Every so often I will post material that did not make the script of Marsh Fen and Town. The following are sayings from 17th to the 20th...

Every so often I publish material that did not make the script of "Marsh Fen and Town" This account of a failed escapologist in Moulton,...

The suicide of a fishmonger in Spalding sees allegations of contagion. The latest sidebar of items not to make the text of Marsh Fen & Town

If you wish a child to get interested in nature one of the most accessible areas for a child are insects. They are everywhere and with...

Every so often I will post bits that did not make it into my book "Marsh Fen and Town, South Lincolnshire and Beyond" This is a tale...

In this piece I look how drainage of the Fens for agriculture saw the loss of the cranberry in the Lincolnshire Fens.

Every so often I will share tales, stories and anecdotes that have not made it into my script of Marsh Fen and Town South Lincolnshire...

It is possibly one of the indicators of a river's health is the thriving of an apex predator like the otter. In the 2020's the otter is...

Every so often I will share bits from my notes and research that did not make it into my book "Marsh Fen and Town South Lincolnshire and...

Every so often I will post bits from my research and notes that I referred to but did not make it into my book Marsh Fen and Town, South...

Your Royal Highnesses, Congratulations on your Silver Wedding Anniversary. My wife, Jo and I got married on the same day as yourselves in...

Every so often I will post bits from my research anf notes that did not make it into my book Marsh Fen and Town, South Lincolnshire and...

Kenzie Thorpe is best known for his wildfowling, poaching, conservation and paintings. Much of his surviving notoriety is possibly the...

On Saturday 26th September 2015 I wrote a letter to Benjamin Zephaniah. The previous evening he had delivered a lecture to Spalding...

The area around Burnopfield and the site of the old railway track is said to be haunted by a fearsome apparition with an "Eerie face with...

Down the side of Spalding's Civic Centre is a passageway called The Butter Market. Here is some of the history and the context in a...

It is perhaps hard to imagine as you wind down the narrow roads approaching Freiston village and then a little further, two miles, to...

Heatwave, drought and wildfires ravage much of Europe and North America. There is talk of war with Russia. Concerns are voiced over UK...

You may have heard the phrase “wooden dollars” when referring to spurious values of such items as natural capital values. The term refers...

The first time I saw eider ducks in the wild was in Amble Harbour, Northumberland about 15 years ago. December 2022 saw me move to Ambl...