Friday 29th and Saturday 30th May and Sunday

Friday 29th May

After writing the catch up blog for the week I headed out for a walk down to Cape. It was another glorious day with a blue blue sky and a similar sea!

I walked down the road to Cape then went off right and down the little path to Porth Leddon.

There were three seals bobbing in the bay!

I clambered down on to the rocks and took off my boots and socks and paddled!

The water in this bit was beautifully clear and clean... 

Just behind me, where the main bay was, the water was a different colour with lots of sea weed debris and probably some sewage... when I was here the other day when the huge waves were thundering in there was a lot of outflow visible. 

I sat for a long while enjoying the tranquillity of it all - 

and watched a beautiful Rock Pipit collecting grubs.

On the walk back there were these beautiful flowers... 

and also this fabulous shadow... 

The walk restored my sense of calm :-)

Saturday 30th May

I woke up to bright sunshine and a strong wind, and after my cup of tea I messaged Lindsay to see if she fancied playing 9 holes... the answer was yes... so we met up at 10 o'clock and played 9 holes.

It was certainly breezy!!! 

Carrying the ball miles when the wind was behind... but holding it up when playing back into it.

It was certainly a lot of fun.

The rest of the day was spent with a quick walk down to the shop for bread and milk, reading and making a tasty risotto for my tea!

Sunday

Where has May gone?  

It seems to have disappeared - June tomorrow!

I had heard nothing back from my MP so I sent him a follow up letter today. It will be interesting to see what his response will eventually be.

We had a 4/5th family Zoom as Tim was away in Seoul , it was good to catch up and everyone is keeping well. 
I had intended to go for a walk today but seeing so many pictures of crowded beaches and hearing the increased noise of traffic on the road I stayed put... one of the things I've enjoyed in the place of jigsaws in nonograms... this was a fun one todo!

from then till now...

From then till now...a week

The day after Bridgie's birthday I was feeling very tired... the debacle f Dominic Cummings was taking its toll and in many ways has dominated the past week and not in a good way.

The message was absolutely clear... stay at home ... if you or someone in your household has symptoms - stay at home ... do not travel to your second home to self isolate...

No-one I know was in any doubt.

And then this... I was incensed... how can this be right?  

And to compound the matter... Boris and his cohort said it was OK>

The feeling was of being taken for a fool!

One rule for them and a different one for everyone else. 

There are so many holes and inconsistencies in his story it is difficult to know where to begin!

So I won't... 

I wrote to my local MP; then I heard Cummings' defence of his action (from the Rose Garden of No 10 of all places!!!!! )  and wanted to write again... but I'll wait till I've had a reply.

MPs have received 1000s of emails and several have lifted their heads above the parapet.

They are a laughing stock... apparently historically a "Barney Castle" is a pathetic excuse.... absolutely spot on.

Anyway, it has overshadowed this week and has been hard to get away from.

I did play the best 9 holes of my life on Monday when I was just two over par for the front 9!!

And enjoyed a socially distanced Pimms in Bronwen's Garden.

The Nonograms I've been doing on my laptop have been great for absorbing attention...

I played again on Wednesday - there was a sea fog which was quite spectacular at times...

Poking out of the bank of sea mist, towards the left hand side, you can see the top of Longships!

So it has been a difficult week, I know shared by others. 

I can only hope that sense and justice will  prevail at some point ... 

Sorry that this is a bit of a rant... but it is a reflection of the outrage I and thousands and thousands of others) have felt about the way Cummings has been treated and defended...while at the same time our excess deaths are 58000!

We live in a sad country.

Bridgie's birthday

Bridgie's Birthday

Friday... I woke up in the night/ early morning to find a host (66) of messages on Whatsapp on the Aussie/UK cousins link... and what a delightful time it was looking and reading through!

When I eventually went back to sleep I was smiling to myself!

Here are a couple of the pictures Jeannie and Jo shared... some I don't remember seeing!

This one (right) was taken not long after we had moved to Pavenham, and was taken in front of the lovely house that was covered with white roses.




We are all looking a little anxious!

 I love this! Tim's face!!! All so very happy with Hugh.

and then a much earlier one of Jo and I paddling in Seychelles at the Hoi Tin I think?

They were great memories and I loved all the banter that went with it... 

We had a lovely time with a family Zoom and then Bridgie was going off for a picnic in Richmond Park and a Zoom meet up with friends in the evening.

Bridgie had lots of flowers and cards and pressies  - a 30th birthday in Lockdown!

All day I could hear the sound of the waves, roaring and rumbling so in the evening I went for a walk to see what they were like.

They were huge!

At least 15 to 20 feet and very organised though it doesn't look like it in the picture below. 

Beautiful sets of waves were rolling in.

My walk coincided with high tide and it was spectacular.

Over the other side of the Cape it was just as beautiful...with the added extra of the grinding rumble of the boulders being moved on the sea bed.

I tried to catch the sound on the video but the noise of the wind was too loud

The bluebells are still giving a haze of colour too... 

and the foxgloves are glorious.

