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It’s been a very strange spring here in the UK and the coronavirus epidemic has had a huge impact on the islands. Fortunately we have remained Covid-19 free but being closed for fourteen weeks has been very difficult, especially as the weather was fabulous over Easter, May Day and the late May bank holiday. Our guests were very disappointed but totally understanding (bar one booking) and we are almost fully booked for April, May and June 2021 already! Sadly, Saturday 4th July, the day Scilly opened to visitors, was foggy and quite rough so all the flights were cancelled and the boat (with only 140 passengers on board due to coronavirus restrictions) had a rather bumpy crossing.

Today, Sunday 5th July, is bright and breezy. The Scillonian did another sailing and the Skybus flew from Land’s End this morning bringing delayed passengers from yesterday. It’s a slightly scary step for the islands, having been locked down so securely for many weeks, but life must go on. It will be nice to welcome back our visitors and we, like everyone else on Scilly, will be doing everything we can to make holidaying here as secure and enjoyable as possible.

We’ve had our offspring with us for the past fourteen weeks, having arrived back on Scilly after an express dash to Birmingham via Truro over that weekend, landing on the day the lock down was declared – Monday 23rd March 2020. For a couple of months, it was like a family holiday, the whole of Glandore to spread out in since we had no guests, a garden that was crying out for some serious work and just being together was nice. But our daughter has been missing her friends and housemates and started to get a little more unsettled over the last month.

It hasn’t been easy – having our adult autistic daughter home over such a long period was always going to be challenging  …. and it was! But we have survived (relatively) unscathed and are now facing the difficult question of when to take her back to her care home in the West Midlands. So many different things have to come together and ‘be right’ for us to get away in the middle of the summer, including apartment changeovers, reduced availability of flights and having to close the Gallery while we are away. Nothing is settled yet but we have a couple of dates that might be suitable.

Today , in the meantime, she has been out to feed the ducks at the Watermill duck pond, feed a friend’s horses with carrots and apple, put the bottles in the bottle bank and washed our car. Considering how little the car has been used over the past 14 weeks, it has been cleaned regularly every Sunday and is looking very chipper!

We’ve looking forward to welcoming our first guests to the apartments on Wednesday and Thursday and it will probably be busy from then until early September if confirmations are anything to go by. We are very grateful for our lovely understanding guests and look forward to welcoming those who were forced to forgo their holidays in April, May, June and early July next year.

I’ll finish with a tranquil image of ‘Virga’ clouds taken on the 17th May just after 10.30 in the evening (not that I’ve had much time for my photography over the last fourteen weeks …)

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Since Storm Callum blew through last weekend, the weather has calmed down and yesterday evening was just glorious – calm and mild with only the gentlest of breezes. The soft golden luminous quality of the light was just breathtaking as were the reflections on the sea. So Stephen went out onto Porthloo beach late afternoon to find a spot at half tide where he could paint oystercatchers foraging amongst the stones and weed during the sunset ‘golden hour’.  This is a painting in the very early stages of execution but already there is a sense of movement in the waves as they roll onto the beach.

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The islands are much quieter now. Sadly Storm Callum disappointed birdwatchers on Scilly this month who were hoping it would blow rare migrants over from North America but very little arrived on our shores. The road along Old Town sea front was closed during the highest tides and there is a LOT of seaweed on many beaches.

The Gallery has been ticking over in ‘slumber’ mode as we prepare for its winter move up into our Golden Eagle apartment where it stays for a month to six weeks between the beginning of December and mid January. If you know the Gallery, you will not be surprised to learn that we use it as our main living room when we have family and friends visit us over Christmas and New Year. The magnificent fireplace with a blazing log fire, roasting chestnuts and home-made mulled cider to hand is a real treat!

The last guests in our apartments are here this week so the house will be very quiet by next Friday. Boats of all shapes and sizes are coming up onto Porthloo Green and being swathed in tarpaulins ready for their winter sleep. Apples are being picked, along with blackberries, which have cropped very well in island hedgerows this autumn, thanks to the September and October rains. After the long, hot, DRY, busy summer, the autumn is a time of rest and relaxation for many islanders, many of whom will be leaving for holidays abroad this week when school breaks up for half term.

