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 really does get late earlier.
An old chum with a neat turn of phrase but absolutely no respect for his elders and betters describes me as “about as upwardly mobile as an outing to Grimes Graves”.
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 help along our information highway.
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 Second World War.
Norfolk loyalists have remained deeply suspicious about changes dressed up as progress ever since that crafty reprobate Maximum Secondhomeicus launched his Best-Crept Pillage Competition for posh visitors a few centuries ago.
Norfolk has been my precious planet home for eight decades - plus a few thought-provoking months since our general election, the 22nd “ “judgement day” so far in my lifetime.
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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 ”celebrity antiques road trip” along a familiar coastal route.
Even the most crusty of old Norfolk curmudgeons must occasionally scan the heavens and admit with a winsome smile: “Times do change !”.