It was a very special sea... on a special birthday!

Sunday- Thursday

Thursday 21st

I hadn't intended to play golf today but the weather was wonderful and the forecast is that it will get windier over the next few days so I decided to go and play - just 9 holes.. but I ended up playing thirteen!

There was hardly a breath of wind - and lovely warm sunshine.

I played on my own as I'm trying not to add too many new households into my 'bubble'.

Maybe someone new next week but we'll see how things go.

There were a good number of players out on the course with everyone being careful of social distancing.

A funny thing happened on the 9th green... there was an automatic spray watering the green, and rather than walk over and turn it off I watched it closely then decided I just had time to take my putt!

How wrong I was!

It was actually very refreshing... I should have stood under it longer!

Bridgie's parcel that I posted last weekend arrived at hers today - she's keeping it till tomorrow!

I've really enjoyed Bridgie's birthday week, taking special photos for her and finding little treats.

I've been enjoying doing some nonagrams, they take a lot of concentration - I find I get absorbed in them and am delighted when I work out what the pattern is.

Thursday's is clap for carers... it was a little less loud tonight as it was raining but there were a lot of claps and bangs going on.

Wednesday 20th

I decided I couldn't cope without Oatibix Flakes any longer... so I went over to Morrisons this morning for the first time in probably 3 months.

It was very well organised... queuing outside, sterile wipes and reminders in the shop itself.

Happily they had my favourite cereal!!!

And I bought a bright red geranium for the garden.

I'm not sure why but I was motivated today to tidy up the patio area... and it looks much better for it.

It take most of the morning and I was able to have a socially distanced coffee with my neighbour Andrew in the garden.

It was an absolutely beautiful day with unbroken warm sunshine and clear air - just lovely.

Tuesday 19th

I'd arranged to play golf with Lindsay today but woke with a bit of a muzzy head and not feeling brilliant, but a cup of tea and a glass of water put paid to that and I was fine - I think it was all the pollen around yesterday.

We ended up playing 18 holes and it was really fun. We saw no sun today, it was overcast but still so really good conditions for golf.

We had a take away veggie burger which we ate in my garden...

I had sent some flowers from Tregothnan to Bridgie as part of her birthday week celebrations...they arrived today. 

She also had flowers from Liv so she is surrounded by flowers!

Monday 

I headed out for a short walk, but I regretted not taking my usual bottle of water!!

I walked over to Letcha past the farm and back along the coast path.

It was lovely.

I walked down usual way to Cot valley but then slightly left and up past the Youth Hostel to the Farm at Letcha

I saw no-one which was great... it was very still and quite warm

Longships in the distance

The wildflowers are so beautiful at the moment - may is a wonderful month for the wild flowers.

The bluebells are just going over and the foxgloves and campions have taken over!

Back home this glorious azalea has just come out.

It has a wonderful scent too - a really lovely plant.

The International Space Station

I have been doing quite a bit of star gazing lately and tonight got a fabulous view of the International Space Station - a tiny dot on the picture but good to see.

Sunday

Mostly pictures... of a walk to the Crown's mines...

Seal popping its head out

The colours were absolutely gorgeous.

There have been more landslips... Tim, loves going out on that headland... it's very narrow and has fallen away quite a lot!

Our family Zoom was tecnically a little challenging and we ended up doing a group whatsapp call instead.

Saturday 16th

Saturday 16th May

Another lovely blue sky sunny day today. I popped down to the post office to buy some brown paper to wrap a pressie for Bridgie - it was empty with hardly anyone around which was good to see... I went back later to post the parcel and there was a long queue out on the pavement all social distancing very well!

But all in all, it was back to being much quieter which was a great relief.

Lindsay and I played golf again - just 11 holes and it was glorious.

If you can enlarge the next one you'll see bluebells all over the rough!  

It's fabulous and the walls are looking superb too...

Like Thursday we bought a pizza from the Club and brought it home, eating it in the garden at appropriate distance from each other!!

Friday 15th

Friday 15th

Today was a quiet day - I was quite tired after golf yesterday! Out of practice!

I went down to the shops mid morning and found it much busier than of late. It left e feeling ill at ease again. There were far more cars around and lots of people too and Claire in Stones said she had been serving lots of people sh'ed never seen before.

I found that quite disconcerting.

Anyway - I have discovered the fun of Japanese Crosswords (Nonograms) so at the moment they have replaced jigsaws in my day!

Thursday 14th

Thursday 14

     

Whoop whoop... today I was going to be back on the golf course!!

It was a beautiful clear day with a very chilly wind - it was lovely to be out!

The bluebells are flowering everywhere!

The guys that look after the course are working on the bunkers with beautiful new sand!

They're doing a great job/

Nature had taken its toll on this wall though which is gradually getting worse.

Our owners have invested in a pizza oven... and we were the first customers to try it out... and it was absolutely delicious!

Followed by a lovely sunset :-)