What glorious weather this bank holiday weekend! We decided to make the most of it and got ourselves to Dartmoor on the Haytor Hoppa bus (Stagecoach 271). We were – eager as always – the first customers on the first bus of the season, and Stagecoach, who now operate theContinue Reading
A 24-hour live crowdfunding competition in which two Cornish projects go head to head, each looking to win a share of a £10,000 prize fund Featuring: Falmouth’s Love Land Community Field Project and Newquay’s Waterhaul The event takes place on Thursday 10th June in a live stream from: 7pm –Continue Reading
Ed Miliband is in a playful mood. “Shall I rip my shirt off?” he asks the photographer, who is not sure how to reply. “How about I put this feather in my hair?” We are in the garden of Miliband’s North London house. The sun is out, his sons’ bikesContinue Reading
2 Lucky North Devon couples have really fallen on their feet, after just taken ownership of a desirable property on the edge of Exmoor national park which features, amongst other things, 3 swimming pools, private sandy beaches an inside jacuzzi … better still it has cost them nothing! Sounds likeContinue Reading
The Proms is back this year and bigger than ever–literally in the case of the Royal Albert Hall stage which has been extended to make room for more socially-distanced musicians. More than 2,000 musicians will feature in the 52 concerts held over 44 days from July to September with theContinue Reading
Tête à Tête presents a vast, beach-based symphonic spectacle to bring those in power out into the Cornish landscape and take a moment to consider how to cherish our environment• Tête à Tête presents ‘Song of the Sea / Kan an Mor’, a welcome to the world’s leaders of theContinue Reading
What a wash-out! I’ll spare you the tale of our cycle ride to Topsham last weekend and move straight to our outing to Powderham Castle. Now, my best friend there is the chipmunk in the pets’ corner of the Secret Garden – he invariably makes me laugh. Though having saidContinue Reading
Only in cinemas”. We used to take those words for granted. Not any more. I haven’t set foot in a cinema since the end of last year, and watching John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place Part II this week, at a press screening in Leicester Square, was the best kind ofContinue Reading
A whole Devon town is gardening for wildlife to conserve and enrich the local environment. The Gardening for Wildlife project is a new initiative to encourage residents to provide food, water and shelter for wildlife and to manage their gardens to enhance habitats. To show their commitment and to encourageContinue Reading
I’m back with more news and hope you all had a lovely bank holiday. We made the most of the long weekend by exploring Haldon Forest and its various offers – very impressed with their “fund-a-loo” scheme and partner-latrines in places as far away as Myanmar and the Ivory CoastContinue Reading