Moving weekend has been and gone and we have picked up David’s Uncle and his carefully selected possessions from his bungalow in Heamoor (just past Mounts Bay School on the way up to Trengwainton Gardens – for the interest of our regulars who visit these gardens and the delightful tearooms at least once but often several times during their stay – for some it is rather like a pilgrimage!) and deposited him in Toad Hall.
The third and final seal of the much admired silver travertine floor was done at 10.30 pm on thursday night after I had returned from a ‘girls in the workroom’ supper in Newlyn and it looked positively resplendent on friday morning.
Silver travertine floor in the living and dining area
The living area curtains were hung on the friday night – a busy evening as it just happened to be my birthday too and we raced between our dining table and Toad Hall, hanging curtains in between courses as Morwenna (younger daughter) had kindly offered to make soup and bread rolls and a birthday cake to celebrate and Graham (on the right in the picture) who was the builder and creator of Toad Hall had also kindly offered to come and assist with the final touches – the curtains. One couldn’t resist either of theses offers, naturally!
The very useful horse trailer was the Pickfords vehicle and David and his elder brother Paul were the men in green coats with Jenny, Paul’s wife Bernie and myself flitting between pack and despatch and receive and arrange! Uncle Kenneth was overseeing the whole operation and guiding us ‘young ones’.
I mean – ‘ how simple and effortless can this whole moving thing be?!!!!!!’
I’ve arrived!
So, apart from a few things in the wrong house still – he decided he would cook himself a Boscrowan egg on his first night to practice using his new induction hob and realised then that his egg cups were in his old bungalow – to name just one example that we heard of, it all went pretty seamlessly.
How very worthwhile it has all been, hopefully and we hope he enjoys his new life down with us as much as we will enjoy having him and his wise words and ideas and great sense of humour!
