Tag Archives: lincolnshire

My duty? A two-day journey along the Norfolk coast to deliver potatoes to a chip shop

The water glistens, rippling with the rising wind, and Victorious glides silently on three enormous maroon sails. Surrounded by gray sea and endless sky, we are the only boat in sight. Each direction offers a very different picture: patches of blue and puffy clouds, billowing blue-black clouds, occasional rays of sunlight beaming across the Wash.… Read More »

‘I underestimated the emotional impact of being a foreigner’

What does home mean to you? In an article for Telegraph Travel, Clover Stroud described how moving her family from the Cotswolds to Washington DC last summer gave her a different perspective on how she defines home. Although she still felt “homesick,” she explained that “home can be a feeling as well as a place,… Read More »

Neighbor contacted children’s charity about Bronson Battersby just days before tragic death

The NSPCC was contacted over concerns about Bronson Battersby’s health in the days before the two-year-old’s tragic death, which led to the children’s charity making a referral to social services. Bronson’s father, Kenneth Battersby, 60, is believed to have suffered a fatal heart attack shortly after the couple were last seen alive at their home… Read More »

Pilchards, Chestnuts and Clockwork Cheese: hunting sport’s strangest nicknames

Four years ago, a journalist who liked going to obscure non-league football matches on winter evenings told another journalist who liked interesting facts that Perranporth, a Cornish team playing in the St Piran’s League Division 4 West, were known as the Pilchards. Their manager was also once quoted as saying: “I’m gutted.” Thus began an… Read More »