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Domino the Spotted Stallion.

It was fourteen years ago that Domino was born to a small black Shetland mare, a mare that was not big enough to go in the standard Shetland show classes 38/42inches , and too big to go in the miniature Shetland showing classes 30/34 inches, in fact she was about 36 inches tall. Domino, he stands at...

Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by Owd Fred on Sun, Aug 7 2011
The Se-----ford Staffordshire Hoard

( 1772 Silver George 3 rd half penny piece) Its not every day that you have a "find" even though it be modest, a friend of mine was walking the footpaths along our fields a few days ago, and came across a rabbit hole with fresh soil dug out of it. On top of this soil was a coin, he picked it...

Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by Owd Fred on Fri, Jun 10 2011
Old Village Mortuary

This is an interesting old building in the middle of our village; it is the old village Mortuary . For saying that there would be no more than two hundred people, if they were all rounded up, you could not see what need there was for it. But I was told that if there was a death or someone was killed...

Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by Owd Fred on Sat, May 28 2011
Every Picture Tells a Story (in this case many stories)

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 years old picture showing almost all the village...

Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by Owd Fred on Sun, May 15 2011
The Knackers' yard

For years there used to be a Knackers' yard in the next village, it being within our parish, where all dead and rotting carcases were taken for disposal or collected by their open topped wooden sided cattle wagon with its hand cranked winch. The aroma of the rendering and grinding of bones wafted...

Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by Owd Fred on Sun, May 1 2011
Digging Marl

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 and left the winter for the frost to slake it down...

Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by Owd Fred on Mon, Apr 25 2011
Story of Hobble End Cottages

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 was no road not even a cart track to them, only a...

Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by Owd Fred on Mon, Dec 27 2010
I'm Not an Educated Chap

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 the essays we did at school some sixty years ago...

Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by Owd Fred on Fri, Oct 1 2010
Fields Lanes and Country Roads all have Names

Our Village is a small part of England, as say a motor car is made up of component parts. The largest being the body ,the chassis, the engine , right down to the smallest bolt washer and cotter pin. So Great Britain is made up of England, Scotland and Wales, these are again divided into counties, cities...

Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by Owd Fred on Sun, Aug 8 2010
Irreversible Changes in one Small Village

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 ago, these were a meeting point for gossip, and...

Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by Owd Fred on Tue, Jul 13 2010

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