Do not carry a toilet roll in your hand across the campsite walking towards the toilets.There is toilet roll in the dispensers so it shouldn’t be necessary to bring your own if you wish to bring your own carry it in a bag or wrapped in a towel to disguise it.
Also do not announce loudly to your husband that your own toilet roll is softer and gives a better wipe
When he queries why you are carrying a toilet roll.The fact you bought it in Tesco and it’s perforated is really too much information. 😂😂😂🙄
Penzance School of Art is a building worth going to see.It’s up a hill that is Morrab Road and is in a residential area leading down to the West Promenade.
Penzance School of Art
Oscar Wilde was shown around here when he visited Penzance on his lecture tour.He was accompanied by the Mayor who had invited him to see the recently opened art school.
There is an open air theatre nearby with a production of The Importance of Being Earnest being performed in July.
I was trying to see if any original features existed that might have been there when Oscar visited.Perhaps maybe the lampposts outside,which fittingly were slightly lopsided and almost foppish and quizzical,much like I think he was about humanity.
The sun shone brightly and it was lovely to see the building.
A Poet in Every Port
I laughed when I saw this set up which was outside the Jubilee Pool and thought what Oscar would have said? Perhaps he would have gone over for a chat and questioned if it was really poetry at all.
Thank you No 9 for providing a dog bowl of water on a hot day.
We got to the Queen’s Hotel and I was not disappointed . Oscar stayed here on his visit It was classic.Still owned by the same family who owned it when Oscar visited.Though Daphne de Maurier is a more well regarded guest.I wonder if Oscar paid his bill.
My objective was to have a cream tea there and although hotels are not my natural forte.I waltzed in and established that we could order a cream tea and sit in the bar with my dog.
The staff were very friendly and as I looked around I again tried to see features that may have been in situ when Oscar visited.
I think the interior is charming and has an oldly worldly feel to it. I loved the Guinness Harp on the bar.There was a wake on in the lounge and two ladies came to the small bar looking for a drink.There was no staff around and it made me laugh when the lady turned around and abruptly said
“Is there anyone serving here?”
There I was sitting in my shorts and tee-shirt,I was hardly the staff. I just put my hands in the air
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Perhaps Oscar couldn’t have visited the Ladies Cloakroom,but he would have appreciated the amount of coat hooks available to hang up their shawls and coats when visiting.
There is a reading room in the hotel too and musical soirees , Andre Dieci did a Concert there recently.
I had a funny experience with the reading room.
I checked with a member of staff could I go in and have a look thinking perhaps Oscar would have read a book in there.
“No problem”
I opened the door and there was a lady sitting with her hands held upward like Jesus Christ surrounded by a load of other people sitting quietly in awe of her. She smiled at me and I quickly and quietly closed the door.
On my return to the bar, I told a member of staff, who smiled and said,
“oh that’s the owner,she’s having one of her hippy chickie meetings”
It was funny and no doubt Oscar would have entered the room and found somewhere to sit and read after all he was a guest.
And then the cream tea arrived which was wonderful.
And a very polite dog who discovered he likes fresh strawberries!
We have to return tomorrow evening to the hotel to collect my yellow jumper which I left there.It’ll be at reception.Oscar liked yellow.
What are you most excited about for the future? The future can be taken away in a moment. It doesn’t exist ,in fact it becomes our present and past so quickly, that sometimes we don’t even acknowledge it. Pause for that thought and your future has passed. That isn’t to say dreaming about the future […]
I use ear plugs a lot to listen to sounds on my phone.Music or learning languages is my thing usually out and about or in bed.
They are not expensive ,ergonomically designed ,top of the range ones.I don’t need incredible sound and I’ve got to admit very often any noise cancelling affects would be wasted on me.I wear them outside a lot and if someone wants to talk to me on the allotment then I take them out with my muddy fingers
I take them in and out of my ears probably more than I should.As very often I lose the little silicon attachment that comes as a set of about five of different sizes.
Don’t they just look Alien!
A few times,they have got stuck in my ear and I’ve needed to get them out with a tweezer.There just fiddly.
And then on holiday,one went missing.I lost it in the caravan.I think I left my earphones in while listening to an audiobook, I fell asleep and when I woke up I felt for the charger and put the earphones back in place, or so I thought.
Next morning I was out and about doing the dishes or whatever and when I got back I turned on the radio and went to put my earphones in their case.I noticed the silicon plug on the left one was missing.
I could have lost it anywhere, normally I bring spares but this time I forgot,so I kept using them and the sound might have been affected but I still could do everything that I wanted to.
I noticed a slight itch on my left ear . I was suspicious,suppose the silicon plug had gone into my ear.I was in the shower with the possibility of a daddy-long legs flying into join me. I was in a heightened sense of panic .So I parked the fear of having a silicon plug work its way down my ear canal and finished my shower.
When I got back I noticed a tiny round piece of shiny metal on my wrist.Amazingly I hadn’t washed it away.It was part of my left earphone the little guard that filters the sound.Now that would have definitely have disappeared into my ear canal ,fortunately it didn’t.
NormalMissing
So like someone wandering around with a broken high heel except in my case it was a faulty left earphone.I kept on doing all the normal things around the campsite,dishes,washing,filling water ,emptying waste water and doing the toilet cassette.
I still thought my left ear felt funny.There was a lingering doubt,when I poked my finger in my left ear I swore it felt smooth.Was it the silicon plug.I tried a pair of tweezers to see if I could grab it, please don’t do this,I could have perforated my ear drum and become permanently deaf in one ear My partner suggested using a cotton tip ,but grumpily I said that would just push it in further .
By now I had convinced myself the silicon plug was in my ear.I suggested going to Specsavers who advertise ear tests,they might find it and extract it for free as it would be useless to try and get an appointment with a GP, three weeks minimum and A&E sounded over the top.
And then browsing the Internet ,I came across a story about a woman who traveled across India and ended up with calcified parasites in her brain and on epilepsy drugs for the rest of her life.
My left ear seemed to get more itchy.My partner reassured me that silicon was inert.I planned a visit to the Health Centre when I got home.They had been pestering me to have a Well Old Woman Assessment.I would mention my ear.I’m sure they would remove it and give me advice on listening devices.Apple probably sponsor the NHS now.Maybe they offer discounts.
And then a few days of imagining my ear canal getting blocked by debris and having problems with balance and vertigo.I came back from my shower and as I sat down to drink my coffee.
“Is this what you are missing”My partner said.”I found it when I was sweeping the floor “
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