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Thought I’d share some of the photos I’ve taken this month of things happening here and close by.

This is the view as you open our gates

I was asked my someone who admires our hanging baskets to give her and her daughter a lesson. This is the basket the daughter planted up, now hanging on Ring and Thimble.

The rambling rector rose is smothering the old pump house as you come in our gates

We’ve been haymaking

And haylage making – for our horses and others this winter

Drinking bubbly in our summerhouse with good friends

Watching the Midsummer’s Eve bonfire at Chapel Carn Brea near Lands End

Seeing many a fine sunset

And enjoying a wonderful June – we hope you have been too!

Saturday is changeover day at Boscrowan. We wave farewell to departing guests and then do a very thorough turnaround that needs to be completed by 3pm and 4pm that same day.

It’s a busy day but it is also a family day where we  all work together to prepare the cottages for our next guests and catch up on the news of the previous week, plan the next week, laugh a lot and even sneak in a quick family lunch – outside if the weather is fine.

At 10 am our two daughters arrive – Morwenna who has a house in Penzance and is in the Police force and Jenny who lives on a farm near Camborne, about 20 minutes drive away and is a land agent for a local estate. Jenny brings Fern her Labrador, much to the disgust of Jess and Meg who really find her a bit of a nuisance although they tolerate her better as time progresses.

It’s then loading the 3 washing machines with bed linen, making beds, hoovering, cleaning, hanging laundry out to dry in the orchard – we do all the laundry here ourselves and the ironing is the first job of the day in the soft furnishing workroom on a Monday morning.

There are lawns to be mown,

Flowers to be gathered

Scones to be baked for the cottage cream teas

Trugs to be filled with vegetables

More washing in more washing out……………………

Nothing more satisfying than 2 cottages sparklingly clean, freshly made beds and lightly scented with the fragrance of freshly gathered flowers from the garden.