We’ll be updating our availability for 2019 here very soon so visit again to see what we have available in our apartments if you are planning to holiday with us next year. There’s not much left …

 

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After a gloriously sunny morning slid into a rather wet and miserable afternoon, here are three mounted and framed Stephen Morris giclee prints waiting in the Gallery for collection by their new owners.

Stephen Morris – 3 giclee prints

They are going to be hung in a Hugh Town holiday let as a trio and a ‘Tower of Pebbles’ will also be going with them but mounted in terracotta for a different room. These three are actually all Porthloo paintings. From left to right they are “Oystercatchers and Pebbles, Porthloo Beach”, “Amethyst Sunset” and “North Beach, Porthloo”, all mounted in blue and framed in cream wood.

The weather has been really nice over the past few days and Stephen would really have liked to paint but he is helping our builders to construct Lois’ brand new greenhouse. It arrived flat-packed on the Gry Maritha last Friday and was delivered to us on Saturday. Now it is slowly taking shape at the bottom of the garden at Glandore, on roughly the same footprint as the Alton cedarwood greenhouse that was dismantled at the beginning of the week.

That had stood there for over 27 years, withstanding sun, rain, gales (including some ferocious storms), frost, snow (VERY occasionally!), sand, lichen, pine needles and the ‘deposits’ of our resident starlings and other birds. Sadly, it was rotting, sagging and becoming quite dangerous so Lois spent a lot of time moving tender plants up into the smaller greenhouse, crating up pots and other equipment for storage, tucking the hardier plants into sheltered parts of our garden and removing as much of the staging as possible. Then the stage was clear for the new production.

New Greenhouse October 2016

In his spare (?) time, Stephen is now working on the 2016 vintage of his cider. The Bramley trees in the garden have surrendered about half their fruit and he is well into producing his second barrel. The first is burbling away happily to itself in the workshop. Current and previous guests have been enjoying a glass or two of the 2015 vintage from the barrel in the house and pronounced it excellent. It’s very dry and VERY strong so Lois is looking forward to enjoying it mulled at Christmas 🙂

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Some very sad news this weekend – Sweetie, the white duck from Porthloo duck pond who visited us regularly over the past six or so years, has gone to Duck Heaven 😦

 

‘Sweetie” the white duck from Porthloo duck pond. Glandore Gallery, Isles of Scilly.

She spent the last week of her life in the garden at Glandore, sitting quietly on her own in the sunshine on the patio and in other sheltered spots. We had a suspicion that she was nearing the end of her days because she was quite subdued and didn’t move around much.

We found her on the patio on the morning of Saturday 8th October 2016 and estimate that she must have died at dawn. Steve buried her safely under the grass next to the patio. We think she was born in our garden in about 2010 and has returned every year since, nesting for the last three or four years and raising about a dozen ducklings.

‘Sweetie” the white duck from Porthloo duck pond. Glandore Gallery, Isles of Scilly.

We will miss her … but this year’s family of ducklings is still visiting the garden, sometimes all together and sometimes in twos and threes. Maybe one of her daughters will nest in the garden sometime in the future 🙂 R.I.P Sweetie XXX

Golf Magazine Features Scilly’s ‘Course With A View’

The Isles of Scilly Golf Club is very close to our holiday apartments here at Glandore and, although we’re not golfers ourselves, we are frequent social visitors. In fact, we’ve enjoyed some excellent meals and evenings there courtesy of Ramsey and Faye.

In March 2012, when we had our first Painting Week Holiday at Glandore, we chose the Golf Club as the venue for an ‘Icebreaker Dinner’. It gave us a great opportunity to get together with our artist guests, enjoy a fabulous meal and spend a pleasant evening socialising before the start of the week. Everyone agreed that the meal was one of the best they’d ever had – kudos to Ramsey and Faye!

So we were delighted to see a link on Facebook today which headlined:

Golf tourism in Scilly may get a boost this month. The Golf Club is being featured in a six-page spread in October’s Golf International magazine.

Editor Richard Simmons was invited over by James Francis from the Star Castle Hotel to experience the course on St Mary’s.

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And Richard says far from being a “Mickey Mouse” nine-hole course, he found a really tough challenge requiring some decent skills.

Although the trump card of the course is definitely it’s location. The article asks, “where in the world can you enjoy views like this?”

Just to show you what the views are like –

The stunning view from the Isles of Scilly Golf Course, St. Marys, Isles of Scilly

And the food’s not bad either!

