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Keith Skipper

Eastern Daily Press

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Sceptic Skip looks into the crystal ball for his Norfolk 2025 predictions

Sceptic Skip, the self-styled Cromer seer, is back to pass on the only authentic home-grown crop of prognostications untainted by prejudice or...

30.12.2024 3

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Sceptic Skip looks into the crystal ball for his Norfolk 2025 predictions

Sceptic Skip, the self-styled Cromer seer, is back to pass on the only authentic home-grown crop of prognostications untainted by prejudice or...

30.12.2024 3

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Three Wise Boys hit the road to Bethlehem

Some of the threads holding this seasonal narrative together may have more to do with the gossamer of imagination than the binder-twine of reality..

23.12.2024 5

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Three Wise Boys hit the road to Bethlehem

Some of the threads holding this seasonal narrative together may have more to do with the gossamer of imagination than the binder-twine of reality..

23.12.2024 7

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Drawbridge game to give locals edge in this race!

Still wondering what to buy as a festive gift for that special person in your life? Well I may well be able to help.

16.12.2024 4

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Painful hint to keep a constant eye on the ball!

Seeds of my football passion  were sown among  cowpats and cavortings of a grim Saturday in November when it was deemed reasonable for touchline...

01.12.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

We need modern version of Wally Feeke’s hunnycart!

A whiff of hope in the air as urgent calls go out for the good ole hunnycart to ride again in the name of local life beyond the pail.

24.11.2024 2

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

We need modern version of Wally Feeke’s hunnycart!

A whiff of hope in the air as urgent calls go out for the good ole hunnycart to ride again in the name of local life beyond the pail.

24.11.2024 3

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

No pier pressure to dent Cromer pride

One of the characters in Jane Austen’s Emma, first published in 1816, says; ”Perry was a week in Cromer once, and he holds it to be the best of...

17.11.2024 2

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

No pier pressure to dent Cromer pride

One of the characters in Jane Austen’s Emma, first published in 1816, says; ”Perry was a week in Cromer once, and he holds it to be the best of...

17.11.2024 1

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Along history’s furrows to turn over sacrifice and sweat …

I stood on the headlands watching man and machine in the old quest for a straight furrow.

10.11.2024 3

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Along history’s furrows to turn over sacrifice and sweat …

I stood on the headlands watching man and machine in the old quest for a straight furrow.

10.11.2024 1

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Worthy song of praise for a true countryside champion

I have read, met and interviewed a cavalcade of outstanding East Anglian writers over a busy career as journalist, broadcaster and lover of good...

03.11.2024 2

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Worthy song of praise for a true countryside champion

I have read, met and interviewed a cavalcade of outstanding East Anglian writers over a busy career as journalist, broadcaster and lover of good...

03.11.2024 1

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Seeking village solace to stave off winter of discontent

I see and hear the queue getting longer by the hour for those determined to make it a good old winter of discontent just as November beckons and it...

27.10.2024 2

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Seeking village solace to stave off winter of discontent

I see and hear the queue getting longer by the hour for those determined to make it a good old winter of discontent just as November beckons and it...

27.10.2024 1

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Trendybabble scourge is mangling our mardles!

This basic but bountiful business of simple communication is now far too complicated and confused despite a vast array of helpful tools lined up to...

06.10.2024 1

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Trendybabble scourge is mangling our mardles!

This basic but bountiful business of simple communication is now far too complicated and confused despite a vast array of helpful tools lined up to...

06.10.2024 1

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Norfolk’s cussed corps have no talent for surrender!

One of the harshest verdicts on newcomers’ behaviour on being afforded a hearty welcome to the finest county of them all came shortly after the...

30.09.2024 2

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Norfolk’s cussed corps have no talent for surrender!

One of the harshest verdicts on newcomers’ behaviour on being afforded a hearty welcome to the finest county of them all came shortly after the...

30.09.2024 6

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

That Gal Boadicea hit the woad to defiance against invaders

Norfolk loyalists have remained deeply suspicious about changes dressed up as progress ever since that crafty reprobate Maximum Secondhomeicus...

22.09.2024 3

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Books keep us enchanted about yesterday as we worry about tomorrow

Poring over yesterdays’ newspapers smoothed into bottom of drawers or boxes brought swift solace to domestic childhood chores for those of us too...

01.09.2024 2

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

As a non-driver, I'll never understand our obsession with King Car

I admit freely to pedalling and parking  my trusty old bike of belligerence down this crowded cul-de-sac of controversy  several times before.

25.08.2024 2

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Blakeney defies posh image with pioneering social housing society

An old chum of similar vintage and disposition when it comes to radical change on our precious home patch, agreed to join me on a watered-down ”...

18.08.2024 1

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Beeting the Raretreat is an ideal winter warmer

Even the most crusty of old Norfolk curmudgeons must occasionally scan the heavens and admit with a winsome smile: “Times do change!”

11.08.2024 1

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Sad that cricket is left in the shade as soon as a new soccer season kicks off

It was just over a century ago  when the lyrical Monty Don of his day sized up The Waste Land  and planted an unlikely thought for posterity with...

04.08.2024 1

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Sad that cricket is left in the shade as soon as a new soccer season kicks off

It was just over a century ago  when the lyrical Monty Don of his day sized up The Waste Land  and planted an unlikely thought for posterity with...

04.08.2024 2

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Grey power rules as summer holiday season begins in Cromer

Countryside writer, Edward Thomas, sizing up glories of high summer in 1906, gently sighed; “We are so rich that we do not count our treasure”.

28.07.2024 1

Norwich Evening News

Keith Skipper

Grey power rules as summer holiday season begins in Cromer

Countryside writer, Edward Thomas, sizing up glories of high summer in 1906, gently sighed; “We are so rich that we do not count our treasure”.

28.07.2024 2

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper

Nouveau Norfolk's big chance to become seriously stylish

I heard it suggested how “scattergun voting”  in our recent General Election brought Norfolk and Waveney  its most politically diverse spread of...

14.07.2024 10

Eastern Daily Press

Keith Skipper