Fakenham Market (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Fakenham Market is the perfect place to stock up on Christmas presents. With a huge variety of stalls offering modern and vintage items you are bound to find gifts for everyone. Find something different from the High Street chain stores, shun high car parking charges and the crowds in city centres for the more relaxed and fun atmosphere of shopping at a Norfolk Market! Fakenham Auction Site Market...
The Ibooknet Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Peakirk Books have closed their shop near Peterborough and relocated to North Norfolk. Although we no longer have a shop we are still specialising in old children's books and John Clare (the poet). We are still holding a general stock. Our website (www.peakirkbooks.com) and e-mail address (peakirkbooks@btinternet.com) remain the same. Our new telephone number is 01328 829944; 24 hour answerphone when...
Waveney Valley Blog (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Sea Eagles threat moves counties From Norfolk to Suffolk Source: www.farminguk.com Free range egg producers in Norfolk appear to have succeeded in their fight against plans for the introduction of sea eagles. But colleagues further south are facing the same battle after Natural England announced it was now looking at Suffolk as the most suitable place for the birds of prey We reported earlier this...
MyriadLifeontheMarket (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Avoid the long car park queues and bustling crowds in shopping centres and head out to the market towns of Norfolk for some stress free shopping. Visit Sheringham Market on Wednesday, Fakenham on Thursday, Diss on Friday and Sheringham Saturday. The perfect place to entertain the children, showing them the true British tradition of market shopping, the most ancient way to trade still going today. Visit...
MyriadLifeontheMarket (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Get colourful with our fashionable new pendants - just in! The darker days need brightening up so how about making a splash with these desirable pieces of costume jewellery. It's all about colour this winter on the Myriad Life Jewellery Stall , winter months don't mean you have to live in black and grey but if you do, accessorise with these perfect pendants and necklaces. And while you are thinking...
MyriadLifeontheMarket (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Christmas is already a hot topic on Norfolk markets this year with everyone planning ahead. Very wise! Here on the Myriad Life Jewellery Stall we are getting lots of new stock in every week to make sure customers have plenty of gifts to choose from. With stylish scarves in lots of fashionable colours, colourful bead jewellery, sparkling pendants, gorgeous bracelets & bangles, huge selection of...
Waveney Valley Blog (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
Pensthorpe holds a Fungus Foray with Dr. Tony Leech Thursday 29th October 2009 10am and 1.30pm Pensthorpe Nature Reserve & Gardens, near Fakenham in Norfolk, famous for hosting BBC Springwatch, is running two Fungus Foray workshops with local expert Dr. Tony Leech at 10am and 1.30pm on Thursday 29th October 2009. This popular workshop will teach you how to identify different species of fungi including...
Diary of a Birding Medic (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
Chaffinch - Sculthorpe Moor Snow Bunting - Cley Snow Bunting - Cley Snow Bunting - Cley Snipe - Cley Grey Lag Geese - Walsey Hills Pink Footed Geese - Holkham Egyptian Geese - Redwell Marsh Black Tailed Godwit - Redwell Marsh Black Headed Gull - Titchwell Herring Gull - Titchwell Snow Bunting - Cley Disaster Shot 1 - Firecrest - Holkham Disaster Shot 2 - Firecrest - Holkham Disaster Shot 3 - Firecrest...
Words and Pictures (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
On Monday we decided to travel a little further afield and headed for Pensthorpe, near Fakenham. Liz and I first visited Pensthorpe 11 years ago. The site has developed a lot since then and is now nationally well known thanks...
Fakenham Market (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
Fakenham Market is on all year round, both the privately run Auction Site Market and the Town Market are on every Thursday. Both are great markets to visit with very different atmospheres. The town market is typically traditional and adds life to this popular market town, all the usual stalls you would expect to find and more. The Beck's Auction Site Market is more of a mixture of old and new with...
Waveney Valley Blog (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Explore Pensthorpe's Winter Wonderland Families looking for a fantastic day during October Half Term and during this autumn and winter can find a whole raft of interesting and exciting things to do at Pensthorpe Nature Reserve & Gardens, near Fakenham, in Norfolk. Here you will find nature at its very best and there is always a superb range of things to see and do, no matter what the time of year....
MyriadLifeontheMarket (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
I can't even begin to pretend I'm excited about the nights drawing in or getting up in the dark to drive to market but I can whole heartedly get excited about our Autumn/Winter 2009 fashion jewellery & accessories! As the new boots (I have a real passion for boots), winter woollies and jackets in the shops get our pulses up somewhat, the old heart rate will shoot up even further when you see what...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 01/09/2009
Norfolk Police launch a new bid to find an 11-year-old boy from Fakenham who went missing in September 1969.
A Simple Desultory Journey (Free subscription) | 29/08/2009
While out for a drive this morning I caught a brief glimpse of this field of sunflowers so I did a u-turn and drove off towards them. After driving along the edge of the field I found a convenient place to park (in an adjacent field - thank goodness for 4WD). Location: A field just off the A1067 (Norwich to Fakenham Road) near the village of Bintree. See the panoramio map at the bottom of this posting....
Norfolk Blogger (Free subscription) | 24/08/2009
Norman Lamb MP is calling a public meeting on Cromer regarding the persistent problems with US airforce jet undertaking low flying exercises late at night over Fakenham , Cromer and other towns in North Norfolk. Having been brought up on one of the flight paths regularly used by RAF jets landing at the now closed RAF Coltishall , i have no problem with low flying jets. But when I lived in Fakenham...
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