Toilet Turmoil, Sub Station Site and Air Ambulance Arrival

Yesterday was Groundhog Day in the USA.

Yesterday was Groundhog Day in the USA.

And déjà vu it is in the EDP today. Watton council warn of a shortfall in funding as their £100,000 refurbed public toilets are repeatedly vandalised, reminiscent of  Swaffham's water closet Waterloo. Just how do you spend £100,000 refurbing some sanitary ware anyhow?

Just to the north of the Pickenhams, in Little Dunham, villagers are up in arms about a proposed electricity sub station. Not one of those humming brick sheds behind the local corner shop, but a 22 acre construction on a 42 acre site around 150 metres from the nearest dwelling. The proposed site will be the terminus for 45km of underground cabling from the Dudgeon Wind Farm landfall at Weybourne.

A short diversion via Little Cressingham yesterday, on my return from the south, as the B1065 was closed and the air ambulance called to assist at a traffic accident at Hilborough.

The injured lorry driver, who was transporting railway sleepers, was airlifted to Addenbrookes in Cambridge by this charity funded emergency resource. The East Anglian Air Ambulance needs £3million a year to run two helicopters 365/24/7 and provide ongoing training. That's about thirty toilet refurbs.

New Norfolk Virtual Reality Resource

Heads up, and Norfolk Arms, to the new EDP/NCC VR museum highlighting this wonderful county. People and places, past and present, are presented in a peculiar preteen propitious passion.

Back to reality with toilets and time past tyrannies.

Two terrifying terms certain to curdle any council constituent's confidence are 'working group' and 'wider consultation'. Still, that's what was decided at the special meeting held in Swaffham to solve the toilet overspend. They will stay open in the meantime until a solution can be flushed out. Don't pan my puns, you're just pulling my chain.

Dragged up deposing Duma dictator's detailed drawings in the EDP today. An opportunity to rake up the past today as secret cold war Soviet maps of Norfolk are revealed from the Cambridge University Library. Norfolk has long been seen as a prime invasion point, remember The Eagle Has Landed? The village used in the film was actually Mapledurham in Oxfordshire.

Oh no, I've mention the war again. Sorry.