JERSEY ROCKS FROM AN ARTIST’S PERSPECTIVE
By Ruth Le Cocq A FASCINATION with Jersey’s unique rocks and sediments prompted printmaker Anne Chowne to create a range of collagraphs which are on display at an ArtHouse Jersey Pop Up exhibition at Grève de Lecq Barracks this weekend, 13 and 14 January. She highlights the beauty of extant volcanic activity, wave cut platforms, […]
WHAT ARE WE DOING TO THWART EVIL?
By Alexander Boot The short answer is next to nothing, and it’s about time we realised that. I’m using the personal pronoun ‘we’ in the broad sense of Western civilisation in general, not just any of its specific members. Now brace yourself for a few blindingly obvious truisms, for no original thought is required to […]
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 Pat Small. LES PAPILLOTTES EN JÈRRI En Êté, s’i’ fait bieau temps, ch’est là qué j’viyons les papillotes voltigeant dans […]
AFTER STORM CIARÁN
It is now around two months the Island was visited by the great storm named Ciarán, but in so many places in the Island its effects are still visible. Nicole Hamel took these pictures in the east of the Island – just before Christmas. They show the countryside there – after the storm has passed
BATS IN JERSEY
For the first time, the Jersey Bat Group have evidence of a Nathusius bat roosting in a bat box in the Island. The box was made from waste timber by the Acorn Woodshack and was a Father’s Day present for Nigel Mather, who lives in St Martin. He put the bat box on the gable […]
CAN ORGANIC FARMING FEED THE WORLD?
It’s too early to tell,. But we ought to give it our best shot, according to our guest columnist, Colin Tudge On a recent Farming Today This Week on Radio 4 a Shropshire farmer who among other things grows wheat, declared that organic farming is “never going to feed the world”. And this view is clearly shared […]
‘Lucy and Tom’s Chicks – and who they meet as they grow’
(Review appeared first in the Winter 2023 edition of RURAL magazine) Locally based acclaimed artist and writer, Ariel Whatmore, who writes and paints as Ariel Luke, has produced a book for young children which is both educational and fun. It will certainly appeal to children with an interest in colouring in and in the natural […]
FOR THE LOVE OF FARMING
Book review ‘Farmer Will’s’ Guide to Life in the Fields (By Will Young) – reviewed by Alasdair Crosby ‘Farmer Will’, as he likes to be called, is a ‘Tik Tok sensation’ and was one of the Islanders on the ITV programme, ‘Love Island’ – which are two reasons why this reviewer had never heard of […]
‘THE JERSEY SHEEP LADY’ – Book review
Author, Jenni Liddiard Book review: Alasdair Crosby ‘Nil Desperandum’ might well be the motto of this author – never give up. She has never given up: to find a farm, to construct a house so she can live on site, to rear sheep, to find happiness. She now farms in St Lawrence, with her husband, […]
C.E.O OF NATIONAL TRUST FOR JERSEY TO STEP DOWN
The National Trust for Jersey (the “Trust”) has announced that Charles Alluto will be stepping down as Chief Executive Officer in 2024. Mr Alluto has led the organisation for 24 years, during which time he has delivered many significant achievements including the Coastline Campaign, the saving of the Plémont headland and the restorations of 16 […]