Summer Flowers in Portreath

I have just recently tried my hand at photographing flowers up close! They're not brilliant but I don't think they're too bad for a first attempt.

Day Trip to the Lizard

During the big catch-up on news last night the decision was made that Paul needed time away from building the new kitchen and so we'd have a day out today and head for The Lizard on the look-out for a restored chapel somewhere in St Anthony-in-Meneage! I know it's a large area but we had to start somewhere so we went to St Anthony itself and stopped in the car park ...

No - it definitely wasn't here! After studying the map we suggested going to Helford and have a walk down to the Ferry and maybe we'd get some inspiration as to where the chapel could be. As we pulled into the car park there was a shout from Jo on the walkie-talkie! The chapel had been found as it was the cafe at the entrance ...

We had a lovely walk ...


all the way to where the Ferry calls ...



and back again ...


It was then lunch-time so we used the picnic table and after eating we planned the afternoon drive ...

We headed off towards Manaccan and then went via some really narrow lanes until we reached the main Culdrose to St Keverne road. Hamish tried to help with the map reading ...

but he was more of a hindrance! Ruan Minor was our destination on the way to Cadgwith ...



Such a pretty little place and they'd never been there before. It was then a fairly straightforward route to Kynance Cove ...


The dogs could stretch their legs on the walk down to the Beach Cafe ...

and we stopped for a few good shots on the way ...


What else could we have when we reached the Cafe but a cream tea ...

A lot of the slates on the roof had been replaced by solar ones ...

What a brilliant idea! Before making the long trek back to the cars we paid a visit to the loos and this was the poster on the door ...

Jo had hysterics when I told her I'd photographed it but I thought it was really interesting!! As we went up the hill we passed over a cattle grid and both Hamish and Fred were quite intelligent and walked around the side ...


Once back up it was water time for Hamish ...

and we posed by our car for a new photo for the MX-5 Cornwall website ...

We left Kynance and returned home via Mullion and Poldhu ...

Fred was enjoying having the top down when we got caught at some traffic lights ...

It was a lovely day out and we vowed we must do it again some time soon.

Wedding Anniversary

It's all very complicated but today is our 6th Wedding Anniversary from our second time around! This was first time around in 1970 ...

and when we were married for the second time we used that montage of photos as place-mats at the Reception because there were certain members of our family who sadly were not with us in person, but were very much in our hearts that day. The place was the Seiners Arms, Perranporth and it was a lovely occasion with Simon giving me away, Jamie as Mike's Best Man ...

and Jack and Ellie as Page Boy and Bridesmaid ...

My how they've grown since that photo!

So along with Paul and Jo (who celebrated their Annivesary yesterday) we all went out for a yummy meal at The Plume, Scorrier.

Short Hop Home

Another sunny morning for the last day of our holiday and after breakfast we walked down the road to the harbour at Newton Ferrers. It was a lovely walk and the view was breathtaking ...


Harbour photos ...



There is a ferry across to Noss Mayo ...

We returned via the footpath/quiet road so Hamish could run free and he met another Westie called Magnus ...

There were some really pretty cottages ...

and looking down to the river it was such a lovely colour ...

We arrived back at the Dolphin where we'd eaten the night before ...

and then it was a steep hill up to the church ...

before reaching the campsite. After saying our farewells we got on the road for the short hop to Cornwall. We crossed the Tamar in brilliant sunshine ...

and made the decision to stop at Trago Mills for a quick shop and pasty lunch. The best laid plans!! The weather ahead was looking decidedly unfriendly ...

and at the end of the Dobwalls by-pass we found the A38 was closed so we had to take the A390 to St Austell. Each time we passed a road that went down to the A38 there were police there and road closed signs. The traffic was horrendous - very slow and nose to tail. We were pretty fed up by now so decided to keep going and stop at St Austell Tesco and have a sandwich! While there we ate to the accompaniment of thunder, lightning and rain hammering down! Lovely! My last photo of our holiday shows what we had just driven through ...

Portreath of course was looking great when we got home and I ended the day with a lovely Pilates class with Mel and the rest of the girls. It's good to be back in Cornwall - just wish I hadn't brought a rotten cold back with me!