Friday, 8 October 2010

Dull, boring and unimportant?

I walked past some people the other day, clearly from London thanks to their accent and style, saying how Norfolk is so boring and has nobody important related to thsi area. Im sorry we are not the Capital City of England, we are in the country side so what do you expect, parties every night and drunken celebrities falling out of cars at 4 in the morning? I beg to differ.
As for we have nobody "important", Have they heard of Sandringham? The Queen retires to her palace here every christmas, attending the church in West Newton along  with the rest of the Royal family. If they aren't important then i don't know who is? The Queen is the only person that can declare war on another conuntry, her face is on our money and she is seen as a national treasure. Not only is she the Queen of england, Australia also classes her as their ruler. She has ruled for over 50 years, and if i do say so myself, nothing bad has happened during the time i have been her that she has ruled.
I don't know who they define as important but from the look of them, one clearly a teenage mother with a trashy magazine hanging out of her bag and walking around in jogging bottoms that look like PJ's, but i would think they meant somebody like Jordan or a BB reject.
Not meaning to be judgemental but those names did appear in there conversation before remarking on "Boring Norfolk".
As well as the Queen, we are also home to the most followed person on Twitter, Stephen Fry! How is he boring? Unimportant? He may not do much now but host QI, but he was once a great actor on Black adder, he has written a autobiography, he was a journalist, comedian and film director. Most recently, he is now the director of the canaries (AKA Norwich City Football Club). How is that boring? He is recognised world wide but degenerated from the good old countryside.
And what about Nelson? If it wasn't for him, this would be in french right now! He is a national hero, his flagship has been restored in Portsmouth historic dockyard and thought many wars. losing an arm in one battle but continuing to fight. How is that unimportant? I think they would have a different opinion on the matter if they knew all of this.
There are various other names (Ed Balls, Bernard Matthews and Myleene Class amoungst many other) that are proud of their roots. I'm proud of Norfolk Myself, we are even home to a Nudest Beach! (Holkham) There are so many lovely sites to see here, i was pretty insulted when they commented saying it was dull and boring, obviously they haven't gotten out much.

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