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NOVEMBER - "Said Hamlet to Ophelia..."

  Judith catches the moon (picture by Ginny) To start off the blog for November - something to make you smile: A Silly Poem Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee, What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B? Spike Milligan Today is Evolution Day. It's not an exclusively secular thing, there is much about Darwin's theory that explains holy books too. Many Christians, for example, take on board his work as essential to the understanding of how God created the earth and everything in it.  Coral rose above honesty People want answers. Science provides us with lots of those but there are still many mysteries in the natural world and in our relationships with it - and with each other - that can't be explained. Some early human tribes developed faster than others. Those who ate mammoth meat did better than their mainly veggie contemporaries and yet, today, many of us refuse meat. Although I eat fish and poultry, I can't enjoy the meat of mammals. This isn...
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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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