NATIONAL TRUST OF JERSEY TO BE GIFTED GREVE DE LECQ CAFE SITE
The Seaside Café site at Greve de Lecq will be bought by the government for £3.5M and gifted to the National Trust for Jersey. The States Assembly approved the acquisition this week which included a condition that the charity uses the site for environmental, cultural and social benefit to the public. Charles Alluto, the Chief […]
SPUD-TACULAR GROWING COMPETITION
It’s that time of the year when the parish constables, the local media, Occupation VIPs, the Island’s branches of the Women’s Institute and all 33 primary schools put their gardening skills to the test in the Jersey Royal Potato Growing Competition. Local fruit and vegetable wholesalers Homefields delivered over 300 growing kits this week to […]
SCENT WORKS FOR DOGS
Scentwork is mental enrichment for dogs affecting their behaviour in positive ways through play says Harry Matthews, the founder of Origin Dog Training. ‘Scentwork affects behaviour. Science says so,’ he explained. ‘It calms a boisterous dog. It’s mental enrichment. It boosts confidence in a nervous dog. It works the brain of an old dog. Or […]
THE ISLAND’S HEDGEHOGS NEED YOU!
The Jersey Hedgehog Preservation Group is looking for one or two volunteers to take over the everyday running of their rescue centre in Waterworks Valley. The current care manager, Dru Burdon, who has been responsible for the hedgehogs’ welfare for 32 years, is retiring. A posting on the group’s website states that full time cover […]
JOIN THIS WEEKEND’S GREAT GARDEN BIRDWATCH
It’s the annual Great Garden Birdwatch this weekend when Action for Wildlife Jersey invites everyone to spend an hour observing and recording birds. Participants are encouraged to observe and record the birds for 60 minutes, between 8am and 11am on either Saturday 3rdor Sunday 4th February. They are asked to note the variety of birds they […]
EUNE FROUQU’THÉE D’JÈRRIAIS – (A FORKFUL OF JÈRRIAIS)
We continue our series of articles in Jèrriais – Jersey’s own traditional native language. The ‘frouque’ in question is a digging fork, rather than a table fork. An English translation follows. This contribution comes from Andy Le Gresley La chasse ès Frêlons Âsiatiques Y’a deux’-trais ans, j’rêponnis à eune rétchête sus Facebook pouor des nouvieaux […]
THE JERSEY RACE CLUB – RACE DATES 2024
There is no Easter Monday meeting this year, because Easter is so early. Sunday 12 May – The Season Opener – First race 2:30pmSunday 2 June – The Jersey Guineas – First race 2:30pmFriday 14 June – The Warwick Vase – First race 6:30pmFriday 28 June – Mid-Summer Evening Meeting – First race 6:30pmFriday 12 […]
DEEP ENGLAND – DEEP JERSEY ?
By Peter Harris Our guest columnist is Peter Harris (not our Jersey Magistrate of the same name!). He has no close connection with Jersey, but writes about the concept of ‘Deep England’. Most countries have a similar concept, be it La France Profonde, or Alt’ Deutschland, or many other ideas of what constitutes the soul […]
‘HONEST NEV’ – GONE RACING. R.I.P
Neville (‘Nev’ or ‘Honest Nev’) Ahier, who has died aged 88, was a Jersey countryman with a passionate interest in horses and horseracing and sport – especially football. He was a part of what is nowadays an almost extinct breed: an integral part of the Island’s farming and rural community, growing up with horses on […]
HOPE FOR HORSES
By Ruth Le Cocq Over 100 comments supporting a planning application for an equine wellness centre in Trinity have been posted online as Jersey’s equine community unites to try to save horses in pain from travelling off the Island for treatment. And the proposed facility at Les Platons, on the site of an established livery […]