Gently exploring Cornwall,

 A slow start to the week, taking time to recover from our journey and explore our new surroundings. The Manor house stands in the centre of a holiday village however everything is closed for the winter season so its just a few residents and visitors who are staying in the privately owned cottages and apartments.

The apartment we have rented is at the back of the building overlooking the courtyard garden, I'll grab a photo later as its a rather pretty area.

As the place is so quiet, nature is slowly taking over and on my walk around this little fellow was following me.

The view from the driveway is quite spectacular as we are only 1 1/2 mile from the sea but we are quite high up.

We the spent the first day driving the few miles over to Mousehole and had a wander around the lanes of this now quiet fishing village . We saw miles of traffic queues yesterday as all the holiday makers headed back home at the end of half term leaving much of the coast to the locals and occasional visitor

The harbour entrance is now closed, the main fishing town is Newlyn, just up the road and the harbour there had quite a few large fishing vessels in as we passed by.

We then made our way to levant mine to see how much remains to this day, the option to see the beam engine in steam has been cancelled due to damage from the recent storm but we were still able to wander round the remains of the buildings.

I love this mix of rusty browns

I suspect that this is the remains of hallway floor in a house

and this one is the pantry

Given that some of the building are just feet from the cliff edge, its impressive that any actually remain !

Its been a busy, busy week !

 Its Sunday morning and I'm taking time out to chill with a coffee, the sun is trying to break through and I can hear seagulls in the distance. 

Its been a bit of a hectic week, we started with putting our partnership on a legal footing with our Civil Partnership Ceremony with a couple of close friends as witnesses . Its only taken 38 years to get around to doing this.

Of course, I had to mark the occasion with a band on my sampler.

Then the next night we had a very loud banging on the door and we were told to evacuate our house ! Apparently next door's boiler had started smoking and the worry was that it would set both houses on fire,

Two fire engines arrived and sorted things, we were allowed back in but dinner was cold haha

Saturday morning we were back on the road, heading south and hoping for some sun.

The trees are changing colour nicely but it was misty and murky for the first 250 or so miles.

But eventually the sun broke through and made it all worthwhile.

We are back in Cornwall for few days, in the car and heading for a 500 year old manor house :-)

Glimpses of Lincoln.

 On Thursday I headed over to lincoln, to raid the charity shops and take some photos. I did score in one of the shops, a hand knit cardi in what we think is wool.

this will be a great addition to my winter woollies stash.

Now, the photos.

Lincoln Arboretum, my first visit but I will probably be back.

This trip has reminded me how many places there are just an hour away by train. I'm going to make a point of having a few more trips like this plus the coffee was excellent and proved to be a comfortable knitting spot at the Vestry in Lincoln.

Soed Idee Jubileum weeks forty two and three

 Still stitching :-)

Its that time of year again

 Its October so that must mean that its time for the 1940's weekend at Papplewick Pumping station. We have been members at the station for around 20 years and try to attend as many events as we can. Its usually a good excuse to visit the cafe for a bacon cob and coffee  on a Sunday morning.

It was an over bright autumn morning so not the best for photos, either too bright , too dark in the shadows or too many people around but here are a few snaps.

We still enjoyed our trip out and got back in time to get the washing in before the rain.

Weekend show and tell

 I feel a bit like I'm back at school and sharing what I did at the weekend and , to be honest, if the weather hadn't been so good I wouldn't have a post to share.

Saturday started out fine and sunny so I walked over to the monthly bobbin lace pop in session about 2 mile from where we live. I try and get to one of these meetings whenever we are around on the right date.

Nottingham Bobbin Lace Society have been running these meetings for several years and it gives both members and anyone who is interested in lace to see lace being made, get some advice etc. All abilities are welcome and these are often lace makers there from the various classes being run in the area.

I took one of my travel pillows with a strip of lace in progress, this piece has been ongoing for some time but I hope to get more a few more inches made over winter.

Of course I had to see what everyone else was up to as well.

Plenty of 2nd hand bobbins and other pieces of equipment for sale, the pillow I am using came from the sales table earlier in the year.

These bobbins are amazing and I may have to track down one of these bags.

I did make a purchase or two, a box of pins to supplment my current stock and a few bobbins which mainly relate to the society previous lace days.

Disaster !

 My favourite winter mitts, these have kept my hands warm for the last 2/3 winters but today I realised that I had caught them on something sharp over the weekend.

Out with the magnifying glass, needle and an oddment of similar yarn I set out to try and mend them, Not too bad a result and hopefully I won't have to knit replacements just yet.