We made an August visit to Boskednan and Tregeseal, to find two of Cornwall’s ancient stone circles, set on heather clad heathland
The Ednovean Farm diary
The Ednovean Farm Diary is my blog about life at Ednovean as we open our home as a luxury Bed and Breakfast. We live with Louis and Spud-cat and five horses including Danilon or Spanish stallion
Hello Summer days!
Hello summer days I’ve missed you!
Join me in this weeks blog newly settled into our redesigned website to a taste of summer days at Ednovean Farm
Our recycled home – Ednovean
The ivy clad farmhouse at Ednovean farm has the mellow dignity of a building loved by time but it holds a little secret close to its heart, a little secret of its previous life as a historic 17th-century barn before its renovation to become our home of today. As we created our home at Ednovean […]
Glimpses of the sea
It is extraordinary how very often it is those sudden unexpected glimpses of the sea that are the most exciting – particular markers in our journeys and hints of a day to come. Rather like the tantalising first ones I used to have on a tediously long childhood car journeys chanting “are we there yet!” […]
Summer dreams and memories
This morning I thought it might be better to dream of the summer days ahead – of days when I can just listen to the bees buzzing as the scent to lavender fills the air. To dream of summer days once more when the courtyard garden fills with lazy warmth of the sun…
Christmas at Ednovean
Christmas greetings and inspirations for decorating the house in traditional and Nordic style. Accompanied by nostalgic snowy photos of the garden of when our garden turned into a Victorian Christmas Card
The last golden days of Autumn – Three simple winter treats
The golden days of autumn have begun to fade now, slipping inexorably towards the beginning of winter and as the days have grown shorter I have started to make small adjustments to our home searching for cosy new throws for our bedrooms and extra candles to shimmer on the Breakfast table to brighten the winter […]
Autumn a season of joys and consolations
Autumn days brings those glorious days of bright sunshine and cool clear air, days of racing waves trailing plumes of vapour and the thoughts of cosy warm suppers tucked beside the ancient inglenook of a pub high on the moors. The country lanes are filled with tawny leaves drifting underfoot, the high warm banks dressed […]
Cooling Sea breezes in the heat wave
The sea has never seemed bluer than this month as the heat wave changed our lives to a Mediterranean rhythm, as day after day of endless sunshine spread before us. We abandoned work in the afternoons to settle at the seas edge below the red baked clay cliffs of one the little coves that flank […]
Four spring inspirations with love from Cornwall
Springtime in Cornwall is a wonderful season to soak up the atmosphere as fresh new buds open in the garden, to bring welcome flashes of green so full of luscious promises.; take a walk in the countryside or even a ride around the lanes; to just sit on the beach and eat an ice cream […]