Cliffs and Cream Tea

Hi everyone, thank you for your comments yesterday.  It's going to take a while to fully recover, I am shattered today and sore so today is a day of rest. I probably did a bit too much walking while we were away.  Sometimes I am my own worse enemy!

 I have been working on my sock for most of the day.  We popped into town to pick up some more needles yesterday as I couldn't start the second sock with three needles, it was just too difficult.  I am really enjoying working on it and even bought more wool yesterday for another pair.....well I had to make the trip worthwhile :)

Here are some more photos from our 'mini holiday', it really is a beautiful coastline with lots of points of interest.  If you are ever in that area take a walk along the coastal path and then treat yourself to an Annes Pasty in the village.  The area is also famous for its beautiful serpentine.

Even though the wild flowers are gone, there are still beautiful shapes and colours to be seen

This fascinated me, I don't know what or why this was done.  Anyone know?

The Cornish hedge has been repaired here so you can see the stones before they are covered in growth.  The middle of the hedge is packed with earth.  It is a skilled craft which hopefully will not die out.

Having a snooze in the sun.

It is interesting to see the different butterflies here which I don't have in my garden.

 I love the big cliffs and wild seas crashing onto the rocks.

When I put this on Facebook a friend thought I was standing on the edge.  I was actually sitting safely on a rock with my feet dangling over another big granite rock.  I know my limitations at the moment :)

I wish I could fly

They didn't have gluten free scones so I had a cream tea with gluten free bread rolls instead.  As long as I had the clotted cream I didn't care what it was on :)

I hope you have enjoyed the walk,

Chickpea xx

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A Gentle Stoll

We have just returned from three wonderfully relaxing days.  The weather couldn't have been better.  People may have wondered why we chose to stay in a hotel in Cornwall when we already live here, but it was a chance for us both to relax and be pampered with someone else cooking.  It is about being away from everything for a little while, without a long journey to get there.  Look at the view, can you really ask for more?

I had booked it before my operation when I thought it would be straightforward, 3 weeks maximum off work and this break was a chance for me to get my fitness back by walking along the cliffs and even taking a dip in the sea from the beach below the hotel.

Well it hasn't exactly been straight forward, the doctors have signed me off for another month on top of the time I have taken already with strict instruction not to lift, strain etc.  Walking is painful and slow, so I couldn't stomp across the cliffs in my usual manner, not necessarily a bad thing as I noticed more little flowers and butterflies than I usually would.  Luckily where the hotel is situated there was a fairly flat path with lots of seats in one direction so I stuck to that as the other direction had very steep steps that I wouldn't have coped with.  I could only look longingly down to the beach as I wouldn't have coped with the climb down and certainly not the climb back up!!

The day after we arrived we walked along the coast a little way, then when I had enough I turned back while the OH walked on to Cadgwith further along the coast from The Lizard where we were staying.  In the photo above you can see the Lizard lighthouse.  It is a beautiful coastline, we have walked along the coastal path there a few years ago, which is when we spotted the hotel and thought it would be a beautiful location to stay.

When I got back from the walk I thought I would lie here and read my book, instead I fell asleep and stayed there for the whole afternoon in the sun.  It was bliss :)  When OH returned he joined me and fell asleep as well.  The only sound was the waves breaking on the rocks.

Thank you for all your kind comments yesterday.

Chickpea xx