Good Morning Early Birds!

[waterboatman]

Thursday. Looking somewhat somewhat miserable out there again this morning. not the best summer is it!

Hospice day, so I will be off at eight.

Tiggy is still out and about, I could hear him snuffling about in the bushes a little while ago.

Have a happy day everyone.

[mikey4444]

Morning All !

Turned out to be a very beautiful afternoon yesterday...warm and sunny.
But we are back to our mist again this morning. I think I started a cold last night, as I am very snuffly and sneezy. I take loads of Vitamin C in times like this but I have run out, so off to the Co-op at 09:00 !

[murraymints]

morning Mikey xx a..choo.....

[mikey4444]

Achoo indeed Minty !

I like those big effervescent Vitamin C tablets, as big as those ones that you soak your teeth in over night. Linus Pauling, one of the few people to be awarded a Nobel prize twice, had a theory that Vitamin C was one of the great cure-alls around, and he recommended that you bombard your system with it, when you can feel a cold coming on.

[Baldric]

A cold, can't remember the last time I had one of those.

[mikey4444]

Since I started taking Vitamin C every day, I get about one, or at the worst, two colds a year. But I am left with chesty catarrh for weeks afterwards, which is the devil to cure.

[NoMercy]

Morning all. My last day in St Ives today :(

I wonder how many Cornish Rattlers I can get in before we leave.

[mikey4444]

NoMercy....hadn't realised that you were in St ives ! I am very jealous !

Did you manage to get around and see all the sights ? One of my favourite Pubs is the Tinners at Zennor !

Tell us all bout it !

[NoMercy]

Well, the Sloop is one of my favourite haunts now. We ate there last Saturday night and it's one of the best fillet steaks I've ever had.

We ate at the Porthminster Kitchen last night (see my Wine Of The Week thread in Food & Drink).

I've met the harbour seals - beautiful!!

We both had a dodgy tummy yesterday morning which may have been down to a pot of mussels we shared but it hasn't spoilt our enjoyment.

I bought a tonne of fudge yesterday :)

I could go on and on...

[mikey4444]

As Mrs Doyle would say.....go on, go on, go on !

St Ives can get dreadfully crowded in high season, so you are definitely coming home on the right day. But its the simple pleasures that I like there, like sitting on the Pier, with one of those huge great Pasties and a cup of tea, watching the world go by.

( carefully protecting aforesaid Pasty against an attack by the worlds most evil seagulls, of course ! )

[Baldric]

Haven't been there for a couple of years but glad to hear The Sloop is still good, have used it many times over the years ;o)

[ladybirder]

Thinking about the beach at St Ives fills me with terror. We lost my little girl on there for what seemed an age, many years ago, but was probably only a couple of minutes. The sheer panic and horror as we realised we couldn't see her still lives with me today.

[NoMercy]

We've visited a fair few lovely drinking establishments and there's been an abundance of live music.

Some old guy was playing his Violin the other night just down from the Seafood Café and I could have stood there and watched him all night!

A seagull skimmed the top of my head the other day in an attempt to swipe my other half's pasty!

I enjoyed watching a group of lads jumping off the harbour pier at high tide and as they all swam off you could see one of the seals following them, no doubt wanting to see what all the commotion was.

I can't wait to come back next year :)