Heligan isn’t just the kitchen gardens – it was an estate, so has plenty of ornamental gardens, and wild space. There’s a section called the Jungle that’s stuck inside a steep walled valley, so it’s got a warmer microclimate than the gardens near the house. During Victorian times, it was planted with tree ferns and […]
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The Lost Gardens of Heligan were another one of my must sees in Cornwall, after I’d run into a couple television shows about the gardens. The very basic back story: the garden staff all volunteered to go off and fight in WWI, and unfortunately, as in many other places, they didn’t come back. Fast forward
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So that Knotty hat I was working on? Look how close I got to finishing it when I ran out of yarn. Sigh. It’s a shame too – the fabric was nice and thick, and I think it would have been a great hat. But I only have the one skein, so back to the drawing
Read for the RIP VIII Reading Challenge. A middle aged man has returned to the town he grew up in for a funeral. Afterwards, he drives around aimlessly, and realizes that he is drawn to the farm at the end of the lane from where he grew up. When he was young, he remembered that
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Read for the RIP VIII Reading Challenge. I needed one more book to get me through my flight home from Paris, so I decided to try another one of the Gareth and Gwen mysteries. This time, it’s King Owain that’s getting married, and his wedding comes to a halt when one of the bridesmaids is
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This is the last book of the Kate and Cecy Regency themed books that happen to involve magic. (It’s ten years later, so this one actually takes a bit of a steam punk turn.) Cecy, and her husband James, have been asked by the Prime Minister to investigate the disappearance of a German magician who
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The Woodcutter has no other name – his ancestors were appointed long ago to keep the Wood on the border of the Fae lands and Mortal lands free from the influence of dark magic. One terrible day, he finds a girl in a red hood already dead, and a princess with skin as white as
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I added this book to my Kindle for my trip because I’ve had it on my to read list for a while, and since I was actually going to Cornwall, it seemed like the perfect time to read it. And it was. Ross Poldark has been off in America, fighting in the Revolutionary War (which
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Cotehele was the home of the Earls of Mount Edgecumbe back to Tudor times, but they eventually built a much nicer home, and Cotehele became a dumping ground of old furniture and knick knacks. That’s the beauty of Cotehele. All of the rooms still have walls covered in tapestries (which means they keep the inside
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Our other stop in Devon was the market town of Totnes. My mother was interested in visiting because it’s a Transition Town. It’s a really neat old town. The main street (see the gate across it in the first picture) is a crazy one lane street up a steep hill. Lorries were driving on it.
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