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• Chateau Norfolk

  

  I heard through the grapevine that a bottle of vino from Norfolk had been recognised as one of the best in the world. It won a platinum best in show medal at th... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The City of Perspiring Dreams

  

  Now their kids have flown, Liam’s sister and significant other have sold their north London nest and migrated to a chocolate-box cottage with half an acre or... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Moonlight Sonata

  

  The annual Norfolk and Norwich Festival is done for another year. The festival delivers something for all ages and tastes – from the highbrow to the frivolous,... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Forget Me Not

  

  I was wandering through our local library last week and came across this intriguing exhibit:The display was made up of 18,000 forget-me-nots, one for each... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Witching Hour

  

  Of late, boozy gigs with ancient comrades from old London Town have been as rare as ginger imams. Somehow life just gets in the way. So, one evening I fired... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• May the Fourth Be With You

  

  The fourth of May was local election day hereabouts. As in many rural areas, the people of Norfolk are conservative with a small ‘c’, distrustful of change and... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Avenues and Alleyways

  

  We were in London for cake and fancies to celebrate my Mother’s 88th birthday. The old girl was in fine fettle – fag in one hand, brandy and coke in the other. Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• That Sinking Feeling

  

  Norwich is riddled with old tunnels. Chalk and flint was mined for centuries, and many of the oldest mines run close to the centre of the city. Chalk was used... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• East Angrier

  

  Norfolk has its very own community television station called Mustard TV. Why Mustard? It’s a nod to Coleman’s mustard, the city’s famous hot and spicy condiment. Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• I Beg Your Pardon

  

  All men convicted of homosexual offences no longer illegal have now received a royal pardon. The general pardon (so-called Turing’s Law) is modelled on the... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Time of Their Lives

  

  Billed as the road movie for the silver generation, ‘The Time of Their Lives’ stars Collins’ Joan and Pauline supported by ex-Italian stallion, Franco Nero. Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lion

  

  I’ve always been a sentimental old fool. I only have to hear Vanessa Redgrave’s voice-over at the start of Call the Midwife and I start to well up, knowing the... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• John Hurt, RIP

  

  John Hurt, the first Chancellor of the Norwich University of the Arts, was a talented, versatile and prolific character actor. Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Stepping Back Through Chalcedon: Kadıköy Walk

  

  Lisa Morrow, writer of several books about Turkey, has branched out into audio with a talking tour of the Kadıköy district of Istanbul. Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Story of Norwich – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor, Rich Man, Poor Man,...

  

  Our flat is like a weather chamber. When Mother Nature decides to throw a wobbly, we hear every eruption. So last month when Storm Doris (Doris?) huffed and... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Message from My Husband

  

  I hate beards. Well, I hate the idea of having one. So it makes no sense whatsoever that I should grow a beard – other than as a perverse way of raising a few... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Fantabulosa Fairy

  

  Recently, apprentice clerics at an Anglican theological college in Cambridge were given permission to hold a service to commemorate LGBT history month. Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bugger the Bigots

  

  If Christmas was sedate and tranquil, January was an exploding glitter ball. The month began with the high flying Cinderella at the London Palladium, the... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• La La Land

  

  Lauded as a return to the great Hollywood musicals of yesteryear, the very thought of ‘La La Land’ made Liam go weak at the knees. Must be the gay gene. Either... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Seven Signs of Ageing

  

  I don’t mean Olay Total Effects or any of the other magic potions promising to hold back the ravages of time. No, I mean the seven signs as they apply to a... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2017 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION