled (our mix is also heat-treated which softens the seed making it more palatable, and also stops it from germinating).

Birds adore sunflower seeds and most can split open the husks of black sunflowers, but for an even more rewarding snack sunflower hearts will fit the bill! These provide a luxury food source for almost all species, and a choice feed for goldfinches instead of the usual thistle (nyger) seed which requires a specialist feeder to stop wastage.

Peanuts and suet-based snacks are high in fat and gre eat for feeding year round but especially in cold weather. Once again, quality varies greatly, so we now stock a premium fat ball, and although each costs a few pence more you can really see the difference, packed full of seed and containing 59% more protein than standard ones.

Always keep your food offering fresh by putting out just enough for a couple of days, and try to serve at different heights, some at ground level for foraging birds such as dunnocks and thrushes, on tables (robins and blackbirds love mealworms), or in feeders for acrobatic tits and finches, and don’t forget to provide a source of clean water as eating is thirsty work!

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Mem emo mories o ess of Pululha l ham am St Mary ryy In this new series, local historian Dennis Cross from Diss shares with us his fascinating collection of old postcards, focusing on a different village in every issue.

This issue, we take a walk down memory lane in Pulham St Mary.

Station Road Pulham St Mary C1915 children from Pennoyers Free School posing for the photographer

GER Station Pulham St Mary railway station first opened in December 1855, passengers services closed on 5th January 1953 but remained open for freight until July 1964.

It has now been demolished and a private home is now on the site.

Aerodrome. C 1913 During World War I there was a Royal Naval airstation at Pulham St Mary, the hangars were erected to house the airships. This site is now Buxbox factory which makes cardboard.

Behind the people is the Pulham Post Office During the 1914 – 1918 war this was used by the soldiers to keep their families aware of their wellbeing.

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C1920 the station served as a base for the R33 airship.

Here it is moored to its mast

P/U 1916, This is now the main road to Harleston showing the blacksmith on the left behind the horse and the villagers going about their everyday activities.

P/U 1906, Hall Lane Pulham A rural lane off the main street

The Norfolk Postcard Club meets regularly in Trowse in Norwich and new members are very welcome. The next meetings are on 8 February and 8 March.

Dennis is also the author of several local history books that can be purchased by contacting him direct.

The Street Pulham St Mary P/U 1914, this shows a smartly dressed villager possibly wearing their Sunday best.

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Regional Reads

THIS ISSUE WE LOVE View our region from a different perspective with this fascinating selection of local titles from Chris Rushby of Jarrolds’ Book Department

Wandering in Norfolk Time Lines and Crossing Places Mousehold Press 9781874739807 £9.95

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Archant 9781911470090 £5.95

Nostalgia, bling, dancing girls – but enough of the Jarrolds book department… Here’s a new ‘bookazine’ in a familiar and successful format from Archant: a 124 page pictorial celebration of the Thursford Christmas Spectacular, a Norfolk institution with over 100,000 visitors every year.

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he author taught at the UEA, but since retiring has had more time to walk the county’s paths and roads. The fruits of his wanderings are this splendid book, as he walks and muses on the history, geography and geology of the county, along with some of the famous people who’ve gone before him: from Boudica to Robert Kett, from George Borrow to Edith Cavell. A splendid read.

Norfolk Parish Treasures Volume Three: Mid Norfolk and The Broads Peter Tolhurst Black Dog Publishing Hardback: 9780995479203 £25 Paperback: 9780995479210 £20

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PART 6

The Stowaway cat In Part 5, Su was having second thoughts about her lunch date with Graham when Milly the cat got completely stuck on the bedroom windowsill…

“Hang on!” I shouted as I went upstairs into the bedroom, intending to open the window, and let her in.

“Budge up, woman,” I said, pointing to the other side of the window.

“I can’t move!” was the retort I received.

She was standing on the narrow sill, trying to twist her head so that she could stare inwards through the glass, her whiskers flattened the wrong way against her face, and her eyes wild and staring.

“Yes, you can move,” I yelled, “and it might help if you backed away from the opening part of the window, so that I can let you in!” All this I had to shout loudly because of the efficiency of the double glazing and the inefficiency of the cat brain.

She whimpered. “I can’t hear you. I can’t get down. I’m frightened. I don’t like it here. HELP ME!” Having no other choice, I ran downstairs, found the garage key, got the car out of the garage, found the ladder, went back indoors, upstairs, changed shoes, went back down, outside, positioned the ladder under the window, found two bits of brick to level-up the ladder, hoisted my skirt up to the waist and effected a rescue worthy of the fire brigade.

Within the space of four minutes all my efforts to look presentable for my lunch date with Graham were undone.

“It was only a bloody grass snake, you dim-wit,” I growled as we made our undignified way back down the ladder. She jumped out of my arms to do the last 6 inches totally unaided.

“Ah, back on solid ground,” she purred gaily, sounding like an astronaut landing on Mars.

“I don’t know what all the fuss was about,” she trilled brightly.

“Now I’ve got to put the ladder away, in case of burglars,” I muttered.

So, at the very moment Graham rolled up in his magnificent car, I was frantically trying to re-apply lipstick without looking, squirting perfume to hide the smell of antiseptic cream on my gnawed bits of flesh, and generally trying to adopt a relaxed appearance.

“Well, look at you!” he exclaimed, as he got out of the car. I panicked just for a moment, wondering which part of Milly was still sticking to me. “My very own fashion model,” he went on, smiling rather too smugly for my immediate comfort.

Ah well, let’s get it over with, I thought.

Part 7 continues in the next issue.

Copyright Susan Lidster

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Peer to peer could be a more rewarding option for your nest egg B Andrew A d H i d d t personall fifinance analyst l t ffrom www.moneycomms.co.ukk By Hagger independent

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t’s been a miserable time for savers in recent years with interest rates gradually edging closer to zero, making it nigh on impossible to get any meaningful return on your nest egg.

With rates at rock bottom and further cuts taking place every week maybe now’s the time to consider an alternative and potentially more rewarding home for your savings such as peer to peer lending.

The returns from peer to peer providers look more appealing than ever (with RateSetter for example offering 3.7% for a 1 year bond as I write this) and are in a different league from the best 1 year fixed rate ISAs with very few products paying 1% or above.

In cold, hard cash terms 1.00% interest on the maximum cash ISA allowance of £15,240 would give you an annual interest return of £152.40 compared with a far healthier £563.88 from the RateSetter 1 year bond option.

Zopa remains the biggest player in the peer to peer marketplace and is equally competitive with its rates. It currently boasts more than 59,000 investors, not surprising when you see that at present it offers a 3.9% return for up to 5 years.

RateSetter is becoming one of the fastest growing P2P firms and saw an inflow of £60 million in the last month alone.

It even offers a monthly access account paying 2.6% (at the time of writing) – so if you’re a little nervous

or unsure if this is right for you, you can dip your toe in the water and try it out with a minimum deposit of just £10.

One of the main concerns with peer to peer providers has been that although the returns far outweigh those paid by the banks, they don’t offer the cast iron guarantee to savers that bank customers enjoy under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.

Providers have their own methods in place to protect depositors. RateSetter for example maintains a ‘provision fund’ with a balance of more than £22 million built up from borrower fees. The fund is used to reimburse lenders in the case of late payment or default.

This safety net has ensured that since it started over six years ago, every penny of capital and interest has been returned to every single lender.

Peer to peer is here to stay and as long as providers keep rates competitive and bad debt levels under control, there’s no doubt in my mind that P2P will become an even bigger thorn in the side of the traditional banks.

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