CHRISTMAS FUN IN THE MUD
ANYONE who has ventured away from tarmac or pavements over the Christmas and New Year period will have noticed how waterlogged and muddy the countryside has become. We are very fortunate that directly behind our home are fields, most of which are empty of any crop; the land owners have no objection to us walking […]
A JERSEYMAN’S JOURNEY
– from Occupation to thriving mini-state. A biography of Pierre Horsfall CBE has been recently written by former JEP business editor Peter Body. Mr Horsfall was interviewed by Caroline Spencer ‘NO other speck of granite in the oceans of the world has had a more disproportionate and positive effect on the affairs of the world […]
WHAT’S FOR DINNER? A GREAT RE-THINK, ACTUALLY
A new book is being published in January by Colin Tudge, author, biologist and contributor to RURAL magazine’s website. His book, The Great Re-think, a 21st Century Renaissance has just been published. Review by ALASDAIR CROSBY AS a preliminary, may I direct the reader to the ‘What’s for Dinner? section of our website. Once there, […]
THE HEDGE FUND PROJECT
News from the National Trust for Jersey The planting of 20,000 hedging plants and trees has just been completed, adding a further 10 miles of hedgerow in Jersey, in the eastern parishes from Trinity through St Martin to Grouville. The work has continued from the areas reached in 2019 in order to restore the landscape […]
CATERING FOR THE FUTURE
The hospitality industry has been badly hit by the twin problems of Covid and Brexit. Alasdair Crosby talked to Simon Soar, the executive officer of the Jersey Hospitality Association ‘If you need to shout at someone, and shouting is going to make you feel better, pick up the phone and shout at me.’ Simon Soar, […]
EUNE FROUQU’THÉE D’JÈRRIAIS – (A FORKFUL OF JÈRRIAIS)
We continue our series of article 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 Colin Ireson Jé n’m’en vais pon faithe des grands commentaithes sus l’s êlections d’Améthitchaines, sauf qué j’sis bein content! Y’ […]
THE ONCE AND FUTURE MILL
In December, La Gigoulande Mill in St Mary, which has been in ruins since the Occupation, took a further step towards ending its decades’ long slumber, tucked away among overgrown scrub woods and weeds off the St Peter’s Valley road near the Granite Products Quarry. At least, the area of woodland around it has been […]
THE IMPORTANCE OF FARMING TO THE ISLAND’S BIODIVERSITY
Piers Sangan was one of the speakers at the Jersey Farming Conference in November 2020. He spoke to Caroline Spencer Taking up 50 per cent of land in Jersey, the agriculture industry has the potential to do more singlehandedly to protect the Island’s biodiversity than any other NGO or government agency. That was the message […]
CORONAVIRUS AND CORONAPHOBIA
By Alasdair Crosby There are two pandemics now affecting us all. Both of them, in their way, are potentially deadly. The first, coronavirus, we all know about. I do not want to underestimate its effects, or to undervalue those who are doing their utmost to fight it, or to disparage the measures undertaken to limit […]
EUNE FROUQU’THÉE D’JÈRRIAIS – (A FORKFUL OF JÈRRIAIS)
We continue our series of article 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. Ou ch’est-i la tèrre auve tch’i qu’j’avons eune alliance politique? Par Jean Treleven La Grand’-Tèrre Tch’est qu’ou comprannez par l’expression ‘La Grand’-Tèrre?’ En Jèrriais, la […]