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August 22nd, 2011

Holiday

Porthleven

Hello. We went on holiday and came back again. Two weeks in Cornwall, some of it camping and some of it staying in actual buildings. The picture above is Porthleven, where we stayed for the non-camping bit. It is a lovely place and how fortunate we were to go. In other news: I now have a wetsuit which I will wear to keep warm during the winter months. Also a small collection of Betty Stogs memorabilia, similar function.

Now I am back and am catching up with work, looking at blank pieces of paper etc. I have one interesting and unusual piece of work to do and one or two usual ones, and then we go to the Greenbelt Festival. There have been some minor Greenbelt developments which I may post about at some point.

Usually at this point I post one or two incredibly fascinating holiday photographs, but I think I’m going to resist this year. Oh, go on then, just the one.

Fig. 2 (below): National Museum of Watering Cans

National museum of watering cans

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  1. Mark says:

    No,the watering cans are in Trevarno – National Museum of Gardening, and there are sprinkler systems, lopping tools and other ancient gardening tools.

    August 22nd, 2011 at 9:10 pm
  2. Dave says:

    Mark – I knew I’d be found out, but hadn’t reckoned on it happening quite so quickly! Yes, from Trevarno, great place to go. Especially if you like gardens or museums devoted to any of the following subjects: gardening, toys, soap, railways.

    August 22nd, 2011 at 9:16 pm
  3. Jaded for Jesus says:

    Spent part of my summer holiday at the National Needle Museum in Redditch. Concerned that I may now have peaked, museum-wise.

    August 23rd, 2011 at 12:31 pm
  4. chris clark says:

    The guy in the picture is spending far too much time admiring the flowers (roses?) and not actually getting on with watering.

    I suspect that before you went he was busy watering the whole garden diligently :-)

    August 23rd, 2011 at 12:58 pm
  5. Rachel says:

    Wet suits are wonderful things!
    My teenaged children discovered last winter that when they felt cold at home the ideal clothing solution for working at the computer is a wetsuit and dressing gown combo. No need to turn on the heating just for them.
    I do hope your holidays were relaxing and refreshing.

    August 23rd, 2011 at 1:43 pm
  6. Liz from the sewing room says:

    I think a musuem of watering cans is even more surreal than the museum I had previously thought was the most surreal – a museum of dog collars at Leeds Castle which is in Maidstone. Not Leeds.

    I guess a museum of wetsuits would be even more surreal though

    August 23rd, 2011 at 2:19 pm
  7. David Uden says:

    The Lawnmower Museum, Southport, Merseyside, does a watering can mug with very similar pictures.

    August 23rd, 2011 at 5:06 pm
  8. Beth Kessler says:

    I love your repliers’ humour and yours as well, but that goes without saying. A needle museum! A dog collar museum! Is that one for real dogs or for clerical ones? Probably real ones. And here I was feeling smug about the Durham light infantry museum and the Oriental Institute up here in the north.

    I wish you’d been here in June; Our parish church celebrated its 850th anniversary and among the popular attractions was the Rector in the stocks. Also the re-imagining of a 12C mass complete with chickens and dogs, people sitting on straw, and also wandering about and chatting quietly as was the custom in those days. They all settled down after the sermon. The hens were lent to us by a humanist. They went to sleep, probably shocked by the Latin and the incense. Everyone else loved it.

    August 23rd, 2011 at 5:36 pm
  9. hopeeternal says:

    If you want to see watering cans in their natural habitat you have to visit Rougemont le Chateau, Territoire de Belfort in France. Not sure how to post one of my holiday pics from a few years back here, but if you google ‘Rougemont le Chateau watering cans’ you can see someone else’s…

    I cannot believe that there is actually a museum for watering cans … or for lawnmowers … or for needles for that matter. Perhaps the church ought to jump on the bandwagon: hymn books? clerical collars …?!

    hopeeternal

    August 23rd, 2011 at 11:41 pm
  10. Margaret says:

    or a museum of old service sheets, fete posters and sunday school relics ( which effectively is the contents of a cupboard somewhere in every church building…)

    August 25th, 2011 at 12:57 pm