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Heidi, Rachel and I left the County of Devon today and travelled to Wadebridge for the Royal Cornwall Show. This is the second time I have been although Rachel in the past has been an occasional visitor. Indeed, she and Fred attended in 2006 not long after he was born.
The traffic through Bodmin was particularly grim with us travelling 6 ½ miles in one hour. Not sure why, but the traffic management of such an event leaves a lot to be desired although we eventually got there in the end.
Even the marshals off street (in the fields) we pretty woolly but we parked up fairly happy but stressed by the whole thing. Heidi was still asleep happily but we needed to watch her temp in the increasing heat.
Relieved of £13.00 each we stumbled in and bumped into Paul, from work and Poppy. We wandered around for a while and then had our grub. On from there we toured the various tents with me clutching my purchase of the day – Cornish Sea Salt. A rather tasty salt that comes as a mix between a flake and crystal it tastes rather good. Salt is a bit of a mysterious topic, and not all salt is bad. Refined table salt is not good at all, and is stripped of its natural benefits and bolstered with agents to keep it free flowing. You can taste the difference and should not need as much proper salt, than nasty salt.
We popped in to the Children’s Hospice South West tent and learnt a little about their current campaign to raise funds for another hospice in the south west, this time in Cornwall. There is one close to Bristol (opened April 2007) and one not far from Barnstaple. If you live in Cornwall then it is a real hike to get to one of these places and so a Hospice to fill the catchment area is needed. They need £5m to get going and have raised £1 to day, which I initially thought was not much. However, that amount was raised since September last year so it looks good progress.
We chatted about Fred and our experience and we had a drink and a chat with them. Just before we left, one of the staff gave Rachel two pin badges or brooches – one a butterfly and one a dragonfly. The butterfly they said was for Freddie and the dragonfly for Heidi. We had not mentioned anything about butterflies during our conversation so that was a nice surprise.
It did not take long to get home, although our legs were dropping off, from pushing a heavy pram in the thicker grass. Heidi happily had a bath to get all the dust off her.
The traffic through Bodmin was particularly grim with us travelling 6 ½ miles in one hour. Not sure why, but the traffic management of such an event leaves a lot to be desired although we eventually got there in the end.
Even the marshals off street (in the fields) we pretty woolly but we parked up fairly happy but stressed by the whole thing. Heidi was still asleep happily but we needed to watch her temp in the increasing heat.
Relieved of £13.00 each we stumbled in and bumped into Paul, from work and Poppy. We wandered around for a while and then had our grub. On from there we toured the various tents with me clutching my purchase of the day – Cornish Sea Salt. A rather tasty salt that comes as a mix between a flake and crystal it tastes rather good. Salt is a bit of a mysterious topic, and not all salt is bad. Refined table salt is not good at all, and is stripped of its natural benefits and bolstered with agents to keep it free flowing. You can taste the difference and should not need as much proper salt, than nasty salt.
We popped in to the Children’s Hospice South West tent and learnt a little about their current campaign to raise funds for another hospice in the south west, this time in Cornwall. There is one close to Bristol (opened April 2007) and one not far from Barnstaple. If you live in Cornwall then it is a real hike to get to one of these places and so a Hospice to fill the catchment area is needed. They need £5m to get going and have raised £1 to day, which I initially thought was not much. However, that amount was raised since September last year so it looks good progress.
We chatted about Fred and our experience and we had a drink and a chat with them. Just before we left, one of the staff gave Rachel two pin badges or brooches – one a butterfly and one a dragonfly. The butterfly they said was for Freddie and the dragonfly for Heidi. We had not mentioned anything about butterflies during our conversation so that was a nice surprise.
It did not take long to get home, although our legs were dropping off, from pushing a heavy pram in the thicker grass. Heidi happily had a bath to get all the dust off her.
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