Our Book
Club
’What Makes your Book Club Special’ my immediate reaction
was, ‘Great, that will give me something to think about on a wet, winter’s morning
in Cornwall’...click
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Covid 19
- A personal chronicle
The world has changed. It's so quiet. Few
sounds interrupt my day: the occasional chug of a fishing boat engine leaving
the harbour on the rising tide....click
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A village
out of the holiday season~
is
not as quiet as it seems. Just because the car parks have spaces, a few dogs
and their owners walk along the empty beach....click
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Weather
in Cornwall...predictably unpredictable
It's been the wettest, coldest winter since the Ice Age, and the flood
of last summer can't be compared to anything I've ever experienced before.....click
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It doesn't
snow down here...
I really can't think of a more perfect way of describing Cornwall in the
snow. It's magical. A dreamlike, white silence descends...click
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It happened
on a summer's day. In the
afternoon of 18th July, a
massive, isolated storm hit the fishing village of Coverack, where I live,
with a deluge so intense and destructive, it's been described by many residents,
as "apocalyptic"....click
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Cornish
fog is a capricious entity.
It descends
and disappears without warning. One minute the sky is crystalline and then
fog swathes and surrounds the landscape on the turn of the tide....click
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Brenda Wootton
and the French recordings
It's an enduring tribute to her that there remain loyal
devotees with affectionate memories of her unique voice and charismatic
personality....click
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I'm besotted with a golden-eyed,
bundle of soft, brown puppy
...called Sunny! For those that may have read my previous
article about losing our spaniel, Woody, you will understand the significance
of this little fella...click
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A Gardeners
World.
The garden has been my 'world' this summer. I've had to view it as an outsider,
without lifting a spade or hoe as I've been confined through knee surgery ...click
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Village
revolts against Super-Quarry
Residents from the peaceful village of St. Keverne,
on the Lizard, are 'up in arms' over the prospect of plans to blast rock
from the re-opening an old quarry...click
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Hopes for
a peaceful new year 2015
The seconds of 2014 ticked away and
we raised a glass to the finale of what hadn't been a particularly good
year. Not awful; just pitted with sadness and regret. ..click
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The Sense
of Christmas
There is no other time of year when our senses
are stimulated more than at Christmas. There's a physical, sensory response,
triggered, if you're lucky...click
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Some thoughts
on Autumn
I hate November! I've been scratching my head thinking of something to
write about Cornwall in autumn and hitting a brick wall of non-creative
rubbish...click
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The Village
Horticultural Show
This summer, our village celebrated the 60th Horticultural
Show and it gave me an opportunity to root into the families and
traditions that linger on today. ..click
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One Dog
and his Family
For the first time in more than forty years I've
not shared my life with a dog. My beloved spaniel, Woody, has been 'put
to sleep' and I'm heartbroken....click
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Under the Radar
A top-secret radar station, instrumental in detecting an imminent Luftwaffe
raid isn't something naturally connected with living in Cornwall...click
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The Winter
Storms
For the record, I'm compelled to write about
the 'Big Storms' we are experiencing. The weather is a component to living
in Cornwall...click
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Tricks and
Treats
Three little witches, two blonde and one
ginger, clutching baskets with cobweb-lace mittened hands, their faces
twinkling with glitter moons and stars...click
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"My favourite
day of the year"
Our local village Horticultural Show, I'm passionate
about anything to do with gardening - my garden is part of who I
am. Just as I've inherited my mother's genes in ways I'm not inclined to
reveal.....click
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Music down
on the farm
Enterprising individuals are making things happen
with some British and international stars hitting
the right notes in the creekside village of Mylor. ...click
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Where's
the darling buds of May?
Why have the weathermen decided that summer has
arrived just because the clocks were put forward
an hour? ...click
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Cornwall
Channel TV
I have discovered something new - The CORNWALL CHANNEL, The place for
instant information about news
and events through the power
of video....click
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Here's to
2013
Since I've been writing this website, I've had many replies asking about
Living in Cornwall, so for 2013 I'm putting the facility to make
comments on the site ...click
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Helston's being
'Branded'
Over recent months, the little market town of Helston is attempting a makeover.
This includes a logo which is intended to represent the image of the town...click
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My award from
the Gorsedh
Kernow
In August this year I was honoured to be given an award from the Gorsedh
Kernow...an organisation dedicated to the preservation of Cornwall's heritage ...click
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Snakes and
Adders
My dog 'Woody' had a nasty bite from an Adder, so I'm writing this with
the dual purpose of being cathartic, for me, and passing on information....click
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Losing their
religion?
