A Week in Cornwall …. again

While Niks was here for the school holidays, we managed to enjoy a week in Cornwall. As we had expected the weather was all over the place, but we managed to do everything that we wanted – beach, Padstow, Boscastle and we also added in a trip to Plymouth as well.

This time we stayed on a working farm – Hele Barton, near Bude in north Cornwall which was great for the girls. The girls really enjoyed the location, and Isabella and Ruby were taken by the fact that there were tame sheep and a couple of lambs right outside the back door. Ruby decided that the lambs should be part of the extended family and demanded to see them every 15 minutes, which kept us busy – Nikita was quite often the “big sister” tour guide taking the two little ones around to see the sheep. During the week, the annual sheep shearing took place – after which Ruby constantly told us that the sheep’s “coats off” – this clearly made an impression on her.

Talking to the farmers wife when we left, we found out that the revenue from the wool did not cover the cost of actually sheering the sheep! Something is wrong with this formula! I have pretty much come to the conclusion that the actual farm probably just breaks even, any real profit probably comes from the renting out of the accomodation to tourists.

All in all the week was a great break, which we really enjoyed! (and we were probably somewhat dryer than those in Bucks or Berks.) There are a couple of photo’s from the trip below. More photo’s to follow later

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Telemarketing!

If there is one thing that can drive any normal human mad – I would guess that it is telemarketing cold calls. No matter how you try to block them – they always get through. This example is topical given the broadband price wars that are in progress here. When one of my collegues found this, I could not resist posting it so that everybody can see exactly how these calls go

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Flooding

A couple of people have asked whether we have been hit by the flooding that is happening in the UK at the moment. So far, so good – Bourne End has not suffered as you can see here (Tuesday 24/07) when compared to a normal day. Not quite the same angle, but you can get an idea.

As you can imagine the floods are all over the news 24/7 and a lot of people in the South West and the Cotswolds have been hit badly, as has the Oxford area – so I am not planning to work out of there this week!