East Yorkshire local and family history

 I am sitting here listening to the welcome rain. The garden was bone dry and everything was drooping. In particular the potatoes needed the...

 Yesterday I was glued to the television as I watched the Coronation ceremony. It was not so much the processions in the rain but the actual...

It's gardening time now and we have managed to get in some onions and potatoes. I still have tender stem broccoli and Swiss chard in the...

 Last week  was  International Women's Day and a local facebook post mentioned Goole born  film actress Dorothy Bartlam. Dorothy starred...

Last night I gave a talk to Gilberdyke WI and on the way home, through thick fog, saw a badger run across the road in front of me. I know th...

 It is cold and foggy today but I hope we are soon going to see the last of the hard frosts and the chickens will not then need jugs of hot ...

 I am writing this on a gloomy Saturday afternoon, the last in 2022 and the last day of the year.  We have had great heat and extreme cold -...

 Now it's November and although the leaves are still on the trees it is time to light the log burner in the evenings.  We are still pick...

And quite suddenly it is autumn. The leaves are coming off the trees - Molly brings them into the kitchen and drops them as a present for us...

 When I began to write this post I had watched the Queen, frail but bright welcoming our new prime Minister. Then came the shocking news of ...