Author Archives: fordhollow74

AUTUMN EQUINOX

Posted on September 22, 2016 by fordhollow74

Meteorological autumn, but not much colour yet in the leaves. Not surprising as it has been an exceptional growing summer, everywhere lush and grass begging to be mown. Our nesting swallows departed in the third week of August, but the … Continue reading →

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17th September

Posted on September 17, 2016 by fordhollow74

A memorable date, for me at least, over all the last fifty-seven years. On that day at the end of the 1950s I started the morning as Jonnie Tolson, aka Chip, with breakfast at my parent’s house before my father took … Continue reading →

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ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES

Posted on August 31, 2016 by fordhollow74

Late August sunshine days spent digging out a drain. It is a winter emergency drain for the time when the heavy rains come and water flows down Sticky Lane, across the bottom yard where a lawn has grown over the … Continue reading →

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747

Posted on August 20, 2016 by fordhollow74

An icon of the last decades of the Twentieth Century, the 747, the universally known Jumbo, took a giant leap forward in aviation, circling the globe in style from the 1970s and still flying today, only in decreasing numbers and … Continue reading →

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STAGE PLAY

Posted on August 16, 2016 by fordhollow74

Submitted a stage play yesterday, full length in two acts – won’t say where as it is competitive. I wrote it a while ago, but it remains relevant today. The brief called for fifty per cent female characters; my play has … Continue reading →

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GRIME’S GRAVES

Posted on July 24, 2016 by fordhollow74

Motoring through Thetford Forest on our long way around from Yorkshire to London, we chanced on an English Heritage sign for Grime’s Graves, a foremost Neolithic site in Breckland, Norfolk. It is the only Neolithic flint mine in Britain open to visitors. … Continue reading →

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SANDSCAPE ARTIST

Posted on July 15, 2016 by fordhollow74

Day one of shooting by Somerset Film of my 2014/2015 Scriptwriting Competition winning script went well today on the beach at Burnham on Sea, despite dogs and walkers straying into the shot and the intrusion of jet engine noise from … Continue reading →

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SOMME

Posted on July 8, 2016 by fordhollow74

On the First of July, along with others, I was in Huddersfield, the home town of my great uncle, Robert Huntriss Tolson, a thirty-one-year old married employee of Beckett’s Bank, who volunteered and perished with so many other thousands, on … Continue reading →

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MAY ENDING

Posted on June 3, 2016 by fordhollow74

The month of May ended on a good note here at Fordhollow, fine weather, a good County cricket result (Somerset winning having contrived to concede a 300 defecit to overcome in the fourth innings)  and contrary to my earlier anxieties over … Continue reading →

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HOUSE MARTINS

Posted on May 29, 2016 by fordhollow74

May is ending and the House Martins are not nesting under our eaves, again, this year. Their presence, and numbers, was a strong attraction of this old farmhouse when we moved in over twenty years ago. The line of mud … Continue reading →

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