In a few days time, with any luck, we will have elected a Conservative government, quickly followed by a vote to leave the EU.The settling of this issue will probably give a psychological boost in the country, but real change will still be a good way off. Thus a...
Recollections of Staunton Harold, some good some not so good. We quite often hear from people whose relatives were cared for here in the Sue Ryder hospice days,from about 1980 to 2002. Before that from people who worked here in the Cheshire Home days, 1955 to 1978....
Smile at us, pay us, pass us, but do not quite forget, For we are the people of England, who never have spoken yet. G K Chesterton. The Secret people. Except that three years ago you did ask us to speak, and, Oh! how you hate what we said.I think it’s true to say...
Sunshine and rain; this has been an exceptional year for tree growth. Some of the young oaks behind the Deersheds on the Staunton Ridgeway are more than eight feet high. They were planted as two foot whips in December 2016, with help from all of our sixteen...
There are compensations for having to give up driving. As a passenger at this time of year i scan the hedgerows looking for the telltale signs of dead twigs on the ash trees. There are some round here, but the majority are still healthy. There are ash trees in...
BREXIT! – don’t you just love it. A term that didn’t exist three years ago and a party two months old has split our country down the middle. It’s the English Civil War without the bloodshed. These day strangers will strike up a conversation about politics,...
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