Falmouth

Yesterday evening Tintagel reverted to a small sleepy Cornish town. It was so quiet on the main street that the local children were cycling and skateboarding up and down it quite safely. We walked over towards the path down to the castle to catch a glimpse of the sunset, sadly spoilt by the thickening cloud.

This morning the weather on the change, we revelled in the lovely spot we'd spent the night. To the right a small farm, where when we arrived yesterday cows and a bull were grazing on the lush vegetation. If only we could find more overnight spots like this. However tonight is all about the football. We need a good mobile phone signal so we can tether Angela's Chromebook to John's mobile phone.

So, our destination today is Falmouth. We saw a grotto mirror in a local shop called Cream when we visited here in early May this year. John was quite taken with it and thought it would look good in our new house, so he telephoned the shop and finding out they only had one left bought it.

That is the reason for our return to Falmouth to collect said mirror. We visited the shop this afternoon, walking down to the town through horrendous wet and windy weather dressed in our waterproofs. the hard-core holiday makers of course were in shorts and flip flops. The mirror we will collect from Creams warehouse in Penryn when we leave Falmouth on Tuesday morning. Today we purchased two handmade lampshades for our lounge and some coasters and placemats. These will be posted to us at the end of the month.

Sadly, the terrible weather has meant we have not been able to take many photographs for the blog. As we sit in Marge, her windows steamed up from our drip-drying waterproofs we can hear the haunting sound of the nearby foghorn sounding through the mizzle in the estuary. But tomorrow is another day, and the forecast looks better. Our parting quotation today taken from a sticker on a nearby van this morning is. 'Live your life by the compass, not by the clock', something we intend to do.

Sunset over Falmouth, at half time during the football.