We set off for Penzance at 4.45 yesterday, leaving some 45 minutes as a fudge factor. What we didn't expect was for the M5 to be closed after junction 26 due to an overturned boat and to spend an hour in a traffic jam.
Having been directed back up the southbound carriageway for some 2 miles, we finally got back on the M5 after junction 27 and made the ferry to the Scillies with 2 minutes to spare, throwing the car keys into the hands of the parking attendant on the quay.
The Scillies are, however, quite idyllic - well, St Agnes is. I am led to believe some of the islands are a bit Yummy Mummy.
Went for a walk around the island of St Agnes yesterday and was intrigued by miles and miles of beautifully crafted walls made of cobbles, whose sole function appear to be to keep the bracken fields separate from the gorse fields.
Obviously someone must be making a fortune from growing bracken and gorse in order to be able to afford such expensive walls.
3 comments:
so you do have internet then?
I found your observation most intriguing, and went searching. Apparently Wingletang Down is the only site in Britain where the fern 'Small Adder's-tongue' Ophioglossum lusitanicum grows.
I hope this helps.
Sx
Phil: very sporadic and only in high spots.
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