The Derek and Jeannie Tangye Minack Chronicles Nature Reserve

29/06/2026

Further info re Glendorgal development- check the comment for the photo dated 27 June on Cornwall Live.
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1426143779538938&set=pcb.1426143916205591

28/06/2026

Readers of the Minack Chronicles may not be aware of the plans which are currently going ahead to build new holiday home housing on Glendorgal Headland and that Derek's old home is to be demolished as part of that process.
The biggest concern is that the coastal path that runs round the headland and down Porth steps (the very same steps that Derek and his brothers used to get down to the beach) are being cut off from public use!
For anyone who visits and uses the headland the page Glendorgal Coast Path is campaigning and endeavouring to obtain as much support and evidence of use to help stop this from happening.
I am linking below so that you can share this post or the details to anyone who might be able to help and provide information on past use of the path and what it means to you. Sorry for the late notification but I only just got this today. Its never too late to respond so please can you help?
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122105958561339776&set=a.122100932727339776

We’d really appreciate your help.

This is not a vote and it’s not about which route people would prefer to use today.

We’re trying to understand which routes were actually used historically across Glendorgal Headland.

👍 = Route A (Access Route)

❤️ = Route B (Headland Route)

🥰= Both routes at different times or write both in comments

💬 = Another route (please comment below and briefly describe where you walked, approximately when, and how often)

Every memory helps build a clearer picture of historic public use. Thank you for taking the time to help.

24/12/2025

This year is an extract from A Cat Affair.
'All life', I said, 'except this instant, is a dream'
'Why do you suddenly say that?'
I was standing in a tiny meadow...Jeannie beside me, and Lama was squat at our feet, black tail round her paws,swaying her head, utterly at peace.
'Well, I answered, 'what do you remember of this morning?'
'I got your breakfast, the post came,I wrote a letter to my sister, I wrote half a page of my book...'
'All hazy now in your mind'
'I suppose so'
That's what I mean. Half one's life is spent dreaming of the future, the other half dreaming of the past'
'I understand'
'Our sophisticated lives are now a dream, all the times at The Savoy, a bottle of champagne on ice in our room, Cholmondeley House, Thames Bank Cottage, glamorous parties in your office with Danny Kaye... Only the instant in permanent.'
'Like now'
'Yes....you and I and Lama, and that robin, and the gull sailing down in the bay, and that wave moving in to smack the rocks...this is that instant which is real'
Jeannie Laughed.
'And now it's over! she said.....
All I was meaning' I finished by saying, ' is that one mustn't take these instants for granted'

Time now for you to spend an instant in Oliver land and 'remembering times past'
Merry Christmas to you all and I wish you the happiest of 'instants' with a future bright and healthy.

19/12/2025

Forty-four years ago today
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