Arrival!

We're here! Long day driving vans about, exhausted. Having meowed mournfully much of the way, done five large poos just as we approached Bude, and now facing a week of confinement, poor fella, Captain Cat is finally purring! No noise from upstairs (there is none!); no noise from anywhere. And outside, the most wonderful stars. Amazing how quickly you forget how stunning they are; and all you need for this marvel is lack of clouds and lack of town. Oh...and the sea - so blue and huge suddenly as it appears at the crest of the hill coming onto the 'Atlantic Highway'.

Great to have people here to help us unload and shove things through the door; and then to be cooked for, and have easy chats, and then easy early goodnights. Of course there will be issues with people - personalities, roles, costs and so on - but so there is in life anywhere; and here's a little hamlet microcosm, a real life period drama right now, where we will be challenged and challenging and will work things out, learning, growing, harvesting. I know I'm tired and wine kissed, but I think it's truly fair to feel really optimistic.