Just Humans Being...

We have worked really hard again over the last few days & the change in weather has meant it's become a lot cooler... We were expecting some free time this week, but even though today we are at home there is still so much to do - there's bread to make, cleaning stuff to order, tax returns to do, bed linen for 4 properties to iron & as usual Sime has other plans... For a while now, he has wanted to re-vamp our living room - a room we only ever use in Winter because it has an open fire... So, spurred on by the windy wet weather - we have now been planning some changes to furniture & decoration. We have decided to buy a wood burning stove, a futon & some bright green paint! For the six years we have lived here, we have never liked that room - it has our landlord's 1960s carpet & it just feels dark & dingy...  We want a room that will feel cosy & inviting, a quiet place we can retreat to at the end of the day & at last we're making it ...

On Tuesday we went off to explore the creeks between Truro & Falmouth. Starting at  Miss Peapods  in Penryn, which is where Sal & Ryan live... And they joined us for brekkie... We all decided to have the veggie fry-up... And this was the view from where we ate! Then the two of us went off to Mylor... With all it's posh yachts! We had a walk along the beach... Which was lovely & quiet... Last time we visited here - we saw Roger Taylor from Queen. He was walking around with a bottle of champagne... Then we called at Restronguet - where we followed the river... And came across some houseboats...  It's been another dream of ours to live on a boat... This one's recently travelled to France! We were also hoping to visit one of Cornwall's famous pubs -  The Pandora Inn ...  But it recently had a  fire  & looks to be taking a while to rebuild... Such a shame... The jetty is still intact - though there's no access. It's lovely si...

My lovely chap is 51 today! He may not climb lamp posts any more, but he is threatening to get back into some guerilla food distribution... Something that Rose & he started some years ago! Sime's just a big, soft kid at heart - but I adore this clumsy oaf... He is the most loving & caring person I know & he never fails to make me laugh! We've worked today, but we wished for it all to run smoothly & it did... Which enabled us to go out for a bite to eat with Hugo & as usual the 2 of them get very silly when sitting next to each other... Who would have thought back 25 years ago, as I handed Sime a card for his 26th birthday... That we would be sitting in a restaurant on his 51st birthday with our youngest child (who at the age of 14 is as tall as Sime now)! And although we are both wiser now, we agreed yesterday - we still don't feel old enough to have adult children, it's odd! Another year of fantastic prezzies! All just perfect for Sime... Ro...

We follow a thing on facebook called  Meat Free Monday , which is run by Paul McCartney (not that we are fans), but we borrowed the idea for a community cafe - which we ran with our friends, Sheila & Margaret for a few months until we all found it too tiring with everything else we do...  This is the idea behind meat free days: The UK’s Food Climate Research Network suggests that food production from farm to fork is responsible for between 20-30 percent of global green house gas emissions.  Livestock production is responsible for around half of these emissions. The more meat we produce and eat the bigger that carbon footprint will get. A sustainable future demands that we cut down - and yet between 1961 and 2007 the world population increased by a factor of 2.2, but meat consumption quadrupled, and poultry consumption increased 10-fold. As a result the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has concluded that the livestock sector is ‘one of the t...

Yesterday was one of those days... A day of hard, physical work - cleaning up a house that was filthy after a week's holiday. The guests left seven bin liners worth of rubbish, some in the outside dustbins, some in the house & some all over the garden... They had left some bags outside & the seagulls enjoyed a feast! It took us three hours between us to clean up the mess & bag it all up - that's before we even started to clean the house...  At 7pm last night, we gave up & came home! These dirty scumbags left the house in a terrible state & on seeing it - I just wanted to walk back out, but Sime persuaded me to stay & between us we have nearly restored the house & by the end of the weekend - it'll be ready for the next lot... It still amazes me that people don't care about anything other than themselves, they don't recycle, they don't think about all the junk they buy & it doesn't bother them that they are throwing good food ...

Another day off, so we thought we would explore more of the Lizard... And even though the weather forecast sounded bad... It actually turned out to be hot again! We decided to have a look at the Eastern side of the peninsula...  So from Falmouth - we headed to St Keverne. Where we found a roadside cottage selling all sorts... Even old cart wheels for £40! Then it was on to Coverack... With it's quaint little harbour. And this lovely old place... Named after a famous lifeboat guy who was based there... And now it's a quirky little takeaway... With outside seats to enjoy the view. A fascinating place.  These were a group of folks going out to do some wind surfing. Then it was back on the road again, passing nearby  Goonhilly Earth Station , which BT closed down last year! The Lizard has lots of thatched cottages. This is the lane down to Cadgwith Cove. A little place where time has stood still... Apart from getting wired to modern technology! A reall...