BeeMania – November 2022 – Colin Rees
So the beekeeping season is drawing to a close, after what has turned out to be one of the better seasons for a few years – for me, at least. All my...
Author: Susan Dew
Book Reviews – November 2022- Sallie Eden
Invisible Blood edited by Maxim Jakubowski Published by Titan Books 2019 Seventeen stories of murder and mystery by well known authors. If you like crime stories there’ll be something here for you...
Gardening – November 2022 – Caroline Kenzie
“It is enough To smell, to crumble the dark earth While the robin sings over again, Sad songs of autumn mirth ” Edward Thomas “Digging” October has been remarkably mild although we...
Book Reviews – November 2022 – Sallie Eden
The Ice Hotel by Hania Allen Published by Little Brown, 2021 I was attracted to this book because it’s based in and around Kiruna in Sweden and its famous Ice hotel, both...
Book Reviews – October 2022 – Sallie Eden
Songbirds by Christy Lefteri Published in paperback by Manilla Press Written by the author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo and influenced by the disappearance of five migrant domestic workers and two of their...
Book Reviews – October 2022 – Sallie Eden
While Paris Slept by Ruth Druart Published by Headline Review, 2022 It’s Paris, 1944; Jean-Luc and Charlotte meet and fall in love. Fast forward to 1950s California, they are happily married and raising their son. Then comes a...
Bee Mania – October 2022 – Colin Rees
This past month I finished taking off my summer supers of honey, ready for extraction as you saw last month and the month before. When a super is removed from the hive,...
Gardening – September 2022 – Caroline Kenzie
“The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the skies” John Keats, “To Autumn” To me, the sound of a robin’s song is definitely different come September. Whether it...
Wild Roseland Nature Notes – September 2022
Wild Roseland Nature Notes September 2022. The Return of the Choughs Choughs, the symbol of Cornwall and our county badge, are back on the Roseland; and with them a mystery. Did they...
BeeMania – September 2022 – Colin Rees
Another dry month for the bees. After my report last month – the day after, in fact – the nectar flow stopped totally. Bees were hanging around the hive entrances, wondering what...