Archives for December 2022

Footwear

The best footwear

The best footwear. Obvs.

Grand kids

Grand kids

The grand kids are still grand but not kids.

Pre

Nearly Christmas

Christmas eve pre-drinks.

Adventures in Wine

Found it

One of the guests needed some help selecting the wine for dinner. It turned into a little education for us, like a mini personalised wine tour!

Christmas drink prep

Christmas drink prep

Filtering and decanting.

Christmas drink prep

Lovely.

Morning coffee run

Polar express

A morning ride to grab coffee had the added bonus of watching the polar express warming up.

Perfection

Sleeping spot

Ewok perfecting the sleeping spots.

FFFFFreezing

Frosty tree half

It's been a tad chilly, and a tad chilly for over a week. The sun is doing it's best, and today managed to defrost the sunny-side half the tree.

Oncall

WFG

Oncall, but for the patient not the music service, so working from the dining table

Ewok

Caught

Preferences

With custard?

Left or right?

Dawn Walk

Sun up

Morning

Field

Missing Supplies

Caught

Lovely H left supplies to help out after F's shoulder op. Unfortunately Yogi and Ewok got there first. However, I'm most impressed at how neatly they unpacked.

Field UFO

Field

Aliens landed in Bob's field last night. They nearly got away with it but their rocket ship left burn marks in the snow.

With F

Felix

A morning walk with Yogi

Morning yogi

Coding with F

F

Coding with F

Frosty

Frosty

Some snow, then a week of sub zero.

Chilly Chilling

Mornings

Camel to Sea

Camel to sea

River bank

Where the dunes are growing. Slowly.

Harbour Rainbows

Rainbow

Footsteps

Footsteps

Where are we?

Where are we?

Front garden envy

Off to the doc's

Nearly home arch

The Bridge

River meet Sea. Sea meet Sky.

River meets sea and sky

Leaf in the sand

Sand

Boat

Boat

Ladders

Ladder

Ladder. For the roofers roofing a roof up the street.

Twenty Five Walk

Coast Path

Breakie at Cherry Trees. Lunch at Blue Tomato. Dinner at the Pig.

I don't think we did enough steps to compensate for all that.

Twenty Five Mono

Sand

Sand on the Rock side.

Church in the dunes

Church in the dunes.

Ferry ramp

Water on the ferry ramp.

Twenty Five Selfies

Anniversary pics

Anniversary pics

Anniversary pics

Artist at Work

The artist

The artist

The ferry crew needed 10 minutes. What a terrible place to wait.

No fishing or crabbing

Padstow

Advice for life.

While waiting for coffee

Padstow

One benefit of coffee to-go from Cherry Trees is the while-you-wait view.

Twenty Five

Padstow

Woohoo!

Another sunrise

Padstow sunrise

This morning had sunbeams!

Hall Walk

Hall Walk: Fowey to Polruan

Hall Walk: Fowey to Polruan

Hall Walk: Fowey to Polruan

Hall Walk: Fowey to Polruan

Hall Walk: Fowey to Polruan

Hall Walk: Fowey to Polruan

Hall Walk: Fowey to Polruan

Hall Walk: Fowey to Polruan

Hall Walk: Fowey to Polruan

Hall Walk: Fowey to Polruan

Hall Walk. Fowey to Polruan to Fowey again.

Yogi and Ewok

Padstow

A nice spot to pose!

Another Morning View

Padstow

Padstow

Some mornings are so worth getting up for.

Padstow Lights

Padstow

Dog walk loop N

Chilly dog walking

Sealife

Discovering stuff down on the shore.

Sunset Swim

Harlyn

A beautiful evening at Harlyn. The dogs got a speedy short walk because the surf forecast was poor for the rest of the week.

Harlyn

Could have waited for the tide to drop a bit more, but by then it would have been night-boarding.

Harlyn

Yup, the only one in!

After

Selfies

Warmed up with a cuppa from the thermos. But my feet took a day or two longer to recover.

Padstow Christmas Festival

Padstow Fire

We got the perfect seats for the lantern parade — but I forgot to take pictures until after then main event. But then Padstow's fire engine was just slightly ever so more popular.

Padstow fireworks

I got things oppositely wrong for the fireworks. For these the timing was better (just between "ohhh" and "ahhh") but instead of being quay-side, with amazing reflections in the harbour (forth of July-style), I was in the crowds with this gent's bald bonnet for framing.

Morning Walk

Padstow

Up early means views like this. I'm not sure the dogs were as impressed as I was.

Dark long nights

Long dark

Nights are longer, and darker for longer.