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Seth Lakeman confirmed for Sark Folk Festival 2013

Seth Lakeman live 2012

Sark Folk Festival organisers have announced the first major act for the 2013 festival: Mercury-nominated singer-songwriter, and virtuoso fiddler, Seth Lakeman. This news is announced as Sark Folk Festival is nominated for a national award. The festival, which is already …

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Art for the Love of Sark exhibition at Guernsey Museum until 31st December 2012

Peregrine studies, Sark    by Bruce Pearson

The Guernsey Museum in Candie Gardens hosts a fabulous art exhibition of beautiful oil paintings, water colours, charcoal drawings, and sculptures of Sark and Sark wildlife. The museum gallery exhibits the art work of internationally recognised wildlife artists, with the …

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River Cottage Star Coming to Sark

Stocks Hotel, Sark

  Famous forager, John Wright of River Cottage fame, and a renowned world enthusiast on foraging will be visiting Sark on 1st and 2nd September 2012. He will be staying at Stocks Hotel and leading a series of tutored walks …

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Top Awards for Sark Hotels

THREE HOTELS on the tiny Channel Island of Sark have each been awarded three stars from the Sustainable Restaurant Association – the first time their restaurants applied for membership. The SRA said La Moinerie Hotel, the Hotel Petit Champ and …

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Wild Flower of the Day

Photo by Lynda Higgins

Saturday 12th May Bugle A  low creeping perennial wildflower, and a member of the mint family. It thrives on woodland edges and in damp grassland and propagates mainly by growing surface runners which root at intervals along their length. Bugle …

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Wild Flower of the Day

Photo by Lynda Higgins

Friday 11th May Tormentil A slender, sprawling perennial with yellow flowers, 7-11 mm, and 4 slightly notched petals. The stem leaves are mostly divided into 3, toothed, with a pair of stipules at the base of a short petiole (leaf …

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Exotic Feathered Visitor

Hoopoe feeding in the grass

Spring and autumn are always good times to be in Sark for anyone interested in birds as dozens of species stop by on migration. There are plenty of wheatears around at the moment and twice in the last couple of …

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Wild Flower of the Day

Photo by Susan Synnott

Thursday 10th May Navelwort The leaves are mostly basal, very fleshy, with a naval-like dimple in the centre, hence the name. They appear first before the long spikes of greenish-yellow bell shaped flowers. It grows up to 50cm and is …

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Wild Flower of the Day

Photo by Susan Synnott

Wednesday 9th May Common Stork’s-bill From the Crane’s bill family and very common in Sark from April onwards, especially near the coast. Leaves are pinnate and never lobed like the Crane’s-bill. A short, sprawling, sometimes erect annual with pink-purple flowers, …

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Wild Flower of the Day

Photo by Susan Synnott

Tuesday 8th May Changing Forget-me-not The story of forget-me-nots is rather poignant. One day in medieval times a knight and his lady were strolling along a river bank when the knight went to pick a bunch of flowers for his …

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