East Yorkshire local and family history

At last it is warm and sunny and the garden is growing. Today we ate our first few strawberries from the greenhouse and this week we have se...

I am busy with several history projects at the moment. With my Goole WEA class we are looking at the early history of Hook as well as trying...

Yet again it has been cold, wet and grey. There has been flooding in West Yorkshire and a local gardener I talked to said all his vegetables...

I have just listened to news of flooding in Wales and have listened to yet another weather forecast of below average temperatures and heavy ...

Yesterday I joined students and tutors at The Lowther Hotel in Goole for a celebration get- together and tour of the famous murals. There we...

I have recently been looking at some fascinating pictures of the bridge at Newport showing it with several steam rollers parked on top of it...

I have just been looking in my greenhouse where my seed potatoes are looking very wizened and sickly.  It just never seems to stop raining a...

It has been a few days since I wrote anything here on my blog. Blame the lovely weather as I have been out in the garden tidying up and cle...

Yesterday I had a stall at the Goole hobbies exhibition. It was very busy and I met lots of people interested in local history. I had a scre...

We are in the news at the moment with features on BBC Countryfile and the opening of David Hockney's new exhibition at the Royal Academy...

It is the end of another year and as far as the weather is concerned the contrast with last year could not be greater. It is very mild and I...

Today is Christmas Eve, grey, cold and damp but nothing like the Arctic conditions of last year. We have now passed the shortest day (21st D...

I am writing this entry on Hallowe'en although where I live we do not have trick or treaters as it is quite remote. When I was a child w...

Now back from holiday and the temptation of the Hay on Wye bookshops I have plenty to do. The garden is becoming overgrown with all the rain...

This weekend has been very hot and sticky and then last night the weather broke with the crashing and banging of a thunderstorm during the n...

I have been cutting the grass today but although we had quite a lot of rain on Sunday afternoon it is still very dry and the grasscutter sti...

I have spent the day outside having a bonfire of small branches and twigs which were cut down a few weeks ago. They had become overgrown wit...

Today we were given a new cockerel to keep our four hens in order. Norman is very large with impressive spurs and is mostly Cuckoo Maran so ...

I had a long day at the Waterways Museum yesterday at the family history event. I took copies of my local history books to sell (history of ...

I am lucky to have a large garden with several mature trees and a pond. At present the pond is quite empty as it takes the roof water from t...