Goodwill Bunting!

We had a meeting today in our village hall.
For some time we have been trying to get affordable housing to buy or rent for local families.
There are so many people out there who know the score and are trying so hard to make it happen. It would bring tears to the eyes of a stone needle!
However, there are those who do not want it to happen for a variety of reasons! NIMBY being one.

It begs the question when it will not be in their backyard and the only real objection is the colour of the brickwork that will be employed.

A number of ideas/phrases surfaced during the course of the afternoon.
The first was that you can not have a good public meeting without bunting, obviously goodwill bunting. Herself admitted, under duress, that she had colluded with the man in the Town Hall in Hackney to secure bunting whenever there was a public gathering at the heath centre, often it was tatty bunting.

Later through the haze of the evening meal it was reported that one of the nieces had been appointed as the Curator of Yurts.

Maybe we should get a few yurts, plonk them on the village green and have a festival of Mongolian Throat Singing. Now that would stick in the craw of the the bad guys!

Felbrigg

And so to Felbrigg!
Our journey was set about by ambulances, police cars and helicopters.
Arrival at the hall was soothed by a walled garden. I am very partial to a walled garden.
There were many beautiful flowers, nigella, or love-in-a-mist, being one of them.


I think we may return!

Debenham

We travelled to The Mid Suffolk Village of Debenham for our August perambulation.
It is described as “unspoiled without being a showcase” and well worth a visit but might provide more interest on a working day! The building that caught my eye, grand but not very beautiful, was the former Chapel of the Ancient Order of Foresters. It was built in 1905 but is of significance as it was the local branch or lodge of a Friendly Society formed in 1834. The society which, is still in existence, provides its 70,000 members with insurance policies against sickness and death; an example of the small society?