Category: Place

Town or city or historical sites, beaches and gardens, but not landscapes

Six on Saturday | Easter Saturday

This week’s post comes from another garden, not mine as I am away celebrating the 18th birthday of my second eldest granddaughter who lives in Surrey. I couldn’t miss SoS this week though as it is my 4th anniversary of joining in with the gang of sixers, warmly hosted by the Prop, who despite spending…

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Virginia Woolf’s St Ives

“It was a windy, noisy, fishy, vociferous, narrow-streeted town; the colour of a mussel or a limpet; like a bunch of rough shellfish clustered on a grey wall together.” “There were then days of pure enjoyment – I conceive them at St Ives most readily” From the garden of Talland House (above Porthminster Beach) where…

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Mousehole

Mousehole Harbour – Black and White

Mousehole : A Winter Walk

Last Thursday was the 6th anniversary of the date on which we collected the keys to our Cornish house and the first night we spent here (camping on blow-up beds). Our actual move date isn’t until the end of March, but we like to acknowledge this memorable date too so off we went for lunch…

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