The Kittywitch Diaries

In 1970's Norwich there was a much-loved local character called ‘Marigold’...

The village of Lavenham, Suffolk is a well-visited tourist spot, renowned for its beautiful timbered medieval buildings and pretty...

Who now has ever heard, let alone seen, a dulcimer being played recently in East Anglia? Few I imagine, yet at the beginning of the 20th...

Aurelia Ainsworthy Have you been lucky enough to see Auriel? She is very shy and gentle: a protective witch. She roams in the quiet of...

As a young girl living in small-town Essex, it was a real treat to visit the local cinema, the Century in Loughton. It was where we could...

So, the shops are full of cheap Halloween goodies and the children are planning their outfits for Trick or Treat, that recent import from...

Not too early a start as we clambered aboard the little motor cruiser around half past eleven. Our friends had found for themselves a...

It's hard to relate my younger years' shopping and eating habits to those of today. The small row of shops 'up top' that catered for a...

Granny loves a bit of gardening and though I say it myself Hubby and I have between us created our own mini-paradise. Twenty-five years...

So, it's that special time of year again when Granny's Bonnet flowers all across the northern hemisphere but particularly, as far as I'm...

Recently Hubby and Ivisited a large Victorian brick and flint house, all that remains now apart from its converted church, of the massive...

I well remember my own mother holding her arm straight out in front of her and kicking up her foot to touch her fingers. She was in her...

I wonder how many people realise as they pass by Nando's restaurant on Red Lion Street in Norwich, formerly the Orford Arms pub, that the...

I've just been reading Guilia Enders' book so eloquently titled Gut. The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ. As a family of...

I should think practically everyone in Norwich knows what you mean when you say 'I'm going to the Jenny Lind.' Do you? ​ Many years ago...

Whoever would have thought that we in Norfolk have our own Loch? We have meres and lakes as a rule, so what's the story behind Loch...

Well, as a mere Occicat, I must confess to being a little confused. Since Springtime, I have carried out my usual morning routine of...

I expect you have a favourite image that brings back happy memories or simply makes you feel good just to look at it...

November, 2021 Sent by the Royal Navy, from 1757 to 1798, Captain George Vancouver commanded one of the greatest geographic surveys ever...

Sarah Glover was born in Norwich in 1786 in The Close, a serene place of genteel houses which flanks the Cathedral...