Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship

From Milton under Wychwood Glenda Lewis has a 2016 Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship to compare the farming communities of Continue reading →

A Highway runs through it

State Highway 2 cuts Norsewood village (popn 330) in half. Not so much a bypass as a frontal lobotomy.  Yet Continue reading →

Rats and Mice – a personal history

Photo:  Jean Stanley of Pukawa, Lake Taupo,  and Professor Charles Daugherty, 2013 Here’s a scene worthy of Breaking Bad for gory invention. Continue reading →

Storm on the Horizon

Retired farmer, George Fawdry, receives me in the very warm sunroom of his bungalow, looking out onto the peak Spring flower Continue reading →

The Two Tenors

Arthur (left) and Laurie from Milton and Shipton under Wychwood respectively, are members of the New Wychwood Singers.  The choir started in Continue reading →

Calving Time

Photo caption:  I had this banner made a couple of Christmases ago after a local farmer finally fenced his stock Continue reading →

Henry, Paul and Martin

Henry Astor on his farm in Milton-under-Wychwood In medieval times Wychwood Forest was West Oxfordshire.  The three villages of Shipton, Continue reading →

The Hartleys

John and Margaret Hartley, 1968 16 May… Having arrived in the Wychwood villages, I need to get to know some Continue reading →