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Once there was a wild rose gay, On the moorland growing. But a careless boy at play Chanced to see the tempting spray Which the wind was blowing. Goethe Epworth County Primary School late 19th century Florence Mabel Emerson, my grandmother, Epworth school photo about 1922 Susan Temperton (Crow), Epworth school photo about 1963 School’s Out! In Scotland we are over half way through our summer holiday and in many parts of England the holidays have just begun. I liked school and it felt a bit sad to say goodbye to everyone until September. Before school closed, we took our lessons out of doors on dry and warm summer days. I loved the school garden but I really couldn’t concentrate on anything there - except the scent of the roses, the flitting of the insects and the songs of the birds. Many years on from that and over five hundred miles away, I still suffer from the same thing! If I try to read or write out of doors, I just can’t concentrate. There is too much going on around me. And they...
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In January 2017 I started a blog. There were 12 blogs altogether - one for each month of that year. When I had finished, my daughter and I edited the blogs and I wrote two more chapters so that my first book was formed. It is entitled "Child Of The Isle" - like the blogs - and covers aspects of my childhood in the Isle of Axholme - then a quiet corner of rural Lincolnshire - through the fifties and sixties.

I miss the blog thing. And I have enjoyed putting the book together. It follows that I should have another go. I am now attempting to answer all those people who have, over the years since we first moved to Orkney in 1986, asked the question, "What's it like up there?"  We lived in Orkney for 10 years, moved back to the Isle of Axholme for a while, then to Barrow upon Humber, and now we live in Caithness.  We meant to return to Orkney but we stopped off in Wick. We've been here since 2009 but I have never forgotten my roots and I am still searching for more information about my ancestors from Axholme and from other parts of Britain - some may be from further away but that is a work in progress. I intend to weave memories into "What's It Like Up There?" So, each month, for 12 months, I will take a topic and write about it from my Caithness viewpoint, referring back to other times in my life.

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