Sark’s Wildflower Fortnight is almost upon us. It runs from 28th April to 12th May with a series of guided walks organised by the Sark Visitor Centre. (Click here for full details) The book ‘Art for the Love of Sark’, featuring the work of the award-winning wildlife artists who worked in Sark last year on the project of the same name, will be launched in early July. This stunning book…

The low spring tides over Easter attracted a group of marine biologists to the island to study the Gouliot Caves, part of Sark’s first Ramsar designated Wetland of International Importance. The all-girl team included scientists from Swansea University, the Marine Biological Association and Cornwall Wildlife Trust. They were part of a larger group of biologists from the Porcupine Marine Natural History Society who were doing seashore survey work in Guernsey….

Friday 6th April saw dozens of islanders and visitors gather at the duck pond at Petit Beauregard for the traditional Good Friday outing to sail model boats. All manner of vessels took to the water from old-fashioned sailing yachts and homemade rafts to remote controlled steamships and fishing boats. Despite the chilly weather most of the children filled their welly boots with pond water and several were happy to wade…

The Maundy Thursday Service of Communion at St Peter’s Church was accompanied by two visiting musicians, Tim English on viola and Anna Chambers on cello. The couple were married in Sark fifteen years ago and Tim was also celebrating his 50th birthday. During the service, which was filmed by the Island Parish TV crew, the Reverend Gill Nicholls and Pastor Karen Le Mouton washed each other’s feet.

Easter celebrations began early in Sark when PJ and Dave Cocksedge held the island’s first Yackanooing event. The aim of the competition was to slide off the back of a raised trailer bed and down a course well lubricated with water and washing-up liquid grabbing as many chocolate eggs as possible along the way. Competitors rode all manner of inflatable contraptions and a couple even tried skies and a barrel….

The whole of Sark School took to the stage at the end of March when they performed a musical version of Jack and the Beanstalk. Szymon Patermann was great in the lead role as the young man sent to market by his bossy mother to sell the family cow, Daisy. The story was beautifully told through song and dance with cameo appearances by Goldilocks and the Three Bears and the…

On the 26th March a swarm of honeybees travelled from Guernsey to Sark to set up home at the Seigneurie Gardens. The bees didn’t have to fly all the way but came in true Sark style on one of Sark Shipping’s ferries followed by a ride up Harbour Hill on the toast rack. From there they were transferred to a bicycle trailer for the short journey to the Seigneurie where…

St Peter’s Church had its annual spring clean on 24th March when members of the congregation gathered to polish, dust and hoover the building in time for Easter. Outside the southern section of the graveyard also received a good tidy up and some of the wonkiest gravestones were straightened. Homemade cakes with tea break made the work a little lighter and organist Kevin Adams entertained the workers with a variety…

The path down to Grande Grève has been made a little easier to use thanks to the work of Jeremy La Trobe-Bateman and his team of volunteers this month. The path was closed two winters ago when large sections of it were covered by a landslide. The volunteers have re-routed the lower half of the path and, although it’s not suitable for anyone without a good head for heights, it…