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The beach is this way
Posted on by River Beaches, Sandy Beaches, Wavy Beaches, Remote Beaches and beaches with cafes and ice creams. They’re all 10 to 15 minutes from Trelowarren. The thing about going to the beach from Trelowarren is that we have so many choices, and we don’t even have to leave the Lizard. Part of the fun is sitting with […]
All for the Want of a Nail
Posted on by All for the Want of a Nail For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a rider the battle was lost. For want of a battle the kingdom was lost. And all for […]
The Sofa – Victoria’s Blog
Posted on by The Sofa Septimus: ( to Thomasina) We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again […]
Life is full of impossible projects – Victoria’s blog
Posted on by In preparation for our very own Whitsun Wedding, and while we were still lashed by the perpetual rain, darkness and storms of winter 2019/2020, some vital and of course impossible gardening fantasies were fostered. The first was that the parking for the great event would be in the field called Dohea at the back of […]
The Naming of Parts – Victoria’s blog
Posted on by The Naming of Parts – with salutations and apologies to Henry Reed https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/naming-of-parts/ Today we have the changing of the tyres. Last week we had the unblocking of the dishwasher and next week we will have the cleaning and mending of the gutters. But today, today we have the changing of the tyres. I like […]
Compliance – is not designed for exceptions – Victoria Vyvyan’s Blog
Posted on by ‘When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions’ (Hamlet, Act IV, Scene V) Compliance – is not designed for exceptions February is open season for Compliance. It’s those long dark days and endless storms. Half way through January Compliance look at each other and say, ‘Something must be done’ and they pick […]
Difficult Questions for 2020 – Victoria’s blog – Jan 2020
Posted on by In the 1960s a theoretical statistician, hence someone with theoretically no skin in the game, suggested that if a large % of an available population give an answer to a simple question, the answer they give, however unlikely it seems to another group, is probably correct. The available population in our garden is two. Should […]
Water outside – Water inside – December blog by Victoria Vyvyan
Posted on by We’ve had a wet autumn. The rain has come from all of the cardinal points. It has drifted sideways in veils; it has poured down vertically in sheets; it has battered the windows so hard that some just gave up and blew out; it has come in gusts and flurries making the scaffolding groan like […]
Keep the home fires burning – November blog by Victoria Vyvyan
Posted on by At Trelowarren we keep the home fires burning All that needs to be said about bonfires in the Pleasure Gardens at Trelowarren was said by C.C. Vyvyan in The Old Place. So in homage to Great Aunt Clara … Think Armada, think Napoleon; think Jubilee, Coronation, and Armistice; think Shadrach Misach and Abednego and the […]