Slight Interlude

It's nearly been a month since I last posted. L has started part time school so my life at the moment has become a mad rush. We walk to school everyday and this alone takes up nearly 2 hours and I'm also going in a couple of mornings a week to listen to readers. Hopefully some kind of routine will soon be in place. In the meantime these photos were taken just before L started school. We went for a picnic on Rough Tor, which along with Brown Willy are the highest summits on Bodmin moor. Rough Tor is 1,311 foot high and Brown Willy is 1,375 foot high.

Brown Willy.

The memorial to Charlotte Dymond, murdered on Rough Tor in 1884. Her boyfriend was tried & executed at Bodmin Gaol for her murder.

Normal service will be resumed asap.

Sunny days in Cornwall

The last week of August was holiday time for us. We stayed in Cornwall & went on a few days out we also went down west near the Lizard for a few days.

I've lived here all my life yet never been to Mullion before these are of Mullion cove, a very pretty place.

Then on to Porth Leven another new to me place.

It had been stormy the night before & we'd had torrential rain but as you can see the sun came out as soon as we went away although the sea was rough!

The road to the Lizard.

Sunset at Lizard

The Lizard lighthouse

Kennack sands at 9 in the morning hence the fairly empty beach.

Making our way home we stopped off at Falmouth harbour and scoured the charity shops.

Because of the weather this boat had to detour to Padstow it's a replica of the Dawn Treader from the Chronicles of Narnia and was on a promotional tour.

Over to Summerleaze beach in Bude where L had fun making sand angels.

Ending with a day at Widemouth near Bude.

Dy'gol Sen Pyran Lowen

Happy St Piran's day from a gloriously sunny Cornwall. Saint Piran is one of the patron saints of Cornwall and St Piran's day is celebrated every year on the 5th March, it started as a tinner's holiday many, many years ago. I'm also celebrating the many signs that Spring has indeed sprung in Cornwall!

My daffodils in the garden are just starting to open in this picture taken this morning.

And this was my view at 10 o clock this morning a perfect blue sky.

Sorry this is such a short post but I'm trying to finish some Spring goodies that I've been sewing for the past few days, hopefully I'll be back on Monday with the finished products. A quick hi to all my new followers I will pop round to your blogs asap :)

Autumn days

It's so lovely to see the garden full of bluetits, blackbirds and robin's again, these photos were taken through my kitchen window.

Walking in our local woods.

Halloween and Guy Fawkes: Lily made a friendly spider. This year I made Yorkshire Parkin for the first time and will be making it again as it was very nice indeed. I also made some cheese & ham puffs made using a pumpkin shaped cutter, very simple to make and tasted delicious.

Eden project's 'Halloweden' we visited the pumpkin carving workshop, made magic potions of lavender, rose, callendula etc. and visited the owls. The last 3 photos are of the cotton growing it was the first time I'd seen these and the cotton just bursts from the plant.

I've also partaken in a little bit of fabric buying.

I haven't been around much recently because of the amount of work I have to do and feel terribly guilty that I haven't been looking at any blogs, I know that if I leave the computer on I will spend half the day on there, which is what has happened this morning! The produce market were I have a stall is this coming Saturday so only 3 days left and I still have lots to do. I have lots of stock to take: Christmas bunting, spiced hearts, stars, trees, sachets & felt decorations. Scented hearts, birds & doorstops. Pincushions, fabric baskets, owl, cat, dog and rabbit shelf sitters and an abundance of crochet brooches. As well as finishing of lots of those I also need to try and make some bags, and pegbags but we'll see what time allows. This is going to be a monthly event and I have a table booked indefinately, the next one will be on the 19th December hence the reason for doing so much sewing now as there is so much to do in December and I like to be able to enjoy the festivities. Hopefully after Saturday I'll be able to catch up on all the blogs.