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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.
- Cornwall burning 16 July 2026
- Liskeard-Looe: when it rains, the trains can’t take the strain 23 December 2025
- St Austell solar farm planning application to be decided during election campaign 8 April 2025
- Cornwall’s unsung local government heroes set to storm the House of Lords 29 December 2024
- Get your hands off of my land: 15,000 protest at having to pay inheritance tax at half the rate which applies to 68 million 19 November 2024
- Andrew George MP steps down as boss of Cornwall Community Land Trust 16 August 2024
- Football: we were Tinners before you, St Just tells Truro 4 June 2024
- We’ll do that dreckly: Cornwall not due to consider climate strategy until November 21 June 2023
- UK Space Agency rules out a move to Cornwall, as Boris Johnson’s Kernow Sat project is yet to progress from the think tank 14 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 28 June 2021
- Record rise in sheep worrying, as farmers blame Covid for increased dog ownership 1 May 2021
- Green Party to contest Devon & Cornwall Police & Crime Commissioner election for the first time 2 March 2021
- Covid-19: 24 new cases confirmed in Cornwall and a few fluctuations on the cluster map 11 October 2020
- Councillors called to briefing about the disease threatening Cornwall’s ash trees 2 January 2020
- “Give 16-year-olds the vote in Cornwall Council’s 2021 local elections” urge councillors 20 November 2019
- How is your food stockpile? No-Deal Brexit is now only 9 days away 3 April 2019
- Cornwall Council completes its takeover of NHS children’s and family services 1 April 2019
- Why badgers should take extra care on the A38, and why I miss the sight of a squashed hedgehog 1 June 2018
- Cornwall’s dairy farmers invited to New Year NFU conference 29 December 2017
- Not for sale 21 September 2016
- My Blue Remembered Hills 14 September 2016
- Wildlife policy in an environment free of facts 7 September 2016
- Harvest home 31 August 2016
- Revolutionaries in green wellies 24 August 2016
- An apple a day 17 August 2016
- Betting our hedges 10 August 2016
- Too easily ensnared by ignorance 3 August 2016
- Be careful out there 27 July 2016
- Let us (s)pray that nothing goes wrong… 20 July 2016
- Brexit and brown flags 13 July 2016
- Always going the extra mile 6 July 2016
- Economics of the real world 29 June 2016
- The last 10 seconds 22 June 2016
- Skinning knuckles or drinking beer 15 June 2016
- Show time 8 June 2016
- Knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing 1 June 2016
- Life is too short for all the paperwork 25 May 2016
- The perils of chicken shit 18 May 2016
- I’m a believer 11 May 2016
- When the owl sings, the night is silent 27 April 2016
- Putting the fox in charge of the chicken coup 20 April 2016
- I have now joined the Holy Order of Bee Keepers 14 April 2016
- Einstein seems to have been right about most things 7 April 2016
- Weeding without tears 30 March 2016
- Finders keepers 21 March 2016
- The new Jerusalem 16 March 2016
- Notes from the new frontier 9 March 2016
- Counting my chickens 2 March 2016
- Badgers 24 February 2016
- The pub 17 February 2016
- Gene genie 10 February 2016
- Welcome to Royston Vasey 3 February 2016
- Wanted: a minister for mud 27 January 2016
- Ram-a-lamb-a-ding-dong 20 January 2016
- Chop chop 13 January 2016
- The uninvited 6 January 2016
- Shooting rabbits 30 December 2015
- Busy doing nothing 23 December 2015
- Bringing home the bacon 16 December 2015
