BeeMania – March 2021 – Colin Rees
Sunshine again today! Hooray! We might be coming out of winter at long last, albeit very slowly. All my hives had flying bees on the last sunny day we had before the...
Author: Susan Dew
Wild Roseland Nature Notes – March 2021
Wild Roseland Nature Notes An Octopus stranding on the Roseland It is the stuff of legends, of ancient mosaics, of novels, portrayed as monstrous, frightening or nightmare inducing, all designed to trigger...
Gardening – March 2021 – Helen Robins
Roseland Online, March 2021 After a series of persistently very windy days, the like of which some of us can’t ever remember experiencing in Cornwall, today is like mid Spring. While we...
Wild Roseland – May 2020
Now, here’s something we all can do! Last month I mentioned that Sunday 3rd May is designated by the Wildlife Trusts as International Dawn Chorus Day. It is always celebrated on the...
Book Review – August 2020 – Sallie Eden
You will be safe here by Damian Barr Published by Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019 This story starts in 2010 when Willem‘s mother and stepfather take him to New Dawn camp near Johannesburg. They...
Book Reviews – Sallie Eden
Sunny Side Up by Susan Calman Published by Two Roads, 2018 Watching Susan Calman’s new series ‘Grand Day Out’ on tv, I was prompted to re-read her second book, which is described...
Wild Roseland Notes – February 2021
Wild Roseland Nature Notes – February 2021 Otters and the Roseland. Many of you will remember a wonderful, packed house presentation on the Mammals of Cornwall in the Ruan Reading Room given...
Writers Talking – February 2021- Sallie Eden
In Writers Talking, our book reviewer Sallie Eden talks to Paul Allum about his delightfully illustrated book, ‘Jason the Super Grey Squirrel’ and the work he and his wife Ania do through...
Book Reviews – February 2021 – Sallie Eden
Word Perfect (Etymological Entertainment for Every Day of the Year) by Susie Dent Published by John Murray (Hachette), 2020 Written by the Countdown Dictionary Corner etymologist and described as a “linguistic almanac...