Lunch at the Isles of Scilly Golf Course 14th October 2013

Being a lovely day, there were a few golfers out on the course while we had lunch.

View across the Isles of Scilly golf course from the Clubhouse 14th October 2013

As a bonus, in the evening, the islands enjoyed a wonderful display of ‘crepuscular rays‘.

A display of crepuscular rays as the sun set over the St Marys Lifeboat moored in the harbour.

The Isles of Scilly Golf Course is at the top of the hill with amazing views towards Hugh Town and below it nestles the little ‘hamlet’ of Porthloo. The beach itself is one of only fourteen regional subject areas for Quaternary interests within the whole of Great Britain. This is because it is the type locality for a geological feature called the Porthloo Breccia.

Breccia is a type of rock composed of larger fragments from either rocks or minerals embedded in very fine ground up crystals. These can be similar or different in composition. This type of rock was found to be the first of its type and so it was named after the place it was discovered in.

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Porthloo is important for its geological interests. There are Quaternary deposits in the cliff. The organic deposits include pollen which indicates former artic tundra conditions in the palaeoclimate.

Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust – Porthloo, St Marys.

Porthloo itself is an interesting, although often missed, place on St Marys. It offers self catering accommodation, Bed & Breakfast accommodation, a cluster of Artists Studios at Porthlo Barn Studios and our own Gallery/Shop at Glandore Gallery as well as Juliet’s Garden Restaurant and the Golf Club.

We’re now looking forward to the themed ‘cuisine around the world’ evenings that the Golf Club runs during the winter 🙂

 

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Stephen has been painting at the Penninis end of Porthcressa Beach over the last couple of days. It’s an early morning painting so I’ve been getting a mug of tea at 7am just before he heads out with his huge rucksack. He always takes a 1 litre stainless steel flask of hot weak black tea and a sandwich with him for breakfast. Apparently he had a discussion with someone this morning about his chosen filling – Marmite/Peanut Butter/ Orange Marmalade ….. He’s out painting until just before midday (when he probably gets hungry and starts thinking about lunch) so he heads back to Glandore Gallery.

The following images were taken on the second day of painting so probaby after seven or eight hours work. This is a vertical ‘portrait’ format painting which is probably his favourite because he can get good detail in the foreground but also a real sense of depth in the middle and far distance.

Painting in progress – Porthcressa 1st June 2013

The second image is a detail of the work already done, showing the intricate shadows and shapes in the granite rock as well as the profusion of flowers and details of the foreground petals. The weather forecast looks good for the next couple of days at least so hopefully this painting will be finished soon!

Details of Porthcressa painting – 1st June 2013

Here are some other paintings that he has completed this spring – the first one was painted near Cromwell’s Castle on Tresco and the other two were painted at Porthmellon – one a landscape format beach painting and one a portrait format flora and beach painting. None of the paintings have proper titles yet, the ones given are only ‘working’ titles. Sometimes, if a painting is untitled when sold, Stephen likes to give the purchaser the option to give it a title themselves.

Tresco (near Cromwell’s Castle) May 2013

Porthmellon Beach May 2013

Overlooking Porthmellon Beach May 2013

And finally, Stephen working on the last painting, on Porthmellon, May 25th 2013.

Stephen painting at Porthmellon 25-05-2013

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Art Scilly week began yesterday (Saturday 11th May 2013) with a Welcome Evening in the upstairs Gallery space at Phoenix Studio courtesy of Oriel Hicks. From 6pm until 8pm, the place thronged with people – some of the artists and craftspeople taking part in the art festival as well as prospective and already booked visitors who would be participating in the workshops. Wine was on offer along with soft drinks, savoury nibbles and some artistically-decorated cookies courtesy of Imogen and Vickie. It was a busy ‘buzzy’ evening 🙂

Welcome reception for Art Scilly week 11th May 2013

Welcome to Art Scilly week 11-05-2013

Delicious cookies on offer at the Art Scilly Welcome evening 11th May 2013

Stephen’s “Quick Watercolour Sketching from Life” workshop was scheduled for the following morning (Sunday) from 10am until 1pm and, sadly, the weather was nowhere near as kind as it had been last year Art Scilly 2012 at Glandore Gallery

We had grey skies, murky visibility and rain by 10am when our participants arrived so Steve had already set up the easels, chairs and painting supplies indoors in the warmth and space of the Gallery itself.

