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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