A Week on the Estate: Cycle the Wolds, Community Garden & Our Days

Closer to home, we’re particularly excited about our ‘Incredible Edible South Ormsby’ project. Do you live in or around South Ormsby? Do you enjoy gardening and being outside? Do you have any spare tools, spare seeds or spare time? Do you have a bit of spare land in the village where fruit, veg or herbs might thrive? Would you like to socialise with friends and family while growing fresh produce to share with the community?

If you can answer ‘yes’ to any of these questions, we’d love you to be a part of our community garden. To enquire or volunteer, drop Nicky Coxon a line: Nicky.Coxon@southormsbyestate.co.uk

This week, we’re launching ‘Our Days’. Many readers were inspired by Kath Brown’s powerful Lincolnshire memoir, ‘My Days’, to share their own memories of bygone Lincolnshire. We’re proud to present them on our website.

The first instalment comes courtesy of Jo Houlden, for whom a 1940s childhood in South Ormsby was a time of weddings on the estate, hedge-high snowdrifts and riding in Mrs M’s dumb waiter.

If you have some Lincolnshire Wolds memories you’d like to share and you’re happy for us to publish them on our website:

– email Gavin Smith (gsmudger@gmail.com);

– briefly summarise the story you’d like to share and add a few photos if available;

– include a phone number so that we can get in touch.

We’re particularly interested in stories from the following areas: South Ormsby, Louth, Stenigot, Donington on Bain, Welton le Wold, Goulceby, Market Stainton, Skendleby, Skegness & Mablethorpe.

* Snowdrift image courtesy of Simon Harrod via Flickr CC