A birthday weekend with friends

An 'official' birthday and and an actual one gave us the chance to spend time with old friends.

A fantastic walk from Praa Sands to the Victoria at Perranuthnoe and back on a wonderful sunny January day was only marred by a fractured leg after some mud-sliding.

A dinner performance of The Shipwrecked Daughter or the Mermaid Revealed allowed some of its authors at last to understand the intracies of the plot - or even to understand that there was a plot.

Much laughter at one birthday card ...

Don't miss the pictures on the right: Early 2010

A moral dilemma for our times

You are cleaning the interior of the car on 17 January removing large quantities of mud from Christmas walks, sweet papers, a baby's rattle, obscure CDs, 'L' plates and several bits of wrapping paper. In a dark corner you find your daughter's phone charger which she thinks she left behind at Christmas. You are embarrassed at being found out not having cleaned the car for three weeks. Do you:

• Throw it in the bin for fear that she finds out that you have not cleaned the car for three weeks?
• Hide it amongst her son's toys
• Hide it in the room she was sleeping in so that she can find it next time she comes?
• Add it to your immense collection of random chargers accumulated over the years
• Ring her and confess all?
  

The guardian of the fortress

A big welcome to the newest resident at the Towers who keeps an eye on passing hawkers and undesirables, ready at a moment's notice to leap into action and tear them limb from limb. So far he has not actually had to do anything but that is probably because the garden has been covered in snow.

Snowy times

December was icy but we did not notice as we celebrated Christmas and a birthday. January has come in with some white stuff which is mucking up the roads but is not (yet) good enough for sledging in Mylor. It was minus 6C on the quay this morning.

It does provide some visual delight, however. Have a look at these photos