Gull Cottage Boscastle Harbour

30/11/2024

Boscastle has EV chargers! We were a bit slow to the news, but worth sharing :)

Information relating to the electric vehicle charging facilities in Boscastle Cornwall

23/11/2024

Well, this is a welcome development for Gull Cottage guests! We had two absolutely delicious pizzas from The Cornish Pizza Box Company, who are in Boscastle every Friday evening in the top village. We messaged them with our order, agreed a time and the pizzas were just coming out of the oven as we arrived. Our gluten-free pizza was carefully prepared in its own foil tray. And lovely young people, too. We'll be back and wish them well with their new(-ish) venture.

05/09/2024

I had an enjoyable hour spent collecting rubbish that had blown into the Valency River - by the end a full bucket load.
I had quite a few people encouraging me, and one lady who gave me all her rubbish thinking I worked for the council 😄

05/09/2024

And now the sign is in! Our son, who helped dig the hole and concrete in the post, can be seen in the background - we think it was all a bit too much for his relaxing few days away with us.

28/06/2024

For anyone that's caught a stray human wandering onto the terrace to peak at the view, you may be pleased that we continue our two pronged approach - the hedge seems to have taken nicely, offering some privacy, and now . . . . we have a sign ready to be put in place next to the terrace entrance when we're there after the summer season. Lou and I are rather pleased with it 😊

20/05/2024

And the last post from our recent visit . . . a lovely neighbour in our terrace has a boat in the harbour. I had the pleasure of going with him to catch his first lobsters of the season :)

20/05/2024

And we finally have replaced a badly broken chimney pot to stop rainwater running in and just in time to stop the noisy and messy jackdaws nesting - again.

20/05/2024

While doing some spring gardening, we found a nest of slow worms warming themselves under a discarded roof slate in our front garden. Naturally, we popped the slate back and found them still there a day later when we had a sneaky peak :)

12/02/2024

We've had some fridge freezer problems. Our last guests reported that the fridge froze 🙁 so we ordered a new fridge freezer. I then thought to replace the thermostat PCB which appeared to fix the fault, so I cancelled the order. Then the fridge decided to misbehave again, so I ordered the same fridge again, only to find they couldn't deliver in time for the next guests. So I then ordered another fridge freezer from Curry's for deliver today. In summary - we have one faulty fridge freezer only three years old, one cancelled, one not yet cancelled and one just delivered.
Curry's brought rather a large truck and so the fridge freezer had to be lugged up the hill, and the old one down again. The fun of Cornwall.

10/02/2024

On our last walk the colours in the sea and stormy sky were beautiful, captured, as ever, by Louise.

10/02/2024

We've just come back from the cottage having spent our 300th night there. It was mostly work getting the cottage compliant to the latest (very sensible!) government guidelines for safety. Two of the new things are that you can always get out of the cottage without the use of any keys and if a smoke alarm goes off . . . . . it goes off in every room. Horah.
Oh, and we've planted more hedging plants, now we've found a plant that survives the Boscastle Harbour conditions :)