I think scientific evidence is the way to find the
truth. When it comes to religion, there's no evidence that God exists, faith
and belief doesn't make it true...click
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Looking for
old friends
In our search for an old school friend we travelled from west London to the
west coast of the USA and found direct connections with new ones ...click
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Make 2012 the
year to book a holiday in Cornwall
We know people leave it later and later to book their summer holidays, but
this is the year to get away from the cities so don't leave it too late ...click
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Autumn leaves
and Cornwall starts a new year
The dregs of the year drag through the mud and mizzle, but hold on... I
hate autumn and I'm not going to write about it!...click
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Cornwall Air
ambulance, how it started
Cornwall Air Ambulance. The very first air ambulance in the U.K. How it started
and a brief history of the early years by the man who's idea it was ...click
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Coming back
to Cornwall from a very neat Suffolk break
We haven't entirely been living in Cornwall recently, but holidaying in Suffolk
with my little sister and her family...click
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Cornwall comunications
...a parallel universe?
Some parts of Cornwall have no mobile phone signal and broadband is invariably
slow in outlying towns and villages, BT promises fast broadband by 2014 ...click
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Cornish miners
migrated to the US during the Gold Rush.
Nicknamed Cousin Jacks and Jennies, descendants celebrate their
heritage and culture with The Cornish American Heritage Society and Californian
Cousins ...click
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Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station...back to the future?
Goonhilly Downs may be the location for space scientists to boldly go and
penetrate the dark heart of the solar system. ...click
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Summertime
Blues
That's it. Another summer is fading. The sun is warm and there are plenty
of visitors are enjoying the last week of the holidays...click
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RNLI - Are
the 'Suits' strangling the charity...plus Pictures of our Open Gardens Day
My views on the way that shortsighted Corporate rules seem to be getting
into even our most loved charities such as the RLNI ...click
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Stories
about the song 'Trelawny' and the Lizard Relay for Life
a group of local people have given weeks of their time to organise
a 24 hour Relay For Life to raise funds for Cancer Research UK...click
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Spain and Wisteria
We've been on holiday! Brilliant, cheap fights Newquay To Alicante, but there's
no place like home, flowers, birdsong and happy memories ...click
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Exclusive-
Brenda Wootton unheard Paris concert recordings discovered
Professional recordings of the Brenda Wootton Concerts at the Bobino
theatre in Paris have been discovered and a
special souvenir CD produced ...click
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In
Cornwall - charity often has to begin at home
Many charities are actually 'home grown', with
huge amounts being raised to set up and support patients and families who
are affected by cancer...click
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Lunch at Jamie
Olivers 'Fifteen' restaurant in Cornwall
To cook, I had to understand eating. My inspiration came from George Perry-Smith's
Riverside restaurant at Helford and books by Elizabeth David ...click
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2010 New
Year celebrations
Happy 2010 from Cornwall, plus update on 'Saving Penwith Moors' recent
arguments raised are that Natural England may be infringing disability laws....click
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Christmas in
Cornwall
It's the nadir of nature's year. The landscape's palette is more Rembrant
than Rousseau, rendering the fields and moors with a faded wash of muted
taupe...click
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Natural England
mismanaging our countryside
A programme for removing scrub from the Cornish moors, HEATH, yet another
EU edict has resulted in indiscriminate wiring up our wild natural moors ...click
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Troubled waters
in paradise
Cornish fishermen trying to deal with the bureaucratic idiosyncrasies
of the Common Fisheries Policy which constantly seems to move the goal
posts ....click
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Earth Magic?
Ground source heat pumps
Tap into the earth's
heat store to provide one of the most energy-efficient ways of warming homes
and providing hot water with low environmental impact....click
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How does your
gardens grow in Cornwall?
Mine is doing surprisingly well! Do you remember the middle of February when
we experienced what living in Cornwall was preferably not about?...click
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Highways, byways
and country ways
It's summer and the very early morning
sun is reflecting mica-bright freckles of sunlight joyously flittering across
the glittering sea....click image for more.
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Supermarkets
versus Farmers Markets
Are you really being served? At
last, veggie boxes are being delivered across the country and farmers'
markets are springing up in the middle of the suburbs...click
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There's something
mystical about the word 'rites'...
It suggests conceptual ritual rather than formal ceremony; an intuitive
sensing of an older lore intrinsically fused to the the cycle and forces
of natural order...click
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The Tale of
a shaggy
dog'
Cornish gold; zinging gorse, pastel primroses, elegant daffodils. celandines
and dandelions, all warming the post-winter landscape - and a wet spaniel ...click
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A Transgression
of the Recession '
Not for the first time, we are hit by a long standing client going bust as
the bank calls in their loan, the sickening part are the charges from the accountants...click
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My husband's fishing
'expedition'
Which required going to
the Post Office and buying a Fishing Licence, which needed almost as much information
as going through the US immigration...click image for more.
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Welcome to 2009
1st January 2009. At a minute past midnight on New Year's Eve, Jools
Holland has just done his hootenanny and the TV coverage switched to
Big Ben...click image for more.
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