Month: November 2019

Strangers’ Hall

In the centre of Norwich (use the excellent Park & Ride) this is not just your everyday museum of life. It’s a rambling sort of place, spanning many periods in history with plenty to interest most people – young & old alike. Fabulous value. [Right click on the link below & “open link”.]

http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk

Why Strangers? Walloons & Huguenots, escaping religious persecution from the Low Countries, sought sanctuary in Protestant England and Scotland and were permitted to set up their Stranger churches. Norwich, a staple port. was one such favoured location.

https://norfolkrecordofficeblog.org/2016/06/24/strangers-a-brief-history-of-norwichs-incomers/

Many migrants brought their canaries with them (each worth a week’s wages at that time because the Church maintained a monopoly on breeding by only allowing the sale of cock birds). Hence the origin of the nickname for Norwich City Football Club.

A new beginning…

I have been writing fiction for almost five years now; played around with Goodreads, but am not impressed: so I decided to have a go at setting up my own website. Other people do this almost everyday don’t they?

Believe me, writing books is easier!

“Why a website?” you ask; “everybody’s into blogs these days.”

Well, my generation was brought up to keep themselves to themselves, if you know what I mean: “Walls have ears!” and all that.

Folks are more liberated now – share even the most personal stuff on social media – like to know what their friends are up to. More able to trust people not to scam them, or bully them online, or shop them to HMRC / Social.

So the very idea of second-guessing what someone else might be interested in finding out about me (not counting my bank details of course) is a pretty daunting prospect.

After creating a website, writing a Blog comes even harder than writing books.