Since the last posting I have been away on holiday to Cornwall - we went to Bude - why haven't we found this place before? - when the children were small?. The beach is marvellous - sandy, with a surrounding of rocks, the children would have loved fishing in the rock pools, making sandcastles and playing in the sea there. Lots of other things to do in the town too, some lovely individual shops lots of cafes (well you would expect that) a museum, a library and a couple of supermarkets. There is also a canal (the only canal with a sea lock - now unused) but the tow path is lovely for walks.
This is the place we stayed in. A place called Burn Park, and a Seasons timeshare property. I ment to take photos of inside but never got around to it...we will certainly go there again - they staff were so friendly and the place so smart and comfortable. The little houses were set around courtyards and arranged so that no one was overlooked. There were several of these little courtyard complexes and they were all were a bit different. We found lots of lovely things to do in the area but I think that one will remain in my memory for a long time. We were making our way to Hartland Abbey to see the gardens and house there, we like to take the most awkward routes - the ones through all the back lanes, with only the room for one car at a time, when I spotted a garden sign, one of those red rose signs that indicates something of interest in the area. We were a long way from our orignial destination but thought we would have a look at this before going on. What a gem we found - it was an old mill, with all the right sort of water channels and river and acres and acres of densly planted gardens.....wild wood land, orchard, veggie garden, propogating area and the best borders I have seen for a long while, and then little secret places with a bench by some water so you could rest and admire the flowers and views. - |Marvelous! Unfortunatly the mill itself is not working and looks as though a lot of money needs spending on it but you could see it all from outside and inside. Oh - yes! and there was a an area outside the house, attached to the mill, to sit under a pergola with clemetis, passion flowers and other sweetly scented flowers climbing over it, and have something to eat and drink - we had our one and only cream tea of the holiday there - homemade scones clotted cream and home made strawberry jam. Yummy!
We were up early enough to catch the sunrise on Tuesday morning - what a sight! I just had to share it with you!
Since we come home we have been very busy tryng to get the garden tidy and things done before this lovely spell of weather breaks and we are in to autumn proper. Brian has repaired the grouting between the paving on the patio, I have cleaned the greenhouse out and disposed of the detrius that collects in there. Washed flower pots and stacked away those I wasn't going to use this year now. I potted up into bigger pots the seedling echinacea that will be over wintered in pots and planted out in the spring once the bulbs have flowered and gone over. These were the seeds that came free from the SAGA magazine this spring, the other seeds have given me a wonderful display of Cosmos and Asters all summer. hopefully we will have some seeds for next year from these plants. This was what they looked like in July, but they have grown twice as tall and the flowers have kept coming and coming.
Since the last posting I have been away on holiday to Cornwall - we went to Bude - why haven't we found this place before? - when the children were small?. The beach is marvellous - sandy, with a surrounding of rocks, the children would have loved fishing in the rock pools, making sandcastles and playing in the sea there. Lots of other things to do in the town too, some lovely individual shops lots of cafes (well you would expect that) a museum, a library and a couple of supermarkets. There is also a canal (the only canal with a sea lock - now unused) but the tow path is lovely for walks.
This is the place we stayed in. A place called Burn Park, and a Seasons timeshare property. I ment to take photos of inside but never got around to it...we will certainly go there again - they staff were so friendly and the place so smart and comfortable. The little houses were set around courtyards and arranged so that no one was overlooked. There were several of these little courtyard complexes and they were all were a bit different. We found lots of lovely things to do in the area but I think that one will remain in my memory for a long time. We were making our way to Hartland Abbey to see the gardens and house there, we like to take the most awkward routes - the ones through all the back lanes, with only the room for one car at a time, when I spotted a garden sign, one of those red rose signs that indicates something of interest in the area. We were a long way from our orignial destination but thought we would have a look at this before going on. What a gem we found - it was an old mill, with all the right sort of water channels and river and acres and acres of densly planted gardens.....wild wood land, orchard, veggie garden, propogating area and the best borders I have seen for a long while, and then little secret places with a bench by some water so you could rest and admire the flowers and views. - |Marvelous! Unfortunatly the mill itself is not working and looks as though a lot of money needs spending on it but you could see it all from outside and inside. Oh - yes! and there was a an area outside the house, attached to the mill, to sit under a pergola with clemetis, passion flowers and other sweetly scented flowers climbing over it, and have something to eat and drink - we had our one and only cream tea of the holiday there - homemade scones clotted cream and home made strawberry jam. Yummy! 
We were up early enough to catch the sunrise on Tuesday morning - what a sight! I just had to share it with you!
Since we come home we have been very busy tryng to get the garden tidy and things done before this lovely spell of weather breaks and we are in to autumn proper. Brian has repaired the grouting between the paving on the patio, I have cleaned the greenhouse out and disposed of the detrius that collects in there. Washed flower pots and stacked away those I wasn't going to use this year now. I potted up into bigger pots the seedling echinacea that will be over wintered in pots and planted out in the spring once the bulbs have flowered and gone over. These were the seeds that came free from the SAGA magazine this spring, the other seeds have given me a wonderful display of Cosmos and Asters all summer. hopefully we will have some seeds for next year from these plants. This was what they looked like in July, but they have grown twice as tall and the flowers have kept coming and coming.
2 comments:
fabulous sunrise shot!
we have had quite a few like this one lately - the sky has been so clear - but now the Autumn is on it's way and there is rain around.
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