Wise Move Builds Bird Box
Most people have been tempted by the RSPB to make the odd bird box. But Burghwallis thinks big. Why not build one for one of the biggest birds in the UK. Why not build a bird box for an owl. Some might ask which twit […]
Lockdown Life In A Rut
The lockdown could be misconstrued as life in a bit of a rut. Unfortunately some people have taken the term literal literally. A walk along Scorcher Hill Lane (SHL) has revealed the tendency for drivers to navigate along lengthy sections of the now very soft […]
Water, Water Everywhere But Not a Drop to Drink
The burst of a mains pipe somewhere between Askern and Burghwallis has residents and Yorkshire Water perplexed. After three days the source of the leak remains a mystery. Normally a leak of this size would result in water squirting in the direction of up, putting […]
Village Flag lowered
The Burghwallis village flag has been lowered to mark the passing of Roy Ezard, of Scorcher Hills Lane
Let It Snow
One of natures delights recently landed around Burghwallis. The white stuff landed big time to the delight of many of us ‘fastened in’ – maybe less so to those having to travel to work enduring skiddy bits en route. We would like to thank Brian […]
Missed Delivery for White Christmas
Depending on whether you were fastened in, out or round about for Christmas these snowy scenes arrived a couple of days too late to make it a white Christmas. But still the scenes bring some hearty cheer to our less than ideal circumstances. These great […]
Time To Stand Up And Be Counted
2021 is the year the next national census will be conducted. This is nothing new – there was famously one in Judaea at the time of the change from BC to AD! A census is the means by which the government and its many agencies […]