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29 August 2018

Blackberries and Cornwall

I have a theory and it’s this. Blackberries grow best on tin. Now my proof for this is sketchy and my explanation is even poorer but bear with me. I walk a lot, all over the place, and the best blackberries each year are in the Polgooth area. They are great big, fat, sweet berries. […]

25 August 2018

Frustrations of building a new walk

Research, Walks

For a while now I’ve been convinced that there must be a decent walk that links Roche Rock, St Dennis Church and Castel-an-Dinas. It would be a big walk, around 10 miles I think, so it’s one to build up in stages. Of course all three sites can be linked by roads but where is […]

16 August 2018

2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 Same story, different date.

Publishing

Today’s headlines sounded rather jolly, the ebook is declining, the print book is rising, ra ra ra. Here’s the BBC story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39718016 “Last year, one of the most eye-catching figures from our statistics was that physical book sales were increasing while digital book sales dropped,” said chief executive Stephen Lotinga. And here it is again […]

16 August 2018

With Pola Negri, trying to track down The Woman He Scorned, in Mevagissey

Research

When you write a history you need to make sure you are not simply repeating facts without establishing the truth of them. This involves lots of enjoyable detective work hunting down primary sources. One established “fact” was that Pola Negri, a very famous, silent film star, had featured in a film called The Woman He […]

A History of Mevagissey

For over eight hundred years Mevagissey has flourished beside the south Cornish coastline. It has, in its heyday, been a globally significant port, lighting the streets of London in the eighteenth century and feeding the homes of Europe.

It has been battered by freak storms and a cholera outbreak but has continued, unbroken, contributing in no small part to the colonisation of the world by Cornish men and women.

This potted history gives an insight into the history of the village and takes a humorous look behind the scenes into what it is like to actually live and work in Cornwall’s second largest fishing port. It debunks a few myths and introduces some lively, tall tales, as told through local voices.

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Radio Cornwall Interview

The Cornish Years

“A lovely lighthearted journal of family life from a working mother’s point of view. Will make you laugh out loud! Beautiful descriptions of gorgeous Cornwall.”

Matteus – Amazon

The Cornish Years is a collection of two books featuring opinion pieces and lifestyle columns from the Cornish Guardian. Available in print or as a download.

Line Them Up

The Line them Up Series, is a collection of the same columns, but in shorter bursts. At 99p a download they are perfect to dip in and out of. Better yet the first one is free.