Edited by Patricia Stammers, Thursday, 6 Mar 2014, 11:41
Armed with the wrong address which I had seen on their website we went rolling round Norwich totting up a massive taxi fare. Arrived with only moments to spare before the talk began and there was no time for a coffee. Talk delivered by an employee was about manorial history and sent several members of the audience to dreamland within seconds.
The problem was not the subject, but the speaker's enthusiasm, which lead him to over pronounce certain words, and swallow the rest. So many of us were straining in our seats with frowning faces.
The talk lasted for an hour and at the end he must have said,
"Any questions?" Anyway someone in the audience raised their voice and I left hurriedly.
The best bit of my away day was the train journey through the Norfolk countryside. Isolated, thatched farm houses, grazing herds and calm, standing wheat fields like green lakes seen through the window reminded me of my formative years, on a little farm in Essex. So returned knowing no more about Diss Mere, I will ditch the project.
Norfolk Record Office
Armed with the wrong address which I had seen on their website we went rolling round Norwich totting up a massive taxi fare. Arrived with only moments to spare before the talk began and there was no time for a coffee. Talk delivered by an employee was about manorial history and sent several members of the audience to dreamland within seconds.
The problem was not the subject, but the speaker's enthusiasm, which lead him to over pronounce certain words, and swallow the rest. So many of us were straining in our seats with frowning faces.
The talk lasted for an hour and at the end he must have said,
"Any questions?" Anyway someone in the audience raised their voice and I left hurriedly.
The best bit of my away day was the train journey through the Norfolk countryside. Isolated, thatched farm houses, grazing herds and calm, standing wheat fields like green lakes seen through the window reminded me of my formative years, on a little farm in Essex. So returned knowing no more about Diss Mere, I will ditch the project.