Orf is a common problem after lambing. It’s a continuous threat to UK flocks and outbreaks can have a drastic effect on health, welfare and productivity.
You can’t tend a garden without taking an interest in the bird life it attracts, so when an acquaintance remarked that she was finding greater entertainment in watching their antics than from some of the television offerings, I concurred.
Stories of abandoned wives, brutal crimes, poverty, cheating publicans, violence, tragedies and women’s rights have all emerged from a historic Alnwick building.
There are a few deciduous shrubs to dig up and relocate in the days ahead, then we can concentrate on the mixed borders and over-vigorous herbaceous perennials.
Winter storms dominated the news coverage in the pages of the Gazette 60 years ago but if you could make it to a film screening Elvis Presley was starring in King Creole.
A cheerful woman is good for the home, the Canadian Government were looking for emigrants and the fees required to send your daughter to the Duchess School - these are among the fascinating snippets we found in our archive.
