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Plans are afoot to take Trelowarren off-grid – Part 1
Posted on by Wouldn’t that be amazing? No oil delivered in tankers (except for the Aga and, currently, Carleen pool), no need for mains electricity and no mains water. In 2006 Trelowarren installed a 350kwh bio-mass Binder boiler to cries of it’ll never work and what’s the back up? District heating, they said – what’s that? And […]
2023 Season at the New Yard Restaurant
Posted on by We are very, very excited to welcome our new proprietors Tim Spedding and Louise Rødkjær’s reputation needs little introduction. With spells at The Ledbury, starting The Clove Club in Shoreditch, which won a Michelin star and was listed as one of the 50 best restaurants in the world, Tim has worked at some very interesting […]
Events at Trelowarren
Posted on by Get your diary out! Sunday 30th April – The Laidback and Luxe Wedding Show Tickets from https://outoftheordinaryweddings.com/events/the-laidback-and-luxe-wedding-show-cornwall Sunday 7th May come and Celebrate the Coronation at the Trelowarren Garden Open Day (no tickets needed)
Herefords in the Deer Park
Posted on by Last autumn we welcomed Harry Dark and his Hereford cattle. Those of you have been following the nature recovery project at Trelowarren will know how much we wanted cattle back on the ground to drive soil recovery with all its associated benefits. Last autumn we were delighted to welcome Harry Dark and his herd […]
Easter at Trelowarren is Magical
Posted on by Easter at Trelowarren is Magical Everyone talks about the amazing light in Cornwall. It happens because we are surrounded by the blue blue sea – and when sea and spring sunshine combine there is alchemy – I kid you not. What to do? If it’s sunny – and it will be sunny – drop everything […]
Victoria’s blog – Christmas at Sea
Posted on by Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson https://poets.org/poem/christmas-sea A poem at Christmas needs to have a good narrative drive and not be too full of itself as a poem. Epiphany is the time for the tragedy of TS Eliot’s The Journey of the Magi, but on Christmas Day I think Robert Louis Stevenson’s poem, full […]
Life is full of impossible projects – Victoria’s blog
Posted on by In preparation for our very own Whitsun Wedding, and while we were still lashed by the perpetual rain, darkness and storms of winter 2019/2020, some vital and of course impossible gardening fantasies were fostered. The first was that the parking for the great event would be in the field called Dohea at the back of […]
The Naming of Parts – Victoria’s blog
Posted on by The Naming of Parts – with salutations and apologies to Henry Reed https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/naming-of-parts/ Today we have the changing of the tyres. Last week we had the unblocking of the dishwasher and next week we will have the cleaning and mending of the gutters. But today, today we have the changing of the tyres. I like […]
Compliance – is not designed for exceptions – Victoria Vyvyan’s Blog
Posted on by ‘When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions’ (Hamlet, Act IV, Scene V) Compliance – is not designed for exceptions February is open season for Compliance. It’s those long dark days and endless storms. Half way through January Compliance look at each other and say, ‘Something must be done’ and they pick […]
Difficult Questions for 2020 – Victoria’s blog – Jan 2020
Posted on by In the 1960s a theoretical statistician, hence someone with theoretically no skin in the game, suggested that if a large % of an available population give an answer to a simple question, the answer they give, however unlikely it seems to another group, is probably correct. The available population in our garden is two. Should […]