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DORN’T
KNOW IF THASS CHRISTMAS OR EASTER
D’YER
KNOW Oi
believe th’ow warld is upside down sometoimes. Dew Oi
look outside at the garden thare’s geraniums from last
yare still in blume alongside o’ daffodils just brearkin’
inter loife.
Oi
dun’t spuz we’re got a Ministry of Weather, dew
we could put the blearme on them. Still we’re gotta be
thankful hare in Norfolk, when yew see what other parts o’
the country hev had ter put up with ’gards to floods
a’washin’ things away and a’muckin’ up
peoples houses and loives.
Then
them folks over in ’Merica had a load o’ snow ter
put up with last week. (Just you think Oi’m a’gorn
loopy Oi shud tell yer that Oi’m writin’ this hare
at the end of Jan’ry. Ashley hev bin on moi barrer ter
get suffin’ dun in good toime!)
Hoop
yew orl hed a good toime over Christmas. Gal June and me spent
toime with orl our family, which was werry noice. Leastways
June din’t hatter dew na cooking which pleased har.
Every
Christmas wot cum ’round moi moind ollus go back ter
1950 and 1951 when Oi wuz in Jarmany in the Air Force. We
hed a smashing toime ’speshully on Christmas Day when
the orfficers and sargents dished our grub up for us. Bein’
up in North Jarmany meant we hed snow over Christmas, which
med evrawhere look loike a Christmas card.
Fer
Christmas 1951 Oi spent a bit o’ toime with a Jarman
family seein’s Oi wuz gorn out wi’ thare daughter.
They hed a hard loife at that toime.The house they lived in
wuz the ony one left standin’ on thare street ’corse
the RAF hed knocked the rest onnem down.
Oi
’member hevin’ moi tea with ’em on Christmas
Day. They dished me up wi’ ham, taters and pickled cabbage
– not very festive yew moight think but thass orl they
hed. Over December and January thare wuz a grit ow fair, which
they called the Dom, set up in the St Pauli district, and
me and the gal Waltraud spent a few noights thare. Dew yew
know every toime Oi get a whiff of cigar smoke and sausages
cookin’ that bring back those dears.
Another
Christmas Day wot stick out in moi moind was when Oi decided
ter hop on the bus tearkin’ Dereham football team over
ter play at Wymondham. Oi han’t told moi parents where
Oi wuz a’goin’. Little did Oi realise that, arter
the gearme, the team took themselves orf tew the pub. Oi din’t
get hoom till the middle o’ the arternoon. Cor, blarst,
din’t moi mother and father hev a go at me. Howsomever,
they had kept moi dinner hot for me.
Now
the New Yare is hare and, afore yew kin say Jack Robinson,
that’ll be spring with us agin. Evenings are drawing
out a bit and thass still fairly moild so we shell hev ter
keep our fingers crorst that we’re broke the back o’
winter.
Hare
yew go tergether – salary supe is on the tearble. Belearted
wishes fer a Happy New Yare.
Here
yew goo tergether,
THE
BOY COLIN’S NORFOLK QUIZ
Time
to test your local knowledge
Question
1: Who founded Norwich’s Maddermarket Theatre?
Question
2: Who opened it?
Question
3: Which recent award-winning film was shot in and around
Norwich?
Question
4: What was Wighton Halt?
Question
5: If you’ve been ‘higgling’ what have
you been doing?
Question
6: Which team did Norwich City beat in the first round
of the F.A. Cup in the 1959 campaign?
Question
7: Which pub did Alan Breeze (Billy Cotton’s singer)
keep?
Question
8: What did Harry Cox and Sam Larner have in common?
Question
9: Where are the Carnegie Rooms?
Question
10: Where is the English Whisky Company?
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