the leaves are falling

so we thought we might jazz up the entrance drive with bunting made form curtain lining offcuts – of which we have many!

Knocked up in a jiffy and suitably inspired we might just make some more to hang across from Ring and Thimble bedroom to our house.

In eight days time it will be the Wedding Day of our elder daughter Jenny and Peter Olds – a friend she has known for many years and we have known his parents for even longer!! A reception at home is a wonderful idea and it is great fun sprucing up outdoors – and a fine excuse to get more jobs done!!

The marquee field is looking quite magnificent

and Pete has a friend who has a tractor and mowers and rollers booked for monday. He is determined to have stripes even! The 2 sheep in the neighbouring field have decided that the grass is definitely greener the other side of the fence so David amongst all the other pre wedding jobs has had to do a section of re-fencing to persuade them otherwise. Oh dear can you imagine the havoc that 2 sheep could create in a marquee overnight? – doesn’t bear thinking about!!!!

The new track and grass on the farm buildings side of the bridge is also looking good. Another area for a picnic table for our cottage guests I feel and you would never think that a few months ago this was 1m deep trenches for the ground source heat pump pipes for Toad Hall!

Toad Hall ground source heat pump area

New gravel was laid and raked yesterday between Toad Hall and the barn – a useful sized car parking area

More brown bread ice cream to make and more cream bunting for the entrance drive to create still – to mention but a few pre wedding tasks yet!

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!