Editorial
A VERY SAD GOOD-BYE to James Fitch, who after 20 years as our County Councillor, is retiring this month (see his article). While James has been in charge, we have always been confident that good things would get done when good things needed doing, and any bad things they tried to foist on us would have a tough job getting past James! He will be sorely missed.
May is a very merry month in SP, with everything happening at once: Reach Fair, Village Feast, the long-awaited Grand Auction, the Village Annual Assembly (well alright, that might not be very merry) the Flowers and the Wedding Dresses, .So spare a though for Jean Moore, who has broken her arm and may well miss all this. As a previous winner of the WIÕs Guy Bulleid Award, Jean's kindness is renowned, and the Crier would like to offer her all their best wishes for a speedy recovery.
This month's issue sees the long-awaited return of Mark Lewinski's Crier Profile with a truly fascinating account by Sid Prince of the way things used to be, when the only things you couldn't buy in the village were clothes (but you could get the cloth to make them). Yes, we are a PALE SHADOW OF OUR FORMER SELVES, the only good thing to say being that we don't get rulered by evil teachers any more! No, teachers get ruled by evil pupils now...
The Crier Website! Please do visit it at www.swaffham-crier.co.uk. We now have a search engine (yes, to settle all those who-said what disputes) and what we would REALLY APPRECIATE are volunteers to type out (or scan and correct) old Criers for which we only have paper records.
See you fairing, feasting and assembling, not to mention Red Cross coffeeing!