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...
View Article2014, 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...
View ArticleFamily 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,...
View ArticleGoing 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...
View ArticleGhostly 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...
View ArticleNorfolk 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...
View ArticlePier
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...
View ArticleRiver 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...
View ArticleThe 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,...
View ArticleWriting 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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