Writing about your family history (iii) … the journeys they made…
It’s a bit of a fallacy that people in the past never travelled further than the nearest market; in fact, as you probably know from your own research, people moved about almost as much as we do, if not...
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The Ramseys were all sailors, mariners, fishermen…
In my next Thomas Radwinter book, which maybe called Saltpans, Thomas begins to investigate his wife’s family history… here is a sneak preview… Kylie’s family, the Ramseys were all sailors, mariners,...
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River Cruise on M.C. Belle, 3rd September 1937
The next entry in my Dad;s dairy – which he and his friend Sammy kept as they cruised up the River Cam in 1937, at the age of eighteen. 3.9.37 This morning was the most doubtful morning for a swim but...
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Pier
As children we went to the east coast to visit the seaside; days out along the Norfolk coast, Snettisham was a favourite and my sister and I always called it Snetchibum which obviously we found...
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Norfolk holiday…
Every year, my cousins and I and our families, go away together at Easter… Several years ago we went to Norfolk: I am lucky to have a most remarkable family; every year my cousins and I take our...
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Ghostly beasts
I came across an article about travel and tourism which mentioned that an app has been developed by the Bram Stoker International Film Festival so visitors to Whitby can follow a trail which features...
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Going to the seaside
It’s Bank Holiday Monday… and fairly typically for England, it’s raining. However, I guess there will be plenty of people heading towards the coast, hoping that the saying ‘rain before seven, dry by...
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Family holiday 2014
Last year we were with the family on holiday in Norfolk… here’s a post from then: I am lucky to have a most remarkable family; every year my cousins and I take our families on a holiday at Easter time,...
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2014, part 1
January floods, poor Somerset February, I publish ‘Radwinter’, my first genealogical mystery Tom the bear’s house, visiting Killerton in March Family holiday in Norfolk in April!Filed under: Family...
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Wry about rye
I mentioned a few days ago that I was going to try to make rye sourdough bread; all proceeded well for the first couple of days but now it doesn’t smell very nice and I think I may have attracted the...
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Busy
We arrived home from Dublin after saying cheerio to our daughter who is going to be spending a year working in the US as part of her degree. Apart from our usual activities of going to classes and...
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Washed away
I was born and brought up in the east of the country, and our nearest seaside was the Norfolk and Suffolk coast and we would go on holiday there, to a holiday camp which if you have seen the British TV...
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I’d quite like to live here…
I’m sure I could never afford it, but isn’t this such an attractive house? It is so charming and has such interesting external features, the walls set with flint in the traditional Norfolk style, The...
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Talking Norfolk
There has been an interesting exchange of letters in the newspaper from people recalling rhymes, songs and sayings, usually from their childhoods, and usually said or sung by people who were old then....
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Holiday memory
We had arranged to meet our dear cousins for lunch and we were slightly early,so we went fora little wander… Thornham in Norfolk… and then we had a lovely, lovely lunch!Filed under: Family holiday...
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Mundesley coastguard cottages
We have a terrace of coastguard cottages in our village, and once you’ve seen them, it’s easy to spot others around the coast. Here is the best shot I could manage of the coastguard cottages at...
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Country post office
This is a post office.. yes, really it is! We stopped somewhere near the coast n Norfolk to take pictures of some roadside flowers and here was this building.. a shack, a shed.. a post office! You can...
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Family holiday, over in Norfolk!
I am lucky to have a most remarkable family; every year my cousins and i take our families on a holiday at Easter time, and this year it was in Norfolk… and altogether twenty-nine of us were staying in...
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Fishy names
While on the family holiday, we visited the seaside town of Sheringham in Norfolk, and while there we popped into the town museum. The main industry has traditionally been fishing, and although there...
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Family holiday
It won’t be long before we are off on our annual family holiday; when I say family I don’t just mean myself, husband and two children, but I mean the four of us, plus girlfriend, and my four cousins...
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