Pick up this month’s Cornwall Life magazine and check out what you can see at Watergate Bay next week when cover star Veuve Clicquot Polo on the Beach returns for the fourth year.
Taking place on Thursday 16 September, the free event has pulled in some of the biggest names in British polo including international players Jamie Le Hardy and the Blake Thomas brothers.
If you can’t make it down to the beach fear not: BBC Radio Cornwall will be broadcasting live from the event between 6 and 1opm throughout the Southwest.
The clear blue skies above Cornwall betrayed no sign of the clouds of ash belched from the guts of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano.
By Sunday 18th April UK airspace had been closed for four days, leaving hundreds of flights cancelled and thousands of travellers stranded overseas. With no way of predicting when flights would resume it was becoming clear that the weekend of travel chaos would have a far-reaching impact on British holidaymakers.
Lesquite Farm was one of the CFH properties to benefit from volcano refugees.
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Facebook users with unkind avatars are being removed by Nestlé
At work recently, I’ve been dabbling a bit in social media presentations. I’m not going to pretend that I know everything there is to know or, heaven forbid, start calling myself a guru, or even worse, a social media envangelist.
I know what I like though and what I don’t, a bit like dresses on girls.
Recently, I’ve been updating a presentation I knocked up last October. Whilst back then there were PR fails in abundance (skittles affair anyone), as social media agencies improve and learn from their mistakes the PR Fail hashtag has been a little thinner on the ground.
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A couple of Saturdays ago the Barefoot Media team were invited by Paul Ainsworth to have dinner at his eponymous restaurant in Padstow. To say we jumped at the chance was a bit of an understatement; I spent the days leading up to the meal practically levitating.
The 18th century listed townhouse is a former B&B situated on Middle Street. Inside, it’s laid out like the board-game Cluedo, but with people dining in each room, not dying.
Dining Room at Number 6.
The four of us who, for the purpose of this review will be know as Professor Plum, Colonel Mustard, Mrs Peacock and Miss Scarlett, were embraced by the warmth and sentiment necessary on a cold March night and lead past the library and the kitchen, all with every available seat taken, before being shown to our table in the dining room.
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My first job as a reporter on the UK’s longest-running surfing magazine saw me undertake some pretty tough assignments. As the most junior member of staff, it was inevitable that I would get sent on the jobs nobody else wanted, so my early interview technique was set to develop on a series of aspiring pro surfers who would clearly rather have been spending time in the sea than waiting for me to reel through a list of questions. I would rather have been surfing too, but it was up to me to coax from their uncooperative mouths a sentence that could one day be printed, and repeat this process enough times to hit the magic figure of 500 words.
So when it came to sit down with Justin Lee Collins to conduct an interview for Another Place, the annual magazine produced by The Hotel & Extreme Academy at Watergate Bay, none of my previous experience was any use at all. Verbose doesn’t come close – the man was a dream in front of the microphone. Here’s what he said . . .
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