Anyone here from Norfolk?

Just want to know what’s the area like.

Thanks

no one will admit to being from "six finger" norfolk.......

Lord Foul wrote:no one will admit to being from "six finger" norfolk.......

Ok you have to explain what that means!

Worked in Lowestoft near Great Yarmouth many years ago it was beautiful then...that's about all I know of that area.   .

SEXY MAMA wrote:Just want to know what’s the area like.

Thanks

Live in a village which is part of the Queen's Sandringham estate and went to Wymondham College in Norfolk when I was young, Dad was also stationed at Marham in Norfolk fir three years, so know quite a bit about it. Lovely area, message me on facebook.with any questions you have and I'll answer a bit later as just going out xx

SEXY MAMA wrote:

Lord Foul wrote:no one will admit to being from "six finger" norfolk.......

Ok you have to explain what that means!

'Tis said of Norfolk that the population was based on incest and shotgun marriages and that this resulted in some, er, interesting genetic defects. Having six fingers on each hand was one; having webbed feet was another.

If you plan to visit don't expect scenic grandeur, as in the Lake or Peak Districts or in Wales and Scotland, as much of East Anglia including Norfolk is as flat as a pancake. It is, however, known as "the land of the big sky" because one can see from horizon to horizon for miles, and miles, and miles...save for the occasional molehill, that is. Indeed, natives of The Fens are known to need oxygen if they ever reach a height of more than 25 feet!

There's plenty to see and do, however...Norwich is a fine city and there are the Holkham and Blickling estates, Sandringham, etc.

I have booked a holiday cottage on a farm in North Norfolk this May as I don't want to travel far from home this year, but events are conspiring against me being able to take it.

Mum and stepdad lived there for 18 years in the broads. I loved it and miss it. Senior Junior is still Yellow Until He Dies lol.

Message me if you have any questions.

Fred Moletrousers wrote:

SEXY MAMA wrote:

Ok you have to explain what that means!

'Tis said of Norfolk that the population was based on incest and shotgun marriages and that this resulted in some, er, interesting genetic defects. Having six fingers on each hand was one; having webbed feet was another.

If you plan to visit don't expect scenic grandeur, as in the Lake or Peak Districts or in Wales and Scotland, as much of East Anglia including Norfolk is as flat as a pancake. It is, however, known as "the land of the big sky" because one can see from horizon to horizon for miles, and miles, and miles...save for the occasional molehill, that is. Indeed, natives of The Fens are known to need oxygen if they ever reach a height of more than 25 feet!

There's plenty to see and do, however...Norwich is a fine city and there are the Holkham and Blickling estates, Sandringham, etc.

I have booked a holiday cottage on a farm in North Norfolk this May as I don't want to travel far from home this year, but events are conspiring against me being able to take it.

Oh I do hope you can go. All that delicious Cromer crab freshly made. Rest easy x

There's a Norfolk in the UK? Why do y'all always copy our names?

Maddog wrote:There's a Norfolk in the UK? Why do y'all always copy our names?

Maddog wrote:
There's a Norfolk in the UK? Why do y'all always copy our names?

There's also a Norfolk Island down here...

A few hundred miles off the Queensland coast..

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

Maddog wrote:
There's a Norfolk in the UK? Why do y'all always copy our names?

There's also a Norfolk Island down here...

A few hundred miles off the Queensland coast..

Our Norfolk was for the criminals that didn't get caught. Yours was for the ones that did.

I think its named after the Vikings that took up residence hundreds of years ago,..........North folk?
anyone know if true?

nicko wrote:I think its named after the Vikings that took up residence hundreds of years ago,..........North folk?
                        anyone know if true?

It does sound like a Norse name.

Maddog wrote:

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:


There's also a Norfolk Island down here...

A few hundred miles off the Queensland coast..

Our Norfolk was for the criminals that didn't get caught. Yours was for the ones that did.  

There's also a town called Texas in south west Queensland...

http://www.traveller.com.au/texas-queensland-travel-guide-and-things-to-do-12vtow

http://www.exploreaustralia.net.au/Queensland/Darling-Downs/Texas

And a Miami on the Gold Coast..

And Canada doesn't miss out, either -- there's a Toronto on the western side of Lake Macquarie, a few miles south of here.

Thanks guys x

Case I’ll message you x

Sass I’ve txted you x

SEXY MAMA wrote:Thanks guys x

Case I’ll message you x

Sass I’ve txted you x

Anytime x

Maddog wrote:

nicko wrote:I think its named after the Vikings that took up residence hundreds of years ago,..........North folk?
                        anyone know if true?

It does sound like a Norse name.  

I seem to recall that the first documentary reference was in Anglo Saxon: The North or Northern people/folk. Suffolk was where the South folk lived. Essex and Wessex were the eastern and western lands or kingdoms.

