THE GREEN CANOPY OF THE COMMONWEALTH
A solution to deliver the UK promise, by Robin Waymouth In order to work towards Carbon Neutrality and slow global warming, the UK pledged, in 2019, to plant 60 million broadleaf saplings annually for 30 years. However, due to adverse weather conditions in 2022, there was a loss of 50% of planted young saplings, while […]
RE-BERTH AND RE-BIRTH FOR THE HARBOUR GALLERY
The ‘re-berth’ of the Harbour Gallery at another harbourside location takes place tomorrow (Tuesday): it is re-opening at 19, The Quay Commercial Buildings , St Helier., after completing its move from The Bulwarks, St Aubin. An opening celebration is being held there on Tuesday 25 April, from 6pm to 8pm. The first exhibition there at […]
MAKE AMERICA GAUDY AGAIN
Everything about and around Trump is just that, gaudy. Though born to money, he comes across as a truck driver who has just won the lottery. His language, dress, mannerisms, reliance on rabble rousing, tastes in everything including women suggest an ideological commitment to tawdry vulgarity. Now, and I hope Shakespeare won’t mind, some people […]
SPAWN SPOTTING
Spring weather has truly arrived and marks the start of the season for new life. Pondwatch.je are asking for your help to spot toads, frogs, and newt eggs in ponds this Easter holiday. Spend 30minutes visually looking for these eggs before sharing what you spotted or didn’t see at https://www.jerseybiodiversitycentre.org.je/pondwatch/level-1-form It’s just as important to […]
2023 LIBERATION INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL
The Music in Action charity has announced the return of the Liberation International Music Festival in Jersey in 2023. The festival will take place from 6 – 14 May and will feature a diverse range of world-class musicians from around the globe. The festival celebrates the liberation of Jersey and the Channel Islands from German […]
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF LA COTTE À LA CHÈVRE
A team of archaeologists arrive in the Island next month to begin a project to repackage and catalogue material excavated from the small Neanderthal occupation site near Grosnez, which is protected as a Listed place and provided one of the first indications that Jersey had a deep history. While they are in the Island, the […]
TOWN MOUSE AND COUNTRY MOUSE: 2023
By Gavin Ashenden Even in a small and compact island like Jersey, the culture of the town and the culture of the countryside are very different. In a well-run and sane society, they should interact in a complementary way. But the capacity for misunderstanding between the two cultures goes back a long way. In one […]
A RURAL DECADE
March 2023 marked the 10th anniversary of the first edition of RURAL magazine in March 2013. How to celebrate? With a party, of course! Contributors, sponsors, regular advertisers, members of the public who have been ‘ruraled’ at interviews and postal subscribers to the magazine were among those invited to a ‘Friends of RURAL’ celebration at […]
JERSEY ISLAND SINGERS PERFORM RUTTER’S MAGNIFICAT
FROM UTMOST EAST TO UTMOST WEST
A new book by Colonel John Blashford-Snell, CBE. Reviewed by Alasdair Crosby ‘DO you know about Atlantis?’ I think it was the first words that Colonel John Blashford-Snell, CBE (Jersey’s eminent explorer) said to me, after the usual introductory pleasantries. This conversation must have taken place in the 1990s, in the old JEP building at […]