Zoe’s spring recipes
Readers of RURAL – Jersey Country Life magazine will know of Zoe Horne, our cookery writer and proprietor of the local company ‘Zoe’s Kitchen’. www.zoes-kitchen.com Here she gives us some more of her seasonal recipes: Pea & Mint Soup Light and fresh, the perfect soup for spring. Serves 6 1tbsp oil 2 shallots, roughly chopped 1 potato, […]
Le Noir Pre open to the public
Le Noir Pré, The Trust’s Orchid Field will be open to the public on Sunday 18 May, 2-4pm. National Trust staff and local botanist, Tina Hull, will be on hand to provide information on the orchids and the management of the wet meadow site. Le Noir Pré, is on Le Chemin de L’Ouziere which branches […]
Liberation International Music Festival – Gala Night
WHAT actually is a gala? How would you define that word? The question arose in my mind as I drove home from last night’s Liberation Gala Concert at the Jersey Opera House. To my own way of thinking, the word means something special or celebratory, such as Gala Night or Durham Miners’ Gala. In the context […]
Access to countryside consultation launched
The Department of the Environment has launched a consultation to find out more about how people use the Island’s countryside paths. Islanders can take part in the consultation and survey online and can also attend a number of independently run workshops to share their views on how the network can be managed in future. Many […]
Liberation International Music Festival – Bach B Minor Mass
ST THOMAS’ Roman Catholic Church in Jersey – often called the Island’s Pro-Cathedral… what a good location to hear Bach’s B Minor Mass. The music and the singing rose from the orchestra and performers like clouds of incense and at the end of each movement the music that had just ended seemed almost palpable, like […]
Skipton Open Studios
This year’s Skipton Open Studios celebration of Jersey’s artistic community will see an Island ambassador, heritage organisations, schools and a steamroller from Sark playing key roles in a variety of events. The mini-size steamroller is being put to a very unusual use by printmaker Kerry-Jane Warner at the launch of Skipton Open Studios 2014. As […]
£70m undersea power cable from Normandy
The installation of Jersey’s third undersea electricity supply cable to France, known as Normandie 3, has got underway. The 7,000-tonne, specialist cable-laying barge, the Cable Enterprise, with a crew of 60, made the 32km journey to Longbeach in the Royal Bay of Grouville, along a precision route at the rate of approximately 50 […]
Normal service now resumed after short intermission
Caption: Media circus? THERE has been a short intermission to this service of news and opinion features relating to the rural and community life of Jersey. As they used to say on the television (and maybe still do – I haven’t really watched it since our own set was hijacked by our nine-year-old son – […]
The landscapes of an island home
The late Jersey resident, Sir Francis Cook (1907-1978), made Jersey his home , with his studio at what is now the Sir Francis Cook Gallery. MELISSA BONN profiles the artist (This is an expanded version of the article that appeared on page 60 of the Spring issue of RURAL – Jersey Country Life magazine) […]
Planning for the Future
Does Reforming our planning appeals system make sense? A view by our Planning correspondent, SONIA SMITH, a property lawyer at Lambert Legal This is an expanded version of the article that appeared in the Spring issue of RURAL – Jersey Country Life magazine WE are all accustomed to reading about high profile planning appeals in the Jersey press. […]