Northern Scrivener

Now that the humble elderflower has been used to flavour the wedding cake for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle I wonder whether royal watc...

There has been a certain paucity of eggs from the hen coop over the past week. I had been putting this down to the age of my hens. They ...

On the 10th day of October 1874 one John James Hamilton Humphreys of Lincolns Inn, London leased a rood of his land on the lee of a green...

Lanowlee or Lanowlee Hall as it was called for a time was a large Victorian villa situated on Londonderry's Limavady Road. The 1911 cen...

It is now twenty seven months since I took delivery of eight hybrid point of lay hens. They cost me six pounds a bird. Not a large inves...

It becomes a mite disconcerting when one's recollections take on an historical twist. Only those of us who were born prior to the Mu...

Twelve years ago I was given a present of a bottle of whiskey. I accept any bottle of the amber nectar with a degree of alacrity. This wa...