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PENLEE
LIFEBOAT DISASTER -Solomon
Browne Saturday, 19th
December 1981, around 9pm
Trevelyan Richards,
coxswain of the 'Solomon Browne',
radioed, "Penlee Lifeboat to
Falmouth Coastguard, we've taken
four off ...click
image for more.
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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
image for more.
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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 image
for more.
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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 image
for more.
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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 image
for more.
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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 image
for more.
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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
image for more.
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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 image
for more.
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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 image
for more.
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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 image
for more.
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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
image for more.
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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 image
for more.
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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 image
for more.
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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 image for
more.
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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 image
for more.
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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 image
for more.
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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 image
for more.
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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 image
for more.
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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
image for more.
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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 image for
more.
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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 image for
more.
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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
image for more.
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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 image for
more.
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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 image for
more.
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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 image for
more.
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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
image for more.
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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 image for
more.
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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
image for more.
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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
image for more.
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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 image
for more.
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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
image for more.
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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
image for more.
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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 image for
more.
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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 image for
more.
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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
image for more.
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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 image for
more.
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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 image for
more.
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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
image for more
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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 image
for more.
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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
image for more
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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 image for
more.
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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
image for more.
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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 image
for more
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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
image for more.
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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
image for more.
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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 image for
more.
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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 image for
more.
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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 image for
more.
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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 image for
more.
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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 image for
more.
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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 image for
more.
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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
image for more.
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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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