I spent a happy couple of hours with a dear friend in a little cafe in Porthleven this morning. It was very misty but, as always, still lovely.
Porthleven in the mist
On our way back up the hill, I noticed an attractive bracket.
Dolphins
A late birthday card came today with a delightful and beautifully written message from LiveWire No 3. It took us a moment to get her joke! The ‘We all’ was changed to ‘I’ to make the joke work.
We love this message!
Our lovely LiveWire No 4 drew a portrait of us both, me with a purple dress and her Grandad in a pink shirt. There is a tree and a flower too because we love our garden. We are holding hands because we love each other!
Grandparents!
We are surrounded by loveliness! Our lovely neighbour brought in a gorgeous bouquet to celebrate Mr S’s birthday.
Colourful bouquet from S-next-door
Here is the Action for Happiness chart for February.
February
Early this morning, I went to look out of the back window to check if there was still some snow for LiveWire 4 to play with and had the most beautiful surprise of the Crescent Moon with Venus and Jupiter. I had been up early on January 31st to see the special sight but there was too much cloud cover. This morning was utter magic!
Crescent Moon, Venus and Jupiter
As the sky was lightening
There was still snow on the ground this morning so we went out to blow bubbles to see if we could make them freeze as we have seen on social media. Things were beginning to thaw so that didn’t work but one of the bubbles caught in the Cedrus Atlantica Glauca and stayed long enough for me to take the photo.
Bubble in the snow
It was still bitterly cold this afternoon though the snow was long gone (It doesn’t hang around long in Cornwall!) and we went to Gyllyngvase beach for a quick walk and a hot chocolate in the cafe.
I’m going down to the sea!
What can I do with this?
Oh my!
Our kids invariably complained when asked to write Thank you letters but I know they meant something special to my Mum and Dad as I discovered a box full of them when we sorted Dad’s things many years ago. I know even more now how special they were as on Saturday we received a beautiful Thank you letter from one of our LiveWires. It will go into my ‘things to keep’ box.
On the back it says, “Thank you Granny and Grandgrand xx
For Christmas I received all the equipment I need to make pretty glass things without going to more classes. I have just finished my first piece done at home. It will look better hanging with the light through it but I have yet to source the rings for that purpose.
New glass piece with upcycled earrings
On this day in 1916 my Dad was born. He died in December 2004. It doesn’t matter how long ago you lost someone, there are moments when their loss feels like yesterday. We are so lucky to have all his books on our shelves so he is always with us.
Pueblo story-teller and novels by David Wiseman
Last morning for the LiveWires to be here and T wanted to learn how to knit. She made excellent progress in the short time we had.
T’s first knitting
This afternoon I had repeat steroid injections in both ankles. The last ones I had were last February and they lasted many months giving me pain free ankles. Here’s hoping these do too.
Ankles prepped for steroid injections
It’s still very early in this new year of 2019 so here is another appropriate poem for you.
The Year – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
What can be said in New Year rhymes,
That’s not been said a thousand times?The new years come, the old years go,
We know we dream, we dream we know.We rise up laughing with the light,
We lie down weeping with the night.We hug the world until it stings,
We curse it then and sigh for wings.We live, we love, we woo, we wed,
We wreathe our brides, we sheet our dead.We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,
And that’s the burden of the year.
We’ve had a fabulous day full of adventures at The Eden Project. Here’s a gallery of some of our day.
We took a couple of books with us for the Grandbabies (who are now 20 months and not babies at all so LiveWires 5 and 6) and then took LiveWire No 1 shopping in Granollers to choose her own good read. She chose a Wimpy Kid book, stories also loved by her English cousin, LiveWire No 2. We also found more books for the little ones in Catalan and English. These are children who, like their big sister, are growing up speaking Wolof, English and Catalan (and later Spanish too!) It is brilliant to hear them understanding all three languages and responding.
Flying home today was almost entirely fog bound but then the clouds broke up for a few moments and we could see the snow-covered mountains.
Over the Pyrenees
If you read my blog regularly you will have seen similar photos before. All of us who leave Cornwall for whatever length of time and then drive back in, look forward to our first glimpse of the Nearly Home Trees which signals our return to our beloved Cornwall. This was taken at speed!
We love this copse in Devon, just before the border into Cornwall, that signals we are nearly home.
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