Tuesday 8 April 2014

Cornwall Again!

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  Back from Cornwall by 2.00 on Sunday and twelve for tea ( and three dogs) by 5.00. You should see my kitchen floor!! The rain has turned the garden to mud again Grrrr. Yesterday I had a few hours to myself and cleaned and dried the floors. I feel better now and happy to receive visitors again. Mind you the carpets are rubbish as my Dyson seems to have broken. I need to get D.(aka Mr Fix it) to look at it.

The first sea fishing trip of the season was a mixed success. Though they caught nothing to eat, D.caught the first Conga of the season and at least they got out in the fog and wind and reformed their little fishing group for another year. The weather was atrocious with fog and Cornish Mizzle all weekend.
Here they are coming back into Looe Harbour - can you see them yet?
 There they are!!

While D. was fishing and my friend J. was volunteering I worked through my "to do" list. I hit the shops in Callington with a list of things I needed and some I wanted. Whenever I'm in Callington I buy a Ham joint from the Spar shop which also has a butchers. I bought a good sized joint for £6.99, a very large savoy cabbage for £1.00 and some reduced bread for toast this week. I bought this years tide tables for D., which made him a happy bunny.
I then hit the charity shops. My wish list was for some work shirts and a going out one too if possible. I also needed another pudding basin. Bingo ! At first shop they had a kitchen display with a stack of pyrex basins. I bought four of different sizes for four pounds. I then picked out two quality shirts that still had their labels in, for £2.50 each and a nearly new M&S one for £2.00. I then found the bargain rail and found a lovely lined River Island jacket for a pound! I bought this for YGD who now has a new job and needs to be smart casual at all times. I thought that for a pound if she didn't like it, or it didn't fit I had lost little. She loves it and it fits like a dream.
At the next CS I bought a new cardigan for £2.00 and some new shoes for £5.00 Neither of these were on my list, but were such a bargain that I could not resist.
Back to J's to do some prep work on J's laptop for the Civic Society's AGM this week. I also prepped some sauces for Sunday's ham tea, before relaxing with a spot of hand quilting.
 Not a bad day. J. and I went down to the harbour to pick D. up, ate a fish supper in the car and back to J's for spot of reading and a small (ahem) scotch.
Before we travelled down on Friday a friend bought me a book from the CS which he said had my name on it.. it is called "Labour Saving Hints and Ideas for the Home" published in 1924. It's a great read and I will post some quotes from it on my next blog. ooh the days of mangles and liberty bodices!

Off to do some printing for the AGM  this week. As Secretary I have much to do.

Back Soon
Gillx







18 comments:

  1. Nice to have a change of scene and 'new' shops CS to browse .. you did well with your buys.
    I remember well wearing a Liberty bodice .. does that make me very old! ... and we had a mangle to put the hand washed washing through .. gosh .. I must be vintage..lol.

    Vicky x

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    1. We still have an old mangle in the shed somewhere that we found and thought might be useful for crushing fruit !! Never worked!

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  2. Good grief - 12 people for tea a few minutes after traveling home! How do you do that? It always takes me hours to recover from a long trip.
    I HATED being made to wear a Liberty bodice which we did until about aged 7. Now I wonder why they existed.

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    1. I'm going to find a picture of a liberty bodice to post, just to bring back such "happy" memories!
      hated mine too

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  3. Busy, busy, busy. Isn't Conga Eel edible?

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    1. Yes it is , but for some reason they put them back. I will ask D. why

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  4. I also remember the liberty bodice, mine had rubber buttons-hated it. Also remember putting my new school sweater through the mangle-I thought I was helping-mum wasn't very happy, it got torn to shreds.

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    1. those rubber buttons used to go sticky didn't they?
      Mangles ruined many items as I remember.

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  5. Can't beat a good mooch in the charity shops. Bought a lovely jacket from Debenhams Rocha john Rocha for £4 the other day. I'm one happy bunny. X

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    1. Good buy Wendy! Good to get a bargain as some CS are getting rather dear nowadays

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  6. Sounds like you had an extremely productive time! Love those fabulous thrift store finds. I confess I know nothing about sea fishing, but the ham and cabbage sounds delish.

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    1. Yes it was a good weekend. Sea fishing is about the closest one gets to hunting and bringing home food for the family I reckon! In GB no one is ever too far away from the sea. Fish is a welcome addition to the freezer.

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  7. I just have to join in, I had a liberty bodice with those nasty smelly rubber buttons. I used to put it on for breakfast, Mum always checked to see if I was wearing it, then whip it off after I cleaned my teeth, I hid it on the bottom shelf of the airing cupboard under the dust sheets. I also remember helping Granny put her washing through the mangle, I suppose all that I did was hinder though as it was taller, wider and at least 4 times as heavy as I was.

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    1. I think the mention of liberty bodices and mangles has struck a chord with some of us more mature ladies. I think my next post will have to explore this further!
      I always wanted to help with the mangle, but after a very short time I found it really hard work

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  8. You picked up some fantastic bargains. Mick keeps saying that he'd like to go on a sea fishing trip when we go to Cornwall but he hasn't been yet, perhaps this year.

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    1. D. loves to go to Looe and it is a nice little town to visit too. If it is on his bucket list there are one or two skippers who take people out fishing,
      perhaps will see your there!

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  9. Watched a program about the killers of the victorian era and mangles were a big killer. They'd strip all the skin off your arm!
    Sounds like you had some good buys at the shops!

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  10. I certainly remember people who sustained quite serious injuries in both commercial laundries and in their own homes, through mangles, boiling water etc.
    Somedays I go round the CS and find absolutely nothing.

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