Bassing.

Well looks like summer finally graced us in September again..what a great week it's been (and we are sooo English, the weather being our main topic of conversation!) Planning another boat trip tomorrow, 'make hay while the sun shines' or.. 'go boating while it's harry-flatters' as we say in our house.

Col fancies some bassing tomorrow and has been out and bought some special bass lures ... he saw Hugh Fernly-Whatsit bassing off Porthcurno and whatever Hugh can do, we can have a bash at!
                                                                                                              James who works with us says that a squirt of WD40 on the lure is meant to do the trick, but I'm not sure if it will add to the flavour as well??  Will keep you posted.

Not completely happy with the photo as using a rod and line kind of rubs against the grain with my cove girl heritage, Dad and Ken have never used a rod for fishing...but I'll play the girlie / tourist card and smile sweetly!

Left is a great pic we have of Dad,  he didn't like it though because whoever took the pic told him to hold the rod and the fish, but he'd never used the rod!

Quotes and more quotes..

.. funny how sometimes a few words, well chosen by others can hit the nail on the head.. here's a couple I fell upon today, origins in some site which is following my twittering !

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.~Herm Albright

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember-the only taste of success some people have when they take a bite out of you.~Zig Ziglar

Looking for some words of wisdom for a forthcoming scrap day but not sure I have the pics which will go with these! Keep searching..

Thomas Family The Penberth Years >1969

2K's : The Penberth Years

This is new to me, but I think if you click this link it will go to a Picasa album showing the pictures of my album I did for Ken... it was going to be a gadget on the side but a little small.. trying to get a slide show like Karen's but think that's another uploading job.
(Oh and apologies for the clarity of some pics, done in a hurry on a mobile, mainly so I had a copy, may even replicate for my own crowd)

People person..

... had an hour to kill in town when Kate was at Acro so peeked inside the door at Blue Snappa where Ross works evenings, half expecting him to be there supping a large American flat white ( ..!) and chatting to the staff , but it was real busy and he was behind the bar beavering away on a split shift.

He had just come from Surf session with kids at Sennen beach, but was still real perky and it touched me to see him chatting with customers. He has the knack of showing an interest and making them all feel special ... could imagine him running his own place one day... and with all the friends he has he'd keep it running just on his facebook and phone contacts list!

(Mind you he'd have to have an extra special sofa to accomodate him when the weary set in and hoodie was on!)

He reminded me of Mum when she did B&B over Mousehole for so many years. I think having different people coming and going all through the summer, and lots returning year on year, (esp you Frans) kept her going socially. Missed her today, saw several ladies out enjoying lunch with friends and family, doing a bit of shopping and wished I'd appreciated those times a bit more when I had them, life seemed so busy then, but I think we'd all say the same about the past eh?

(Almost a year now and having a bit of a peak.. is it significant? I know some faiths have a stone unveiling at this point and people can find it hard.. is this why? .. or will every anniversary feel the same..maybe so, I know she was sad most years come Easter time having lost her own Dad and then my dad at this time of year.)

Village shows.

Just been to deliver the girls entries to the local village show...the place is teeming with people of all generations arranging rock buns, collages, fridge magnets and all sizes and kinds of fruit and vegetable you can imagine. It is like a scene from a Channel 4 off-the-wall documentary, with the personalities and long established traditions and habits shining through with an undercurrent of competitiveness and edge!

Shame though that we all make the huge effort for these annual events, but it is hard grind to get the same support on a more regular basis.. the same old war cry I guess for village halls everywhere.

I remember as a kid having to go to Sunday School Anniversary in St Buryan and learning poems etc to recite, I hated it all, even the new dress my dear spinster aunt would make me... but I was too good a kid to revolt.. mind you, I think we all were then. Can't imagine a similar situation now, life is too full of X Factors and surf wear for there to be room for being press ganged into poems and home-made dresses! (not to mention lack of inclination on our part to begin the press ganging.. makes me wonder now if my own Mum was only doing it out of obligation to a domineering sister or because honestly there was nothing else to do!)

(not sure if I should change name of this blog to Grumpy Old Woman, I hear echoes of my Gran asking me why I was playing cards on a Sunday with a 21st century slant!)

