Elizabeth is taking a rest from blogging. She sends her love and best wishes to all her blog visitors and hopes to be back soon.

    “September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange flowers, swallows, and regret.”                                                                                                   -   Alexander Theroux.  

If I had to say what my favourite meal of all was, I would have no hesitation in answering. There is nothing nicer than homemade bread, still slightly warm from the oven, homemade butter, a slab of Kit Calvert cheese and a russet apple, freshly picked from the orchard. If the whole is conveyed in [...]

  By 1066, the Normans had arrived in Flamborough, King Harold, who died at the battle of Hastings, had a manor house there and a constabularius was established. In that role, the Constable family arrived from Chester in the twelth century and stayed for four hundred years.  They built their own grand, fortified manor house [...]

   Races have been run…                                                       Performances have been given …                                                                                                             Awards have been won …   A  collection of treasured art work has gone on display…   So, now it is time for a well earned rest…   A bit of a party…                                                                                                                And lots of fun …                                                                                  

Remember I said, earlier in the week, that there was one thing at the V and A that kept drawing my boys back, again and again? What wonderful exhibit was it? The huge staircase of books, perhaps, or the beatle house? Sure they were iinterested in those and everything else they saw, but during the course [...]

The Humber Bridge Song.   In our early history Julius Caesar crossed the sea To this island off the Northern coast of France. Then some other Romans came to treat us just the same And they stayed a little longer just by chance. They came, they saw, they conquered everything that they could see ‘Til [...]

There are some days that just make you want to sing with the freshness and vitality of everything around you. For me, yesterday  was one of those days. The morning started out sunny but with a sharp, cold breeze and, looking out across the bay, the sea was the bluest I’ve seen it this year, sparkling [...]

Our eldest daughter  would have celebrated her 21st birthday today, so it seemed appropriate that I dedicate this  blog entry  to her memory. Nuff said.