A Glorious Autumn Day in West Cornwall

Christmas is approaching fast. Today we were dropping off some of our glass to the Out of the Blue Gallery in Marazion. And there was just time to pop out and take a photo.

Marazion was looking fantastic today in the Autumn sunshine with a dramatic St Michael's Mount still attracting visitors across the causeway at low tide.

Having said that, last Thursday, the Mount had disappeared in the fog that was shrouding the whole of West Cornwall.

That's the thing about living in this part of Cornwall ... the weather changes, and sometimes very quickly. The past few days have been a mixture of heavy reain showers and glorious sunshine, so sometimes you just ignore the forecast and look out the window to see whether you should wear your wellies or your shorts.

St Just's Lafrowda Festival

The bunting is out and St Just is truly gearing up for the annual Lafrowda Festival. We are hoping the weather will be kind to us. This picture was taken a couple of days ago on my phone. Unusually there were no cars outside the church and with the cloth bunting it looked like a scene from days gone by.

There is something on every day this week culminating with the Barbeque on Friday night and the Festival on Saturday. Find out more at http://www.lafrowda-festival.co.uk

St Just Arts and Crafts is opening on Saturday 16 July. This new gallery is a collaboration between artist Nick Smith and Neil and Ann Christmas who run Bosvargus Barn B&B. Our glass will be in the gallery and I have just spent an evening sticking on labels and cutting ribbons for all the lightcatchers.

The St Just and Land's End Chamber leaflets are now available - one listing many of the shops, galleries and activities in the area, and one with local accommodation. Pick them up from many of the traders in the town or from the information stand at Lafrowda.

June News

The season advances and we come to the end of June with a week of sun, fog, sun, fog and now sun again.

Despite the odd morning of fog, St Just is warming up in many ways.

It is warm enough to sit outside the pub for a beer in the evening, but with a lovely breeze that means we rarely experience the intense heat that we used to living in the South East. The town is beginning to buzz with early season visitors and queues in the Co-op are getting longer with purchases of burgers for barbeques and beer to wash it all down.

There is a new gallery due to open in July next to the Cook Book in Cape Cornwall Street, you can now buy ice creams from the shop next to Just Fine Art and, after a short break, the Chinese takeway is back open again.

With Lafrowda just around the corner, the main festival day on 16th July, the programme is now on the website http://www.lafrowda-festival.co.uk/. After years of guests leaving and arriving on Saturdays, we have switched to Friday changovers so that we can enjoy the carnival day and relax like everyone else.

And finally the new leaflets that the Chamber of Commerce is producing to promote the traders and the accommodation in the area are due to arrive any minute and will hopefully encourage even more visitors to our lovely corner of Cornwall. The picture is taken at Cape Cornwall and has been used in one of the leaflets.