Life Lessons Amelia
In the May 2019 Bank Holiday with my son Zak at Easton and Otley College in Norwich we decided to stay for a week in Stratford just south...
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- 4 days ago
- 2 min
The Things Children Say!
Talking to your children as they grow up, especially listening to them can be fascinating and amusing. It can also be scary. Luckily, so...
- May 13
- 6 min
Memories of Spalding Tulip Parade
Today the 13th of May 2023 heralds the return of the Spalding Tulip Parade. I now live in Northumberland, where my tulips flower much...
- Apr 28
- 2 min
Spalding and the Missing Stone of Scone
As the Stone of Destiny, otherwise known as the Stone of Scone, winds its way from Scotland to nestle below the King's posterior on the...
- Mar 11
- 3 min
The Trading of Ruffs from Spalding
The Ruff is a wader that has suffered exploitation over the years by man, perhaps the worst example being horrendous taxidermy that...
- Jan 11
- 3 min
Sat Nav Woes on Icy Roads
3rd January saw me drive to the local Vauxhall dealership in Morpeth from Amble. It was a beautiful morning but icy. Driving to Morpeth,...
- Dec 11, 2022
- 28 min
Holbeach - the Centre of the Universe
When I worked in Holbeach there was an old boy used to come into town most market days from Holbeach St Marks by catching a lift with the...
- Dec 8, 2022
- 10 min
Long Sutton, the village town.
“ I am here with my sister visiting this city. We are from Denmark and we think that the English people are very polite. Arriving to this...
- Dec 7, 2022
- 2 min
Christmas Roses and Christmas Past at Cowbit
It is December and my garden still has roses in flower. Although with last night's minus 5 frost possibly not for much longer. Nowadays...
- Dec 2, 2022
- 2 min
A postcard from Sunny Chang
Many years ago I had a client take over some greenhouses in the fens to import and grow orchids for sale in the UK. Previously these...
- Nov 30, 2022
- 8 min
Sutton Bridge – the Product of Wise Investments by Thomas Guy
I worked very little in Sutton Bridge with the office there being dominated by my then colleagues Annie Batuik and Les Hills. When I did...
- Nov 10, 2022
- 9 min
Fred White - the last Marsh Reeve
In 1991 I gave a talk to Long Sutton Friendship Club about the history of wildfowling in the area. Afterwards I was asked if I could meet...
- Oct 30, 2022
- 3 min
The Three Revellers ; or Impiety Punished.
In the bleak, noxious fens which to Lincoln pertain, Where agues exert their fell sway, Where the bittern hoarse moans, and the sea- mew...
- Oct 22, 2022
- 5 min
Fen Eels
Perhaps one fish that is synonymous with the Fens is the eel. Indeed Ely is thought by some to have derived its name from the fish. This...
- Oct 16, 2022
- 3 min
The Grave of Andrew Sharp and the Curse of Cattle Plague
In the graveyard at Gedney Hill churchyard is a modest gravestone that due to the ravages of time and growth of moss cannot quite be...
- Oct 8, 2022
- 4 min
Fenland Pike
I remember the first time I saw a pike I would be about 5 years old and asked my parents what the fish was mounted in a glass case in the...
- Oct 8, 2022
- 2 min
Lincolnshire Sturgeon
Sturgeon are almost never seen in UK waters either in the sea or inland. However, occasional non-native sturgeon species get introduced...
- Sep 21, 2022
- 4 min
Memories of an old Spalding Wildfowler the late Ken Burton.
Wildfowlers have a great love of nature and observe it with interest both within and outside their shooting activities. Ken Burton, one...
- Sep 11, 2022
- 2 min
SCRIVELSBY HOME OF CHAMPIONS
In a quiet corner of Lincolnshire lies an ancient family that holds an historic role of nearly a thousand years longevity, “The Kings...
- Jun 17, 2022
- 2 min
Dan Morgan and the Richest Corpse in Show Business.
As such reality TV programs as Love Island and hunted return to our screens would you expect such shows to be subject of a science...
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Exploring stories, tales and rural issues as I see them.
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