East Yorkshire local and family history

 Everyone is looking forward to the events to celebrate the Queen's platinum jubilee next week and so I thought I would look through my ...

 I have just had a walk round the garden and not only is everything very dry but it is cold too. Definitely back to wearing a fleece weather...

 Now we are in April, the clocks have changed giving us an extra hour in the evenings and I have been transplanting rasp canes so that they ...

 Since my last post a lot has happened in the world. Covid seems to be something we are all learning to live with and instead we are all now...

I am sitting at the computer looking at the garden trees swaying gently in the wind. I think that Storm Eunice concentrated her fury in the ...

 We are in a run of sunny, frosty weather, perfect for dog walking but not so good for the oil tank which will soon need re-filling. But we ...

 As I write this it is frosty outside and the car windscreen is frozen.This is in contrast to the very warm weather we had over Christmas - ...

  Laxton in the snow The news is depressing, the weather is murky and the days are short so it is definitely time to turn to local history. ...

 I was recently asked about the history of Cotness, a hamlet about one mile from Laxton in Yorkshire. I know it quite well - there are less ...

 The leaves are coming off the trees in the garden and lying in a carpet on the ground. But I like walking on them and Molly likes snuffling...