Saturday, 26 September 2020

Last Hurrah

 




Recently we had a holiday with our children.

It had been postponed from Easter lockdown and rescheduled to September.

A whole week in a lovely old house on the edge of Cardinham Woods in Cornwall.

Mainly, we went walking.  In the evening we cooked for one another and played games.

Over the front garden flew ravens, buzzards, nuthatches and siskins. 

On Bodmin Moor we climbed Rough Tor and Brown Willy, the tallest hills in Cornwall, scrambled up the granite tors which looked like craggy stacks of cheeses and explored the nearby prehistoric settlements and stone circles through an atmospheric mist.

At Fowey, we clambered round St Catherine’s Castle and Nigel, Carenza and Pascoe went for a swim at Readymoney Cove while I painted a watercolour.

It wasn’t a perfect week as Perran had been relying on being able to work from home. But the wi-fi simply wasn’t up to it, so he had to leave early.

Yet all through those days of late summer sun and early Autumn mist, we knew this was a week that had been snatched from the fire.  That once we returned home, the COVID levels would likely be rising and precautions enforced once more.

What we had not realised was just how quickly the axe would fall.

Thank heavens for golden memories and our photos which preserve those days in amber.

 

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