Postponed

 Scenes from Cornwall

Can you believe this? My blond cousin was going to be in St Ives for a week, starting tomorrow! She is an inveterate planner, and her itinerary is/was a thing of rare beauty. She brings fun with her wherever she goes, and we had our own lists of things she would do with us. Places to go, lovely people to meet, and scrumptious food to eat. St Ives wouldn't know what had hit it! And jet lag? there would be no time for that!

 But then all of a sudden my cousin became ill, and is not, after all, going to fly across the Pond and take a train to St Ives. The poor thing. Poor us!

Standing ready for her is our cuter-than-ever cottage with two bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, and three narrow stories high (a bit iffy, I admit). Hers would be the guest room at the tippy top that has two twin beds and a view out over the rooftops toward the sea.

The cottage used to be a Fishermans abode, where they used the basement (now a kitchen) as a fish-press and smelly fish storage space. But as all the Fishermans cottages back in the day had the same exact smelly basement, almost no one noticed. 

The front door opens into a darling kitchen where we have had some smashing dinners and cups of tea. It has a scrubbed pine table and tiny refrigerator - but as every cottage in town has a tiny refrigerator, almost no one notices!

There is a shower room just off the kitchen and front door.

From the kitchen, you ascend the first set of zigzag narrow stairs, and come to the living and sitting rooms. This is the spot where we spend our comfy evenings, always accompanied by strawberries and cream while watching some sort of British show or other. Last night we ended up watched the final Mission Impossible starring Tom Cruise, who accomplished all sorts of impossible stunt things, on and on, until I thought he would somehow perish right in front of our eyes. But he didn't.

From the comfy living and sitting rooms, you ascend the next set of zigzag stairs to the tippy top where the two bedrooms sit. The main bedroom is super pretty with a Queen bed and iron bedstead. And the view of the sea is stunning in there. 

There is also a half bath on that floor between the bedrooms, just in case it is needed in the middle of the night,

So our plans may have changed, and the guest room remains empty, we refuse to utterly abandon these plans. We shall think of them instead as being temporarily Postponed. And then St Ives won't know what has hit it.

See you along the way!

the SconeLady