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Muriel & Friends - or how I persuaded someone who's not interested in cars to attend a car rally

4/10/2013

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Somehow I persuaded the BF to come with me to the MX5 National Rally. It’s an event where all the members of the MX5 Club come together to show off their cars, talk cars, compete in various categories, buy bits for their cars, and show off their driving skills in a car gymkhana. There's *a lot* of car things going on.

I have no idea how the BF agreed to come with me, I’ve previously gone to these on my own, and had a great time, much like going to the NEC Classic Car Show. It allows me to indulge my not so inner car geek.

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The Car B Q
This year’s National Rally was at Sandringham, one of The Queen’s private residences. The car club had negotiated  a discount, and since neither of us had been to either Sandringham, or Norfolk together, we booked it.

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Time for tea!
Although Norfolk is *technically* part of East Anglia, just like Essex, it is a world away: there’s no motorway, the largest place is Norwich at approximately 200,000 people, it’s very flat – Essex, is actually quite hilly – and the burr in the accent is nothing like Essex’s estuarine twang either.

The guide at Sandrigham’s museum, explained that although Norfolk is rural, like lots of other rural places in the UK, it’s different, because ‘you don’t need to drive through Norfolk to get anywhere. If you’re in Norfolk, it’s because you want to be in Norfolk.’ He also explained that normally museum entrances were on the left, and exits on the right, but ‘Because it’s Norfolk, it’s entrance right, exit left. That’s how we are around here.’

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Where's Muriel?
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Where's Muriel?
The weather was gorgeous, Muriel had her roof down all day, and most of the way home on Sunday. We bought some very good eau de toilette - at a car show, I was surprised too. Sandringham was brilliant value, the house was beautiful, grounds so well kept, and museum very informative and filled with lots of cars the Royal Family had owned. 

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Still can't find her...
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Who knew?
After our fill of cars, tea, cake and Royalty, we left for the Norfolk coast, which was beautiful. And the added bonus was it gave me an idea for a story. I’m funny like that, I can see a house, beach, or over hear a conversation and that gives me the start of a story. And then I’m off...

Have you been to Norfolk? Would you be able to persuade your other half to do something as out of his/her areas of interest as I did? How do ideas come to you for stories? I’d love to hear from you.

Until next time,

Liam Livings xx



2 Comments
Elin
7/10/2013 04:51:54 pm

I've done things I wasn't interested in to try and 'join in' with my other half. Rock climbing was the scariest, I think. And he bought me a fly tying kit for Christmas when he took up game fishing.

Now I'm old and ornery we just do our own things :)

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9/10/2013 01:35:43 am

Rock climbing, blimey, that's dedication. You would get me doing that to 'join in'.
Liam x

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