My bags are packed, I'm ready to go...

No, I'm not leavin' on a jet plane, but heading off to North Cornwall tomorrow by car, for a holiday in HerbSusan's caravan, one that we booked about five months ago when summer was just a distant hope. I am SO ready for it now!

The house-sitter has arrived from Leeds to look after Bomble. We seem to have a great deal in common. After supper I took for a walk around the footpaths before it got dark. The light in the cemetery was low and lovely, but I hadn't got my camera with me. Pah! Call myself a blipper?

I bought some pukka padded suitcasey things for my techno-gizmos, to pack for travel, so that my cords and cables don't tie themseleves around my clothing. The middle sized one is just the right size for my camera and its accessories. I was so excited about having the right camera bag that I totally forgot that the point of having a camera is actually to take pictures, so I left it upstairs with all my bits and bobs to go.

Hence the emergency sunflower blip. CleanSteve went out to buy food for our caravan adventure and came back with five sunflowers and an orchid, which he had tracked down over in Gloucester ! I have to say, it was worth the trip. It is stunningly simple, tall and white. I would have liked to blip it, but everything I tried on my camera's "slow shutter speed" scene mode was a disaster, and flash: nah! Not for that shot.

I am extraordinarily tired after the past two weeks' activities, and looking forward to lots of reading and lolling around, be it on the beach or in the 'van. As well as my kindle, I have packed approximately twelve books! You may laugh, but I have been known to read more than one per day in my summer holidays.

I am also looking forward to eating a gluten free pizza on the beach, with goat's cheese and tiny roquito red peppers. Who knew there were goats on the beach in Cornwall?