June is a fabulous month!

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

Boscrowan - Peace and Plenty & Ring and Thimble

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.

Katie's hanging basket

 

 

 

 

 

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

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We’ve been haymaking

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And haylage making – for our horses and others this winter

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Drinking bubbly in our summerhouse with good friends

bob pouring drinks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4 glasses of bubbly

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

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Seeing many a fine sunset

sun setting over the brisons

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

 


Changeover Day is a family affair

 

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.

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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.

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There are lawns to be mown,

new lawnmower

 

 

 

 

 

mowing the lawn

 

 

 

 

 

Flowers to be gathered

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Scones to be baked for the cottage cream teas

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Trugs to be filled with vegetables

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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.

 

 

 


Chicks arrived!

21 days exactly and there was cheeping to be heard in the incubator. The rocker (which keeps them gently moving all the time in place of a hen moving and turning them) was turned off, the incubator elevated to the table for improved viewing and within 2 days we had 9 chicks. Not bad from 14 eggs really, and  with a power cut in the middle!

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The chocolate brown eggs hatched into these black and yellow chicks.

chick in hand

The normal light brown eggs hatched into a buff Orpington x red hen cross. The father being one of these beautiful chaps with a penchant for rainbow chard and  all things tasty on Ring and Thimble patio!

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The mother being one of our many very busy red hens who forage hard and lay well and probably the main providers of any eggs you’ll eat whilst you stay here. A particular treat is leftover clotted cream!

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Today they are being moved from under the heat lamp to an enclosed run in one of the stables whilst we wait for warmer weather before putting them outside. Shame they have no Mum to keep them warm and safe and teach them a few tricks too!