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JUNE - "This is the year's sweet prime...!" (Rebecca Hey)

 This is the year's sweet prime! Methinks, like Youth, 'Tis poetry embodied! Nay, I deem, Delightsome June! that Fancy's brightest dream Outvies not thy fair beauty; nay in sooth, For once she need but borrow hues from Truth To picture thee. Now yield we every sense To the sweet season's genial influence, And banish from our bosoms care and ruth. Ask we for fragrance? lo! each little flower Yields to our scarce-breathed wish its incense sweet; For music? hie we to the glade and bower, There the blithe birds shall give us welcome meet; For beauty? deck'd in all its living power, Earth lays her brightest trophies at our feet.                      Rebecca Hey  June has been a bit of a leveller! At world level, national level and on a personal level. Over recent weeks we have all watched the horrors of unprovoked slaughter by decision makers with a lust for power and wealth - those who give the orders and then cower ...
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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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