Happy Days at home and in Cornwall.

A bit of a mixed post...Firstly, as Sally posted, we met Meredic and The Boy - and what a pleasure it was. Meredic who writes on his fab blog 'Notes From Halletts Mountain' called by again with She Of The Townhouse so Kev could meet them too. All three are lovely and we hope to meet up with them again oneday.
Our week in Cornwall (minus Rosie and Jake who both consider themselves way too cool to holiday with us!) was good,in spite of the gale-force winds and rain....weather more suited to January than August!
We had a few days with sunshine and alot of fun staying at a campsite on Treveague Farm in Gorran Haven. It was lovely and we thoroughly recommend it for a great place to holiday.

Kev camping twenty-odd years ago..........

.....oh how things change!!!

Happy Days in Cornwall








Now for something different......

Jake, who has at last written a new post, has done well in his GCSE'S, achieving 2A'S, 1B, and 7C's. We were a little worried prior to receiving his results as Jake admitted to us that he did very little work in year eleven and did no revising for his exams. We were pleased with his results and he was obviously relieved not to have crashed and burned! Rosies' first comment was "oh, he didn't do as well as me then!". Her results on completing her GCSE'S last year were 3A*, 1A and 6B's. She did congratulate her brother when she had finished gloating!
Her English marks were in the top 6% in the country and we were told by her English teacher that she would easily be able to go on to study at Oxford or Cambridge. Rosie chose not to follow this path which did disappoint us at the time but I am still very proud of her. She is working and training to be a Jeweler and has already passed some Jeweler/Goldsmith exams. Jewelery Design is an option she is considering though whatever Rosie decides to do, I'm sure she will be fine. She's that kind of girl.

Jake will begin sixth form next week to study for his A levels. I do hope he sticks with it for the whole two year course, unlike his elder sister! Either way...well done Jake!!!....If he does get a few good A levels under his belt he may well be the one gloating in a couple of years!!!!

(I must admit I did comment on what he might have achieved had he worked and revised. Well I'm his Mum....that's what parents are supposed to do isn't it?!!!)

Pictures taken at home of the kids and cats Gypsy and Domino. The guinea-pigs Okey, Dokey, Mr Smokey, Dandelion, Beans and Apollo are in the hutches. One of the baby pigs died earlier in the month and is buried with Eric the dog ,deceased pigs Bluebell, Snowdrop and a few others whose names I can't remember!