What a great week! We’ve had a wonderful five days in Cornwall with Nick, Lucy & Annabelle – wonderful on a variety of scores: we got to spend five days with some of our very favourite people in an idyllic forest setting, we got to visit some places we’ve wanted to see for years as well as rekindling some memories from visits in days gone by and, perhaps best of all, we were in a WiFi and cell phone black spot and so were able to avoid five days’ worth of nonsense in the general election campaign. Win, win, win!
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28 May 2017
Whew! What a scorcher! It’s been a great week – warm and sunny with rising temperatures. Friday and Saturday were the first “Let’s wear shorts” day for me this season and on Friday I celebrated the great weather with a lovely cycle around the local lanes and bye ways. Afterwards, the fine weather was just about perfect for lying in the hammock contemplating the lovely blue sky contrasted with the bright burning yellow of the blossom on the laburnum tree. Perfect.
Continue reading “28 May 2017”21 May 2017 – Amusements
My sister was busy getting ready to host our entire family for Easter. On her to-do list was a hair appointment for her daughter.
“So, Katie,” said the stylist as the little girl got up in the chair, “who’s coming to your house this weekend with big ears and floppy feet?”
Katie replied, “I think it’s my Uncle Brian.” Continue reading “21 May 2017 – Amusements”
21 May 2017
Welcome back! We’re home after a short but delightfully delicious and excellent visit to the States to see my mother (as well as my two brothers and youngest sister along with a couple of old college housemates as a bonus). And, the wisteria put on an excellent show to greet us on our arrival home.
30 April 2017
After the mild, and sometimes warm and occasionally sunny days of the last couple of weeks we’ve gone back to unsatisfactorily chilly temperatures and biting northerly winds these last few days. Penelope even had to cover some of her seedlings with a blanket to keep them warm at night!
Nick, Lucy & Annabelle were over last Saturday following their vacation in the Cape Verde Islands. They looked warm and refreshed and, as we had missed Easter with them, they came over for an Easter Egg Hunt and the season’s opening of the Moreton Pinkney Pizzeria. The weather was kind and we dined alfresco in the evening sun – excellent. And, the pizzas were excellent too! In fact, they were so tasty that Ms Playchute and I enjoyed another round on Sunday evening.
Continue reading “30 April 2017”23 April 2017
We had a note in our letter box the other day. It was signed by one Aubrey Bishop with the enquiry whether our house was formerly known as the Dun Cow Inn. He wrote that his great-grandfather had been publican here in the 1880s. He left his phone number and, a couple of days later Pen rang and confirmed that our house was once, indeed, the Dun Cow Inn. He kindly sent through some stuff – a copy of the relevant page of the 1881 census as well as a couple of photographs.
16 April 2017
What a contrast in the weather this week. Last week was warm & clear; this week it is decidedly chilly and mainly overcast. We had the hottest day of the year on Sunday – 23 degrees! That’s 72 degrees in old money. (I have to confess, I did not see 23 anywhere but I am reliably informed by Ms Playchute that that was the temperature on Sunday afternoon). Monday we had a high of 12 (53)! I guess that was Spring and Summer all in the space of a week.
Continue reading “16 April 2017”9 April 2017
What a great week we’ve had! Not only has the weather been gorgeous – beautiful spring days with warm sunshine, scattered clouds and largely blue skies – but we’ve also had an excuse to undertake a few outings and especially to enjoy the company of some splendid guests. Continue reading “9 April 2017”
2 April 2017
So much to rant about and so little time! It’s finally come to this – we’ve been well and truly, utterly and completely Brexited! Rather like a fish being filleted by a blind, deaf mute with a dull knife – it’s difficult to accurately anticipate the mess that is going to emerge but whatever it is, it will be ugly.
Continue reading “2 April 2017”26 March 2017
You are all familiar, I imagine, with the expression that one waits for ages for a bus and then three come along at once? That’s rather like our social calendar this past week – we’ve waited and waited and waited for friends and neighbours to invite us for a meal and then we receive three invitations for the same week!
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