Frosty weather glistens inside, a fridge you could compare, Roof half filled with starling's nests, built up over the years. In one of our farthest fields, situated about a mile east of the village was a pair of cottages known as Hobble End. There...
Frosty n' White Been frosty all the day agen, and harder still tonight, And its isn't even Christmas, the fields all snowy white, At least the mud's all hard and dry, can get about despite, Water troughs and pipes and taps, froz for a good...
In the early 1950's we had one of the foggiest days I can remember, it was still air with a complete blanket of fog across the whole country. In them days and particularly in November/ December time, heating and cooking in the houses and cottages...
When the ice did break in the middle the tractor dropped about eighteen inches and had a job to get it out , then could not use that route for a few weeks due to the deep steps down off the ice at the sides of the ford. I recall the winter of 1947 when...