Easels set up indoors at Glandore Gallery for Stephen’s watercolour workshop – ArtScilly May 2013

Painting equipment set out for Stephen’s watercolour workshop Art Scilly May 2013

We did have seven prospective participants but, in the end, one failed to arrive, so there were six. Stephen started the workshop by demonstrating and explaining some of the techniques he uses when he’s painting in watercolour.

Stephen demonstrating watercolour techniques at Glandore Gallery, Art Scilly May 2013

Then everyone settled down at an easel, prepared their paper, paints and brushes and got started. It was a very relaxed and informal session during which Stephen circulated, offering advice and help to everyone when requested. Lois had provided a selection of Scilly pebbles, driftwood, shells and seaglass so he was able to set up static arrangements for them to paint. Some just painted the still life displays and others combined them with the view out of the window.

Watercolour workshop at Glandore Gallery for ArtScilly week May 2013

 

Watercolour workshop at Glandore Gallery for ArtScilly week May 2013

Midmorning, we paused for elevenses and I provided Steve and the workshop participants with tea, coffee and a large freshly-baked Victoria sandwich with strawberry jam filling.

Elevenses at Glandore Gallery workshop for Art Scilly week May 2013

Refreshed, they returned to their paintings …

Paintings produced during the watercolour workshop, Glandore Gallery Art Scilly week May 2013

Paintings produced during the watercolour workshop, Glandore Gallery Art Scilly week May 2013

These were Stephen’s demonstration paintings that he did during the watercolour workshop, illustrating his methods of using watercolours to capture the sea, sky and pebbles of Scilly.

Stephen’s demonstration paintings for the watercolour workshop, Glandore Gallery Art Scilly week May 2013

The workshop ended just after 1pm when most of the participants kindly filled out Feedback forms for us. These have proved very useful for planning the workshops and activities to keep it all fresh and interesting. Some of this year’s participants were, again, beginners, with one or two having some experience with watercolours through classes taken at home. It was a nice mixed group of ladies and gentlemen and  everyone said that they’d really enjoyed the workshop which was nice.

Once everyone had left, we spent about an hour putting away all the painting equipment and materials, doing the washing up and replacing all the Gallery card displays and furniture. Now it’s all ready to open the Gallery again as normal tomorrow morning 🙂

 

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Well, it’s been an extremely busy winter AND spring at Glandore and we are, in so many ways, happy to be back in the routine of customers in the gallery and guests in the apartments. Steve has been so busy with the balcony construction that he’s had no time to paint on Scilly at all this winter and only managed to fit in the occasional day on trips to the mainland.

Yesterday (Saturday 6th April) was absolutely glorious – the wind had dropped to a gentle breeze (although it was still cold), the sky was blue, the sea was calm and the sunshine was warm. It was a perfect evening to take some photos of the new balcony which looked splendid. The first one was taken from Porthloo Green looking up at Glandore

Golden Eagle’s new balcony 06-04-2013

This one was taken on the balcony itself showing the view across to Samson. Apologies for the rather bleached sky but the sun was very bright and warm on the balcony, shining almost straight into the camera. I should have taken a glass of wine up and sat down to enjoy it while I was there!

Sunny balcony 06-04-2013

Finally, there was a wonderful soft-focus sunset in the evening – a peachy pink watercolour sky and mirrored sea – just beautiful. Taken from the balcony, this image really shows what a fabulous addition the balcony has been to our Golden Eagle apartment and what our lucky guests have to look forward to this summer and in the future.

Sunset from the balcony 06-04-2013

Last week, we spent a day on St. Agnes with Joy which necessitated closing the Gallery for the day and putting up notices of apology to any prospective customers. The weather was clear and sunny but the wind was very cold so we had a chilly trip across on Meridian with Jeremy. We took a picnic lunch and, after fighting the wind around Wingletang Downs, we found a spot out of the wind to eat it. Steve managed to do an acrylic ink sketch while we went on the beach and enjoyed a paddle (Joy) and some photography and beachcoming (Lois). We also treated ourselves to delicious icecream from Troytown Farm.

