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The annual Norfolk & Norwich festival takes place throughout May, with many events at different locations across Norfolk. Some of the featured events in the 2012 Norfolk & Norwich Festival include:

• ’100% Norfolk’,a show about the population of Norfolk.
• ‘Compagnie XY’, the French circus show, at the UK’s only surviving purpose-built circus building, Great Yarmouth Hippodrome.
• ‘Spira mirabilis’ the ‘musical revolution’ that’s redefining how orchestras perform and audiences experience classical music.
• ‘Erth Theatre’s Dinosaur Petting Zoo’, which will be touring school playgrounds and outdoor spaces throughout the Festival

More information and tickets are available from the Festival website: www.nnfestival.org.uk

The Crab & Lobster Festival is a weekend celebration of the coastal towns of Sheringham and Cromer – the unrivalled combination of North Norfolk’s premier seaside towns.

The festival in Cromer and Sheringham celebrates the dish most famously associated with Cromer – and includes plenty of food, art, music and entertainment.

For more information, check out the festival’s website here.

The Bircham Windmill craft fair includes a great array of local, traditional crafts, demonstrations and face painting. There will be entertainment with The Castaways singers and musicians on Sunday afternoon. Fun for all the family, and entry is free!

The fair takes place from Sunday 6th May to Monday 7th.

You can check out the Bircham Windmill website here.

On the weekend of the 30th March and the 1st of April, there is a Craft & Food fair at Sandringham Estate, Demonstrations of many different crafts including pottery making, glassblowing, woodturning, painting, stickmaking, textile work and much more. Also, visit the food marquee for a range of mouth-watering delights!

Mother’s Day is set to be celebrated on Sunday the 18th of March this year, with the spring comes warmer weather and beautiful flora, so why not treat your mum with a day out by taking her to The Lodge in Old Hunstanton, where all pre booked lunches get a seasonal potted plant for mum to take away and nurture.

The Born to Dazzle fashion show will take place on the 16th March at Briarfields Hotel, situated in Titchewell, Norfolk and feature designs from The Artichoke Collection, a Norfolk design outlet selling British and European exclusive clothes at a fraction of their original price. After the show, the audience is invited to browse and buy from the large selection of ladies’ clothes in Artichoke’s mobile shop. A delicious afternoon tea will also be served.

Tickets for the fashion show are £15 per person, available from Myfanwy Dunford, telephone 01485 532264. All proceeds will go to the Save the Children charity, who are dedicated to saving children’s lives across the world.

This weekend from Friday sees the 28th Fiction Festival take place.
The Festival’s guiding principle – established by founders Tony Ellis and the late poet George MacBeth – is to present some of the best contemporary writers in a congenial and informal setting, allowing the general public to see writers of international repute (alongside exciting new writers) from all age ranges and from locations across the world. It’s a great opportunity to meet the authors, hear them reading, talk to them and buy their books.

If you’ve got a love of reading or an interest in the writer’s craft, March will be a very good time to be living in King’s Lynn!

At Snettisham Park Farm from the beginning of March you can visit the lambing barn and see lambs being born, ewes tending their young, and help your kids bottle feed an orphan lamb. Children can also see other farmyard animals, such as goats, pigs, sheep and chickens, and have fun either riding the toy tractors or in the adventure playground for 7 to 14-year-olds. As winter turns to spring a visit to the farm can make for a wonderful family day out!

In June this year, a royal garden party, a photographic exhibition and fireworks are set to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in Norfolk. The Queen will be hosting a garden party at Sandringham House, and catering students, some from Lynn’s College of West Anglia, will have the chance to showcase their culinary skills to the Royal family and 4000 guests, providing refreshments. There will also be entertainment, provided courtesy of the Hunstanton Town Band, Taverham Brass Band and Norfolk Youth Orchestra Symphonic Wind Band.
All across the country, many Britons are planning to bring out the union jack bunting once more, and celebrate the jubilee weekend with street parties during the bank holiday weekend.