Post 15/2023 Cornwall UK Saturday 29 April . . . Welcome to a brief glimpse of two National Trust houses: Lanhydrock in Cornwall and Castle Drogo in Devon. Friends took us to visit these two country homes this week. Lanhydrock was completed in 1651, rebuilt after a fire in 1881 destroyed part of the building. …
Post 14/2023 Cornwall UK Sunday 23 April . . . Here's an entry from yesterday: 3:30pm, home from walking in the rain to get groceries for company coming next week. Umbrellas drip-drying in the guest bathtub/shower. At one point we stopped to chat with Jimmy, a neighbor from last year, He wondered whether we had …
Post 13/2023 Cornwall UK Sunday 16 April . . . Books and more books have been and keep being published. I can't imagine being without a book; even as I'm grateful for having enormously whittled down my personal library. Library loans are a treasure. As are used bookstores--for donating books and finding others. At a …
Post 12/2023 Cornwall UK Sunday 9 April . . . Holy Week for many among the Christian faiths ended with today's celebration of Christ's Resurrection. I take to heart that in Jesus' death and resurrection death has been defeated and salvation has come. With 21 other people, Marty and I gathered at 6am for an …
Post 11/2023 Cornwall UK Saturday 1 April . . . Today, in windy, changeable weather, we set out for lunch in St Erth. First we took the nine-minute branch line to St Erth Station, then walked 30 minutes to the village. We had a very nice lunch at the Star Inn, (fish pie for Marty, …
Post 10/2023 Cornwall UK Sunday 26 March . . . Advocates for removing certain books from school and public libraries, have a question to consider: why go against the verdict of history? Censorship lasts for a day. The free pursuit of knowledge, while often circumscribed, endures. My favorite image of a library is that of …
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Post 9/2023 Cornwall UK Saturday 18 March . . . More it is. A rainy week has been encouraging, if limiting. More moisture is needed to replenish the county's and country's water supply (see last week's blog). I'm not quite up to the exuberance of Gene Kelly in the 1952 musical Singin' in the Rain, …
Continue reading Whether or not to say more about water and weather . . .
Post 8/2023 Cornwall UK Saturday 11 March . . . Water, water, everywhere, except in Cornwall's main reservoir, which is less than half full. Desalination offers one answer to the shortage. South West Water has plans to build two desalination plants that would provide a third of the county's drinking water. (Desalination plants remove salt …
Post 7/2023 Cornwall UK Monday 6 March . . . A memorable moment last week involved looking across Cornwall from coast to coast. We walked to Trencrom Hill from where we could see the Atlantic to the north and St Michael's Mount in the English Channel to the south--a distance of 8.5 miles between Carbis …
Post 6/2023 Saturday February 25 . . . Our first full week in Cornwall included getting around on foot, bus and train. It included shopping for groceries, settling into our flat, taking part in Shrove Tuesday activities at St Anta & All Saints, having a few guests for lunch, and tuning in to favorite tv …
