21st to 30 July

21st to 30th July

Change!!!

Ah...blogger has changed...(it's been warning me for ages!) it will take a while to adjust I guess! Took me ages to find the button to add a new post! And I can't add photos direct from my phone from here (laptop)...(Ha!! Yes I can!) anyway just a quick post to say hi.

I'm sitting in bed with my morning cup of tea - how different things are now... the amount of traffic on the road has returned to a pre-lockdown amount and the beautiful quiet has gone. There are so many folk in St Just, I feel more concerned now than I have for quite a while and quite expecting there to be a rise of cases.

The family are all well, Bridgie has had a resurgence of extreme tiredness which hits her every now and then... the doctors think it may be 'long covid' as they believe she probably had it in March. She had a test last week but it was negative... (which they expected) it would be interesting if she could have an antibody test but they are not available for general public. She's fine at the moment and is keeping a record of when it hits... and if connected to anything like a long run or similar.

I've been playing lots of golf... I've eaten my first runner beans from the garden - they are last year's plants that successfully grew again this year. Yum!

Leanne and Andy have invested in a couple of these! Hypedomes? Socially distanced group dining...night sky watching... lots of potential... hoping they will withstand our weather!

15th July to 21st

15th to 21st July

Well I seem to have lost track of days even more this week!

Ben, in the Dog and Rabbit, has re-opened  for eating in... carefully socially distanced of course.So I decided mid morning on Tuesday to have a late breakfast... and headed down... to find he was closed... 

I was so disappointed... but lower lip sticking out I made my own poached egg breakfast at home and messaged the family "Ben'd closed on Tuesday's... so disappointed"  ...      Keith replied with a "I thought it's Wednesday today?" 

And it was!!!!!

Oh dear... I have no excuses!

We've had foggy, drizzly damp days and at the end of the week some lovely weather.

We played golf Tuesday evening and I played again on Thursday in a mixed knockout match.

None of the four of us played well but we scraped to a win on the 16th hole. It was fun and we finished just in time as the mist was drawing back in.

Most mornings were misty but usually by late morning it had lifted a bit.

The same was true on Saturday when we played our first official competition. It was damp and mizzly and windy till we were half way through and then it turned into a lovely day.

 My neighbour Elizabeth has come down for two weeks and is so glad to be here and away from London... she's been swimming already (twice) and is feeling better for the change of air.

We had a socially distanced coffee in the garden on Sunday morning and it was good to catch up. 

Yesterday (Monday...definitely!) was a blue-sky day from morning till night and what a beautiful sunset we were treated to!

Today is a catch up on jobs day... I keep putting off some admin type things but I need to get them done. Renewing broadband contract and sorting my phone are the two main ones. 

I remain tuned in to Classic FM and avoiding all news other than a quick catch up in the mornings... there are many visitors... lots being sensible but others too.

I remain on my guard.

Oh and I've enjoyed watching the golf which has been played in America... so good to watch it without the crowds! Brilliant!

Tues July 7th - 14th

7th-14th July

Bridgie went back to work on Monday 6th after Ben had gone but had a lovely walk in the evening.

On the Tuesday after a busy busy day at work she went for a run with the prospect of nothing but fog and rain for Wednesday!

The forecast really was looking grim but despite that we decided to head out after Bridgie'd finished work and we headed for Cot 

By the sea there was no fog but the rest was all dampness and mizzle... you can just see it at the top of the cliff.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             We took the adventurous path back...through shoulder high bracken. The path goes steeply up and I was glad Bridgie was leading the way as in places the track was barely discernible!

 

It was fun!!!!

The following day was similar, misty and damp  but we went up to Perran and then Cubert and had a socially distanced walk with Uncle Tim at Polly Joke and Crantock. It was lovely.  

This was a favourite place of Mum's - we walked back across a field of poppies (where the cowslips grow) and though it was past its best the field was still beautiful. (An analogy there too?)

While we were walking on the cliffs it was clear but the drizzle returned as we headed back to the car. Masked up we drove Tim back to his, then headed home.

Bridgie then had work to do - but later in the evening the sky cleared to a bank of cloud  and a dramatic sunset!

 The colours were still beautiful an hour after sunset.

Bridgie's Friday was a university day so she was very busy - we were treated  again to a fabulous sunset.

Saturday 11th 

...the final day with Bridgie... we walked from here to the Cot Valley and over to Letcha where I turned back but Bridgie headed on to Sennen.

Purple Viper's Bugloss in the distant field with the corn marigolds

It was a beautiful day for a walk. 

We went out again in the evening for a final walk at Cape  with another simply gorgeous sunset.

I love the shades of blue/green !

Sunday 12th

Back to London day for Bridgie... masked up and ready to go.

It was lovely to have Bridgie here for so long... an absolute treat.

I popped into Morrisons after waving Bridgie's train away... I was the only person in the whole store wearing a mask (a cotton one made by the shop in St Just). 

I bought some consolation bakewell tarts and  millionaire's shortbread and once back home cheered myself with them and coffee!!

It was a beautiful day so a couple of loads of washing got done... and dried and I had a walk down at Cape.

And so tho this week - I played golf with Lindsay on Monday despite rain forecast ...it took a while to arrive and we got 14 holes done before it arrived... and yesterday I caught up with emails and admin-type jobs... 

In St Just there are a lot of people around...  The Star Inn made the BBC news!!!! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-53389977

It is a worry having so many more people milling around so I will be very careful over the next few weeks.

I am outraged at how our government has behaved and when I read how some of Gove and Cummings cronies have benefitted from PPE supply chain and similar it makes me sick.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/15/coronavirus-contracts-government-transparency-pandemic

I don't know how they have been able to get away with it all...

29th June - July 6th

Another week!

Another week gone by - what a year this is becoming... it all seems really strange.

Today is Monday 6th. The country is officially open for business and it has filled me with anxiety. The thought of hoards of people coming to Cornwall and ignoring sensible actions it what worries me. If folk coming respected social distancing and were scrupulously careful I would be more relaxed but seeing pictures of the 'litter' left at Porthcurno for example after folk visited and camped on the beach was appalling.

i just hope for sense to prevail but I don't hold out a lot of hope.

Putting that to one side we have had a nice week.

 Bridgie worked so hard Monday, Tuesday and  Wednesday, and then her flatmate Ben came to stay in Elizabeth's and Bridgie had a holiday. It was lovely that they were able to go out for the days and I joined them on the Land's End Najizal walk although I stopped just beyond the dinosaur and watched the seals while they walked on. 

Ben sorted out my laptop and while he was here he and Bridgie did some practical jobs for me....  replacing the latch on the gate and making a lovely planter for my geraniums (see below).

Saturday was foggy but they had a walk down the Kenidjack valley and up to the castle, coming back with wet feet from the damp pathways.

You can see raindrops on the path to the Carn!

But there is a bonus now of the heather coming out!

It was a year ago that Leanne and Andy took over the golf club... what a difficult year for them and certainly not one that could have been envisaged.

It was good to get out and play yesterday after the fog of Saturday! Hoping to get more in this week while Bridgie is working.

At the moment the geraniums are just sitting in their pots in the planter, but it's lovely and I may put some lobelia in with them.

Today Ben returned to London and three lots of washing are out on the line...

blue sky and a strong breeze has been perfect for drying!  Bridgie is here for another week which is lovely - hopefully we'll be able to have walks in the evening when she's finished work.

Looking to Land's End

These always make me smile!

We had our usual family zoom on Sunday - everyone is keeping well - Tim was out walking.. how amazing it is that we can have a conversation over so many miles and see where he's walking! Brilliant!