July – The year is half over – and what a year, not because of the speed we are ripping off the sheets of the calendar, but because of the lack of rain.
Category: Country Life
Browse the Rye’s Own Country Life archive for magazine pieces that combine contemporary reporting with memories and historical perspective. The selection ranges across “Jimper’s Jottings”, “Things Long Ago”, “Hop Picking with Arthur Woodgate”, “The Birdman of Rye”, and “Herman -Ratted!”, showing the breadth hidden behind the section heading. Together the articles retain the immediacy and individuality of a local magazine rather than reading like a formal reference book.
Jimper’s Jottings
May gone already, we are now just three weeks short of the longest day. From the 21st. we know that the days get shorter and winter approaches. The good news is that it get warmer as we get past mid June. My father always said, get my birthday over and let the warmer weather in.
Jimper’s Jottings May 2005
April Showers April lived up to its usual self. A taste of days to come then the following day the weather we experienced was cold and dreary. Haze from the water turned many a night into a wonderland hanging above the marsh and letting the tops of the bushes of thorn and willow grace the … Continue reading Jimper’s Jottings May 2005
The Grain Store
More talk of turning the car park at The Strand into a Continental style Piazza brought back memories of what this area was used for in days past.
Quackers
Fourteen young Mallard ducklings, Ryers by birth, hatched within sight of Rye Church and Rye Mill but what are their chances of survival?
Jimper’s Jottings
March already, winter has lost its grip and now we can look forward to spring. March may have the odd bad day and I note from my diaries that there is usually a snowflake or two in April, eight times out of ten to be precise.
Jimper’s Jottings January 2005
January 2005 As I write these jottings in the middle of January I ponder over the change in the weather that we have experienced over the past few years. The world of nature is going mad around me. Spring should arrive in April but these days we hear reports on television of strange things happening. Like the brood of … Continue reading Jimper’s Jottings January 2005
Jimper’s Jottings
Each year now we suffer from gales of wind in the summer, a thing not thought of thirty years ago. Now, the autumn gales seem not to materialise. It is after the New Year gets a month old that the gales roar in bringing what rain we are likely to get. ‘February Fill Dyke’ was … Continue reading Jimper’s Jottings
Papal Medals for Rye Parishioners
By Royston Godwin Two parishioners of St. Anthony of Padua’s Church in Rye were awarded “Bene Merenti” medals on behalf of the Pope at a special Moss on Monday 4 October, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi. The investiture was carried out by the Right Rev. Kieran Conry, Roman Catholic Bishop of Arundel and … Continue reading Papal Medals for Rye Parishioners
Jimper’s Jottings
November, and again the streets of Rye will pulsate to the thuds of Bonfire Night on the thirteenth. This year many are pinning their hopes on a record collection. The secret effigy is ready and the celebrity booked. Now we all pray for fine weather so each and all can enjoy one of the biggest … Continue reading Jimper’s Jottings