After at least four wet British summers. we were overdue a good old-fashioned sunny one and this was it. So we headed down to a quiet little Cornish backwater with the Flying Cloud in tow.
The interior was beginning to come together nicely
Only partially finished (edge trim & the table are to follow) but the dinette was serviceable & works really well. I'm very glad I kept the original shelf & drawer unit across the nose, as its perfect storage & nice to have a wide shelf (not something Airstream often does)
Nice to be wearing hats for the sun rather than rain
Lovely evenings with the odd glass...
...as the sun goes down
And from the new Dutch Camp Oven
everything from stews to
apple cakes
Old friends have a shepherd's hut at the top of the hill - rustic & lovely but a little less mobile than the Flying Cloud
I've been accumulating various 50's items for the interior, from aluminium containers to coffee grinders
to compliment the 50's Atomic
Still doing good service after all this time
And the estuary provides not only
samphire
but brown shrimp too
Mmmmm
The family - school done & university looming
Evening swims
at high water
The ancient church
and the only slightly middle-aged shiny shed
Canoeing down on the ebbing tide
From a shallow estuary to
rather deeper water
Lunch at
Fowey harbour
...and back on the incoming tide in time for a G'n'T
and fish supper
Not a bad view to wake up to
The Gribbin daymark
Perfect camping nosh !
Reading
books
old & new
...and some of Sandy's whittling too
I know some restorers don't polish-up their interior end caps but I'm glad I did - they're particularly magic by candle-light
Lovely but
never long enough
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