Monthly Archives: July 2020

Life is St Agnes is great.  The weather has been amazing, and our work has started to pick up too which is really good news.  Our Hampshire house is nearing exchange and we’re just waiting for the searches to come back which have taken longer than normal due to the backlog from lockdown.  We’re anticipatingContinue reading “The A Word: Behind the Mask”

Cottage life is suiting us well and we haven’t given much thought to our five crates of “stuff” in storage.   When we purchased Beech Cottage last year we were nervous about the prospect of the downstairs bathroom, but we don’t even think about it now. It also has its advantages; arriving home from a longContinue reading “The A Word: Winners and Losers”

So, what happened?  The official term is “up shit creek without a paddle”, a Scottish slang term meaning to be stuck in a bad situation without anyway of fixing it. The bad situation being ‘shit creek‘ and the ‘paddle’ being the solution.  Our shit creek incident happened last Saturday during our walk along a sectionContinue reading “The A Word: Up Shit Creek”

Our first week living by the sea in St Agnes has been lovely.  We’ve been able to work efficiently and the walking has been superb.  For the last 20 years our visits to this beautiful village on the North Coast have been in Spring, Autumn and Winter but being here in the Summer has beenContinue reading “The A Word: Life’s a Beach”

“Eventually all the pieces fall into place.  Until then laugh at the confusion, live for the moment and know that everything happens a reason”.  The first stage of our house move is complete, our “stuff” is in storage and we’re in Cornwall.  It was very tiring, and I didn’t sleep particularly well for the daysContinue reading “The A Word: Eat, Sleep, Relax, Repeat”