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Rural Reflections
Graham Smith has lived on his St Mabyn smallholding for more than 30 years - and is still trying to get the hang of it. His weekly diary filled a column in the Cornish Guardian from 2015-16, and continues here. The archive entries will be added as and when time permits.
- UK Space Agency rules out a move to Cornwall, as Boris Johnson’s Kernow Sat project is yet to progress from the think tank 14th September 2021
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s new cases seem to be stabilising at a figure higher than average, with G7 “hotspots” remaining areas of concern 28th June 2021
- Record rise in sheep worrying, as farmers blame Covid for increased dog ownership 1st May 2021
- Green Party to contest Devon & Cornwall Police & Crime Commissioner election for the first time 2nd March 2021
- Covid-19: 24 new cases confirmed in Cornwall and a few fluctuations on the cluster map 11th October 2020
- Councillors called to briefing about the disease threatening Cornwall’s ash trees 2nd January 2020
- “Give 16-year-olds the vote in Cornwall Council’s 2021 local elections” urge councillors 20th November 2019
- How is your food stockpile? No-Deal Brexit is now only 9 days away 3rd April 2019
- Cornwall Council completes its takeover of NHS children’s and family services 1st April 2019
- Why badgers should take extra care on the A38, and why I miss the sight of a squashed hedgehog 1st June 2018
- Cornwall’s dairy farmers invited to New Year NFU conference 29th December 2017
- Not for sale 21st September 2016
- My Blue Remembered Hills 14th September 2016
- Wildlife policy in an environment free of facts 7th September 2016
- Harvest home 31st August 2016
- Revolutionaries in green wellies 24th August 2016
- An apple a day 17th August 2016
- Betting our hedges 10th August 2016
- Too easily ensnared by ignorance 3rd August 2016
- Be careful out there 27th July 2016
- Let us (s)pray that nothing goes wrong… 20th July 2016
- Brexit and brown flags 13th July 2016
- Always going the extra mile 6th July 2016
- Economics of the real world 29th June 2016
- The last 10 seconds 22nd June 2016
- Skinning knuckles or drinking beer 15th June 2016
- Show time 8th June 2016
- Knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing 1st June 2016
- Life is too short for all the paperwork 25th May 2016
- The perils of chicken shit 18th May 2016
- I’m a believer 11th May 2016
- When the owl sings, the night is silent 27th April 2016
- Putting the fox in charge of the chicken coup 20th April 2016
- I have now joined the Holy Order of Bee Keepers 14th April 2016
- Einstein seems to have been right about most things 7th April 2016
- Weeding without tears 30th March 2016
- Finders keepers 21st March 2016
- The new Jerusalem 16th March 2016
- Notes from the new frontier 9th March 2016
- Counting my chickens 2nd March 2016
- Badgers 24th February 2016
- The pub 17th February 2016
- Gene genie 10th February 2016
- Welcome to Royston Vasey 3rd February 2016
- Wanted: a minister for mud 27th January 2016
- Ram-a-lamb-a-ding-dong 20th January 2016
- Chop chop 13th January 2016
- The uninvited 6th January 2016
- Shooting rabbits 30th December 2015
- Busy doing nothing 23rd December 2015
- Bringing home the bacon 16th December 2015
