Auntie Knows Best

I thought I would just post a few little pictures from our holiday cottage in St Ives. It was called Joshua’s Cottage and had a magnificent three bedrooms. Obviously we didn’t need that many but the cottage itself was a bargain! It had 4 floors and in the basement it had a kitchen which had rather restricted head-height so The Mister had to crouch a bit when he was making me tea! On the first floor there was a lounge with nice big sofas and a TV with Sky, on the first floor there was a double bedroom and a twin bedroom and a bathroom and up in the attic there was a gorgeous room with a velux window which had a wonderful view our to the sea and the harbour. The owners had left us a few bits and pieces including a box of Roses chocolates and a bottle of champagne. It was probably the best stocked holiday cottage I have ever stayed in – it was almost better equipped than our own house! So, if you fancy a trip to St Ives I can really recommend this gorgeous cottage.

Well we made it home safe and sound on Monday. We stopped overnight in Worcester at a lovely hotel called Diglis House. It was a gorgeous place and was right next to the river and very near to the Cathedral. Would be a very nice place to spend a weekend I reckon! Before we left on Monday we went for a little wander into Worcester and we happened upon Ian Botham starting one of his charity walks.

Since getting home I have been doing mountains of washing and ironing and we have been opening our wedding presents. That has been great fun, although I am now having to clear out the cupboards to make room for the new stuff!

Still no news on when I can start my job. They told me I had completed all the necessary paperwork, but when I got home I rather annoyingly found a CRB form waiting for me to complete so goodness knows when I will be able to start!

Well rather amazingly the time has raced by and we are on the last night of our honeymoon. I can’t believe that we have been married a week already!!!

Yesterday we went to the National Seal Centre. It was a beautiful day and we saw lots of cute little seals being fed. There was also a big fat seal called Ray who apparently had brain damage. My comment calling him ‘Ray the Retard’ earned me a pinch from The Mister. The Mister called him a ‘Special Seal’ which is apparently more politically correct than calling him a retard. They clearly do a good job and rescued nearly 50 pups in the last year and they try to release as many as possible back into the wild, and only medical reasons will stop them doing so.

We then took a little drive down to St Michael’s Mount, but it was a little bit late for us to go over there by boat as the tide was high. Instead we had to make do with a fantastic Cornish ice cream.

Today has been a really lazy day. We wandered around St Ives shopping for some paintings. We were given some money by a couple of people as a wedding present and we decided to put it to something we could keep. So we bought an oil painting of an owl and a watercolour of St Ives. At least we have something to remind us of our wonderful stay in Cornwall. We also walked past a street called Teetotal Street. I am thinking my friend Auntie Billie should move in there.

Anyway, home tomorrow. Via a little stop over as it is a long drive. So, seeya back in Yorkshire!!!

Today the gorgeous weather has continued and we decided to take a drive all the way around the south-west coast from St Ives to Penzance, stopping off to visit anything that takes our fancy. So, we happened to go to the Geevor Tin Mine. This tin mine was worked from the late 1700’s through to 1991 when it was shut due to being unprofitable. Now it is a visitor centre and tourist attraction and they have tried to preserve as much of the original workings as possible on the site. You can go into the mine and see what mining would have been like. The Mister is rather too tall at 6’3″, the miners were generally just over 5 foot! One of the nice things about this mine is several of the tour guides used to be miners there so they were literally a mine (hahaha) of information! The Mister commented that he learns a lot more when he is with me because I always ask questions! It was a really interesting visit, and it was especially good as it was so quiet. I can imagine it would feel even more claustrophobic in those tunnels if there were loads of visitors in there at once!

We then continued our journey. We drove to Lands End, but I refused to pay £3 to park so we carried on our journey! Next stop was the Minack Theatre. This is another completely insane attraction. Built by Rowena Cade from 1930 onwards this is a truly impressive and beautiful outdoor theatre. I still wonder as to whether the people who come up with projects like this are mentally stable. I felt the same as I did when I went into the Eden Project. I want to ask the creators what possessed them to dream such big dreams, and yet we have to always be grateful that there are people who have such creative spirits. I am desperate to go and see a play at The Minack and The Mister has promised me that if there is something we really want to see then we will fly down for a weekend!

A little trip to Mousehole for a cream tea completed another lovely day.

Hurray!! The sun has finally come out and we have had a glorious couple of days in St Ives.

Yesterday The Mister and I went to The Tate in St Ives. Admittedly we went because we felt we should go and have a look. It is in the most beautiful building, but the content is distinctly disappointing. They had an exhibition by Dexter Dalwood which was OK but it was more art-bollocks. The thing that irritated me that most is that there is just not that much in the Tate. It cost us £5.75 each and quite frankly we thought that was a complete rip off. It is confirmed. I am an art retard.

As the sun was now shining we were able to walk around the headland and then sit on the beach and eat a Cornish pasty and read our books. We really can be extremely antisocial when we are together. We regularly buy the newspaper and read it whilst we are eating lunch, especially at cafes it would seem, and we often read books and ignore each other. I like being close to The Mister, but I am happy that we can just be together, whether we have things to say or not. We also managed to see the Lifeboat being launched for training. That was bizarrely entertaining!!