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A touching note
Following a news item about me and my first novel, FARHOLM, in our local newspaper, the Weston Mercury, I received my first ever fan letter! An elderly neighbour, eighty-eight year old Ruby Twite wrote...
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A sad tale… with a happy ending
My mother-in-law spoke fondly of her grandmother, Sarah Jane Day who married John Colgate in 1874 in Bletchingley, Surrey where the Colgates lived. Sarah was believed to have come from Suffolk but...
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A journey back
Having discovered the sad story of Robert Day’s life, and the happier story of his second daughter Sarah Jane, I took the opportunity on a recent visit to Suffolk to go to Lidgate where Robert was...
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Another story of Suffolk to Surrey…
In 1911 in the village of Bletchingley, Sarah Jane Day was living with her husband John Colgate; she was born in Suffolk in 1855. her widowed father had brought her to Surrey via London, no doubt in...
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The protected sausage
As you may know, I am passionate about sausages; it is part of my family culture to be particular about sausages, and I mean good old bangers made with uncooked minced pork. The best sausages in the...
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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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The Star Inn
The Star Inn, Lidgate in Suffolk, is a place which has family connections; we don’t know if my husband’s ancestors had this pub but they certainly had a pub in the village at the beginning of the...
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Newmarket
Most people will have heard of Newmarket in Suffolk, and most of them who have will associate the small and very pretty town with racing, horse racing… we associate it with sausages, Powter’s finest!...
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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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