Lark song

A sparrow nesting in the creeper outside of our kitchen window


A highly confused Gull that spent the day tapping on one of the Apricot room windows to court the wooden bird inside

The courtyard at Ednovean Farm this morning

The larks have been singing high above our heads as we walk across the pasture to collect the brood mare and her foal in the evenings now and the sun is bright enough to shine pinkly though their ears of the baby rabbits as they scuttle back to the sheltering banks around the fields.

Spring has definitely sprung and creeping forwards into summer or so we thought until the weekend when the gentle sunshine of the morning gave way to steady rain about lunch time unexpectedly, soaking me as I exercised Danni around the Cornish lanes. We returned sodden with Dani's long crinkly mane shedding droplets of glittering water. Olley cat was similarly "caught" by the shower and managed to wail loudly enough on the doorstep to be heard through double glazing and a three feet thick wall! He soon dried himself easing his soggy paws on to my lunch time (now dry) lap and smelling damply of the hedgerows as he systematical licked his fur with his bright pink tongue.

With thoughts of summer, comes the village open gardens and last week we visited some of the gardens again to refresh my memory before writing the "visiting plan" - just a taste below of things to come - do visit if you can it is a lovely day out in an idyllic Cornish village beside the sea.

Perrancliffe - one of the gardens that will open on Sunday the 6th of June in aid of the Church room restoration fund

Yvonne's broody hen at Perrancliffe hard at work hatching her eggs hopefully in time for the village opening -

One of the gates ready to open and reveal its secrets on the 6th of June!!