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DECEMBER - "And ye, beneath life's crushing load..."

... whose forms are bending low, who toil along the climbing way with painful steps and slow, look now! for glad and golden hours come swiftly on the wing. O rest beside the weary road, and hear the angels sing!" Edmund Sears - reflecting on war and peace Happy Christmas! Today, Friday 20th, is a classic December day - the sort without snow or frost. Yes, it's cold, 5° c, but not that cold! Having just returned from walking the dogs, I'm ready for my cup of tea! That moment when I sit down in the kitchen, kick off my boots and wiggle my toes before exchanging the boots for shoes is sublime! Especially on a December morning! Someone said that there is no unsuitable weather for walking - just unsuitable clothing. True - yet - and here's a big yet - a walk is less tempting on a dreich day! I'm on the dog-walking rota here so I feel a sense of duty rather than pleasure on such days. No point in pretending - the electrifying moment between boots and shoes and the sense ...
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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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