Walking along the Cornish Cliffs

Yesterday we went for a walk along the Cornish cliffs. It was one of those days when you feel alive, windy and a bit cool, good for walking. We walked along walkways to a lighthouse and looked at a burial mound called a “tumulus” along the way. The names here are great: Treyarnon Point, Booby’s Bay, Trevose Head, Mother Ivey’s Bay, Trethillick, Porthmissen, Lellizzick.
There are slate walls along the clifftop walkways marking the farm boundaries, the rows of slates making patterns, all different, with plants growing through the stone. We walked away from the coast for a part of the way and picked blackberries. Leo, Harry and Robbie picked up sticks for wands and cast spells all day, “Accio”, “Wingardium leviosa”, “Avada Kevadra”.
We listened to Harry Potter in the big red van on the way back home and arrived feeling tired with a good sea spray and sun feeling. Spaghetti Bolognese for dinner and fruit sponge with double cream for pudding. We played cards after dinner with the kids, drank some wine, talked after they went to bed.