We were lucky enough to be one of the first to see the Olympic torch on it’s journey, 8:10 this morning at Trereife Crossroads about 2 miles from Boscrowan. It was such an electric atmosphere and a lovely positive scene of cheering and waving. Great to be Cornish, great to be British!

The Olympic torch relay is starting from Lands End tomorrow morning (but don’t we all know that by now!) so we will hopefully go and view it on one of the running stretches on the A30 west of Penzance – just before 8am tomorrow morning.  I guess it is after all a once in a lifetime event!

We are delighted to announce the arrival of a new species to Boscrowan in the form of 2 Wessex saddleback piglets who are just 8 weeks old. In honour of a National forthcoming event we have called them Diamond and Jubilee.

The plan is that after a week or so of settling in, in the old pigsty beside my soft furnishing workroom, that they will live out in the field beside the poultry houses and the bee hives by day and back indoors at night – perish the thought that they might escape at night and venture into the gardens!