Having a lovely weekend in Cornwall - yesterday we went down to my f-i-l’s boat. He is about to put the sails back after the winter and needed someone to go up the mast and re-attach some of the halyards. As I was the lightest amongst the assembled party, I was the one volunteered.

Here I am getting into the bosun’s chair -

and here I am going up the mast -

after I reattached the halyard and came back down, my f-i-l said “I should have got you to take a cloth up and clean that antenna” - see that round thing at the top of the mast? That’s the antenna and it’s covered in green. So, after a cup of tea and some negotiation on price up I went again.

My m-i-l suggested that I should ask for payment in skeins of wool - what a great idea, I told f-i-l I’m sending my next Paypal invoice for online yarn purchase to his email address!!!

The evening was spent visiting our good friends Tracey (Gwelva Kernewek) & Graham and their daughters….I do think of them as good friends, despite the fact this was actually only the second time we’ve ever met. We met Tracey online and have been communicating for a long time and we then discovered she lived just a few miles from J’s parents here in Cornwall.

We had a lovely evening, J impressed the girls with his prowess on Grand Turismo on the PS, we shared Pizza and exchanged presents.

I was given a lovely picture and a handdecorated egg - I’ll post some pictures when I get home. Thanks for having us gang we had a brilliant time….arriving back in the early hours this morning.

Thought I’d share some pics of the other members of the family, the Newfoundland Dogs ;

Bosun-

and Otto -

here I am with the two of them, to give you some idea of their size…yes they really are that big and weigh more than twice as much as me

This lunchtime we went to the Ferry Inn at Bodinnick for a pub meal. I tried out J’s new camera phone to take a panoramic picture of the view across the estuary to Fowey

this is J having a pint of cider in front of the pub

When we got back J and I walked down from the house to the beach at Talland, about a mile and a half straight down.

To our surprise the beach cafe was open and so we had an ice cream

and a mug of tea

it was lovely sitting in the sunshine looking at the sea, just the recharge we both need away from every day life. And, ok so it’s not knitting content on a blog that is supposedly about knitting but it is sort of knittin related - On the walk back up to the house we saw these little guys -

aren’t they the cutest? Of course I’m looking at them thinking “Hmmm, wonder what that would spin up into…?”

Here’s a picture of Talland Bay to finish with - enjoy!

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