Don’t miss….. The world famous Kneehigh Theatre premiere of ‘Dead Dog in a Suitcase’ in Cornwall. So excited and just can’t wait for the stunning explosion of theatrical antics at the amazing Lost Gardens of Heligan, which will be home to one of Cornwall’s most celebrated theatre groups….. Kneehigh Theatre premiere ‘Dead Dog in a Suitcase […]
I’m saying “hurray” because those of us that grew up in and around St Austell have such great memories about Carlyon Bay, also known as Crinnis. As teenagers we went to roller discos, had nights out at The Ocean Suite, Bentleys and Gossips. Most of us went to our first gigs at The Cornwall Coliseum […]
It amazes me how far we will travel for a proper Cream Tea! And, when we find it we love having a lively conversation about whether the jam or the cream goes on first! I must say I do like to put the jam first, then a big dollop of Rodda’s cream. I thought […]
The Day The World Changed : 100 years after the event, there is no first hand memory of the people who lived through it and yet, memory is persistent. It does its work through faded photographs, family anecdotes passed from one generation to the next, treasured letters, medals, old work ledgers, census and military records; […]
The Glory of the Garden by Rudyard Kipling Our England is a garden, such gardens are not made By singing:–“Oh,how beautiful!” and sitting in the shade. Our England is a garden that is full of stately views, Of borders, beds and shrubberies and lawns and avenues, With statues on the terraces and peacocks strutting by; […]
Meet Tyler Littlejohns, just 16 and already a Champion Body Boarder. Tyler left The Roseland School last month after finishing his GCSE’s and is helping us keep our gardens at Lower Barns looking beautiful. We are very proud of our gardens. We all know how many lovely things there are to do in Cornwall in […]
I know us Cornish lot are always boasting about something but I’m sure you will agree that being able to have breakfast at Fifteen, Watergate Bay on the north coast, a picnic lunch on Bodmin Moor, in the middle of Cornwall, followed by a cream tea at Tresanton on the south coast is pretty good […]
From a child I have always loved the romance of wandering these lands in a gypsy caravan – the freedom of stopping in a layby, a forest or coastline, setting up camp with the fire crackling and the kettle whispering, foraging the land for food and just being content with little. It was not to […]
For nine years, sports therapist and masseuse, John Kelly, had a key role to play at one of Britain’s most successful football clubs. However, when the Arsenal squad started pre-season training in July 2013… John was almost 300 miles away, having decided that life was more important than working 100 hours a week. He said, […]
I know I go on about this a lot but it is only at this time of year, so I invite you to join my wild enthusiasm for the natural, wild abundance of our incredible hedgerows and all the life sustained. It seems to me that overnight the stems on fox gloves, cow parsley and […]