ROYAL JERSEY SOCIETY SUMMER SHOW
WORLD SEABIRD DAY – BREEDING SEASON UPDATE
It was (also!) World Seabird Day on 4 July. It is estimated that 70-75% of seabirds are facing extinction globally. Birds On The Edge has reported that one puffin pair, four razorbill pairs, and many fulmars are missing from Jersey’s north coast. Predation is suspected. Despite this, three remaining puffin pairs successfully raised chicks. Hopes […]
DOTCOMBE REVISITED
By Alasdair Crosby, editor, RURAL magazine. The essay is reprinted courtesy of the Jersey Evening Post ‘Last night I dreamt I went to Dotcombe once again. It seemed to me I stood in the lane leading to it, and for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock […]
THE FUN DOG SHOW AT THE RJA&HS
Both dog show competitors – canine and humans – thronged the showground at the Royal Jersey Society on Sunday 9 June for the ‘Fun Dog Show’ at the society’s Summer Fair. So popular was it that the stating time had to be postponed by a quarter of an hour to accommodate all those owners who […]
CANTABILE’S PATRONAL FESTIVAL – CHORAL EVENSONG
RJA&HS SPRING SHOW RESULTS
Supreme Open Champion at the RJA&HS Spring Show was John Le Feuvre’s Elite Joel Noblesse. Reserve was the same owner’s Elite Colton Sunflower. The full results are shown below:
THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF EATING LESS MEAT
Against a barrage of calls to cut our meat consumption, our guest contributor from the UK, Suzanne Wynn, believes there have been some unintended consequences that work against most people’s desire to eat more responsibly My fellow contributor, Colin Tudge, has said quite rightly that our diet should consist of ‘not much meat, plenty of […]
DIFFERENT LAND AND LANGUAGE – ALL TOO FAMILIAR PROBLEMS
With thanks to our correspondent from Normandy, who has sent us this notice – it appears widely on the Internet and social media and has been posted, we are informed, in this physical form, outside French villages. The problems seem very similar to villages in the UK. In Jersey, it could equally apply to those […]
UNFORGETTABLE GARDEN SCENES
By Jersey Gardening Club president Marilyn Le Beurrier You will receive a very warm welcome from the Jersey Gardening Club when Don Witton presents a talk entitled ‘Unforgettable Garden Scenes.’ Don is a retired schoolteacher from Sheffield with a passion for growing perennials. He has been a garden lecturer, nurseryman and author for over 20 years […]
A MANIFESTO FOR MUSIC
Alasdair Crosby met Jersey composer Charles Mauleverer to talk about the ‘Music Manifesto’. This interview is reprinted from the Jersey Evening Post, with its kind permission Jersey composer Charles Mauleverer has been in the Island recently as part of the launch of the ‘Music Manifesto’. It is hardly surprising that, for an interview, he requested […]