How are yu all a’gettin on t’gether?
That don’t seem five minutes since I last hed a wud a’long with yu und thas nearly the end o’the year und all.
Well thas bin a rum old year, I spus yu could say thas the fust full year we hev ha’a live with that there old coronovirus; the trouble is that ain’t going t’be the only year cos I recon that old virus ull be with us for several more years yet. We hev just gotta learn t’live with it even if that mean we hev gotta stop doin things that folk hev taken for granted und we hev gotta think about other folk as well as ourselves.
There’s suffin I hev bin a’meanin t’tell yu about for a month or two. A lady who live in the village recon that when she were out for a walk in Thetford Forest one day she see a bit o’metal layin near the path und she see that hed the word CARBROOKE on the side on it. Well she told me where she see it so the Missus und I went und had a look for it. We jammed about where she told me that lay but we could’nt find it. Next time I see the lady she recon she hed moved it in case somebody else see it und made off with it. I asked har where she’ed put it und she recon she hed put it behind a tree. Well the Missus und I went back und hed another look. Arter we hed walked about half a mile inta the forest along the path we tunned round t’go back only this time I walked along about a chain’s length (22yds) away from the path und I soon see it propped up agin a tree. That were a big old bit o’cast iron und that din’t half weigh suffin, I ha’a keep a’havin a rest a’carrin it back t’the car. Since I hev got it home I hev bin looking at it und I recon thas part of a hoss roller. That hev got part of a round hole in the casting where a bearing could hev bin that held the end o’the shaft in place. I am a’goin the take it up to the foundry where that must hev been cast t’let them hev a look at it. Less hope we can put it some where where folk can have a look at it.
They tell me that they want a bit o’money for the church. Thas stood there for a few years but like all old buildings that want tricolating up t’meake sure thas still there for a few more years, so if these an do for church funds I recon that we should all support it.
Thas bin all change up at Carra Road. Arter four years a Mr Smith is now in charge. I recon he hev got a job und a half t’keep them Canaries singing on the top perch next year although he han’t meade a bad start.
The Missus und I drawed along to Thursford tuther day to see their Christmas show (We wore our masks all the time) that were a good show und that don’t seem real that you are a’watchin suffin like that sittin a barn in the middle o’Norfolk. Those on yu who hev bin there will know that right near the end of the show about twelve white doves are released und fly acrors the audience & land on top of a tracton engine chimney near a picture of a dove-cot. On the was out arter the show I had a werd along with the fella standing near the doves cos we keep one or two on um in our garden. He recon we could stay until all the folk hed left the barn und see how he git the doves back inta the basket they travel about in.
fust of all he talked to the doves und using a long stick he gently got them down und they were perching round the top o’the open basket sitting on a trolley nearby. He then slowly shut the basket’s lid und all the doves hoped down inta the basket. Afterwards I told the Missus thas no good her thinking that I were going to train our doves like that cos I hant got a tracton engine chimney near und handy that they can land on ……she din’t say anything she just give me one o’har looks.
I hev bin busy out in the garden a’gettin the compost outa the bin und onto the flower beds, thas two year old now und looked a drop o’good stuff. Thas the last job t’do afore the garden shut down for the winter although there’s still seem t’be suffin t’do. The old hins are still a’layin although thas tunned colder und the nights hev bin drawn in. One thing yu ha’a du if you are feeding wild birds und hins are to make sure yu keep their food shut away so Mr Rat & Mr Squirrel can’t get to it, I keep mine in galvanised dustbins, I tried a plastic one once und the squirrels soon gnawed a hole in it.
Well thas time I closed but afore I du the Missus would like to join me in wishin yu all a Safe und Happy Christmas und all the best for 2022.
Fare ye well t’gether und du yu keep a’troshin