http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/tags.php?tag=norfolk The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:28:49 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39048#post-110946 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:19:31 +0000 button 110946@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>When I was little I was convinced BC was waving directly to me. I would wave, BC would wave back.</p> <p>Great sub Curbie, good to see you back Ollie, Pollie and Collie </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39048#post-110902 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:44:01 +0000 Curbie Firetank 110902@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thanks Bruv (OllieP) look forward to your triumphant return to satire. It's been whey two long... having a nipper is no excuse - show us the funny! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39048#post-110901 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:39:31 +0000 OllieP 110901@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Good to see you again old friends. Glad to see you've hardly aged at all, especially you Pollie. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39048#post-110897 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:30:31 +0000 CollieP 110897@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Woof </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39048#post-110896 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:29:24 +0000 PollieP 110896@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Great work Curbie. And good to see you back Ollie. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39048#post-110892 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:16:36 +0000 Username 110892@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>5 yellow star-shaped stars </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39048#post-110875 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:36:35 +0000 writinginbsl 110875@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>funny</p> <p>stars </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39048#post-110874 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:24:51 +0000 Stan Laurel 110874@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I didn't think much of Norwich Castle museum when I visited it. It didn't have a single castle inside it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39048#post-110873 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:24:28 +0000 OllieP 110873@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>PS. The Castle Museum recently improved the bronze age exhibit by employing a number of locals from Reedham and South Walsham. Didn't even have to restyle their hair. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39048#post-110871 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:14:27 +0000 OllieP 110871@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Like it bruv. And I know I've been away for a while, but nothing beats your productivity. A submission every 3 months keeps the doctor away, eh?</p> <p>Can't add much other than the discoverers have ascertained it came from outside the EU because its degree of bendiness fell outside the legal limits.</p> <p>I'm done. See you all again in August. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39048#post-110801 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:55:15 +0000 charlies_hat 110801@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Jesus - I wonder what happened to that weird BC tiger monstrosity ?... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39048#post-110800 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:52:30 +0000 Curbie Firetank 110800@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>...rumours so far indicate either the Wally Webb Wing or BC's Kids Room as the most likely locations! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39048#post-110783 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:06:56 +0000 charlies_hat 110783@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>As a regular visitor to the Castle Museum, I'll look forward to viewing this delight... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39048#post-110782 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:04:01 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 110782@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Nice </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39048#post-110778 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:44:35 +0000 Curbie Firetank 110778@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Quarantine staff at Norwich International Airport were shaken this morning when a cargo of 300 highly poisonous arachnids was found to contain what appeared to be a ‘yellow crescent shaped fruit’. </p> <p>Dean Wiveton, the facility's resident vet and fruitarian, finally identified the rogue fruit as a banana, but was unable to ascertain the exact variety. The 'banana' was packed in ice and transported across the road to a nearby Tesco Express, where banana enthusiast Traci Toftwood excitedly claimed it was a rare Ducasse Banana – seen only twice before in the county.</p> <p>Also known as a 'Sugar Banana' the fruit was swiftly taken away by staff from the Norwich Castle museum, where it will be exhibited for a couple of weeks. After which it is likely to be added to a batch of the Museum cafe's famous “Nelson’s Waterloo Banana cake”. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25537#post-69570 Thu, 26 May 2011 07:22:37 +0000 saltire 69570@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Bump. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25537#post-69530 Wed, 25 May 2011 15:22:15 +0000 Oxbridge 69530@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thanks guys.</p> <p>Is saying thank you a viable excuse for bumping it again?</p> <p>Not you, Saltire. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25537#post-69369 Tue, 24 May 2011 19:31:27 +0000 jp1885 69369@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>5 stars for the headline alone. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25537#post-69358 Tue, 24 May 2011 18:18:37 +0000 waylandsmithy 69358@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I very much enjoyed this, most amusing! 5 sparkly things. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25537#post-69349 Tue, 24 May 2011 16:35:15 +0000 Oxbridge 69349@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Two years ago, the tranquil Norfolk village of Shotesham hit the world’s headlines for all the wrong reasons when crazed gunman Barry Mather ran amok, killing five people and injuring 14 more. And residents say that their nightmare still goes on, because the tragedy has made them into a close-knit community for the first time.</p> <p>It’s been ghastly,’ said Victoria Broadley, 45, wife of one of eleven consultants from the Norfolk &amp; Norwich General Hospital that live in the village. ‘As if being unable to sell our barn conversion because of all the publicity wasn’t bad enough, now everyone wants to be friends with us.’