It's so nice to be home!

We seem to have been away for ever and a day even though it's only two weeks, but it's so good to come back home! I always take some knitting and embroidery with me, and my sketch books and pencils, but somehow there's so little time to do very much of it! So, a bit of a failure on the art and craft front, but great success on the cliff walking, birdwatching, visiting and eating out ones. As Easter was so early and there were not too many people around, we didn't meet much traffic and actually had a choice of car park spaces in St Ives! Shame we weren't able to walk along the beach due to the high winds blowing sand into our faces, but we did manage an excellent crab sandwich in the Lugger! All the camelias and magnolias are out in force and so garden visits were a must.

Our trip was not totally without artistic merit as we did go to see the exhibition of paintings by Tony Foster http://www.tony-foster.co.uk/ at the Royal Cornwall Museum. Wonderful paintings of the Grand Canyon and views of Everest painted on site. Sadly completely out of our range, but we did buy the catalogue!

My cough is now subsiding, but sadly, DH now has it. We hope we have not passed it on to the aged relatives.

So back to some semblance of normality and working hard getting used to the retirement!

The cough continues

Well, I have had this cough for several weeks and it's getting me down as I don't seem to be able to shift it. So in need of sea air we are off to Porthleven tomorrow for a much needed break. Sadly we will not have room for the spinning wheel, so I'm taking some knitting and embroidery work instead.

I hope to be visiting Amanda Hannaford to discuss the certificate of excellence and I do have some very nice yarn to show her. Will it be good enough though!