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What is the future for home organs in Norfolk?

WHAT is the future for home organs? Well, it’s funny you ask. Allens Music Centre, of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, has the answer. The Lowrey organ. It was always the Lowrey. With Allens and the Lowrey, you re in safe company. The chap in the back get to speak (and blink) just after the 4 minute mark:

Spotter: @thedeadflowers, via Popper

Posted: 30th, January 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment


For Sale In Nofolk: Evil Bob – The Worst Dog In The World

EVIL Bob is for sale. Evil Bob is a dog owned by Tem Sosa from Downham Market, Norfolk. Evil Bob is a  border collie who featrues in this advert:

Evil Bob would love to find the perfect home as I have put up with him for nearly ten years and can’t take much more. He is probably the worst dog you will ever meet. He started life as a failed mountain rescue dog – probably peed on the climber and stole their Kendal mint cake. He has caused nothing but trouble here as he doesn’t fit in well with a large group of dogs. He looks older than his years, has wonky teeth, bad breath and a bad attitude. He is terrified of cats, snaps at horses’ heels and nips pigs.
“He should not be left unsupervised indoors as he steals food off the side, licks the cooker and pees at terrier height so as not to get the blame.”

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Posted: 28th, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)


AA Gill Is Wanted In Norfolk, Place Of ‘Dark Lusts, Incest And Idiocy’

AA Gill is the subject of a “Wanted” poster published in The Eastern Daily Press.

Gill’s crime was to have called the county “the hernia on the end of England“.

He also said:

“If Norfolk didn’t exist, we would have to make it up, and then regret it.”

And that Norfolk is a “backward place to allocate dark lusts, incest and idiocy”.

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Posted: 5th, March 2011 | In: Reviews | Comment