</p> <p>‘Just as I got back from getting my legs waxed in Norwich, that bitch Laura Walker runs up to me sobbing “Thank God you’re all right”, like she cared about anything more than turning up at the school in a more expensive designer dress than me, then the place is crawling with press asking me over and over if we were a close-knit community. I told them “No, you idiots, I know three other people by sight and that’s plenty” but they didn’t print it.’</p> <p>On the morning of 24 May 2009, Mather, who was embittered by a nasty divorce and the failure of his painting and decorating business, first shot dead his ex-wife Julie and her new boyfriend in their council house. He then walked around the lanes of Shotesham screaming abuse and firing randomly as other local residents began the school run. </p> <p>The casualty list might have been higher but for three of the resident doctors jumping into their cars and driving straight at him. Startled, Mather got onto his motorbike and drove away, later taking his own life in a country lane. One of the three, Crispin Brownlee, is still haunted by the consequences of his actions, not least the damage to his Morgan.</p> <p>‘First I have to miss a round of golf tending to dying bumpkins, then come the invites to peoples’ houses and some wretched Community Association,’ Brownlee said. ‘It’s true what they say, a tragedy teaches you what’s really important in life. I just pray that one day we can put all this behind us and get back to the icily polite one-upmanship that used to make this such a nice place to live.’ </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=7043#post-18866 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:02:35 +0000 fernandomando 18866@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4357#post-12395 Thu, 13 May 2010 11:18:27 +0000 Oxbridge 12395@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It's the silence that kills you.... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4357#post-12170 Wed, 12 May 2010 10:21:54 +0000 Oxbridge 12170@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>'Britain has finally joined the 21st century,' announced James Trotman, managing director of Fox Trotman Country Living, at a special ceremony to mark the conversion of the last barn in England. 'For too long, these buildings have been eyesores; now they are stylish rural retreats that are sustaining the UK economy through dark times by stimulating local housing markets.'</p> <p>The barn was one of ten that formerly blighted the landscape in the small Norfolk village of Shotesham. It is believed to have been used to house grain for reasons which are not yet clear and the smells coming from it were described by local home owners as 'a jolly nuisance'.</p> <p>The other nine are now all occupied by the families senior doctors at the Norwich &amp; Norfolk General Hospital but this one had been overlooked until quite recently, when Fox Trotman responded to an anonymous tip-off. Consultant opthalmologist David Bradley, his wife Victoria and their two children will move in next week.</p> <p>'It's marvellous fnews or us and the local community,' commented Victoria Bradley. 'For the best part of a year, we were all crowded into a six-bed in Dereham, now we have enough space for us, the 4-by-4, the Morgan and the children, when they are home from boarding school. If they could only put some pavements in around the village, it would be perfect.'</p> <p>There have been reports in some quarters that an oast house in Kent has yet to be converted into living space. Fox Trotman said that this has yet to be confirmed but if proven correct, they will be ready to act immediately. No barn owls could be reached for comment as the species was declared extinct in February. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3265#post-9483 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:04:27 +0000 fernandomando 9483@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Norfolk. Twinned with Norfolk. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3265#post-9464 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:44:50 +0000 Genghis Cohen 9464@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thanking you kindly folks. Never been to Reepham and I don't know the first thing about the place, but they probably don't get the internet there so I should be okay. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3265#post-9421 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:51 +0000 sauce 9421@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Looks like another FP from this angle. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3265#post-9415 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:58:04 +0000 Oxbridge 9415@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>How dare you sir? Reepham is nothing like this. Now Shotesham on the other hand... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3265#post-9403 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:05:08 +0000 Zen 9403@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Bootiful..... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3265#post-9352 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:55:35 +0000 MightyBlair 9352@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>'triffic. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3265#post-9350 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:50:38 +0000 Genghis Cohen 9350@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Conservationists have stepped in to help prevent the small Norfolk village of Reepham from dying out as its inhabitants are lured away by the bright lights of major metropolitan centres such as Fakenham, Norwich and King’s Lynn. The move is a last-ditch attempt to return Reepham to former its glory days when it boasted a population of several hundred and up to five distinct family names.</p> <p>‘The programme will draw on the region’s age-old customs,’ said Steve Jones today, professor of genetics at University College London. ’Adolescent brothers, sisters and cousins will be brought together in a specially designed enclosure called a family home, safe from the distractions of modern life such as skipping ropes and the wireless. We are confident that in these excellent inbreeding conditions, it will only be a matter of time before nature takes its course and a new generation of Reepham-ites come paddling forth.’</p> <p>Sociologists have warned that if the people of Reepham were allowed to die out, generations of proud heritage would be lost, including the practice of calling newborn babies Lesley until their gender can be determined and families using their members’ IQ scores as their lottery numbers. The future also appears uncertain for the thousands of special needs teachers and biologists employed in the region to teach children about the birds and the birds, while some are concerned that the extinction of Reepham would halt advances in our understanding of how things were a rung or two down the evolutionary ladder.</p> <p>But conservationists are confident that the scheme will be a success. ‘It’s exciting to be involved in a project to preserve such a really close-knit community,’ said Professor Jones. ‘All the residents have their fingers crossed, many since birth, and every face seems to carry that same look of dreamy hopefulness. Plus it’s great for us as scientists. For many of our team, this will be their first exposure to reproductive theory since GCSE biology.’ </p>