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MAY - "The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come."

 "The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come." Song of Solomon Chapter 2 verse 12 Bluebells and laburnum In my inbox I noticed a message from the Smiley Movement. Someone directed me to it a while ago. It's such a good idea but it wasn't quite what I expected so I never really engaged with the site. Today's message is headlined "Football wins and generous billionaires".  In this blog you'll find nothing popular like football and nothing money-linked to make you smile.  I write about the natural world around me and pepper my writing with memories of the places I've lived and, sometimes, of the dear people who have touched my life so far.  The readers of this "What's It Like Up There" blog now total sixty three thousand, four hundred and forty four since the first one was published for me by my daughter, Clemency, in September 2018.  This is heart-warming. Thank you. Bees and alliums May began in a beaut...
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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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