Tag: science

Celebrating 200 Years: the Royal Cornwall Museum comes to life!

February 10, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

It is damp and dreary but I have been looking forward to today for months so I was going to be put off. Walking up the granite steps into the museum I am immediately stuck by how bright everything looks. And how busy, my favourite little museum has really come alive! I have been going […]

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My Guide to Open Studios

May 29, 2017.Reading time 4 minutes.

Once a year makers all over the county open up their studios to the public. Its a rare and precious opportunity to seeing all kinds of craftspeople – potters, jewellers and painters at work and buy straight from them. I try and fill my life with what makes me happy – my friends, walking, writing, photography and […]

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Cornwall & The Nebra Sky Disc

September 25, 2016.Reading time 9 minutes.

Hanns, the custodian of the hotel shakes our hands warmly. There are no other guests so he is delighted to tell us we have been ungraded to a better room. Our window looks out on a typical German street of apartment blocks. The walls now warmly lit red in the setting sun. Halle an der […]

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John Couch Adams – The Stargazy Cornishman and the search for Neptune

September 2, 2016.Reading time 6 minutes.

If you google ‘how to find a new planet’ an article published in The Guardian in May pops up.  In recent months, it reports, NASA has discovered 1200 new planets orbiting distant stars in far off solar systems. In just the last couple of weeks a possible “earth-like” planet has also been discovered.  How far we have come […]

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