Do you like owls?
― Spencer Chow, Friday, 11 November 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnham_Market - town full of poshos
― owenf, Friday, 11 November 2011 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
village
I quite like owls.
― djh, Saturday, 12 November 2011 10:15 (twelve years ago) link
I'm also pondering the Suffolk coast.
― djh, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
Right then ... might go to Norfolk in June.
― djh, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
Any thoughts on Wroxham and Eccles On Sea?
― djh, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
?
― djh, Sunday, 5 August 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
Things to do in Norfolk near here: http://www.hermanusholidays.com/ ?
Aside from play the new Nathan Fake album ...
― djh, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
Any good Norfolk books, possibly nature related?
― djh, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 19:00 (ten years ago) link
everything in norfolk is worth seeing. there is no finer country on this earth.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 08:41 (ten years ago) link
god i could murder a crab sandwich about now
― but olives are valuable too (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 08:43 (ten years ago) link
Mark Cocker's Crow Country starts out in Norfolk. Where is Graham Swift's Waterland set?
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 08:50 (ten years ago) link
Sebald's Rings of Saturn? Roger Deakin has written a lot about Norfolk. This is a pretty good resource: http://www.literarynorfolk.co.uk/search_by_surname.htm
― Stevie T, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 08:57 (ten years ago) link
Ah Henry Williamson, now there was a rum old cove.
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 09:06 (ten years ago) link
In 1935, Henry Williamson visited the National Socialist Congress at Nuremberg and was greatly impressed, particularly with the Hitler Youth movement, whose healthy outlook on life he compared with the sickly youth of the London slums.[2][1] He had a "well-known belief that Hitler was essentially a good man who wanted only to build a new and better Germany."[3] He subsequently joined Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists in 1937.[4]In 1936 he bought a farm in Stiffkey, Norfolk. The Story of a Norfolk Farm (1941) is his account of his first years of farming here.At the start of World War II Williamson was briefly held under Defence Regulation 18B for his political views, but was released after only a weekend in police custody.[4] Visiting London in January 1944, he observed with satisfaction that the ugliness and immorality represented by its financial and banking sector had been "relieved a little by a catharsis of high explosive" and somewhat "purified by fire." And, "in The Gale of the World, the last book of his Chronicle, published in 1969, Williamson has his main character Phillip Maddison question the moral and legal validity of the Nuremberg Trials".
In 1936 he bought a farm in Stiffkey, Norfolk. The Story of a Norfolk Farm (1941) is his account of his first years of farming here.
At the start of World War II Williamson was briefly held under Defence Regulation 18B for his political views, but was released after only a weekend in police custody.[4] Visiting London in January 1944, he observed with satisfaction that the ugliness and immorality represented by its financial and banking sector had been "relieved a little by a catharsis of high explosive" and somewhat "purified by fire." And, "in The Gale of the World, the last book of his Chronicle, published in 1969, Williamson has his main character Phillip Maddison question the moral and legal validity of the Nuremberg Trials".
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 09:07 (ten years ago) link
Seriously, obviously biased because I'm a Norfolk boy born and raised, but if you can think of somewhere nicer to be on a sunny afternoon that Blakeney I'll eat my hat:
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Travel/Pix/pictures/2010/8/17/1282053994984/Blakeney-Norfolk-England-006.jpg
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 10:09 (ten years ago) link
Anywhere with a hill tbh
― nagl dude dude dude (ledge), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 10:10 (ten years ago) link
There's a hill in Blakeney. Perfect for a post-mudslide 99.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 11:37 (ten years ago) link
― djh, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 19:00 (Yesterday)
i mean does arthur ransome go without saying
― wince (imago), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 11:43 (ten years ago) link
coz, like, coot club nails it
― wince (imago), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 11:44 (ten years ago) link
Thanks all.
― djh, Thursday, 13 June 2013 07:08 (ten years ago) link
Time for my regular "Any north Norfolk coast recommendations (for next week?)" query ...
― djh, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 21:06 (eight years ago) link
Any recommendations for Sheringham or thereabouts?
― djh, Sunday, 27 March 2016 13:11 (eight years ago) link
Weird. I didn't ask for north Norfolk recommendations in 2017.
Any for 2018?
― djh, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 21:40 (six years ago) link
it was nice in 2017, i'm sorry you missed it, you should have asked
― mark s, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 21:41 (six years ago) link
Strangely I can't remember whether I went to Norfolk in 2017. I should probably head over to "This is the inevitable thread for ILxors in their forties."
― djh, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 21:44 (six years ago) link
Thinking about it, I did.
― djh, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 21:45 (six years ago) link
Anyway, any recommendations for good north Norfolk walks outside the obvious - we tend to do Holkham beach, the sea wall at Cley and bits of the coast path?
Actually, I probably need poor weather plans, too.
― djh, Saturday, 17 March 2018 13:32 (six years ago) link
Any parts of the Peddars Way particularly good?
― djh, Thursday, 22 March 2018 18:54 (six years ago) link