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In all my seventy three years, it was only during my first nine years that I had anything to do with our farms three shire horse. The most regular job was to lead them to the blacksmith's shop with my brothers on the way to school. They would stay...
Next again is Holly Bush, our local village pub, As well as drink you can get if hungry, a little bit of grub, For a gathering of the locals, this was the hub, News and gossip turned around in the village pub. This picture was taken Feb 2011 of a twenty...
Looking across the farms and fields around our parish, on the banks they have large marl holes dug back into them. The marl having been dug and spread across other fields to help improve fertility of the land, it would have been left in spade full lumps...
I am not an educated chap, I have difficulty stringing words together to write down, let alone sepllign them correctly, so I find the spell checker on the computer an absolute must. These blogs of mine on the FWI were the first writing I have done, since...
Undertaker in the village, was at the wheelwrights shop, Lays out and measures them, made a coffin non-stop, As in all small villages it changes over the years, in some way for the better, in others for the worse. The village pumps went some fifty years...
Going back 150 years, if walls could talk. In twenty two years the family had eighteen children. Its always a mystery how people lived years ago, particularly in the house that you live in. Our house in its present form was built around the first half...
The long arm of the hedge cutter whiplashes forward past the pole and back again, giving the flails a second bite at it. The Garden Telegraph Pole Blog. Yet Another Embarrassing Moment (or should I say weekend) -- It was July and the front garden hedge...
As well as drink you can get, a little bit of grub, For a gathering of the locals, this was the hub, News and gossip turned around in the village pub. As in all small villages it changes over the years, in some way for the better, in others for the worse...
Church Cottage. This is one of a pair of cottages known as "Spight" cottages, supposed to have been built to prevent a view, from the old vicarage to Seighford Hall. The occupants of the Hall did not get on with the vicar. The earliest people...
If he could not get class attention, throw a chisel hard, Hit the back wall cupboard, like a dagger stuck and jarred. All the class it stood and quivered dare not cross his path, The respect was thrust upon you, dare not stir his wrath, After our formative...
Thinking that we were being chased, an almighty scramble started, Following the path we came in, and round first pit we darted, A mate behind through in a stone, and frightened us the more, It was always depressing, the thought of having to go back to...