There’s saying that Norwich is ‘the graveyard of ambition’: people come to the city intending to stay for a short time but because it’s such a ‘fine city’ they end up staying (forever!). For someone who likes to climb, Norwich was just about the worst place in the UK for me to end up. I’m [...]

02/04/10 – re-edit of a post from a defunct blog of mine… …it’s another political post! I stood for re-election in 2003. The Norwich Green Party were on the rise and I was up against Bob Gledhil. Despite having less time due to work I decided to stand again. But with the entire City Council [...]

I was as a Liberal Democrat Councillor on Norwich City for 5 years (1999-2004). It’s not an insignificant period of time so I guess politics is going creep into this blog. We received our Council Tax bill the other day with the accompanying justification pamphlet. Steve Morphew is the leader of Norwich City Council.  Once he wanted to be the [...]