In between toiling up hills Doris has time to muse on scones, telegraph posts, pictures and delusions.
1. The Cross Border Marriage causes problems.
It turns out that Sid’s time at Exeter University has led him into bad ways. Although (I hope my Cornish friends/forefathers are not reading this) as Doris initially watches the progress of the knife with horror, it does look nicer with cream first.
I am waiting to be struck by a bolt from the heavens now.
2. Telegraph Posts
And thus is Sid and Doris’ hotel room joined to a little hut in Porthcurno and so to the rest of the world. This has changed the way I look at telegraph cables forever.
3. Pictures in Hotels
Because it is important to remember things that give you pleasure to look at. Especially the two smiley seals. (I would have credited the artists but their names weren’t shown – thank you, whoever you are.)
4. Self-Diagnosed Delusions
Not all our readers may be aware that, following an ill-considered “upgrade” in 1861 (the removal of what turned out to be a structurally important rood screen), the spire of Chichester Cathedral collapsed some six weeks later.
A local gardener was convinced that he was having a fit – indeed, he asked his local vicar for help – because the spire of the cathedral was definitely there before he started work, but by lunchtime he couldn’t see it.
“It’s the truth sir. I couldn’t see it where it should be. And I shut my eyes and opened them again quick and I rubbed them and no ways could I catch the spire; and I knew then I was took bad.”
At the start of this evening there was a large illuminated ferris wheel outside the Falmouth Maritime Museum.
And later, there wasn’t.
Fortunately Doris captured the project midway.
