CORNWALL COGITATION #9 Saturday 1 April 2017 One question we're frequently asked when people hear our accents: "Are you on holiday?" The alternative would be a question whether we live here. We usually respond that we are both on holiday and "home from home" for three months. This past week we did take a holiday …
Featured photo: Friends Noel and Lynne Brereton, who live just outside of Carbis Bay, are surrounded by fields of daffodils. The farmer has given them permission to pick flowers that will not be harvested for commercial purposes. On Friday morning we helped pick about 300 bundles (10 per bundle) to give out on Mothering Sunday at St Anta …
CORNWALL COGITATION #7 Saturday 18 March 2017 Marty has heard me repeatedly say, "Not only can we do this, we're doing it." I apply the phrase to retirement in general and to retirement adventures in particular. Walking is a significant part of our retirement, even as it was during the last 20 of our gainful employment years. …
CORNWALL COGITATION #6 Saturday 11 March 2017 You have to love weather forecasters. Along with pronouncements of showers, drizzle, hill fog and cloud they include a word about sun and dry somewhere, sometime, somehow. We're not complaining. This morning, Saturday, we attended a coffee morning fundraiser at St Anta to support a lad through World Vision. For lunch …
CORNWALL COGITATION #5 Saturday 4 March 2017 Millie is an Alsatian (a large wolflike dog) we've seen in previous years with her owner, Inge. We saw them again out walking this week. Millie seemed a bit distracted, pausing to have her ears scratched but then pacing and sniffing about. Inge said, "She's looking for your dog." …
Cornwall Cogitation Saturday 25 February 2017 Muddy paths this week led me back to my childhood. Water soaked soil, sticky clay, puddles, mire and splatter, we had it all. And more. Sunday's walk On Sunday afternoon, following Parish Communion led by Rev Carlyn and her husband Geraint Wilton, we walked with the Helston Footpath Association through wet fields …
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Cornwall Cogitation #3 Sunday 19 February 2017 Schools in Cornwall were closed for Half-Term this past week. Families on holiday were evident everywhere, as were their dogs, on the beaches, walking paths and restaurants. Truro Cathedral had special activities for children. Four children were part of a five-mile West Cornwall Footpaths Preservation Society walk on Tuesday …
Cornwall Cogitation #2 Sunday 12 February 2017 Lunch today at Sands Restaurant, Carbis Bay Hotel. Fine as ever. Walked six miles today. Did 27.5 miles last week. Here, walking means going up and down hills. The walk from the CB Hotel, at sea level, back to our flat, made me puff. Not huff and puff, just …
Cornwall Cogitation #1 Saturday 4 February 2017 "Go Cornwall!" said a little voice in my ear. "Cornwall's calling. Go." Soon we shall. How to get there and settle in. Take a plane to London. From Paddington Station take the Great Western Railway to St Erth. Transfer to the branch line for an 11-minute ride along the …
REVIVE US AGAIN #11 Sunday 29 January 2017 The Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus may be closing down for good on May 21, 2017, but the political show this week in D.C. sadly failed to match the circus for true deeds of derring-do. It was a frightening week, as though wild beasts have been let loose. I know some people …
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