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NOVEMBER - "In my mind's eye I clearly see the farmhouse and the trees..."

 THE FARMHOUSE In my mind's eye I clearly see The farmhouse and the trees That shaded it in summer months, Then sprinkled it with leaves During the splendid autumn days When all the world was fair To a boy who did not know then That all his world was there. Robert Brown   Frosty fungi Today we have used the opportunity, while the day stayed fine, to do some tidying up in the garden. Ginny, Judith and Clemency were neatening the entrance by cutting back the willows which edge the drive on one side. They will grow back stronger - and very quickly. They cut them down soon after we moved in and Ginny kept the wands for crafting but this time someone is collecting them for making wreaths.  Before and after (willows) I'm so used to willows. When we lived in Orkney there were few trees of any kind. There are more now. People have planted them in the last thirty or so years but you still couldn't say there are many trees. However, the Isle of Axholme, where I grew up, had lots of...
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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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