Blog

  • Paint in the Hut @ The Pitch n' Putt

    Walking back along the cliffs on a beautiful summers morning, I was looking across the Downs and focused on a little building that looks like it has just popped up out of the ground like a mushroom overnight. Surrounded by...

  • Fun in the Sand , Beach Sculptures

    A laid back Sunday was planned. Lazy breakfast, maybe a swim and then singing with the choir at the Surf Club at 4pm. But after a couple glasses of wine with friends the night before, Jane and I were inveigled...

  • Not a Wave in Sight, but there's a Bonus

    A heatwave has hit Cornwall. The first for a few years and for most of June and the whole of July, we have been bathed in glorious sunshine. The downside is the lack of surf, which this coastline is well...

  • Bongo goes to Brittany for first trip abroad

    Ever since we bought the Bongo..(our petit camping van), fiveyears ago, its been a dream to take it to France. Ferry booked, we packed up and took the Plymouth/Roscoff ferry on the 30th June. Our first foray to France took...

  • Simple Pleasures of a English Summer Tea

    Pretty cakes and lovely country hedgerow flowers filled the Gildhouse at Poundstock for the last Clandestine Cake Club meet in June. Organised by “Patience and Perdita”, a new company hiring and organising for vintage events, it was a quintessential english...

  • Seth Lakeman Rocks!

    A gig on a beach called the ‘Sundowner’. Who could resist? Newquay is not my favourite place, but go just outside and it has the most amazing beaches, lined up the North Cornish Coast, starting with Lusty Glaze. In Cornish...