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April 2005

If Wanado.co.uk can get their act into gear and sort out my connection problem then, hopefully, I will be on broadband by this time next month. The technological world does eventually manage to invade the rural idyll unless it's called Freeview! For those who don't know, Freeview is the UKs free digital TV system. Free in the sense that you need to buy a digibox but don't need to buy subscriber cards for the different channels. According to the Freeview website Feltwell cannot receive digital TV but my working digibox tells me otherwise! The lesson here is, surely, one of profit. I pay Wanado for the broadband so they ensure that it is available whereas digital TV is free, hence there is no profit to be made, so the powers that be aren't all that bothered about getting their facts right. I guess it's the same the world over.

The appearance of the countryside around the village will change very soon and I don't mean because the crops are growing and the trees are in leaf. No, the fields will sprout a new type of "plant", the election hording. Prime Minister Tony Blair called a General Election yesterday and I expect to see placards appearing along the field boundaries extolling us to vote Conservative or Liberal or Labour (although the latter is more noticeable by its absence in this part of rural Norfolk).

I mentioned last month that the Youth Centre should be demolished by the time of this newsletter. I was wrong. The electricity board have to move a power cable underground and they've delayed the project start by a month so far. Perhaps by next month's newsletter. Whilst talking about building type work I should report that a new third lane is being built on RAF Feltwell at the Wilton Road entrance. We will shortly have 2 lanes on and one off which should help reduce the traffic queue going onto the Base. Only the other day my wife was faced with a car coming towards her because the (British) driver had, presumably, got tired of waiting. In the midterm it is planned to build a toll-type system on the Base, well back from the entrance, which should mean an end to any queuing on the Wilton Road.

On the website front there will not be an update for April but there will be a significant addition in May as I'm working on a new subweb (if that's the right term) of the Millennial Feltwell site about St Nicholas Church. This will be along the lines of the St Mary's subweb with lots of photographs of both the inside and outside of the church. I hope the wait will be worth it. It has been a very quiet month for emails with the only highlight coming from American Steven Robinson who found himself in a photograph of an Elementary school class provided by Brenda Carroll. The photo went online in March 2003 and this is its first response.