,The fields have been awash with the yellow flowers of Daffodils. This brings the yearly sightings of the people carriers and vans lining the lanes delivering the pickers in the early hours of each morning. It is back breaking work, carried out in bitter and harsh weather conditions, and the workers are wrapped in layers of waterproofs, shawls and sometimes blankets. The scenes are eerily reminiscent of Van Gogh’s drawings of the Potato pickers from over 100 years ago. Read More
It is the 31st of the month and the sun is now setting at 5pm and already the long, dark nights are on the wane. We have ended the month on a beautiful sunny and warm, yes, a warm sun on my face kind of a day. Newly washed clothes drying on the line – I kid you not. It felt like a gift to end the month in this way, Read More
Difficult to believe I know, but, December was wet, warm and unsettled. Very wet. I have never known the paths in the field to be so muddy, even on the top of the field it was squelchy and ankle deep in mud. Storm Bram arrived on the 8th bringing some more buckets of rain with it. Read More
The month was mostly warm, humid and wet, with above average temperatures. Some nights were almost balmy and on Guy Fawkes Night, on the 5th of November it registered fifteen degrees whilst damp and rainy.
I took a trip out around the field in mid October, to check the lie of the land. It was a lovely sunny evening, a gentle breeze with a slight chill and several varieties of birds chirrupping away to each other in the waning light of the day.
Sitting out at the top of the field on a damp morning – and there were many – several colours stood out in the mist. The beautiful lilac of the Artichoke flowerheads, we had so many this year we
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What a month of contrasts. The UK weather brought downpours that caused flooding and power cuts but also burning suns wildfires and above average hours of sunshine. The trees were bowed down, heavy with fruit, we had daily supplies of warm, red tomatoes,
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April brought an abundance of events, politics, weather and growth – but not the sort advocated by the chancellor Rachel Reeves! Our moods were like yoyos,
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Once again records have been broken in England, this time for the most amount of sun in the month of March. It was also a very dry month and sadly contributed to several
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Lots of bright, dry, sunny and cold days for the first half of this month, rain and some harsh southerly winds followed bringing down trees between St Austell and Truro on,
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The month started with an, ‘artic maritime airmass bringing cold temperatures to the UK’ (MET Office). I looked up the January posts for previous years to compare weather fronts. In 2021 there was two weeks of bitterly cold weather here on The Lizard with temperatures,
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“Imagine a Cornwall where nature thrives, with our wildlife and wild places valued and enjoyed by all…where healthy oceans, soils, rivers, wetlands, woodlands, moors,
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