March!!

How lovely to sit with morning coffee in the garden in March enjoying the spring sunshine even if  I can see so many jobs to do around me. I have a favourite spot for taking photos of the mount in all of her moods on our terrace in front of the Pink room window and today there was a suspicion of a heat haze slightly blurring the outline but the magical turrets were still caught by the morning sun. our Ecium in the foreground is the "great survivor" now growing some frest new leaves and it really might flower quite soon. Anyway with the wonderful weather I really couldn't procrastinate any longer about the borders and have so far fill two ton bags for the bonfire and only managed the little courtyard at the back of the house - oh dear! So i took a little stroll around the garden with the camera instead and then this month we will see how the garden progresses.

Through the archway to the first little courtyard I've finished - the
statue was a bargain find at Rosudgeon car boot sale!

The little sundial garden behind the house

A path through the long grass and a rabbit just deciding whether
to multiply or eat - wish he'd mow the lawn!

The hedges are still very bare in the Italian Garden but the
Statues are tastefully clothed with lichen 

Spud enjoying the afternoon sunshine - those ears are
getting pink already

Ooops British Summer Time

We woke up this morning to the mist swirling around the courtyard giving it an eerie other worldly appearance and then it happened we realised it was British summer time.... We raced off in record time to feed and turn the horses out returning in the nick of time to cook our house guest Breakfast. They all arrived serenely because of course they had all remembered .....it was just us that forgot - maybe we're getting old. Meanwhile this week about the farm life continues, beside the stables the Robins have decided to stay again and build a nest in the Bay tree conveniently sited beside the entrance - just right for them to pop out to pick up any stray oats that we might drop when mixing the horses feeds. In fact they arrive precisely on time at each feeding time, perhaps they should be in charge of the clocks! We will listen in the weeks to come for the tell tall cheeping that comes with a successful brood - last year they reared two sets, populating the garden with flashing red breasts. And now after a day that warmed gently to the sun, the mist has closed in again blotting out the sky and leaving the palms stark shapes in the gloom, we continue into British Summer Time, it has a nice ring to it though doesn't it! And now can I point you towards a new link on the right to a lovely local Lady's blog for all of the news about Perranuthnoe take a look I know you'll enjoy it particularly if you are visiting Perranuthnoe.

Ollie Cat in the morning

Ollie Cat enjoys a short stroll before Breakfast and this morning i caught him waiting for the guests to arrive for Breakfast (because they were bound to open the front door weren't they?) from the kitchen window overlooking the Parterre. Of course artful puss soon spotted me and moved up to the door step ....who could resist his every demand!



Strangely looking out of the kitchen window this morning I spotted a whole field of daffodils just below St Micheal's Mount - I'm sure they weren't there yesterday!