Cass wrote:

Fred Moletrousers wrote:

'Tis said of Norfolk that the population was based on incest and shotgun marriages and that this resulted in some, er, interesting genetic defects. Having six fingers on each hand was one; having webbed feet was another.

If you plan to visit don't expect scenic grandeur, as in the Lake or Peak Districts or in Wales and Scotland, as much of East Anglia including Norfolk is as flat as a pancake. It is, however, known as "the land of the big sky" because one can see from horizon to horizon for miles, and miles, and miles...save for the occasional molehill, that is. Indeed, natives of The Fens are known to need oxygen if they ever reach a height of more than 25 feet!

There's plenty to see and do, however...Norwich is a fine city and there are the Holkham and Blickling estates, Sandringham, etc.

I have booked a holiday cottage on a farm in North Norfolk this May as I don't want to travel far from home this year, but events are conspiring against me being able to take it.

Oh I do hope you can go. All that delicious Cromer crab freshly made. Rest easy x

So do I, Cass. The cottage is near Holt, a few miles inland, so crab will most definitely be a regular treat.

One amazing thing is that I made the booking shortly before discovering a long lost cousin who lives just over a mile away from there!

Fred Moletrousers wrote:

Cass wrote:

Oh I do hope you can go. All that delicious Cromer crab freshly made. Rest easy x

So do I, Cass. The cottage is near Holt, a few miles inland, so crab will most definitely be a regular treat.

One amazing thing is that I made the booking shortly  before discovering a long lost cousin who lives just over a mile away from there!

Holt is very pretty. Some great pubs and food between there and Sheringham. How neat about the cousin. Fingers crossed you’ll get there x

SEXY MAMA wrote:Just want to know what’s the area like.

Thanks

Can't think of owt to say except that living in Cromer must be damn nice, for the seafood and the walks along the lovely beach.


Ipswich in nearby Suffolk is where the serial killer son of a police officer murdered six women, most of them prostitutes. The killing spree never put the local prossies off as they were mostly drug addicts needing their daily fix. Sad really. I remember he was finally caught around christmas time, one year.



Geographically Norfolk  (north folk county) sits  on top of Suffolk  (south folk county), both on the coastline. The Scandinavians arrived in their boats, invaded and colonised it centuries ago, didn't mix much and so a fair amount of inbreeding occurred lol.

I said that long ago, but no one reads my posts. I have to pinch myself sometimes to see if i'm real !

nicko wrote:I said that long ago,  but no one reads my posts.  


I have to pinch myself sometimes to see if i'm real !

Really? 

nicko wrote:I said that long ago,  but no one reads my posts.   I have to pinch myself sometimes to see if i'm real !

I read your posts and Im sure most of us do Nicko.
I know what you mean though, it can be soul destroying when you make a brilliant post....and everyone ignores it.

Jules, Yes really, I'm covered in bruises !

Fred Moletrousers wrote:

Cass wrote:

Oh I do hope you can go. All that delicious Cromer crab freshly made. Rest easy x

So do I, Cass. The cottage is near Holt, a few miles inland, so crab will most definitely be a regular treat.

One amazing thing is that I made the booking shortly  before discovering a long lost cousin who lives just over a mile away from there!

Holt is about 25 mins away from where I plan to move.

SEXY MAMA wrote:

Fred Moletrousers wrote:

So do I, Cass. The cottage is near Holt, a few miles inland, so crab will most definitely be a regular treat.

One amazing thing is that I made the booking shortly  before discovering a long lost cousin who lives just over a mile away from there!

Holt is about 25 mins away from where I plan to move.

Nice!

SEXY MAMA wrote:Just want to know what’s the area like.

Thanks

It's cold, that's all I know.

Fred Moletrousers wrote:

SEXY MAMA wrote:

Ok you have to explain what that means!

'Tis said of Norfolk that the population was based on incest and shotgun marriages and that this resulted in some, er, interesting genetic defects. Having six fingers on each hand was one; having webbed feet was another.

If you plan to visit don't expect scenic grandeur, as in the Lake or Peak Districts or in Wales and Scotland, as much of East Anglia including Norfolk is as flat as a pancake. It is, however, known as "the land of the big sky" because one can see from horizon to horizon for miles, and miles, and miles...save for the occasional molehill, that is. Indeed, natives of The Fens are known to need oxygen if they ever reach a height of more than 25 feet!

There's plenty to see and do, however...Norwich is a fine city and there are the Holkham and Blickling estates, Sandringham, etc.

I have booked a holiday cottage on a farm in North Norfolk this May as I don't want to travel far from home this year, but events are conspiring against me being able to take it.

I hear a certain aristo' family with the same inbreeding traditions invades Norfolk(sandringham) every Christmas. 

