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Random Returns from Cornwall

………..and is immediately laid low by tonsilitis. Where did I get that from I ask myself? Thak goodness it did not make its prescence felt until I was home. Not sure I could have done the six hour drive feeling the way I did yesterday.

So this will be a brief post. I went to a NHS drop in centre this morning (first appointment with my doctor, or any doctor, was not until Friday), saw a lovely lady who diagnosed problem just by looking at me as apparently she could see swollen glands. So anti biotics and down to a local supermarket which has a pharmacy to get prescription.   Suddenly felt wobbly and went to sit down in the cafe and a lovely member of staff came up to see if I was OK and fetched me a glass of water and made me stay there until I felt better. People are so kind.

Anyway, a wonderful time was had by all. I do not put pics of Florence and Beatrice on the blog – if you are a Facebook friend you can see some there, but here are some pics of Padstow and a wonderful river trip. Will be posting more over the next few days as I feel better.

Good to be back and I had a lovely break even if the homecoming was not quite what I expected!

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As you can see, we had glorious weather too. I have been to so many beautiful places in the world but there is nothing, simply nothing, that beats the English countryside or sea in the summer when the sun is shining.

Am not going to Australia next year, taking a break.   Kathryn is coming home in a few weeks to see us all which is wonderful and next year I will be staying in the UK. If there is anybody out there who lives near the sea or in a lovely location and would like a housesitter then please let me know!   I am good with cats…

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27 responses to “Random Returns from Cornwall”

  1. Susan Avatar
    Susan

    Love the gorgeous yellow building and the flowers. YOu are so right about sunshine and the seaside. I’m missing smelling the sea, this year. I hope you are feeling better now, tonsilitis can really be painful.

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  2. Elaine Avatar
    Elaine

    Next year I intend to stay in the UK and will be blogging about places I choose to visit. Rather looking forward to it.

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  3. Elaine Avatar
    Elaine

    On the mend!

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  4. Elaine Avatar
    Elaine

    So am I Susan. A six hour drive feeling the way I did at the weekend would have been awful

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  5. anne Avatar
    anne

    these photos are lovely, esp the bright yellow and all the flowers!!!! Really enjoy “traveling” thru you on Random!

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  6. Carole Avatar
    Carole

    Get well soon!

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  7. Susan D Avatar
    Susan D

    Thanks for sharing those pics. I’m glad to hear you had a good time, and were wise enough to put off the illness until it was over.
    Be well.

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  8. Elaine Avatar
    Elaine

    Jenni – I will doublecheck my settings and I thank you for taking the trouble to drop by.

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  9. Jenni Avatar
    Jenni

    I enjoy reading your blog. Don’t usually comment on such things but I saw your mention of reserving the family photos for FB. (My opinions are irrelevant but I agree that this is sensible – hence this comment). However – I wonder if you realise that your FB settings are allowing those who are not FB friends to see the photos?

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  10. Elaine Avatar
    Elaine

    I just love cornwall

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  11. Elaine Avatar
    Elaine

    Never had it in my life! Daughter Helen had it recently and it laid her low. Feeling better today though wobbly.
    Cornwall is one of my favourite places. I am seriously considering saving up some pennies and renting a cottage for two weeks down there next year and just chilling. we had so many wonderful holidays with the children there when they were small and we were lucky tht my then in-laws lived not far from Marazion so glorious times were had.

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  12. Elaine Avatar
    Elaine

    Pills now kicking in and I can swallow without pain so another two days or so and I will be fine. Glad you like pics of my lovely girls

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  13. Elaine Avatar
    Elaine

    St Ives in the summer is awful, packed and full of people eating fish and chips etc but, as you rightly say, tourism is the main economy and has to cover the rest of the year when it is quiet so I should not be so snobbish. I had a weekend in St Ives once in late September in the middle of an Indian summer. It was empty and we had the place to ourselves and it was simply beautiful

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  14. Ruth Avatar
    Ruth

    Hope you feel better soon. Lovely photos. We scattered my mum’s ashes just along the beach in the first photo at Daymer Bay. Such a lovely area. The walk from Daymer Bay to Polzeath is my very favourite place to be.

