October 2025
BBQ in the Park 31st August 2025 
On the last day of August the residents of Irnham gathered for the Annual BBQ in the Communal Park.
Bringing along various BBQs to cook our dinners (mine was only a salad) great fun was had.
And on this occasion sharing a Sunday tipple and discussing grandchildren, cars and the state of our country as well as sport, mainly football. (You note last on my list as football is not my bag)
Looking forward to next year as long as we are about.
Thank you Chris Miles and Rick Clegg for organising things and the residents of Irnham Park allowing all villagers and friends to attend.
THE DETECTORISTS TAKE OVER IRNHAM SEPTEMBER 5TH TO 7TH
By invitation of Sir Jamie the village became a hive of activity as over 300 detectorists descended into the fields around the village and made camp.
Perhaps you are not aware but the fields around Irnham have been know to throw up Roman coins and other artifacts.
I know from talk in the village, the field opposite our house had a very interesting find some years ago.
The Detectorists were raising money and donating it to a good cause and this year was the Service Veterans charity.
The fields were either full of them looking for treasure as I call it or camping and displaying their finds to the locals.
As you can see from an aerial shot, forwarded to me, this was quite a gathering. 
They were very excited when I went to have a look and take some field shots.
One lady approached me to see who I was and when I told her I was taking photos for the local Link, proceeded to tell me about their finds.
The most common, up to then, was what they call a hammered coin.
Explanation of this below that was taken from google :
A hammered coin is an antique coin produced by manually striking a blank piece of metal (a "planchet" or "flan") between two dies, with the upper die struck by a hammer to imprint the coin's design. This labour-intensive process resulted in unique, non-uniform coins, and it was the standard method of minting until machine-milled coins were introduced around 1662.
I had my trusty reporters out there over the weekend updating me and sending more photos.
Their finds were quite exceptional as well as hammered coins there looks to be Roman as well as English coins and everyday items.
A good weekend for them all round.
Vintage tractor parade 14th September 2025 on way to pub 
What a lovely sight to see after just returning from a break, a procession of vintage tractors.
I saw them turn into our local The Griffin Inn so popped up to see if I could take any photos as they whizzed by I only caught a couple.
Well aren’t they a sight for sore eyes.
Thank you for making my day.
Annual Bike Ride & Stride 
September 2025 Team Irnham visited 15 churches during the annual Bike, Ride & Stride Event in aid of St Andrew’s Church and the Lincolnshire Churches Trust.
Tom Bagge was most appreciative of the support and patience of Mike & Sara Hatfield and Chris Miles who helped to make sure he completed the planned route.
Sadly it appeared there were fewer cyclists than usual on our circuit.
We are extremely grateful for the generous sponsorship we received and it encouraged us to battle on against the strong head wind which unfortunately, never blew from behind us.