Stephen painting on St Agnes 03-04-2013

The crisp spring sunshine made all the colours really vibrant and the sea sparkle. It was a lovely day to paint and take photographs.

Rock formation on St Agnes 03-04-2013

Steve’s birthday is in April so Joy insisted on making him a birthday cake this week. I baked two seven inch chocolate cakes which I split into four pieces and sandwiched together with strawberry jam and proper buttercream. The quadruple-decker cake was then topped with a thick layer of more buttercream and Joy was allowed to decorate it …. involving two packets of chocolate buttons, (most of the contents of) one packet of giant chocolate buttons and (almost a whole) packet of Smarties … it looks like we’ll be eating birthday cake all week 🙂

Steve’s Birthday Cake April 2013

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Despite all the cold and windy weather we’ve had in March, progress on the balcony has been steady and exciting. March 11th even saw a combination of hail and snow fall on Scilly although it was a paltry amount compared with the snowfall on the UK mainland. Nevertheless, it was worth a photo so I give you …. hailsnow on the balcony!

Snow/hail on balcony 11-03-2013

Following all that excitement, Steve spent a day indoors in the warm of Golden Eagle’s lounge, laying the underlay on the floor and putting down the gripper rods ready for George the carpetfitter to lay the carpet.

Carpet underlay 12-03-2013

George came over from his home on Tresco on the Wednesday morning and spent a couple of hours laying the new carpet. We’d already bought it on the mainland and had it shipped over in the New Year so it was all ready for him. It actually matches the carpet already laid on the stairs and in the bedrooms and lobby upstairs in Golden Eagle.

Golden Eagle new carpet 13-03-2013

At this point, the balcony itself had been constructed and a rather dull grey fibreglass base laid (it’s visible through the window) but it was still ‘undressed’ in the sense that the railings were being constructed by Clinton and Jamie at Pernic Forge. That all changed with the arrival of a carriers’ lorry on March 26th because on the back of it was a gleaming white balcony railing construction, ready to be lifted up to the balcony and bolted securely into place. It was unloaded onto the grass and, when I posted an image on Facebook,  someone commented that it was nice enough to be a piece of modern sculpture and perhaps it should stay there. (I don’t think Peter would be too happy about that when he next came to mow the grass …..)

Golden Eagle balcony railings 26-03-2013

The following morning, Dave and Chris arrived at 8am to help Steve lift the railings up into place and secure it to the balcony. Suddenly Golden Eagle’s balcony was looking spectacular!

Steve on Golden Eagle’s balcony 28-03-2013

But there was still plenty of work to do. The dark grey fibreglass was rather dull and uninspiring so Steve then spent several days meticulously laying some lovely porcelain tiles. They are a soft golden beige in colour and really brought the balcony to life. The afternoon and evening sun on them looks wonderful.

Steve laying the balcony tiles 28-03-2013

The photo above was taken on a rather overcast day with a temperature of about 4 degrees Celsius and a windchill of zero or just below. Steve was right in the teeth of a brisk easterly breeze that made his fingers feel numb and it was a real challenge to carry out such precision work under those circumstances.

Needless to say, he’s starting to get a bit ‘antsy’ after a long winter of very hard work and is desperate to get back to painting now that spring is here. In fact, he currently has five paintings on show in Tresco’s Spring Exhibition and was very much hoping to be able to go across for the Opening Night last night (Saturday 30th March). Unfortunately there were no boats partly due to an island wedding and partly because there weren’t enough people from St. Marys who wanted to go over to Tresco that evening. So he had to give his apologies but we are hoping to go over to Tresco to see the Exhibition some time in the next two weeks.

We did spend four nights on the mainland earlier this month and stayed at The Cornwall Hotel and Spa just outside St. Austell for a couple of nights. That gave Steve enough time to do some watercolour sketching down in Charlestown. The weather forecast hadn’t looked very promising but the two days were actually dry and Tuesday was sunny and warm. While Steve was painting, Lois went on the beach, taking photos and collecting pebbles, and it was warm enough for her to take her coat off and stroll around in a T-shirt!

Painting in Charlestown 18-03-2013

Painting in Charlestown 19-03-2013

We spent a pleasant hour with Paul, Liz and little Eileen at the Atishoo Gallery in Charlestown where they have Steve’s original paintings and a selection of prints. He was really pleased to be able to leave them not one but two acrylic ink sketches that he’d done in Charlestown. Since it was still very cold, we treated ourselves to hot chocolate and delicious cakes at Charlies Coffee House in Charlestown before we left.

