Sometimes a short trip fills me up even more than a longer one. My late summer walks took in miles over moors and coast, and I took bus trips to Penzance, Sennen, St. Ives, and Morvah. Storm Agnes blew quickly through mid-week with high winds, dark clouds and rain behind. Good day for cosy projectsContinue reading “All Over the West in September”
Category Archives: Trips to Cornwall
Through the Eyes of a Child
And in July I took him for his first trip to Cornwall. With some trepidation, just him and me, a long way from home for him. It was fabulous. Some walks, some bus rides, sunshine and Moomaid’s ice cream, and the Lafrowda Festival to top things off.
Walking
There’s a meditative quality of walking in west Penwith that always heals me and fills me again. My walks this May were sometimes on my own, sometimes with a sister or two, sometimes with the whole gang. They were filled with wildflowers and big blue skies. The ocean churned beneath me, so far away downContinue reading “Walking”
Fabulous Family
This trip stretched our Teyr-Delen capacity, with suitcases and backpacks and pillows and duvets rolling in every direction. Sisters and nephews joined me, overlapping with cousins from Tyne and Wear. Six asleep meant folk stretched out on the bench in the big bay window and tucked in odd corners on our camp mattresses. It wasContinue reading “Fabulous Family”
Isles of Scilly
The archipelago of the roughly 150 isles (and islets) of Scilly lies about 25 miles south-west of Cornwall. When the oceans were lower they were a single land mass called Ennor, flooded as recently as c. 400 AD and perhaps part of the source of the myth of the drowned lands of Lyonnesse. Five ofContinue reading “Isles of Scilly”
March
Early spring in West Penwith… some good walks and sunny days in between more unsettled wet weather. Saw some wonderful wildlife – soaring buzzards (Buteo buteo), kestrel (Falco tinnunculus), seals and oystercatchers, the peacock butterfly (Aglais io) and miner bees on dandelions. Did quite a bit at the flat, as well, including more plants andContinue reading “March”
October
Bivalent booster on board, I stretched my wings for long-awaited movies at the Newlyn Filmhouse and a play at the Acorn Theatre. I soaked up the autumn sunshine on long walks, took a day trip to Falmouth to meet up with an American friend who happened to be there, and enjoyed tending the courtyard. AsContinue reading “October”
August
There’s a drought across Europe under blue skies and relentless sun. We gaze on golden fields and hay bales, stunted brassicas in dusty rows, Cornish hedges browning. The streams and reservoirs are retreating. It’s also summer hols, kids kicking a ball on the Plein, ice cream cones, heading for the beaches, Scarlet Pimpernel at theContinue reading “August”
March
Blue skies and wonderful walks. The ESE wind lessened as the week went on after blowing hard and cold on us at St. Michael’s Mount. From the top of the bus we looked out over fields of lambs and daffodils (did you know Cornwall produces 80% of the world’s cut narcissi?). We lit a fireContinue reading “March”
January
Three weeks went by so quickly. The first few days brought wind and rain, even thunder and hail. And then we had clear blue skies and could see the Scilly Isles on the horizon, 28 miles off the coast. We did so much to make the flat comfortable – it’s truly a home now. InContinue reading “January”
Flat Two 