Our intrepid reporter, Darren Wheeler, today visited St Edmunds, a residential home in Gorleston, to inform the residents about 96ktalkback and find out if there is any interest in it. 96k is particularly interested in working with older people as they invariably have so much to offer interms of knowledge and experience. A number of the residents have expressed a wish to become Community Reporters and Darren will be returning in the New Year.
Over the coming weeks we will be visiting other residential and care homes to offer people the chance to be involved with their wider community. If anyone is interested in working with us to access what older people have to offer please get in touch.
One of the people Darren met today was Rita Farmer. Rita published a booklet full of history, reminiscence and poetry called Musings. As I came to work this morning the temperature gauge registered minus 10 degrees at St Olaves, well just to put that in context I quote a passage from "Commuting - East Anglian Style" by Rita.
"When I arrived in Great Yarmouth in the autumn of 1944, I was unaware of the shocks that, to one born and brought up in the gentler south-east, this uncompromising region would have for me. One of the surprises was that for seven-and-a-half years I would "commute" to my office by ferry-boat across the Yare...
One terrible winter when Breydon Water froze, the thaw brought ice-floes sailing downstream..."
Perhaps it's not quite as cold as we think?
Passage copied from Musings by kind perission of Rita Farmer
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