A Brilliant Summer...at last !

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

Pinky Murphy's

 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