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Windy Day, Cornish Cream Tea on the Cliffs and A Meal Out

1. Delightful walk along the beach at Perranporth, lots of windsurfers and hangliders and one little chap with his Dad flying a kite.

Hang gliders over Perranporth

2. On to Chapelporth for a cream tea. It’s P’s last day and he hasn’t had a cream tea yet so I made scones this morning and packed up a picnic of scones, strawberry freezer jam and Rodda’s Clotted Cream. We bought our teas from the cafe and took our goodies up the cliff walk.

3. P is taking us out for a special meal tonight as a thank you for his ‘brilliant’ stay with us.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 19, 2012 in baking, Eating out, family, Uncategorized

Tags: Cornish Cream Tea on the Cliffs, Kite Flying, Meal Out, Postaday, postaday2012, Windy Day

Onion Harvest, Swans and A Full Moon Rising

30 Aug

1 We’ve harvested all the onions and they’re drying out ready to plait up and store.

2 We went to Truro this evening and had a walk by the river before going for a meal. I love this photo of the swans on the river as they have both just lifted their beaks out of the water and left concentric ripples behind.

Swans on the Truro River

3 As we left Bustopher Jones wine bar, the very beautiful full moon was rising in a pale pink twilight sky.

Full moon rising

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 30, 2012 in birds, Eating out, environment, Food, garden, growing, nature, Truro, Uncategorized

Tags: nature, Postaday, postaday2012, restaurants

Church Cove, Ann’s Pasties and Story-time

28 Jul

1 We went to The Lizard for what we were told are the best pasties in Cornwall and went to look for a beach for the children first. We discovered this beautiful cove, disappointingly no sand but a quite breathtakingly beautiful hamlet and cove.

2 We got our pasties from Ann’s Pasties and we were not disappointed! We watched them being made and have never seen pasties so stuffed or tasted such delicious pasties with such lovely crisp pastry.

3 We bought a new book for the children yesterday and read it tonight – ‘Pigs Might Surf’ but the big hit at story-time is still ‘The Great Dog Bottom Swap’ which has all the adults in tears of laughter too!

: Beautiful garden in the village

: Beautiful thatched cottage

: Church Cove

: Flowers in the hedgerow

: Another beautiful thatched cottage in Church Cove

: Ann’s pasties

: A medium size Cornish pasty

: Tabitha loved her Cornish pasty

: Reading ‘The Great Dog Bottom Swap’

: New story book

Please forgive me, dear Readers, for not reading, commenting as I usually do. With family here, there is no time but I will get back to you all soon.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 28, 2012 in books, children's, Cornwall, Eating out, family, Food

Tags: Ann's Pasties, Church Cove, pasties, Postaday, postaday2012, tears of laughter, The Lizard

A Gift, Long Tailed Tits and Lunch with My Brother

23 Jul

1 I have woken to find this posting from a lovely ex-student of mine and it has made my day! He says,” Your philosophy of teaching I would say…x”

2 As I walked round the garden this morning, I became aware that the bird feeder was full of young Long Tailed Tits. I stood absolutely still and watched as they came and went,10 of them in the feeders at one point but I didn’t have my camera! Later, I caught just this one – so beautiful and such an amazing few moments!

Long Tailed Tit

3 We met P&V at the beautiful, restored-after-its-fire, Pandora Inn on Restronguet Creek for lunch. When I went to place our order, the bar person said, ‘Sorry, you must have your table number wrong, someone else has just ordered on that number, ‘ and I was able to say, ‘No, that was my brother. He was just ordering too.’ How lovely to be able to say that, my brother is here! He is ordering too! It is so lovely to have him and V here for so long!

Beautiful drive down to The Pandora Inn

Newly thatched roof

View from The Pandora

Swans on the creek

My delicious lunch of Cornish scallops on crispy black pudding and dressed leaves

We’re out tonight so I’m posting earlier than usual. Happy days everyone!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 23, 2012 in birds, Cornwall, Eating out, environment, Food, nature, senses, Uncategorized

Tags: Cornish scallops, Long Tailed Tits, philosohpy of teaching, Plato, Postaday, postaday2012, Restronguet Creek, The Pandora Inn

Lunch Out, Making Bread and Jelly Eggs

12 Jul

1 Pouring with rain today but we went out anyway to Falmouth, got soaking wet and had a lovely lunch at The Gylly Beach cafe. I made the best choice, Cornish Cheese and Cherry Salad – scrumptious!

2 Jake and I made sun-dried tomato and herb bread this afternoon. He became an expert at kneading and the end result was beautiful.

3 We made jelly eggs too. These were great fun and the little people thoroughly enjoyed eating them.

: Cornish Soft Cheese and Cherry Salad

: Making bread together

: Jake kneading bread

: Watching the jelly go into the egg moulds

: Enjoying jelly eggs and ice cream

: Jake enjoying jelly eggs and ice cream

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 12, 2012 in baking, Eating out, family, Food, home, Uncategorized

Tags: baking bread, grandchildren, jelly eggs, lunch out, Postaday

Celebration, Flowers by the Sea and Grandchildren

10 Jul

1 Before everyone else arrives, we took L out for lunch to celebrate her Masters! We went to a fabulous restaurant, The Cove, overlooking the sea at Maenporth, near Falmouth and ate a very delicious lunch.

2 We all walked along the beach for a bit after our lunch and I found dandelions, poppies and a bee.

3 Our beautiful Grandchildren have arrived and already the house is full of happy chuckles.

Our Starter: Homemade Foccacia with Olive oil and Balsamic

L’s Starter: Sole Fillet with Mussel and Saffron Sauce and Straw Potatoes

Special Hake with Butter Sauce, Bacon and Cabbage

Pork Tenderloin with Pork and Apple Sausage and a Coarse Grain Mustard and Herb Sauce

Crispy Deep Fried Tiger Prawns with Aioli and Gremolata

L’s pudding which we shared: Milk Chocolate Slice with a Chocolate Truffle

Flowers by the beach

Poppies with dandelions

Bee on a dandelion. Just look at the delicate veining on the wings.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 10, 2012 in Cornwall, Eating out, flowers, Food, Maenporth, nature, Uncategorized

Tags: delicious lunch, fabulous restaurant, grandchildren, lunch, Masters Degree, poppies, The Cove, undefined

Tiny Socks, Warm Bath and Pea Souk Cafe

30 Jun

1 A friend saw my little golden-boots in yesterday’s post and sent me this picture. What beautiful little socks and such skill of the maker to whom I send the utmost admiration! Do click to see the detail.

Tiny socks

2 I love this beautiful advice sent to me today by a young friend. Putting them in water if they are crabby is such brilliant advice! A warm bath works wonders!

How to really love a child

3 We’ve been out to eat tonight at the most amazing little vegetarian restaurant, Pea Souk in Falmouth. What a delicious spread and everything freshly prepared and all grown here in Cornwall if not right there in Falmouth.