Pleasuring Urinals…

Urine Attraction  Urine controlled games have become a booming success in pubs and clubs across the UK. Not only has the toilet cleanliness improved as men are encourage to aim at specific points to trigger the sensor but sales of promotional liquors have risen substantially – a win win all-round!   Locally, Cambridge based restaurant […]

Fleetwood Mac Gather Momentum

A Slow Burn Before Setting Alight The gig kicked off with crucial numbers from THE ALBUM – Rumours – selling globally 45 million copies! Leaving Queen and Meat Loaf in their wake. Classics started the evening – Second Hand News, followed by The Chain, but then the tempo dropped  – too much time between songs, bare […]

‘The Invisible Lighthouse’

That Wasn’t Me… Q – So, where can you experience an out of body event – the Harwich Electric Palace – the first cinema to open its doors in the UK at the end of the art nouveau period. A –  Thomas Dolby and his attachment from boyhood to Orfordness Lighthouse, a fixation that has prompted a […]

Forest Bike Rides & the Age of Steam

North Norfolk Weyborne log cabin lodges located in the forest are an excellent spot for family off-road bike rides including a fairly leisurely 3-4 mile circuit which takes you down thru the woods skirting the railway track and across bridle paths and lanes up thru Sherringham Park across paved roads passing grazing cows and back […]

The Lure of the Seals

Seek out Morston Be it by Beans, Bishops or Temples the lure of a trip to Blakney point is a key ingredient to a successful holiday in north Norfolk. 42 souls were packed like lemmings on our trip out of Morston to see a squadron of common seals basking in the sun with one enormous […]

Cinnamon Folklore

Spicy cinnamon Not local I know, but I stumbled upon a tasting sensation in Hale after a hard days drive arriving at 10.30 at night. We requested staple fare, chicken madras and chicken xxxx and we’re then indulged with a marvellous treat, a luxurious and honeyed palate was cut with a melange of spicy notes […]

Roll Up…

Great fun and great stamina on behalf of the circus artists who performed over the May bank holiday weekend. Children loved the routines, the role play which the performers encouraged and audience participation. Juggling, clowning, tightroping, the trapeze and knife throwing all were exhibited – the latter was hugely amusing as a random male was […]

Go ape!

Go Ape!

High Lodge – Thetford I took my son and three of his buddies for his birthday party to Go Ape at Thetford High Lodge, an hours run in the car for us with bikes loaded on the back of the estate. They had great day out, not only in the trees, as junior tartans, with birthday […]

Lichtenstein – Pop Finds its True Idol

A Retrospective at Tate Modern – Lichtenstein.  For most of us Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1977) symbolises the epitomy of American pop art along with Andy Warhol. In the 1960’s he broke with the practice of abstract expressionism and set about developing a new conceptual identity based on comic strip culture. He concentrated especially on two great […]

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