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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 !”.
It was just over a century ago when the lyrical Monty Don of his day sized up The Waste Land and planted an unlikely thought for posterity with his withering line: “April is the cruellest month … “.
Countryside writer, Edward Thomas, sizing up glories of high summer in 1906, gently sighed; “We are so rich that we do not count our treasure”.
It looks like grim business as usual – only far worse – while election bravado manifests itself as acute danger for what remains of our brutally beleaguered countryside.
Coastwatch special branch agents switch on Norfolk moody magic at Thornham marsh, between Brancaster and Hunstanton.( Photo – Trevor Allen).
It must be one of the heaviest burdens any gnarled old Norfolk native is destined to bear... a strong suspicion that he’s being either patronised or pitied.
We taught ourselves to count and do takeaways via Ten Green Bottle Hanging on the Wall.
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