Take time and keep cycling safe
* Letter of the week *
Spring is (nearly) sprung, the grass is (almost) ris’, I wonder where the cyclists is?
Ooh, hang on, I do know after all – they’re out in increasing numbers enjoying the better weather, improving their health and fitness and saving a few quid compared with driving the car everywhere.
But despite the growing army of pedallers, some car drivers don’t seem able to get their heads around how vulnerable cyclists are.
As a general rule of thumb, might I suggest that if you wouldn’t dare overtake another car at a particular point in the road because there’s a truck coming towards you, then please don’t overtake the bike.
When you try squeezing between the cyclist and the white line in the middle of the road it’s actually really scary for the rider, not to mention potentially lethal.
Waiting a couple of seconds for the road to be clear enough for you to give the cyclist a wide berth isn’t going to kill you; not doing so might have the opposite consequence for the cyclist.
Brett Fraser, Victoria Hill, Eye
A grand effort for footballers
Attleborough Town Youth Football Club would like to thank everyone who attended the horse racing fundraising event on February 21, at the Snooker Club, Attleborough.
It was a fantastic evening and great to see so much local community support.
It was not just from the players and their families, but from friends and relatives too.
We are exceptionally pleased with the support we received and raised just over 1,000.
On behalf of the club, I would like to say thank you to all of our sponsors: Donna Kissenger, Jam Star Karaoke and Disco, Robert Kemp Cars Ltd, Aura Lights International, Sourcing 4u Ltd, Dodds Road Stores, Pallet Repair Services, Supreme Bathrooms, Richard Bunn developments and Sea Star Fish Bar.
Pete Venables, chairman, Attleborough Town Youth FC
Hoping request sparks reunion
The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association is the association to join if Diss Express readers served in the electrical branch of the Royal Navy at any time.
At a recent reunion there was much talk of old pals and old ship and mess mates. Friendships started on the courses at the Royal Navy Radio, Radar and Electrical Training Establishment HMS Collingwood at Fareham and a lot of the members would like to renew those lost friendships.
The main aim of the Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association is to reunite these shipmates.
This is done via the www.rneba.org.uk website, which has the latest reunion photographs on it.
Write to me: Mike Crowe, RNEBA, 7 Heath Road, Sandown, Isle of Wight, PO36 8PG or email mike.crowel@btinternet.com if you want to find out more and please mention the Diss Express when contacting me. I am keeping a list of responses because your old shipmate might just be a reader as well, and you didn’t know.
Mike Crowe, Sandown, Isle of Wight
On the hoof
Having survived Sunday’s run (Jan’s on the hoof for church roof, Diss Express, February 27), I would like to tell friends from Fersfield and surrounding villages how much I appreciated your encouragement and pledges of support.
Your generosity has so far raised almost 600 towards the repair of the church roof.
To you all, a huge thank you.
Jan Sumpter, Fersfield
Nothing rubbish about service
I write to say thank you to South Norfolk Council for their prompt response to my telephone call regarding litter.
On Monday, a neighbour’s recycling wheelie bin had blown over and rubbish was blown along the road.
I rang the council’s free phone number, which is printed in their Link Magazine, at 10.30am and the rubbish had all been cleared within two hours.
Thanks for an excellent service.
Martin Wilby, Dickleburgh
This is just not cricket
Never one for political correctness, John Skelton has been in the news again.
The 16th Century poet laureate and Diss rector is said to have provided evidence that cricket came from Belgium rather than England.
An Australian academic found a mention of the game in a Skelton poem called The Image of Ipocrisie.
In the 1533 poem, Skelton was objecting to the number of Flemish weavers who settled in the south and east of England.
“O lorde of Ipocrites,” he wrote, “Now shut upp your wickettes, And clape to your clickettes, A Farewell, kings of crekettes.”
The word cricket may derive from a Flemish phrase meaning to chase with a curved stick.
Skelton was made poet laureate by the University of Louvain in Belgium, as well as Oxford and Cambridge, but he doesn’t seem to have been too fond of their people coming over here.
Basil Abbott, manager, Diss museum
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Thursday 02 September 2010
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