Good guests, good times

It’s lovely having guests. And good guests bring out the best in you. I think our hospitality is very good. We cook good meals, offer good wine, and hopefully good company, too! We have three very dear friends staying this weekend and so we cleaned the house top to bottom, and put fresh flowers in both of their rooms and my wife, in particularly, has excelled herself with her cooking! Homemade chilli and flour tortillas on Friday, pancakes with fresh fruit salad for breakfast (we went out for dinner), and this morning I am doing one of my special breakfasts. I like to do a full English but with homemade bread, grilled organic bacon, homemade potato scones, and of course our own eggs (preferably home grown tomatoes, too, but it’s a little early and we still only have seedlings!). Later on we’ll be having freshly baked scones with clotted cream and fresh berries. We’ll be sending them home about five pounds heavier! But it really is fun. Getting out the good towels, making up the beds, laying the table and lighting the candles... I think guests help you appreciate your own home sometimes. And I like the ritual of airing the rooms and putting in flowers, it’s a bit 1950s maybe but our friends seem to like it...

Yesterday we went to Polperro and Looe, and walked the dogs at our usual place, Golitha Falls. Today we’re off to the Hurlers, an ancient stone circle up on the moor. And then sadly, the guys will be heading home. I hope they’ve had as good a weekend as we have!