Cornish Ice Cream at it’s wonderful best.

Nestled in a beautiful valley, just moments away from the dramatic North Cornish coastline sits Callestick Farm lovingly farmed by us the Parker family since 1953. It’s where we have created champion Cornish ice cream for generations to our original family recipe. The secret to our dreamy, creamy ice cream is we only use free […]

IKTIS – The Ancient Cornish Tin Trade by Craig Weatherhill

This follow up article was also written in the 1990s by the great Cornish writer and scholar Craig Weatherhill who sadly died in 2020. Any article or book written by Craig would have been very well researched and his opinions based on his findings, not made up. In a previous article “Where The Phoenicians Weren’t” […]

Cousin Jack Gold Fever by Michael Tangye

When the Australian “gold rush” commenced in 1851, many Cornish “Cousin Jacks” left their occupations in the foreign mining fields of America and Mexico to join other Cornishmen in their endeavours to make a fortune. We have grown up with stories of those who returned from such ventures with enough money to build a row […]

FLICKA DONKEY SANCTUARY – A wonderful place to visit and support.

The Flicka Foundation Donkey Sanctuary is a registered charity based in South Cornwall, UK. It was founded by Mary Berryman in 1995, following the rescue and care of a neglected pony named ‘Flicka’. Flicka was a small strawberry roan, found all alone in the middle of an industrial estate; a little pony abandoned amongst high-rise […]