In the meantime....

In the meantime, whilst its been so very wet, I decided to knit.

I have not knitted/knit/knat? for nearly 40 years .

I did make little baby jackets, called 'matinee jackets' for my babies. You don't often see those now, but how pretty they were with their lacy fronts and little pearly buttons.

The easiest thing I could think of was a neck warmer, top right on the photo.

I found this lovely soft wool, Can't remember the make as I took off the label, (sorry Penny), but it makes the pattern all by itself. So clever!

It was the simplest thing, just 77 stitches and 30 cms, and reminded me of a dishcloth I knitted when I was a child.

Onward to greater things next, maybe one of the hats?

This lovely present came today, accompanied by a dear friend.

A pretty pink bag holding a delicate bouquet of flowers.

Just what I needed.

The rain has been intermittent during the day, but we managed to get to the garden centre to buy essentials such as runner bean plants and bamboos, bags of compost and a watering can. My big French plantpots came with my friend , who has been storing them for me. I envisage tumbling geraniums, lobelia, daisies.

Can't wait for some good weather.

Header

I changed the photo on my header to a view of the Falmouth waters, taken from the Nare head.

But.....why hasnt it filled the whole picture?

Any advice?

Just a couple of photos....

I promised you some photos, and these are very early ones. You can see all our lovely 'New home' cards, which just keep arriving! You can also see a heap of wrapped pictures hiding coyly behind the armchair. They are still there.

These are bits of the garden. The previous owner was an elderly lady who had most things planted in gravel, to save work, I think. It's not something that I will be continuing, but I do like this Spirea which is a glow of white.

A gorgeous Crinodendron, or Peruvian Bellflower, dominates this part of the garden.


There is a lot of planning to do, but for now I'm concentrating on emptying cartons.
The Heart Foundation charity collector came this morning and took away a couple of boxes. Why did I need enough towels and bedlinen for a small army?

Service , please.

Maybe it's because so many of our neighbours are of a certain age, as are we, that there are so many services offered in the village. We're not used to this level!

There are at least three local gardeners, busily cutting lawns, weeding and chopping hedges.

The biggest surprise was to see a real milkman in a proper van, with glass bottles of milk. Now that I havent seen for years. I remember putting out the obligatory notes, 'no milk today', three pints on Friday', etc. Now we just buy milk in supermarket cartons.

Today a window cleaner arrived. 'Used to do this house', he said hopefully. 'Carry on', we said thankfully!

There are heating engineers, plumbers, carpenters all visiting. Oh, and a van called Wiltshire Farm Foods, who apparently deliver very good frozen meals to elderly and housebound.

Not housebound, but getting towards elderly so might give them a try!

Boxes.........

This is how it looks.

Having expected to receive our furniture last Sunday in the afternoon, we were stunned to receive a phone message at 10 am telling us, 'You 'ave delivery. From French'.

Fortunately we were on our way to the house and arrived to find two vans manned by two Lithuanians who had a minimal command of English. A complete contrast to the team who moved us out of our French house, these two managed 'Where this box go?''No tea' and 'You pay now? In cash?' (No)

We now have half the house in the garage and vice versa, due to their inability to read what was printed on the boxes. However, they were strong and coped with all the heavy lifting.

Now I have to find my way through the mountains.

I've found the ironing board but not the iron.

I have no cutlery or mugs except that which I have borrowed.

Neighbours have been very sweet.

Family and friends have given us so much support.

I have had to find, very fast, a heating engineer as we have hot water but no heating. He came, and investigated, and will have to replace the lesser-spotted -fingleflook-valve later this week.

Or whatever it was.

So I'll be on and off the computer , as and when.
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The keys!

At last, we have the keys to our new home. It's wet and windy today but we are going to investigate all there is to see in the garden.

Now all we need is to have our furniture brought over from the French storage company, so we still have a few more days to wait.

I'll take pictures when the sun is out.