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  15. Liz F Avatar
    Liz F

    You have my sympathies Elaine! Having been a sufferer of tonsilitis all my life (mine is the generation when you had to have it more than five times a year for the doctors to even consider taking them out and I never managed more than four times in any twelve month period)I know just how rotten it can make you feel – a ten day course of antibiotics is definitely what you need to really knock it on the head!
    Hope that they kick in quickly and you feel better very soon!
    Your stay in Cornwall looks as though it was wonderful. I have never actually been there but your photos make me think that I should rectify that at some point!

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  16. Harriet Avatar
    Harriet

    Poor poor you. But beautiful photos — what a wonderful place Cornwall is. The fb pics of the kids are heavenly too. Please get better soon.

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  17. Margaret Powling Avatar
    Margaret Powling

    Get better soon, Elaine. Love the photos of some of the glorious places you visited – the pic of the boats is lovely, and the flower-hung pub!
    We are hoping for a walk around our own little piece of seaside this morning, Torbay. Filled with tourists right now (but they are the Borough’s main economy, so can’t grumble only I wish that they didn’t feed the gulls … don’t any of them read the notices not to do this?) but we have ‘routes’ which we can walk which are off the tourist track.

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  18. Elaine Avatar
    Elaine

    On the mend Claire but still feeling low. More photos to come

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  19. Elaine Avatar
    Elaine

    Jan – you are right. I have had a wonderful 2013 and have seen some enchanting places. I am now happy to be quiet for a while. Having a tooth out and now tonsilitis is making its prescence felt. But joy oh joy Kathryn is home from Oz on 5 September for two weeks1

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  20. Elaine Avatar
    Elaine

    Doc has given me antibiotics for ten days as she said you need to kill it stone dead or it will hang on just as you say. 8 tablets a day for 10 days – that is an awful lot of pills!!
    And yes I know that children are ‘germ factories’. I am just glad tht I came out unscathed from the recent chickenpox bout but they are so beautiful I forgivethem everything
    It was a glorious day in Padstow. I had forgotten how lovely Cornwall was

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  21. Elaine Avatar
    Elaine

    I am hoping to get to NY before too long. Have not been for ages and now have so many Random contacts there it would be a joy to meet up. Fingers crossed I will make it soon,

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  22. Elaine Avatar
    Elaine

    had a dreadful night – when you have a temperature dreams take on a nightmarish quality and so they did last night. Very glad to wake up this morning!

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  23. Claire (The Captive Reader) Avatar
    Claire (The Captive Reader)

    Sorry you’re not feeling well but glad to hear you had a great trip. Those photos are stunning!

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  24. Jan C Avatar
    Jan C

    Beautiful photos of a beautiful part of England – makes me want to leave miserably cold Canberra immediately (10 degrees and wet today :( ) to enjoy an English summer by the sea. Particularly somewhere which has hanging baskets like those in your photo.
    Love following your travels – you have enjoyed some enchanting places in 2013.

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  25. Cath Avatar
    Cath

    Tonsilitis is going round at the moment. We’ve all had a touch of it too and it’s draining. My daughter had to go the drs. with it – I managed to get away with it but am finding that it’s hanging on and hanging on. Basically, if you have grandchildren you get everything, a dr. described small children to me as ‘germ factories’. It’s a bit of a nuisance but a small price to pay for the pleasure of being a grandma… and your two little granddaughters are gorgeous. I hope you feel better soon, Elaine.
    Lovely photos. Particularly like the shags lined up on the rocks!

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  26. Andrea Stoeckel Avatar
    Andrea Stoeckel

    Hope you are better and please take care and be good to yourself my friend. Want to come visit the States?

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  27. Cornflower Avatar
    Cornflower

    Glorious weather and super pictures! Hope you’re feeling better soon, Elaine.

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