I voted.  The dogs came too.  Carlos tried to steal the poll station bacon butties.

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I wasn't sure if foster Carlos would be able to manage a proper run at his age, after eleven years onlead, and a touch of arthritis.  But he gave it a good go.

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Gorgeous evening, and of course I had not bothered to bring my proper camera, as it had been so grey most of the day.  But I took a few phonepics.   ( Read more... )

Nothing urgent to do today, so I decided to take the hounds to look for bluebells.
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Gorgeous weather...
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Not at all sure about going for a walk yesterday.  She was keen to set off, but then she heard the wind roaring in the heights, and became doubtful and discouraged.  I had to be very cheering indeed to get her past this point.

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Old Gunnislake is an unusually elderly mine, being already busily producing copper at the end of the eighteenth century.  The Heritage Gateway declines to guess when it was first worked, but Aditnow boldly guesses at the sixteenth century.   That means, it's from before the days when someone thought 'Hey, we should make some sort of record of where ( Read more... )

The evenings are stretching out again long enough now that even if I faff about a bit in the evening, there's still  time for a good walk.
As we got to the river, the tide was coming in, so all the flotsam was moving upstream, although not with any urgency.


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It was cold and foggy on the river this morning, just past high tide.  The river had left mud and reeds all over the road and we had to pick our way around the edges past the entrance to the yard where the racing gigs live.   With many photos... ( Read more... )

I almost fell into this mine today as I went blundering past it on a little-used path, so I thought I would resurrect my Random Mine of the Day.


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Just past full tide when I walked the dogs this morning. The river was covered in mist-ghosts, all slowly processing downstream and out to sea as the sun came up behind the Devon hills.  I should probably have taken the good camera, but then the dogs would have got bored while I fiddled with it. So here are phonesnaps. ( Read more... )