What of my identity? It is interwoven between marsh, fen and town but the world changes.  My roots and ancestry is firmly in the Fens....

It is ironic that whilst typically being the driest area of the country in terms of rainfall the Fens of South Lincolnshire are also...

In 1986 I was sat in Spalding Gentlemen’s Society when the then President of the Society, Bob Whiston told me that when he was a child...

Sturgeon Sturgeon are almost never seen in UK waters either in the sea or inland. However, occasional non-native sturgeon species get...

Also, reproduced many times in books and magazines are Frank Parkinson’s photographs of plover netting on Cowbit Wash with clap-nets....

The inland punt-gunner was a rare beast that was typically found in the Fenlands of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire, but was also seen in...

In 1906 Mr Henry Pickering, then 88, revealed what it was like to pursue wildfowl with a punt on Cowbit Wash in the 1840’s: When about...

1st September saw the start of the wildfowling season. It is possibly one of the purest and most challenging forms of field sport still...