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>February Events / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / stories / Then & Now / valley lad memories February 14, 2022
READ MOREValentine’s Day has come around again and we are being told how best to spend it with our loved one
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>April Events / stories / Then & Now / valley lad memories April 2, 2021
READ MOREOn Easter Sunday almost all children had at least one chocolate egg from their parents or close family.
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Christmas / stories / Then & Now / valley lad memories / Waveney Valley December 10, 2020
READ MORELet us all make a resolution before the New Year: To do what so many of the greetings cards tell us, ensure we have a ‘Happy Christmas’.
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>October Events / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Fireworks / Halloween / stories / Then & Now / Tourist Attractions Norfolk and Suffolk / valley lad memories / Waveney Valley October 30, 2020
READ MOREWe have reached that time again when the summer holidays are a distant memory, and the children are already on their first half term holiday of a new year.
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farming / stories / Then & Now / valley lad memories / Waveney Valley October 28, 2019
READ MOREChanging the Clocks – Then and Now. Lots of people think it would be better for everyone if we continued ‘British Summertime’ all through the winter months
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Christmas / stories / Then & Now / valley lad memories / Waveney Valley December 15, 2018
READ MOREChristmas was a time when all families, large and small, got together. Sometimes there might be as many as fifteen or sixteen of all ages crowded into a small terraced house.
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>December Events / Christmas / stories / Then & Now / valley lad memories December 11, 2018
READ MOREChildren of all ages were kept busy at this time making new paper chains and trimmings and putting them up with those they had kept from last year.
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>December Events / Christmas / stories / street entertainment / Then & Now / valley lad memories / Waveney Valley December 4, 2018
READ MOREOn Christmas Eve, when the younger members of the family had seen their stockings put up ready for their presents, mother would get out a mince pie and perhaps a sausage roll and place them with a glass of wine somewhere Santa couldn’t fail to see them.
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Holidays / stories / the coast / Then & Now / Tourist Attractions Norfolk and Suffolk / valley lad memories July 11, 2018
READ MOREMany folk who had to be satisfied spending their summer holiday at home with their children
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stories / Then & Now / valley lad memories / Waveney Valley January 20, 2018
READ MOREA Life Together: We met and we married a long time ago, We worked long hours and the wages were low.
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>June Events / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / stories / Then & Now / valley lad memories / Waveney Valley June 4, 2017
READ MOREEveryone must be getting fed up listening to all Parties making promises we know it is impossible for them to keep while at the same time they condemn everything the other parties are proposing.
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Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / stories / Then & Now / valley lad memories / Waveney Valley March 2, 2017
READ MOREWhen asked to do something, how often do we exclaim ‘I haven’t got time’! More important, how often is it true? What we really mean is there are other things we would rather do instead or consider more important.
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Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / stories / Then & Now / valley lad memories December 31, 2016
READ MOREOur Vally Lad. We miss you dearly x
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farming / stories / Then & Now / valley lad memories May 14, 2016
READ MOREEvery day on the television and in all the newspapers and magazines we read we are advised of the steps we must take if we are to remain fit and continue to look and feel young. They tell us what to eat, how to exercise, relax and stimulate our brain.
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READ MORESpring time again. The hawthorn is green and the buds on many of the trees can be seen breaking out into assorted shades of green
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stories / Then & Now / valley lad memories September 22, 2015
READ MOREAlthough there was much more poverty among people in years gone by with adults and children undernourished and starving, never before has there been such an outcry from people over their inability to make ends meet.
