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September always flies by. There was some lovely late summer sunshine and it’s always a dash to collect the autumn berries to make a few preserves especially when a basket full of fallers (apples) are starting to look a bit...

Padstow and Bude are both in North Cornwall, but in many ways poles apart. The coastline is softer around the camel estuary with more sand dunes, whereas Bude is a haven with the steepest most dramatic cliffs towering down towards...

Over the last 10 days, a film crew have been in Bude filming Dick and James Strawbridge aka ” the hungry sailors”. During filming they spent time on the beaches with Bude Surf Life-saving Club, cooked a fish stew, made...

Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest are now vital parts of my marketing strategy. Oh.. hear me say that!. I’m no businesswoman; I like to paint and create; but for a few minutes a day, I can get in touch with the...

Stones are by their nature very old and many have travelled across continents, either naturally through the milennia of glacier movement or simply tumbled down streams or across oceans. It is a nice idea that “If stones could speak, poetry...

A friends son was picking strawberries for a major supermarket in June and as is the way these days, they won’t accept the misshapen or unevenly ripe fruit – the rejects. Not one for waste, she shared them out between...