Bude, books and baking.

Today the 15th October is not a good day for me and is made even worse when it's so dark and dreary outside! So here's a bit of sunshine from Bude a fortnight ago.

First we go along the canal, built in the 1820's to ship sea sand to farms in North Cornwall and West Devon and is now undergoing a £5 million pound regeneration. I should imagine that is the reason for the murky water.
Now which house would you choose?

or maybe something more modern?

Or would you just hate it when nosy people, like me, walked by taking photos of your home?

Feed a few ducks.

Along the breakwater.

And to the beach.

This is a few of my books I bought from the book sale I went to a couple of weeks ago. I was quite surprised as I surpassed myself and bought 75 books!!! In my defence it only came to £22.00 and it would cost that if I bought 5 childrens books in a bookshop. That's the excuse I gave to my OH!

I didn't get Delia's book at the sale I had to pay £3.50 for that! But it has just been re-releaseed for about £13.

A few pieces of thrift including about 2m of rose print fabric for £2.

And now for my best buy these lovely little Savoy cocktail mats in unused condition for 40p. I remember my mum having some but they were most definately used these are immaculate.

A little tip if you feel a bit down and decide to cheer yourself up with a bit of baking stick to what you know! Before you look at the picture you need to know that I am quite able to make Cornish fairings and often do. What I don't normally do is try to make chocolate dipped vienesse whirls using my new cookie press. How on earth you use a cookie press I really don't know, I gave up in the end and just dolloped the mixture on the baking sheets instead. In the meantime I had taken my fairings out of the oven and left on the trays for 5 minutes to cool slightly. Because I was faffing around this turned into 20 minutes and fairings well and truly stuck to the tray! They still tasted good though and I never did dip the whirls or splodges as they are now known!

Oh well tomorrow's another day and it'll soon be Christmas!!