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davesdistrictblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The first three photographs show a newborn grey seal pup and its mother on the foreshore at Donna Nook on the Lincolnshire coast. Both show the evidence of its recent birth. At the time I took these shots the pup was still unable to move by itself. Not long afterwards it proved that it was able to cry out, and then it took its first shuffling movement towards its mother. What you see here represents...
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A Smallholder's Diary (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yesterday, rather than spending the day in the garden (as I probably should do) we took a trip up to Donna Nook on the Lincolnshire coast. Every year during November and December, hundreds of grey seals come up onto the beach here to give birth. We have always said that we must go and pay a visit some time, but some how we haver never got around to it. I am not sure at what point it reaches its peak,...
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PhotoReflect (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
click photo to enlarge Today's photograph title isn't a tongue twister designed to catch anyone out, but is a factual description of the building shown. South Lincolnshire has long had industries making products that use the feathers from poultry rearing, and this tradition continues today. This Boston factory was established in 1877, the date displayed at the top of the building. It advertises its...
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peony moon (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Alison Brackenbury was born in Lincolnshire in 1953. She now lives in Gloucestershire, where she has worked for almost twenty years in the family metal finishing business. Her work has appeared in over fifty anthologies and has won an Eric Gregory Award and a Cholmondeley Award. She has recently scripted three programmes for BBC Radio [...]
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quilting prolifically (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Earlier this week I drove out to Louth , in the wolds of Lincolnshire to attend a talk by Lillian Hedley on North Country Quilts. It was well worth it! I've met Lillian several times in the past at shows, and she has always been very generous with her knowledge of hand quilting wholecloths . This talk took us on the journey from the origins of North Country Quilts, through the idiosyncrasies of Amy...
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PhotoReflect (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
click photo to enlarge Over the past few years I've tried on several occasions to photograph the church of St Laurence at Surfleet in Lincolnshire. This medieval building is known for miles around for its mainly fourteenth century tower that leans westward quite dramatically due to subsidence. However, it is one of those buildings that is hemmed in by trees on the side where the best photographs can...
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Giles McNeill (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Update to Opposition to Lincoln Rugby Club Mobilises - Update 2 Opposition to Lincoln Rugby Club Mobilies - Update and Oposition to the Lincoln Rugby Club Mobilies . Ian Dickson of West Lindsey District Council Planning department has stated comments regarding the Lincln Rugby Football Club's planning permission application that are received from residents will be taken in up until the date of the...
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PhotoReflect (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
click photo to enlarge If you were to invent a "Forces of Nature Scale", somewhat analagous to the Beaufort Scale of wind speed, where 0 equals Calm and 12 equals Hurricane, with ever rising numbers and speed between, what would you place at 12. A volcano? An earthquake? A tsunami? It would probably be one of those, though if we extended the scale beyond 12 (as the Beaufort Scale has been...
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Dog Without A Bone (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The closing date for the Round Britain Rally , in which participants are challenged to find and photograph one or more landmarks for every county in England, Wales and Scotland, has passed and I have dispatched a CD of photos to the committee. This means that I can actually reveal the places I visited! At last! Google Map here . Green bikes are ones I've ticked off, red blobs I didn't manage. There's...
Explore : Ashdown Forest,
Berkshire,
Bluntisham,
Box,
Brent,
Bridge,
Buckenham,
Cambridgeshire,
Capel St Andrew,
Cheshire,
Cornwall,
Cross,
Devon,
Devon,
East Sussex,
Harringworth,
Highland,
Lincolnshire,
Newlyn,
Norfolk,
Northamptonshire,
Old,
Rainow,
Roadside,
Rye,
Suffolk,
Sussex,
Uffculme,
Wiltshire,
Windmill,
Windsor,
Windsor
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An American Lion (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
I imagine my forebears living in southern England, roughly twenty thousand years ago, firmly in charge and running things with benevolence and wisdom. I imagine the stones they carved, the talismen they carried, the knowledge they held in their heads. I know they had bad dental hygiene--there's no need to ruin it for me, okay? The places that were walked are fascinating to me. Who did the walking?...
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Jane Austen's World (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Burghley House , a stately English manor in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England served as Lady Catherine De Bourgh’s estate of Rosings in the 2005 film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Join one of my favorite Anglophile/gardening/Jane Austen inspired blogs, My English Country Garden Blog as they visit Burghley House and discuss their family experience with the movie production during its filming....
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Easy Retirement (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
My grandfather, Ralph William Askew, was born on 3rd August 1895 at 22 College Road, Masbrough. He was the ninth of ten children. His father, George, was born on 27 December 1852 at Toynton St Peter in Lincolnshire. He moved to Rotherham to work in the coal mines. The census of 1881 for College Road shows he was married to a Jane Cuthbertson, but despite a number of searches, there is no record of...
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The Lichfield Blog (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
A Reece Styche double helped secure Chasetown a fine away win at Grantham Town. Styche, who spent part of last season on loan to the Gingerbreads, returned to punish the Lincolnshire side with two goals in the first 20 minutes for his new club. In the fourth minute he was pushed over while through on goal, and [...]
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PhotoReflect (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
click photo to enlarge Anyone approaching the church of St John the Baptist, Great Hale, in Lincolnshire, who has an interest in church architecture, will immediately notice its tower. It is un buttress ed, has no string courses , and its bell openings have twin rounded arches with a single dividing column. All of which says Norman, or possibly Late Saxon, i.e. the eleventh century. This period is...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: BPAX) today announced that Stephen M. Simes, its president and CEO, will present an overview of the company and its recently completed acquisition of Cell Genesys, as well as give a LibiGel® (testosterone gel) update at the Oppenheimer 20th Annual Healthcare Conference to be held on November 3-4, 2009 at the Waldorf-Astoria...
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