The following day, having checked out of the hotel, we decided to go to Trewithen Gardens before heading upcountry to Birmingham to collect Joy for her Easter holiday. Again, it was cold and the sun was very reluctant to shine, but Steve took his painting gear and set up by the beautiful Magnolia Fountain to do a watercolour sketch. Lois spent a happy hour and a half exploring the gardens and watching the red squirrels in their enclosure. Most garden visitors were wary of disturbing him but he’s always happy to chat (unless he’s at a particularly critical point in a painting) and he was soon chatting to a small group who were interested in his work.

Stephen painting at Trewithen Gardens 20-03-2013

Finally, to round off this long blog post, here is a photo of Glandore Gallery and Apartments basking in the chilly spring sunshine.

Glandore Gallery 28-03-2013

 

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With ArtScilly approaching fast, we’ve been busy planning our art-orientated activities and offerings for 2013. It hardly needs saying that Scilly is an exceptional location for artists, offering a wide array of landscapes and seascapes together with beautiful beaches and flowers both exotic and unusual. Stephen considers himself extremely lucky to be living and painting here.

scillytoday.com has already run an enthusiastic and positive article about ArtScilly 2013 which can be found here  Preparations Underway for ArtScilly Week and we were pleased to see Steve’s Watercolour Sketching Morning mentioned as one of the ‘big hits’ of ArtScilly 2012.

You can find our Photo Diary of the ‘Quick Watercolour Sketching from Life’ on our website here ArtScilly 2012 at Glandore Gallery We had a truly glorious day, some lovely students, lots of nice feedback and some delicious tea and cake after all that hard work.

Also of interest to any prospective visitors for ArtScilly 2013, which runs from Saturday 11th to Saturday 18th May is the fact that the Isles of Scilly Steamship Company is offering discount fares for that week.

“Isles of Scilly Travel are supporting Art Scilly and are offering a discount on flights. To take advantage of this offer, please ring 0845 710 5555 and quote ‘Art Scilly Week’ when you book.”

Below is our advert which will be in the black-and-white ArtScilly 2013 brochure. We are planning to offer extra services for artists visiting the islands and are hoping to provide folding chairs/stools and wooden folding easels for hire. We appreciate that the tight luggage allowance on Skybus means that artists might be limited in the amount of equipment they can bring with them to the islands.

Glandore Gallery ArtScilly 2013

We are also planning to offer complimentary provision of equipment to artists who stay with us at Glandore Apartments. In addition, Stephen is considering offering tuition either to individuals, couples or groups but not in the main holiday season because that is the time when he can get out to paint himself. This summer we are refurbishing Aunt Nan’s studio/workshop at the bottom of Glandore’s garden and this will provide a comfortable, private, light-filled space for resident artists and tutorial sessions with Stephen.

Regretfully, we have had to cancel our planned residential Painting Week for March 2013. With ‘Golden Eagle’ apartment unavailable due to major structural works (the creation of a new balcony with fabulous westerly sea views opening from double glazed French windows from the sitting room), we could only offer ‘Serica’ and ‘Slippen’ which were both booked. Then, in early January, one of the bookings was cancelled due to the visitors being unable to secure ‘dog sitters’ plus the uncertainty over travel arrangements to Scilly before Easter. The remaining booking (some of our regular Glandore guests) then agreed to defer their Painting Week to March/April 2014.

Work is progressing well on the balcony construction, despite the raw south easterly gales that have battered the islands over the last couple of days. Fortunately the balcony is on the sheltered side of the property and wasn’t badly affected by the gales. The boards have now been laid and covered with fibreglass matting and resin to form a hard waterproof layer.

Nevertheless, the daffodils are definitely in full bloom on the islands! Daffodils are synonymous with spring on Scilly (and winter too!) so I couldn’t resist snapping this trio of frilly-skirted double daffodils that I spotted growing on top of a bank on my morning walk. The variety of daffodils growing wild in the banks and hedgerows on Scilly is truly amazing. I think many of them are old varieties and perhaps discarded in the past. I often play ‘Spot the Daffodil’ when I’m out walking.

Scilly daffodils February 2013