FROM LITTLE ACORNS…
. ISLANDERS have been urged to spend their ‘Spend Local’ £100 vouchers at Acorn – and help plant 100 oak trees. This will be benefiting the Island’s environment in more ways than one. Each customer who uses their bonus £100 from the Government of Jersey, which is due to be distributed next month in an […]
WHERE HAVE ALL THE FARMS GONE? –(Long time passing)
. DAVID MARETT writes in Jèrriais on the lost farms of St Martin. Published with thanks to Les Nouvelles de St Martin parish magazine, where this article first appeared: TCHI QU’ÉTHEU PEUT L’CRAITHE? See below for an English translation I’ y-à tchique années acheteu, lé Sieur Dr John Renouf du Musée et dé l’Êducâtion autefais, […]
JÈRRIAIS – EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES 2020
By Marianne Coutanche of l’Office du Jèrriais THE European Day of Languages, which takes place on 26 September, aims to promote linguistic diversity, highlighting the importance of lifelong language learning in order to increase cultural understanding and democratic citizenship. The Day was started by the Council of Europe off the back of the success of […]
EARLIEST ART IN BRITISH ISLES AND IRELAND DISCOVERED IN JERSEY
PREHISTORIC societies in the British Isles were creating artistic designs on rock as long ago as the late Ice Age, archaeologists have confirmed. For the first time, archaeologists have analysed the ancient markings made on a group of flat stones, known as plaquettes, uncovered at Les Varines and believe they date from the late Ice […]
HOPES TO MAKE JERSEY LOCAL FOOD CHALLENGE VIRAL
THE Jersey Local Food Challenge, which returns for its third year at the end of August, will be asking challengers to get snappy – sharing photos of their local produce meals to inspire and encourage more of us to buy and eat local. The Coronavirus pandemic has thwarted plans organiser Bethan Watkins had for making […]
SAVING HORSE RACING IN JERSEY
HORSE racing enthusiasts have donated £15,000 in just one week in response to a fundraising campaign launched by the Jersey Race Club to save the future of local racing. The Island’s lockdown restrictions, imposed in March to prevent the spread of COVID-19, forced the 188-year-old club to delay the start of the 2020 season. It […]
PLAN TO REMOVE SEA LETTUCE FROM ST AUBIN’S BAY
INFRASTRUCTURE staff have come up with a new plan for removing the large amounts of sea lettuce that have accumulated in St Aubin’s Bay since temperatures rose to consistently high levels. Until now, the landing craft used to transport sea lettuce out to an approved dumping ground at sea needed spring tides to approach the […]
NEW STATES VET TAKES UP POSITION
A NEW permanent Chief Veterinary Officer has been appointed. Alistair Breed, who has more than 30 years’ experience of State Veterinary medicine, has taken up his role at the Department for Growth, Housing and Environment. He replaces Interim Chief Vet Brian Smith, who was appointed to temporarily fill the position last May, while a […]
NEWS FROM ‘CAP EDEN’
In 2016 Philip Gray retired from his teaching post at Victoria College and with his wife, the artist Anna (Le Moine Gray), bought a dilapidated old farmhouse in a remote part of western Brittany. He has sent us an update on their life in what they call ‘Cap Eden’ ‘DEMAT‘ FROM RURAL BRITTANY! FOUR years […]
RURAL CLASSICS
THE LORD OF THE RINGS – by J R R Tolkien Critique of ENTS ELVES AND ERIADOR: The environmental vision of J R R Tolkien – by Mathew Dickerson and Jonathan Evans Obtainable through Amazon This is one of an occasional series by Alasdair Crosby , on books that might be considered to be ‘RURAL […]