Wake to Rio 2016 – February 2014 – Tom Phipps
Zennor Pascoe Someone sent me quote a while ago saying “it is hard to recognize opportunities because they are usually disguised as hard work”. This quote has gone on to haunt me...
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Gardening – February 2014 – Nicola Bush
I had a lovely walk in January across the beach from Carne to Pendower at low tide and in much awaited sunshine. I don’t get down there often enough and feel I...
Book Review – February 2014 – Sallie Eden
47 Ronin – Published by Purple Rose Publishing, 2013 Described on the cover as “A story of honor (sic) and bloody revenge”, the Japanese legend of the 47 ronin tells of a group...
Book Review – February 2014 – Sallie Eden
The Little Book of Scones by Liam D’Arcy and Grace Hall – Published by Square Peg (part of Random House) 2013 With recipes for sweet and savoury scones, traditional scones and those with...
Coastwatch News – February 2014 – Malcolm Craven
Our Position is 50’11.10n by 5’35.80w I write this on the anniversary of the disaster in 1981 of the Penlee Lifeboat ‘Solomon Browne’. Sixteen people died in the attempted rescue of the...
Book of Remembrance Book Taken from St Mawes Church
The St Mawes Church Book of Remembrance was taken on November 9th, just prior to their November 10th Remembrance Sunday service. On the afternoon/evening of Saturday 9th, the book seems to have been taken...
Book Review – January 2014 – Sallie Eden
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott Adams Published by Portfolio, November 2013 This is described as (sort of) Scott...
Coastwatch – January 2014 – Malcolm Craven
Ugh… That Mud Tastes Horrible! I have written before about the difference between then and now and the skills used by the ‘old timers’ which have long since disappeared. Who now, for...
Book Review – January 2014 – Sallie Eden
Star Over Bethlehem and other stories by Agatha Christie Mallowan Published by HarperCollins ebooks and in a hardback facsimile edition, November 2010 Prompted by the recent TV broadcast of the final Poirot...
The Search for Edward Bragg – January 2014 – Phil Nicholls
The Search for Edward Bragg If you’ve visited Portscatho’s Harbour Club in recent years you may have noticed a pair of large canvas prints at the far end of the bar –...