Gardening – September 2023 – Alison Agnew
With the days starting to get a little shorter our resident gardening expert, Alison Agnew, takes us through the joys of an autumnal garden. Daisy Days I’m writing this by the fire...
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Wild Roseland Nature Notes – August 2023
Barn Owls make a come back These amazing birds, secretive, beautiful white and honey coloured, and with such silent flight and hunting skills are thriving here after all. Our Barn Owl population...
Book Reviews – August 2023 – Sallie Eden – Marple
Marple: Twelve new stories Published in paperback by Harper Collins, June 2023 The clue is in the title: stories, according to the Guardian review, “reimagining” Miss Marple “from a fresh perspective”. Descriptions so often...
St Mawes & District Garden Annual Society Flower and Produce show
Gardeners put on a ‘fantastic’ show despite challenging weather conditions Against all the odds Saturday 15 July saw a ‘fantastic’ turn out for the St Mawes & District Flower and Produce Show....
Gardening – August 2023 – Alison Agnew
Alison Agnew is the Roseland Online gardening feature writer. She is a retired biology lecturer and amateur, but long time, gardener and designer. She has a particular interest in the technical, aesthetic...
Book Reviews – August 2023 – Sallie Eden – All’s Well That End’s Well
All’s Well That Ends Well. From Dust to Resurrection: 40 Days With Shakespeare by Peter Graystone Published by Canterbury Press, 2021 From the title, you might think this book is going to be dry,...
BeeMania – July 2023 – Colin Rees
Another crazy few weeks – I need the roundabout to stop now so I can get off! It started with me being very organised and checking each of...
Book Reviews – June 2023 – Sallie Eden – Corona
Corona by David Arrowsmith Published as an ebook 29 June 2023. Paperback due shortly This is the debut novel by the author of ‘Nevada Noir’, the trilogy of short stories I reviewed...
Book Reviews – June 2023 – Sallie Eden – The Paris Library
Published in paperback by Two Roads (Hackett), 2022 The motto of the American Library in Paris is “Atrum post bellum, ex libris lux” (“After the darkness of war, the light of books”) a...
Gardening – July 2023 – Alison Agnew
Sustaining the summer show Gardening is a four dimensional art form – we gardeners have to design our gardens to look beautiful, or at least interesting, over time – both over the...