Sweet Pea Pod
1 The sun shining through the sweet pea pod shows the furriness of the pod in the sunlight and the little seeds inside – just beautiful!
2 The poppy seed heads are just opening to scatter their tiny black seeds everywhere – lots of poppies next year!
Ripened seed pod
Side view to show the holes for the seeds to escape from
3 Much to our delight, the horses are back in the field behind our house. They are so beautiful!
Our horse neighbours
1 It was our turn to take the ferry over to St Mawes to spend a beautiful day with P&V. The ferryman took us on the scenic route right around Black Rock so we could all see some seals. The regatta was fun with some beautiful boats. Please click on any photo to see detail.
A working boat
AA road sign at the garage
Petrol pump at the same garage – click to see the price!
A regatta race goes past P&V’s cottage
2 Such a beautiful evening we had supper outside and saw foxes in the field behind our garden. They look very young and healthy.
Two foxes in the field and rabbits playing statues
Fox in the field
3 The name of this wine appealed to us! Mr S always says, ‘Optimists have more fun’ and so chose this bottle.
Wine for optimists
1 A lovely long email from my sister-in-law in Atlanta giving me all their news.
2 I love it how gardening makes me remember people. Today it’s the very small crinodendron hookerianum, with so many amazing lanterns this year, only three last year (Mum and Dad and their good friend Eddie), planting Cosmos (Bill’s Dad who gave me plugs the year he died and they kept flowering until the first frosts), night scented stocks, just tiny seedlings at the moment, ( KJ as a very little girl of 3 or 4 who used to wake up at about 10pm night after night. We used to take her out into the garden on summer nights to smell ‘the night flowers’ and then she would happily go back to bed.) And now, seeing the uncurling fern, my lovely sister Daisy who emailed to say that she too loves to see the uncurling ferns but in Hawaii they are 30′ tall!
Crinodendron Hookerianum
3 A delightful little snail – I know they eat my plants but just look at him on the edge of the ice cream tub!
Small Cornish snail
1 An email from a dear friend saying that I have just made her day!
2 Four horses in the field behind us today.
Four horses
3 Beautiful simple supper of grilled peppers with garlicky tomatoes and grilled Halloumi on top and served with some crispy bread to soak up the juices. Scrumptious!
Halloumi Peppers
1 I love elephants! I’ve loved them since I was very little and today this beautiful story came in to my inbox and reminded me of our encounter with a herd of elephants after our Voluntouring in Mapoch, South Africa. The lovely Mr S spotted them from a long way away, we found them and watched them playing in the water for about 40 minutes. It was absolutely magical.
Elephants enjoying the water
Leaving the water
Teenage elephant, reluctant to leave his playing
Mother and Baby
2 This beautiful embroidery is one of three made for me by Grace, the sister of the teacher at the school in Mapoch, near Pretoria where we, with local builders, built a classroom.
Grace’s beautiful embroidery
Sisters under the skin, Grace, me and Sibongile and their babies
3 We’ve hardly stopped laughing all evening! We’ve been to see ‘Spamalot’ at The Hall for Cornwall. The place was packed and the whole audience loved the show.
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