Roseland residents, Leanne Clark and Julia McIntosh, have been so moved by the plight of refugees in Calais, they have decided to take a trip over at the end of September with...
The Doctor’s daughter by Vanessa Matthews Published by Completely Novel June 2015 After several weeks of picking up little but disappointing, dispiriting or downright dreadful books, it was a relief to read The...
Louise Osmond’s documentary is set in a former mining village in Wales, against the backdrop of the current recession, this is a truly inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working...
When the summer wind and rain arrived I feared for the agapanthus in full bloom but they are sturdy monsters. My varieties are particularly tall but have beautifully thick stems and survived...
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce Published by Black Swan 2014 Described as the companion to ‘The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry’*, in my view you could read this...
Our Own Private Shipwreck Watching out from our Lookout on a fine summers day it seems impossible that the area in front of us has been the scene of ship wreck, tragedy...
Hoverflies: often brightly marked, sometimes almost waspish and therefore slightly scary, are everywhere, settling on pollen-rich flora among the bees and butterflies. Their role as pollinators is as vital as the bees...
At the end of July/beginning of August I started to remove the supers from those hives in which a surplus of honey had been stored. Then we went away and I am...