July 19th

 Anticipation

I have been at high degree of excitement for a little while now with the anticipation of Tim, Bridgie and Keith visiting!

Tim arrived last Monday and is awaiting his quarantine test results before coming down. The company doing it are so slow (he's not impressed). He paid for two tests so he could leave quarantine early if they were negative...but he may well reach the end of the quarantine period before he gets the results! 

Personal experience for him of private companies... like Test and Trace and PPE!

The shenanigans of Boris over the weekend sums it all up.

Anyway - to brighter things - if all is well with tests B, T and K are planning to come later this week.

I have been busy cleaning and tidying the house and have been on cloud nine! The ladies at golf have had to keep hold of my feet in case I floated away!

Needless to say there has been quite a lot of golf (though some of it had to be delayed because of rain and fog).

Now we have blue sky and bright sunshine - glorious in fact.

Not only have I been trying to tidy the house but also the garden too, which was greatly appreciated by this young robin (?)

I have really enjoyed all the sport on the tv. The tour went by Montsegur so I had to take a picture of the laptop - we had gone there in the camper and Keith and Phil had climbed up to it while I stayed with Tim and Little Bridgie at the bottom. (Been up since!)

Last week I played some of my best golf - two really good rounds - but then yesterday normal service was resumed. Mind you, the weather was so hot Saturday and Sunday, hardly a breath of wind and despite having the umbrella up for shade; a wet flannel round my neck and two bottles of cold water it was a bit of a struggle.

We were very mindful to be careful because one of our men players died after the Club Championship weekend. He'd struggled on the second day and he was found dead at home the following day - we think he had a massive heart attack. He was only 61. It was such a shock as we'd only seen him and been talking to him two days before. Still can't get my head around it.

Back at home I have experimented with the sofa- bed in the sitting room (for when the family are here). It was more comfy than I expected especially with an extra under-layer.

Bronwen (one of my golfing buddies) has said we may use her studio in her garden too which is really kind of her. Bronwen lives down by the church so not far away.

Bron's studio

Some of Bronwen's lovely garden

Well I'd better get back to that cleaning, below is a picture from yesterday!

5th July

 5th July

Well look!

The spike flowered!

and it was absolutely wonderful. The scent was a gentle lily of the valley and it  quietly filled the room.

I found myself talking to it quite often (!!) appreciating every moment because it only lasts a day!

What a treat it was and there is another spike developing.

We had our Club Championship over the weekend and yours truly came second by two shots! It was a lot of fun and we were really lucky with the weather because thunder storms had been forecast but we were in sunshine mostly though the usual fresh breeze.

The pathways are still a delight of colour.

When I've been home I have been spoilt for sport to watch... Tour de France on the little screen on the left; golf on my laptop and tennis on the TV.

That's been fun - and I believe football has also been on too?

Our Covid rates in Cornwall seem to be levelling off, still above UK average and of concern to us, but the government is determined to lift all restrictions soon so we will have to deal with the fall-out ourselves.

Keith has remained fine and has felt frustrated about the isolation needed because of the Track and Trace ping when there is no way of knowing exactly what caused the alert or when. I believe the government is planning to ditch everything at the end of the month and try to persuade people that we are now through it.

We'll see.