by Ellee Seymour | Oct 27, 2021 | Royal reminiscences
The Marchioness of Cambridge had to be inventive during WW2 when she discovered she had no olive oil to whip up her mayonnaise needed to serve with her fine fresh salmon for lunch. I doubt any of us would have thought of the alternative she chose – liquid...
by Ellee Seymour | Oct 19, 2021 | Norfolk
I so love Michael Morpurgo’s powerful War Horse story and was reminded of it when reading about the signing up of Norfolk’s own War Horses in a booklet called Dereham in the Great War, A Diary by Terry Davy. The entry for Thursday, 6 August 1914 vividly...
by Ellee Seymour | Oct 13, 2021 | Royal family, Uncategorized
Did you know that when he was well into his 98th year Prince Philip became the first person in Britain to cultivate a successful crop of black truffles – and it happened on the Sandringham estate? It’s mentioned by Prince Philip’s friend and...
by Ellee Seymour | Oct 10, 2021 | Sandringham
I was interested to learn that TV naturalist and eco campaigner Chris Packham led a children’s march to Buckingham Palace to deliver a petition with more than 100,000 signatures asking the Queen to rewild royal lands. The petition urges the royal family to commit to...
by Ellee Seymour | Oct 6, 2021 | Writing
We’re currently staying in Airbnb in a hamlet called Barway while our house in Ely is renovated, and we’ll be here for a couple more months yet. While here I’m pressing on with writing book 2 in my trilogy. I’ve written more than 35,000 words...
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