It’s that time of year again! Sheep racing is this weekend (20th and 21st July) with two days of fun, food, music and the woolly jumpers themselves. Entry is free and all the profits go to the Professor Saint Fund. The exhibition of ‘The Marine Life of Sark’ continues at the Visitor Centre and there’s an exhibition on farming on the island in the Société Sercquaise Heritage Room next door. Sark tennis…

The pupils of Sark School have set up their own nature club called Sark Watch to explore the island’s natural history and have held several events this month as well as enjoying a day with bee expert Brigit Strawbridge. On 11th July the whole school took part in a Snapshot of Nature Day working in mixed groups to identify as much flora and fauna as they could within the day….

Father and son food fans Dick and James Strawbridge visited Sark last summer by boat as part of the ITV series ‘The Hungry Sailors’. While they were here Dick and James met local food producers including Tony at the Patisserie and Helen Magell in her organic market garden. They also visited Dave Curtis’s vegetable garden and Chris Nightingale’s dairy and made cheese from Sark cream. James tried his hand at…

Environmental campaigner and bee expert Brigit Strawbridge was in Sark recently at the invitation of the ‘Art for the Love of Sark’ project. Brigit spent a day out and about with children from Sark School looking for bees and teaching the children about how they live. She also taught them some basic bee identification so that they could distinguish bumble, honey and solitary bees as well as spot the several…

  The Friends of Sark Music summer season of entertainment continued in great style this month with a concert by Fascinating Aida. The cabaret trio of Dillie Keane, Adele Anderson and Liza Pulman performed a selection of comedy songs as well as some serious pieces and Soprano Liza performed her latest single ‘The New Me’. Politics, celebrities, New Zealand and low cost airlines were among the targets for their satire…

The Sark to Jersey Rowing Race took place this month after being postponed from its original date in June because of strong wind and rough sea. This time around the weather was calm but Sark was shrouded in a shifting haze of sea mist for the start of the race at lunchtime. This meant that navigation much harder for the rowers and, combined with the big swell, made conditions quite…

  Around 1500 people came to Sark at the beginning of the month for the hugely popular Sark Folk Festival. Bands from the Channel Islands, France and the UK performed on the four stages including Sark’s very own Peter Gabriel Byrne, the Recks, Karmaloji and the Big Sheep. There were workshops in various musical instruments, song writing and Morris dancing as well as open music sessions for anyone to join…

Friends of Sark Music continue their summer season of events on July 4th when the hugely entertaining cabaret trio Fascinating Aida will be performing at the Island Hall. The Sark to Jersey rowing race is due to take place on Saturday 6th July, having been postponed due to bad weather last month. The Sark Folk Festival also takes place this weekend but tickets and accommodation have long since sold out….

This week saw the first of Sark’s two flower and produce extravaganzas with the Midsummer Show and Garden Competition. There were 42 classes including roses, sweet peas and various other flowers, soft fruit, pot plants and hanging baskets as well as the children’s craftwork and miniature gardens. The children’s craft entries all related to their various school projects. Class One has been listening to music from ‘The Carnival of Animals’…

Members and friends of Sark Astronomy Society (SAstroS) enjoyed a midsummer masquerade ball last weekend at Stocks Hotel. Long dresses, feathered masks and fancy dress were much in evidence as the guests enjoyed a three course dinner and music provided by a string quartet. The event raised over £350 for the Astronomy Society that is gathering funds to build an observatory on Sark. For more information on Sark Astronomy Society…