Fakenham sarà godendo il gusto del Mediterraneo a 2O Venerdì e Sabato 21 novembre, quando il mercato italiano arriva in città. “Italia in Piazza”, promette un sacco di specialità regionali, comprese pizze, pasta, formaggi, carne e pane.

I thought that’d make you look! Sorry if that’s an ‘iffy’ attempt at Italian, but what I was trying to say was…

Previous years’ attendance records were completely ‘smoked’ at last night’s Firework Display at Fakenham Racecourse. It was a brilliant sight to behold as well, with thousands of pounds’ worth of fireworks making up the display – which must have made a serious impression on the audience.

A massive 5,500 people attended, a figure which was obviously boosted by the favourable weather (and the fact that money was being raised for the ‘Help The Heroes’ campaign). Well done to the Fakenham Chamber of Trade, volunteers, North Norfolk Radio, the Light Dragoons from Swanton Morley barracks and all the others who made the evening one to remember. A special mention goes to John Lingwood of Lawnwise & Leisure  who certainly did a great job with the pyrotechnics!

Hmmm… 5,500 in the audience. Not bad for a town with fewer than 8,000 inhabitants, eh?

Tomorrow sees the annual Firework Display at Fakenham Racecourse. The Chamber of Trade will be running the show, aided as always by the presenters of North Norfolk Radio. Gates will open at 5.00pm for the funfair and the main display will be at 6.30pm. Tickets on the gate are £5 per person (walking) and £15 per car (max 5 persons).

Kickstart Fakenham are organizing an Autumn Tidy Up on Saturday 14th November. Meet up at 10am in the Market Square, where you’ll get your litter-pickers and possibly some natty fluorescent tabards! We attended the last one which was a good fun couple of hours. Bring some friends and have a laugh whilst doing some useful clearing up. Maybe this time we’ll have a side-bet on who collects the weirdest bit of junk!

I look after the website for The Real Ale Shop in Wells-next-the-Sea. They sell a range of over 50 bottled beers from Norfolk breweries – all ‘real ale in a bottle’ (bottle conditioned).

Teddy, the owner, just sent me a photo of their Christmas Case of real ales to put onto the site. They sound scrummy. If you’re stuck for a Christmas prezzy for a chap who’s into his ale, you could do far worse than to get one sent to his door in time for the festivities.

I’ve just pulled the plug on the old Wensum.net website and livened up the new one. Like my blog, it’s created in WordPress - which will hopefully give potential clients an idea of what’s possible using the software.

I’m really liking WordPress. It strikes a pretty good balance between power and useability. The new site doesn’t particularly look like a blog, although it has some elements of one. The layout theme has provided a couple of random glitches, but otherwise it has been pretty well-behaved.

I’ll be interested to get viewers’ feedback.