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JUNE - "The sun is rich and gladly pays..."

Spanish Ladies  The sun is rich And gladly pays In golden hours, Silver days, And long green weeks That never end. School’s out. The time Is ours to spend. There’s Little League, Hopscotch, the creek, And, after supper, Hide-and-seek. The live-long light Is like a dream, and freckles come Like flies to cream. John Updike Elder flowers Yesterday our seven year old granddaughter caught her first fish - a rainbow trout no less - in the first of a series of Junior Angling Events this summer. Here she is with her daddy and the rainbow trout. Her dad is the one with the beard! Junior Angler I wonder - for how long have human beings been fishing? In our fortunate society we no longer rely on catching fish to sustain us. In other places, some people do, of course. That reminds me of the massive gap between societies - and yet, could it be that those who still need to catch a fish for dinner are happier than those in the "west" who abandon the wilderness for man-made acquisitions and ...
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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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