We've had a couple of lovely days of brilliant sunshine. Late yesterday pm
we got a huge cloudburst and a bit later more sun. This morning dawned very
bright and now it is grey, dark and hissing down with rain. I really hope
that's not 'it' for this year!
Anyway, we're off to Tresco towards the end of this month so it better cheer
up!

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
(new website online but not completed - shop to come and some mild tweaking
to do!)

"Sacha" wrote in message
...
We've had a couple of lovely days of brilliant sunshine. Late yesterday
pm
we got a huge cloudburst and a bit later more sun. This morning dawned
very
bright and now it is grey, dark and hissing down with rain. I really hope
that's not 'it' for this year!
Anyway, we're off to Tresco towards the end of this month so it better
cheer
up!

--
Sacha

Wall to wall sunshine and blue skies on the Isle of Wight :-))

Mike

On 15/6/08 10:47, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:43:41 +0200, Martin wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:17:29 +0100, Sacha wrote:

We've had a couple of lovely days of brilliant sunshine. Late yesterday pm
we got a huge cloudburst and a bit later more sun. This morning dawned very
bright and now it is grey, dark and hissing down with rain. I really hope
that's not 'it' for this year!

It rained here in ZH for the first time in more than a week last night.

Anyway, we're off to Tresco towards the end of this month so it better cheer
up!

It looked fine on 1 April 2007

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/webcams/scillies_offislands_webcam.shtm
l

This one updates
http://www.scillyman.co.uk/Web_Cam.html

That view of St Martin's must be pretty much opposite the Island Hotel on
Tresco, I think. The lighthouse looks familiar. ;-)) I'm told the hotel
on St Martin's is very good so we must try that one day but the lure of
Tresco is hard to resist. We just love it and this time we're doing a coals
to Newcastle thing and taking them some plants!

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
(new website online but not completed - shop to come and some mild tweaking
to do!)

On 15/6/08 11:38, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:19:05 +0100, Sacha wrote:

On 15/6/08 10:47, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:43:41 +0200, Martin wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:17:29 +0100, Sacha
wrote:

We've had a couple of lovely days of brilliant sunshine. Late yesterday
pm
we got a huge cloudburst and a bit later more sun. This morning dawned
very
bright and now it is grey, dark and hissing down with rain. I really hope
that's not 'it' for this year!

It rained here in ZH for the first time in more than a week last night.

Anyway, we're off to Tresco towards the end of this month so it better
cheer
up!

It looked fine on 1 April 2007

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/conten...ds_webcam.shtm

l

This one updates
http://www.scillyman.co.uk/Web_Cam.html

That view of St Martin's must be pretty much opposite the Island Hotel on
Tresco, I think. The lighthouse looks familiar. ;-))

On Round Island?

Yes, that sounds right.

I'm told the hotel
on St Martin's is very good so we must try that one day but the lure of
Tresco is hard to resist. We just love it and this time we're doing a coals
to Newcastle thing and taking them some plants!

They've provided a detailed map to help you locate it. Round Island isn't on
it

http://www.scillyman.co.uk/Large_map.html

How extraordinary not to show the rock with the lighthouse on it!


--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
(new website online but not completed - shop to come and some mild tweaking
to do!)

On 15/6/08 11:58, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:51:50 +0100, Sacha wrote:

snip

How extraordinary not to show the rock with the lighthouse on it!

It's on his small map.
http://www.scillyman.co.uk/Scillies_map.html


That's a relief! ;-)

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
(new website online but not completed - shop to come and some mild tweaking
to do!)

On 15/6/08 12:09, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:03:36 +0100, Sacha wrote:

On 15/6/08 11:58, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:51:50 +0100, Sacha wrote:

snip

How extraordinary not to show the rock with the lighthouse on it!

It's on his small map.
http://www.scillyman.co.uk/Scillies_map.html


That's a relief! ;-)

If he is an island ferry boat operator.

The ferry seems very expensive.

We haven't used it at all except once to go to St Agnes and I think it was
just a couple of pounds each - not much anyway. But that's just one of the
small boats that run like buses between the islands. The Scillonian is the
'big' boat that runs from the mainland to Scilly. First time we went to
Bryher Mike Nelhams drove us across in his Land Rover because it was spring
tides! We hitched a ride back at high water with the Tresco harbour master.
At present Tresco is doing an extraordinarily good deal which involves a
stay at the hotel and free helicopter or ship connections. The helicopter
is a significant past of the cost normally, so while a day trip to the Abbey
Gardens is certainly possible, it's a costly 'day out', even if I do
recommend it very highly. Certainly treating oneself to a few nights at the
hotel or at the New Inn has to be one of the best short breaks ever.
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
(new website online but not completed - shop to come and some mild tweaking
to do!)

On 15/6/08 14:09, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:25:33 +0100, Sacha wrote:

On 15/6/08 12:09, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:03:36 +0100, Sacha wrote:

On 15/6/08 11:58, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:51:50 +0100, Sacha
wrote:

snip

How extraordinary not to show the rock with the lighthouse on it!

It's on his small map.
http://www.scillyman.co.uk/Scillies_map.html


That's a relief! ;-)

If he is an island ferry boat operator.

The ferry seems very expensive.

We haven't used it at all except once to go to St Agnes and I think it was
just a couple of pounds each - not much anyway. But that's just one of the
small boats that run like buses between the islands. The Scillonian is the
'big' boat that runs from the mainland to Scilly.

I meant that The Scillonian is very expensive. Judging from it's appearance it
has fully depreciated. It makes some Greek inter island ferries look modern,
perhaps because the Scillonian is 31 years old. The Greek govt. sets a maximum
permissible age of ferries at 35 years?

I've never made the journey but I gather it's bouncy at times, to put it
mildly. My step-daughter went on the Scillonian the first time she visited
Scilly and it was so horrendous that she vowed never to leave the islands
unless she could go home by helicopter!

When I was a small child I went from St Marys to Tresco on the same boat that
featured in the recent TV series about the Scilly vicar.

An Island Parish? We enjoyed that.

First time we went to
Bryher Mike Nelhams drove us across in his Land Rover because it was spring
tides! We hitched a ride back at high water with the Tresco harbour master.
At present Tresco is doing an extraordinarily good deal which involves a
stay at the hotel and free helicopter or ship connections. The helicopter
is a significant past of the cost normally, so while a day trip to the Abbey
Gardens is certainly possible, it's a costly 'day out', even if I do
recommend it very highly. Certainly treating oneself to a few nights at the
hotel or at the New Inn has to be one of the best short breaks ever.

I don't trust helicopters.

I love that flight and I enjoy helicopters, though I know they have all the
glide propensity of a housebrick. I particularly enjoy the take off and
landing bit - none of that racing down runways and hoping it's going to make
it into the air before the tarmac runs out!
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
(new website online but not completed - shop to come and some mild tweaking
to do!)