Granny's Garden

My mother's garden is beautiful at the moment - a true English garden, hidden from sight behind a village house. What a wonderfully relaxing (dry) place to start our holiday.

 The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.  ~Hanna Rion

 

One is nearer God's heart in a garden
than anywhere else on earth.
  Dorothy Frances Gurney

A break in service.

Apologies for the break in blogging - The Term Has ENDed! The Curate and I (and the Collie and Lakeland) are escaping up the M5 motorway. There is a weather warning from the met office and we are expecting a month's rain in twenty four hours. It must be summer! 
We are returning to the East coast for a beach holiday. For the last few summers our families (who live there) have complained about the lack of rain in the summer months. Some people have even taken to planting drought resistant plants in their gardens. So we are leaving the beautiful south west beaches and the amazing moor ( and the rain) to head back to East Anglia and visit family before we are head to a house in the sand dunes of Norfolk. We are really looking forward to it.....and I'm not sure if internet even exists in these wild eastern places.

The perfect day

Yesterday was Friday - our day off, and we spent it in the happiest of ways - riding The Clydsdales at Adventure Clydesdale in Cornwall. We have ridden out several times from here. Yesterday, we had perfect weather again- although too wet to go onto Bodmin, we rode out in the Cornish countryside and had the benefit of glorious views. Nothing seems more important than living for the moment when you are with these beautiful gentle giants.

The day started with a frosty walk for the dogs on Middlemoor

Then we drove down to Bodmin to meet our mounts.

Tim. owner of Adventure Clydesdale, lead out on Faroe

I rode Tweedie

We stopped to wade up the stream to wash off the horses after a muddy ride. This is The Curate on Ben

Tweedie caught taking a little nap at the end

I wasn't asleep!

Is this a photo shoot?!

What look do you want?

 

I can do pretty, -  or my right side is good  or alert and interested? But don't forget ..............

to show my moustache!