This is just for my friends in Espana. Extra mature cheddar cheese, pork pie, thick bacon, leg of lamb ( and mint sauce- of course!!!), Shredded wheat, Boddingtons beer and maybe a bit of trifle - Tesco sell it all and I'm eating it all!!

This week I got a new camera so apologies now for the rather obscure set of pics but just snapped everything! Anne's dog Meggie

My garden - I'm only allowed this pot!

Just a little bit of Anne's garden

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Eric the cat who seems to think my car is a climbing frame.

Meggie again

Tea for two in the garden.

Today we went down to one of our favourite spots, Charlestown, and had a look around this little shop which sells a very interesting assortment of unusual things.

This is an old look - out point on the edge of the harbour where they would have watched the bay for pilchards. The boxes are full of fishing nets.

The weather has been fantastic, clear blue skies and a comfortable 22 degrees.

Blue skies all the way at the moment.

Can Anne find an interesting bit of seafood for tea or will it be another visit to Tesco tonight?









Anne went up to the Midlands this weekend to see her sister and son and that usually means a trip to Ikea en route. This time the result was two new garden chairs to be contructed and ........

a trip to the recycling centre to dispose of the rubbish. It's the only one I know of with a wonderful sea view.

Last weekend we went over to Falmouth. The shipyards there often have military ships in for maintenance or refits. last Saturday we saw a huge cargo ship in dock.

................... and I did a bit of designer shopping!! A Crew shirt for £3.50 - a bargain!!

This is Mevagissey, a smallish harbour town about 20 minutes drive from home.

It is still a busy harbour with a number of quite large fishing boats operating from it.

This one had just been out to place it's crab and lobster pots.

Mel the sea monster and ...............................

Sasha the seagull- she follows us around I think!!

This is me dancing on the harbour in Fowey. A couple of weeks ago it was the annual Daphne de Maurier festival in the town. There were lots of events throughout the week and on the Saturday evening we went down to the town quay for a bit of free live music from a band called the Gumbo Flyers. They played cajun and zydeco music which got everyone dancing. Lots of people had brightly coloured ribbons to dance with so we got some too!

The Gumbo Flyers on stage on Fowey town quay.

The following weekend we found out that a band called the Bucket Boys were playing at Carnglaze Caverns, these are some slate caves about 8 miles away. The caves were used to store the Royal Navy's stocks of rum during the war. The write-up for the band was good and having not been there before we thought it sounded fun so bought our tickets.

We arrived in good time to get a drink and have a wander around the Enchanted Gardens which surround the caves and the 3 acres of bluebell woods.

There were fairies and dragons everywhere and that was before the drink!









The Bucket Boys have quite a following in Cornwall but first we had the support act........ the husband and wife team arrived on stage - he had on his shell suit bottoms and she was wearing a fleece! ( we found out why later) We wondered what on earth we about to see, then the keyboard was set up and he tuned up his fiddle!!!.........we looked at each other..... this was going to be great!! Peter's and Lee, the Carpenters.....anything could happen!

They actually turned out to be excellent musicians, playing a wide variety of music from Crosby Stills to Roy Orbison and it was all good.

They had obviously played there before and knew that by 9.15 it would be freezing cold- hence , the fleece!!

During the interval Anne went to the car to get the picnic blanket for us to wrap ourselves up in. It was cold in the caves but after a brandy we were ok and ready for the Bucket Boys performance.

Before booking we had read that the band had supported Pink Floyd in the past, well it must have been the dim and distant past I thought because their combined age was about 300!!

But what talent they had - we really enjoyed our evening.