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190521 | Let your garden go wild to help bees and butterflies

£1.8 billion cost of replacing bee pollination 28% Cornish bumblebees now extinct
Top tips to help pollinators: 1. Create homes; 2, Be less tidy!
Top tips to help pollinators: 3 Plant, 4 Go organic, 5 Ditch pesticides

Let your garden go wild to help bees and butterflies

I’ve always thought of my garden as rather messy, but actually, it’s pretty environmentally-friendly, with loads of daisies like this, for starters …  read more »

Friends of the Towans – Butterfly Management

Jun 13 , 2019 - Thu - 10:00 am
That’s code for ‘raking bramble cuttings from some of the slopes’. It’ll be hot work if it’s sunny, so we’ll go gently and hopefully treat ourselves to some lovely views of silver-studded blues in their peak flying season. Meet in National Trust (NT) car park at Godrevy (the one with the main cafe) at 10.00am on Thursday 13 June 2019. Fee payable for non-NT members.

Ranger Martin Rule will bring tools, gloves, tea, coffee and biscuits, but please make sure you bring some lunch and appropriate clothing and footwear suitable for working in the exposed Towans’ environment.

(All Friends of the Towans events start at 10.00am and run until about 2.00pm.)  read more »

Friends of the Towans – Botany Walk

May 30 , 2019 - Thu - 10:00 am

Colin carried out a survey of Godrevy Warren last year and will share some of his vast knowledge of the area’s plants with us. We may well head up around the headland as well. Meet in National Trust (NT) car park at Godrevy (the one with the main cafe) at 10.00am on Thursday 30 May 2019. Fee payable for non-NT members. Likely to finish 3.00pm or later.

Ranger Martin Rule will bring tools, gloves, tea, coffee and biscuits, but please make sure you bring some lunch and appropriate clothing and footwear suitable for working in the exposed Towans’ environment.  read more »

2019 | Hayle Outdoor Swimming Pool

Hayle Outdoor Swimming Pool
Since the summer of 2016 the pool has been heated by a solar cover and now the water temperature regularly reaches between 24 and 26 degrees Celsius.

2019 Season

This year the Hayle Outdoor Swimming Pool season will be extended to include the summer half-term holiday and weekends in June. The pool will open on Saturday 25 May 2019 for the Whitsun Bank Holiday weekend and the half-term holiday week and then weekends until it opens daily from 29 June 2019.

Opening hours are from 11am to 6pm, weather permitting, until Sunday 8 September 2019. We can confirm that entrance prices have not been increased for the sixth year in a row and once again season tickets will be available to purchase.  read more »

190520 | New GWR timetable Devon & Cornwall will see regular half-hourly local stopping services between Plymouth and Penzance

TRAIN services between Plymouth and Penzance are set to double today (Monday, May 20), as part of Great Western Railway’s new May timetable.

To be operated by new Intercity Express Trains and refurbished Castle Class trains, which GWR says offer more seats and greater comfort, the new timetable will see regular half-hourly local stopping services between Plymouth and Penzance, doubling the frequency of off-peak services.  read more »

Brown-banded Carder Bee (Bombus humilis)

Brown-banded Carder Bee

Bombus humilis  read more »

Moss Carder Bee (Bombus muscorum)

Moss Carder Bee

Bombus muscorum  read more »

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