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OCTOBER - "“All things that love the sun are out of doors; The sky rejoices in the morning’s birth..."

 “All things that love the sun are out of doors; The sky rejoices in the morning’s birth; The grass is bright with raindrops; on the moors The hare is running races in her mirth; And with her feet she from plashy earth Raises a mist, that, glittering in the sun, Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.”  from Resolution and Independence by William Wordsworth (I call it -The Joy of Morning!) Having a drink from the Michaelmas daisies There were still swallows flitting around us at Stempster House on the first day of October. After that, the skies started to change dramatically. For example, a trip across the county to the dentist was not only remarkable for the absence of swallows who'd been gathering on lines and roofs until then, but also for their replacements! Hundreds of starlings had taken their places. Now I don't know whether or not they'd been eagerly waiting to get their perches back but they were up there pretty smartish! The redwings are back. I've f...
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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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