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JULY - "Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods..."

Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye, of ear, - both what they half create, And what perceive; well pleased to recognise In nature and the language of the sensE The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being. from LINES COMPOSED A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY, ON REVISITING THE BANKS OF THE WYE DURING A TOUR, JULY 13, 1798 BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Corrosion and cornflowers For nine years now we have been running a ghost story competition for adults and a separate section for children. The prize money for the adult class comes from the entry fees and, for the children's class, it's kindly donated by Dr. Lydia Crow and Dr. Euan Bowditch.   Entries are coming in now for the 2025 competition (closing date 30th September). It's judged very fairly with five judges each allotted a section of the sifting ...
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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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