Cornish gardens are famous for their spring flowers from magnificent magnolias, colourful camellias, robust rhododendrons, azaleas, daffodils, primroses and sweet smelling myrtles. But there is one Cornish garden which may surprise you. March 31st was the 10th anniversary of our ‘moving in day’ which we usually celebrated by going out for lunch somewhere locally. I opted […]
A Different Kind of Spring Walk
It was a blustery day on Wednesday, but I have taken the opportunity to have a short walk when I have to visit the library in Hayle. Sometimes along the Copperhouse Pool and the garden, or along the quayside to the beach. This week I chose the beach as it was low tide. (Please click […]
Cloudscapes
Within the Salon community we count many devotees of the writing of Virginia Woolf and every year we offer a number of studies focusing on her work, some online and others based in some of the places she loved. This autumn we will run the seventh in our series of Virginia Woolf travel studies in […]
Campaign to protect views immortalised in Virginia Woolf’s ‘To the Lighthouse’
Today is the 106th anniversary of the Redruth butter riot of 1920. Let’s disinter it from the graveyard of history. During the first World War, the price of various foodstuffs was controlled by the Government. By 1920, it had been decided to end this control, with milk and butter prices being left to the open […]
Cornwall’s last food riot: the Redruth butter riot of 1920
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