...here's a couple of pics the girls entered in the On or In the Water section of the photography class today.

The Eyes have It!

Just wanted to share the two pages I did at our social scrap session in the week...for Lilly's eyes I used some of the words I'd written below, to convey the feeling the perfectly bright eyes gave me ..

The pics of Colin were taken last May when Uncle Bill was over for his mum's funeral. It was a sad but thankful time and they spent some time in Mousehole where Uncle Bill captured these pics. I like scrapping his photos, often of a time and place where I was not about...in fact the ones of Class of '09 were also taken by him.

I've used the words of a song we had for Jean, but the words suit Col too (soppy cow!)

and just how, how, how...do you get these blogs to show as laid out on here when you click publish..I keep getting words where I want spaces and vice versa..eeeeeeeeeekkkk

Jordan can be nice!

Couldn't resist sharing this one.... earlier this evening Linda was over and Jordan said she would do something for me, I commented that this was a nice thing for her to do (which is not always common, she will admit)


'I can be nice sometimes' she said.... and commented ...'I know, I was shocked when I found out as well'

Blog-itis?

Just a snappy note to tell you that I have set up a new blog for us girls who scrap together with Linda at Just Scrapbooking...not sure how it will work for me as don't want to bore people with repeated stuf but I do want to contribute to both. email me if you want to contribute..

Have a look .. http://www.justusscrapbooking.blogspot.com/ , would love to hear your comments..

.. got to go, fetching Kate from Club 2K where she is out on a Neon Night for under-16's...why do I feel like I've been here before ?

To Twitter.. or not to Twitter?

So, what is the Question?

Linda started it.. honest! I think I like it, I find it quite odd, but compulsive (as can be seen by the more than seemingly uninterested amount of tweets I have contributed)... and yesterday when I discovered the gorgeous Dawn Porter's blog I thought maybe I'd give it time.. and she was in Penzance the other day!!.. says she felt like she was in the corner of the world.. and I guess that's how we are really, that means that most of the time we can do just as we please without the rest of the world finding out..and I guess we like it too.

Anyways, Linda (JustScrapbookin on Twitter) has set her first Twitter Challenge .. to photograph some eyes and then journal them. I have tried, honest I have, but not to the best results..noses seem so huge when cut off at the bridge.. so I am cheating and using some crops of 'good eye' pics..

I thought this one might be interesting to journal, esp with the sunglasses element.

And what clear eyes these are.. so untainted .. no cut knees, no shampoo stings, no eye liner, no mascara, no hangover, no broken hearted tears...if only we could all keep them this way.

And here's our Joey, piercing eyes, he would eat us all if he was sized in proportion to us.. he is a rat catching, bad-ass cat who ran the new female moggies out of town .....and we love him, if we can get close enough and it's on his terms!

Maybe I'll do the cat as somehow I find it a bit hard to journal the people's eyes, like it's too personal.. but we shall see.. may try for it on Weds eve at our first Social Just Scrapbooking evening..not so sure it will be JUST (as in only) Scrapbooking though, so much chat and so little time!

Sorted!

What a brilliant morning I've had! Delivered the now famous album to Ken, he sat for half an hour in the car and we looked through it, it was such a pleasure to know he has so many photos now (.. he lost a good few with a fire in their house a few years ago.) I left him on Newlyn Quay and he had the book out again showing his crew the pictures of his school days where the guys Dad had been in his class at Humphrey Davy Boy's Grammar in 1961! .. that was such a moment for me..xxx

Followed that with a quick lunch with Ross, we had so much to catch up on we kept losing track of who/ what / when we were gassing about....he's doing great, loving his new job and as usual the girlies love him!

Then fetched Zac & Tayla from college and headed home, detouring only for cream cakes to celebrate my birthday tomorrow with the guys at STS....finishing off the pre-birthday-day with a few coffees with Linda, chewing the fat at tea time...hey, and it's not even my-day yet!

And off to see Michael MacIntyre Friday.. so looks like one of those week-long events!

PS Full marks to Ross' mate Kerry who has full funding now and is a 'professional athlete', keeping the Cornish end up in the 2012 Olympics.