Someone has pointed out to me in a DM that more people are likely to associate Bernard Matthews and his Norfolk Turkey Twizzlers with Norfolk than Delia Smith, and possibly even more than Alan Partridge. Hmm, this may call for a survey...

Three bees in conversation for #WorldBeeDay , the maker's mark of Percy Bacon in a corner of his 1890s east window at Langford, Essex.

'Hale knew they meant to murder him before he had been in Brighton three hours.'

Today is Whit Monday, in most years a bank holiday, but Easter was early this year. The opening action of Graham Greene's 'Brighton Rock' takes place on Whit Monday, most probably in 1936 when it

After Alan Partridge and Delia Smith, the name most associated with Norfolk is perhaps Admiral Lord Nelson. But Portsmouth claims him as its own as well, and here's his statue on Grand Parade. His ship HMS Victory lies not far off in Portsmouth Harbour.

Today is the feast of Pentecost, traditionally known as Whitsun. In 15th Century glass at East Harling, Norfolk, the Blessed Virgin stands centrally flanked by the Disciples, and they look up to see the dove of the Holy Spirit descending.

East Harling: norfolkchurches.co.uk/eastharling/ea…

Philip Larkin's poem 'The Whitsun Weddings' is set on this day, Whit Saturday. The journey that inspired it took place in 1955, soon after Larkin arrived in Hull, although as he pointed out, it did not happen at Whitsun, nor did he travel as far as London. Nevertheless, it

I expect I'm one of the last people on twitter to visit Legion, but I thought it was outstanding. A graspable cultural epoch two millennia distant, and yet so different from us, it hauls up memories from History and Latin lessons at school and makes them fresh, showing familiar

Moving to Sheffield from the flat lands of East Anglia back in 1980, it amazed me that you could enter Cole Brothers on the ground floor on one side of the building and leave it again on the third floor on the other side. It felt like the world was no longer as I had thought it.

I was pleased to acquire 'Under Three Crowns' by AJ Forrest, 1961, from TreasureChest Books in Felixstowe today. The three crowns were the symbol of the Kingdom of East Anglia, and they remain the symbol of the Kingdom of Sweden. Fans of M R James, and particularly of 'A Warning To The

The Blessed Virgin and Christchild by Andrea della Robbia, c1500, in Portsmouth Anglican Cathedral. It was the gift of the architect Sir Charles Nicholson, who drew up the 1935 plan for the expansion of the Cathedral. Portsmouth Cathedral ☩