Author: crowlasludgvanwi

What a delightful Christmas Lunch at The Old Quay House, Hayle. Delicious food and friendship all round. Thank you to our wonderful committee for organising it. Wishing you all a Happy and Peaceful Christmas.

There was an extra reason to enjoy the December Coffee Morning at The Murley Hall. Val P held a craft tutorial in making Pearl Angels that are delightful to adorn your festive tree or as a little gift for someone special. Everyone was delighted with their decorations and thanked Val for the seasonal lesson.

Our Snappers photography group took a ride down to The Count House at Botallack to see the exhibition of photographs by eco artist Rosie Sherwood. The pictures showed the dramatic Zennor landscape after the wildfires of July 2022.

Other Snappers news: We are pleased report that member Lisa Elsey was awarded second prize for her photo under the theme of ‘An Autumn Scene’ at the recent Winter Fair at Wadebridge.

Gail’s craft group met in November to make these very stylish wreaths. They are quick to make out of scraps of fabric, and can be matched to your decor or seasonal colour scheme.

The weather was on our side for the November CLWI walk.  We started out from Newlyn in pouring rain, but as we climbed out of Newlyn the clouds parted to let the sun through to accompany the walkers throughout the day.    The Newlyn to Mousehole walk is a lovely walk – relatively flat walking with the most stunning views all around Mount’s Bay across to St. Michael’s Mount.

There were 6 walkers on the day who ambled along enjoying each other’s company.    We were met by two more members at The Coastguard Hotel Mousehole, which prvided a very enjoyable break.  Not only were we out in the company of lovely ladies, but we also put the world to rights as we rambled along.  On reaching Newlyn, we had a delicious lunch at the Duke Street café before making our way home.

Our monthly coffee mornings are becoming increasingly popular. Held on the first Monday of the month at the Murley Hall in Ludgvan, it is a lovely opportunity to catch up with friends in a relaxed local setting. As you would expect, there is always a range of delicious cakes on offer too to accompany the chat and friendship.

For their October Meeting, Snappers, our photography group, went to Godolphin Woods to take photos of Autumnal colour. Despite the gloomy weather, the photos really captured this beautiful season.

Members were delighted to welcome Trevor Smitheram back to The Murley Hall for this month’s meeting. Trevor is a local historian and the president of Hayle Old Cornwall Society, with an amazing knowledge of our local area. His moving talk was accompanied by photos, videos and personal stories about Rick Rescorla, a Hayle man, whose selfless actions saved around 2700 people from the World Trade Centre.

You can see more about Trevor and his talks on his website: https://cornishtrevor.org/

Several of the members had read Swallows and Amazons with their children as it had been written specifically with children in mind and this recalled a lot of good memories.      The plot of the story was based around a family who had travelled for their holiday to stay in a farmhouse – Mother with baby Vicky and Nannie, John the eldest, Susan, Titty and Roger.   Father had stayed at home working but his permission was sought in order that they may sail the boat and camp on a little distant island.       John appeared to be very competent with his sailing and guided the others on their adventures, which they had a plenty.       Each morning found one or more of the children rowing across to a local farm to collect milk, bread and at times delicious cake.    Both the farmer and his wife kept a lookout for the children.      Two other youngsters joined in the fun Nancy and Peggy – both again being great sailors with their little yacht.      Camp fires, the catching and cooking of fish took up a great deal of their time but did not deter them from finding stolen treasure and helping to solve a robbery from a locally moored boat – all ended well leaving everyone looking forward to meeting up again the following year for more sailing adventures.

The whole atmosphere of the story brought back to  us the time when life appeared carefree and we all felt that life many years ago was mostly a safe place for children to play – with their parents quite happy to let them explore.   The roads were not so busy – especially if you lived in the countryside nearly everyone knew and looked out for each other.       Personally, I remember that there were parts of the beach upon we were not allowed to venture and again should the sea begin to turn rough, the local fishermen would call us out of the water, although to us it looked quite inviting.  All in all a very warm read.

This month’s craft activity with Gail was Decoupage. Using attractive serviettes, coloured tissue paper and a variety of items such as pebbles, flower pots or even ‘Yakult’ bottles we used decoupage to create attractive items. Although messy and a little sticky everyone had great fun and we’re very pleased with their treasured outcomes.