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January 2026

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 – […]

December 2025

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 […]

November 2025

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.

October 2025

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.

September 2025

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

August 2025

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,

July 2025

By the middle of the month the field looked as if it was September, dry and bleached and crisp underfoot.  We did not experience the full heatwave on The Lizard, compared to the South East and other areas of Britain.  We had rain, (of course),

June 2025

Whilst much of the UK had the sun beating down on them, here on The Lizard we had our usual mix of Summer weather.  Several hot days, never above 24 degrees around here, often with cloud cover, a kind of humid, close weather.

May 2025

Early in the month, greeted by pale blue skies, the sun shining, the birds singing their hearts out and still there were frosts on the ground up in the higher part of the field. Inspite of lovely warm days, the chill hangs around and you only have to step out of the sun,

April 2025

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,

March 2025

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

February 2025

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,

January 2025

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,

December 2024

“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,

November 2024

All sorts of events on both the world and domestic front were staged this month.  There was COP 29, COP 16, the March for Clean Water and the much talked about budget from our government to name a few. How much was achieved?,

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