Are we talking about the Howard's again?

Maddog wrote:

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

Maddog wrote:
There's a Norfolk in the UK? Why do y'all always copy our names?

There's also a Norfolk Island down here...

A few hundred miles off the Queensland coast..

Our Norfolk was for the criminals that didn't get caught. Yours was for the ones that did.  

I'm gonna say our Norfolk is better, It's a pristine subtropical island

It is pretty, veya. But I'm worried about that compound with the fence around it in the middle. Penal colony, or Sandals in the Bahamas, Grenada and Barbados?

Original Quill wrote:It is pretty, veya.  But I'm worried about that compound with the fence around it in the middle.  Penal colony, or Sandals in the Bahamas, Grenada and Barbados?

ex prison colony.

it is mainly a tourist destination now with a permanent population under 2000

veya_victaous wrote:

Original Quill wrote:It is pretty, veya.  But I'm worried about that compound with the fence around it in the middle.  Penal colony, or Sandals in the Bahamas, Grenada and Barbados?

ex prison colony.

it is mainly a tourist destination now with a permanent population under 2000

See, I don't like that. Like Alcatraz in the San Francisco Bay, it's not a thing to celebrate.

Original Quill wrote:

veya_victaous wrote:

Original Quill wrote:It is pretty, veya.  But I'm worried about that compound with the fence around it in the middle.  Penal colony, or Sandals in the Bahamas, Grenada and Barbados?

ex prison colony.

it is mainly a tourist destination now with a permanent population under 2000

See, I don't like that.  Like Alcatraz in the San Francisco Bay, it's not a thing to celebrate.

That's racist

British empire penal colonies are the foundation of Australia, as one of the older sites it's a bit like plymouth rock.
being founded, not in freedom but harsh oppression is part of what makes the differences in National character.

veya_victaous wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

See, I don't like that.  Like Alcatraz in the San Francisco Bay, it's not a thing to celebrate.

That's racist

British empire penal colonies are the foundation of Australia, as one of the older sites it's a bit like plymouth rock.
being founded, not in freedom but harsh oppression is part of what makes the differences in National character.

It's a National Character we have gotten beyond. I don't want to hear it.

we're not really beyond it, it has effects on the political outlook both in both foreign and domestic policy. A campaign to make to take Australia back to our old days would not get very far. we're still getting 'great' the first time
Let alone the differences in race relations, since Australia had white convicts instead of black slaves to provide the hard labor needed to establish settlements/infrastructure.

veya_victaous wrote:we're not really beyond it, it has effects on the political outlook both in both foreign and domestic policy. A campaign to make to take Australia back to our old days would not get very far. we're still getting 'great' the first time  
Let alone the differences in race relations, since Australia had white convicts instead of black slaves to provide the hard labor needed to establish settlements/infrastructure.

Okay, do we have to champion those days?  We can acknowledge them, but like a statue that is evil, do we have to praise them?

That walled garrison would have been built to house the governor and the troopers...

While the convicts roamed over the rest of the island..

What would those convicts back then have thought, being sent away from an overcrowded and grotty 19th century Britain, to be exiled in this corner of paradise  ?      

Original Quill wrote:

veya_victaous wrote:we're not really beyond it, it has effects on the political outlook both in both foreign and domestic policy. A campaign to make to take Australia back to our old days would not get very far. we're still getting 'great' the first time  
Let alone the differences in race relations, since Australia had white convicts instead of black slaves to provide the hard labor needed to establish settlements/infrastructure.

Okay, do we have to champion those days?  We can acknowledge them, but like a statue that is evil, do we have to praise them?

it's only fair that aussies praise the convicts that endured the lash to build the nations foundation,
maybe the USA needs to do more to praise the slaves that built theirs

Ironically your post shows the difference in national character,
you automatically assume we praise those days, when tours of those sites are more solemn remembrance of the suffering and endured hardships of our forebears.

veya_victaous wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

Okay, do we have to champion those days?  We can acknowledge them, but like a statue that is evil, do we have to praise them?

it's only fair that aussies praise the convicts that endured the lash to build the nations foundation,
maybe the USA needs to do more to praise the slaves that built theirs

Ironically your post shows the difference in national character,
you automatically assume we praise those days, when tours of those sites are more solemn remembrance of the suffering and endured hardships of our forebears.

Yeah. Praising suffering...I'm not into that. Maybe if it was clear that you were condemning it, then I could see it. But the icon is ambiguous.

veya_victaous wrote:

Maddog wrote:

Our Norfolk was for the criminals that didn't get caught. Yours was for the ones that did.  

I'm gonna say our Norfolk is better, It's a pristine subtropical island

Such a pretty place with a sad history. Hope to visit one day.