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Visiting St Juliot Church
Despite studying and loving literature, I have always struggled to read Thomas Hardy. He is so lusciously descriptive that it sometimes feels like overkill. Discussing writing with locally-based romantic fiction […]
What do you know about Carlton Blyth?
So, what does anyone know about Carlton Blyth? Buried at St Michael’s.
Meeting American visitors in Bude
It’s funny sometimes how things happen out of the blue, so a telephone call from Mary Greer this weekend led to me meeting a party of 24 people, primarily American […]
Bude’s historic golf club…
It was a delight to visit Bude Golf Club on Friday. More about the changes happening there soon, but I hadn’t realised the club has quite a history. If you […]
For Holocaust Memorial Day
The story of an Englishman in Auschwitz Andy Pearce, UCL On January 21 1943, an Englishman, his Dutch wife, and their two-year-old son, arrived at the so-called “Altejudenrampe”, the old […]
Recreating Bude at War
The exciting Bude at War re-enactment is happening in September. Its organisation is a whole community event (whatever your feelings about […]
41 – the magic garden!
41 is the age we officially get into gardening, a new survey has revealed. Goodness, somehow I missed it, maybe because I had just had my last baby at that […]