Author: Susan Dew
Gardening – June 2022 – Caroline Kenzie
June – the month of the longest day. The highest number of sunshine hours available per day, the plants revel in the warmth and (inevitably!) the rain. Summer plants are putting on...
BeeMania – June 2022 – Colin Rees
Yay! At long last, the beekeeping season appears to have started! Up until this past week, the weather has been so unpredictable, with sun shining but cold winds or warm weather and...
Book Review – June 2020 – Sallie Eden
The Secrets of Latimer House by Jules Wake Published by Harper Collins, 2021 Latimer House is a real place used by the British government during WWII to carry out top secret activities....
Gardening – May 2022 – Caroline Kenzie
I think May has to be the prettiest month. Whereas October can produce glorious colours, there is nothing like the blanket of spring flowers that appear in May. The hedges and verges...
Book Reviews – May 2022 – Sallie Eden
Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith Published by Sphere, 2020 After seeing filming taking place in St Mawes recently I thought I’d read the book on which the latest series of Strike is...
BeeMania – May 2022 – Colin Rees
For a few days in April I thought the beekeeping season had started! The weather was warm, the bitter, north-easterly wind had finally dropped and the bees were going crazy for nectar...
Bool Reviews – May 2022 – Sallie Eden
Rooms of One’s Own by Adrian Mourby Published by Icon Books, 2018 To paraphrase Mrs Merton “what first attracted me to Adrian Mourby’s book?” Two things: firstly, the author’s witty and informed...
Wild Roseland – April 2022
What to look out for in this month, once you have avoided being April fooled! Look out for the Orange-tip butterfly, the first in Spring to emerge from its chrysalis, the male...
Book Reviews – April 2022 – Sallie Eden
Miss Plum and Miss Penny by Dorothy Evelyn Smith Published by Dean Street Press, 2020. Originally published in 1959 Miss Penny (on such a short acquaintance, it doesn’t seem appropriate...