It's 2013

As a start for the new year, we walked to the Historic Talbot Village built in the 1850s by 2 sisters (Georgina and Mary Talbot) to help the poor and needy. What is left of it is now a conservation area maintained by a trust. Bournemouth University is built on part of it (one of the original farms). There are a few structures remaining and a number of paths through lovely wooded areas.  We'll be going again to try out some different paths.

When we went out to Cornwall to do the Sisters’ flat inspections (we now have 3—St. Austell, Weymouth and Exeter), it was on P-day.  When we asked the St. Austell Sisters if we could drop them anywhere afterwards, they said, well, we’d really like to see something we’ve been looking at out our window for 5+ months (they don’t have a car or bikes)...the “Day Mark” on the Gribben Head, a promontory that juts out into the English Channel.   There is a square beacon tower, 84 feet high, that was erected in 1832 to distinguish the Gribben from two other points to make navigation into Fowey (Foe-eee)and the harbors of St Austell Bay safer. It was never lighted, but is painted in broad red and white bands as a day mark.  Since we didn’t have other obligations, we said sure and spent 15 minutes driving out and then hiking (Dad opted out because of his dress shoes and suit) for an hour and a half (round trip) to get to the base of the tower.  It was fun with breath-taking scenery.  The only problem for me was I was in a long skirt and nice boots and it was very muddy.  The Sisters had levis and hiking shoes.  It was actually a little scary (I was worried about slipping and falling in huge mud holes and up steep muddy paths) at times, but we made it.  What an adventure.

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