Saturday

 A trip to Falmouth to Trago to try to replace our dining room pendant light which has self destructed. Sadly we had to order it, so Christmas will be spent with a hole in the ceiling ! We went to take a look at the new cafe that they have put on the top floor - Certainly a cafe with a view. The amazing red and white vessel is Siem Daya a Multi Purpose Offshore Vessel which usually assists with windfarms I gather.  Behind it is the RFA Lyme Bay just arrived back from the Caribbean

 Plenty of tugs here in Falmouth - sadly not a big one that was needed in Mount's Bay today

 Amazing display of lampshades - this really unusual glass & chrome one was around £250.00 thought the lights were fluorescent - or possibly LEDs

 On the rooftop was this gull deterrent - the head moved around - looked like it worked fairly well.

 Getting ready for an outing in the training gig

 We drove out to the end of Loe Bar Road to try to get some shots of the container ship Samskip Express that had suffered from loss of power yesterday and has been dragging her anchor, getting closer & closer to shore. A tug did arrive from Falmouth last night, but the tow line broke & tug fouled its propeller.

 We must have just missed the arrival of the RNLI Penlee Lifeboat Ivan Ellen and the same tug who made valliant efforts to get the tow line attached - a second tug was despatched from Plymouth, but as we were leaving home this evening they were all moving over the bay and are South of Cudden Point - at least the wind has calmed down a bit and the lifeboat was released and returned to base

 The rain stopped as we approached Helston, so we walked the dogs along the lower Penrose Walk - they've been trying to improve drainage along here - not very successfully at this point

 Always plenty of dogs along here - this is a lovely gentle Ridgeback

 Wooster seemed to rather like her

 They were joined by these two cheeky Working Cockers

 They all had a great time

 Moss on the branches looking like sponges

 and the Ferns love them

 The dogs always know if we are going out without them - they never ever share a bed - yet there they were - look at the expression on Wooster's face !

The Perranuthnoe Village Dinner at The Victoria Inn

Good food and good company - safe to say we enjoyed it. Thanks for organising it Andrea