It's difficult to imagine that in a few week's time the spring flowers will be out and temperatures will be well into double figures. At present they are hovering around zero or below. At least the snow is on its way out. Hopefully this will be the only visit from the white stuff this year. It was a brief visit at that.

Hethersett Memorial Playing Field is still under snow, which made the thought of attending an evening meeting to discuss summer fetes, come and try sports days and Olympic weekends rather strange. As a trustee of the playing field I always enjoy my involvement in looking after such an important public space.

It is going to be a very special year in the village with so much going on. At present we seem to be marking time but only for a few days before the action starts. But we have already had a pledge to fitness event and the official opening of the new play equipment and that's just for starters.

I seem to have more and more things from the village to write about in the Norwich Evening News and Wymondham and Attleborough Mercury. As well as that I put them all on my village web site at www.hethersett.org.uk and now on the Iwitness24 site.

Last night I listened to the latest edition of the Wymondham and Attleborough Talking Newspaper for the Blind after writing a piece on it from Saturday's presentation in the library. It was kind of spooky to find my newspaper stories being read out by someone I don't know and have never met. Spooky but fun. But whilst other people using the service would listen to the stories as news items I was more concerned about whether the grammar was okay. Thankfully it didn't seem too bad.

Looking forward to the coming weekend when (weather permitting) we will be visiting the David Hockney and Charles Dickens exhibitions in London. Whilst on the subject of literature I have almost finished reading the Absolutist by John Boyne - a really good read.

More decorating today at the Wymondham cafe meant I had no time to listen to any of the new music releases. So that's a delight to save for later in the week.