Serendipity!

What a perfect day! Couldn't have been more different than yesterday! Colourful Mai and I went to the open day at a roadside stall!It's actually a place where volunteers grow organic fruit and veg for boxes to be sold to the community, most of the volunteers having life challenges. It's actually a woman's back garden with two poly tunnels and lots of beds! As well as the garden to look round there was of course a fruit and veg stall in addition to the two stalls on the roadside, a woman selling honey, a great guy doing pixie and fairy homes from natural materials, clay and tiles, a woman doing nettle fritters and comfrey leaves in batter, another showing how to make Kimchi and of course food! Such wonderful food for a donation! The sun shone mostly and we happily chatted to everyone and of course I took lots of photos! I love plants and I love photography - win, win! 
It was during the chat with the pixie man that the subject of tiles came up. The tiles he was using were from the local tile shop we had passed on the way and that I intended looking at on the way back on my hunt for a new black tile for photography!! They had given him all the old stock! I explained about my hunt for a tile and he said he was sure he had some, why not come back to his after the open day! I promised him that if he had one I would take extra care with the photos of the ones I had taken of his stuff and that he had asked to have copies of! 
So Colourful Mai and I did our veg and fruit shop and then sat down and ate whilst we waited! During this the  owners dogs were let out - two Dalmatians who were manic having been shut in all day! They ran around madly shoving their noses in anything edible! Much to the displeasure of one helper! Not a dog lover for sure! We helped everyone pack up, including the pixie man, then followed his wife, the kimchi maker, back to their house just over a mile away.
Well! To say they had tiles would be an understatement! The Kimchi maker and I happily rooted through them, disturbing lots of very big spiders! She then took me to the barn they had converted where we rooted some more - result 2 lovely black, reflective tiles! Meanwhile Colourful Mai had been given a little tour - they had two micro pigs and a very big pig - which of course I wanted to see! This led on to another field past a teepee,with chickens and Llamas and a pond. Then we were led into the woods past a yurt and to an awning covered seating area! I was squealing like one of the little pigs as you can imagine!What a creative couple - both doing PhD's whilst doing up their house and running courses in enjoying the natural world. See his website here. Colourful Mai told them about Woofers as they have so many plans and work still to do, and I said to call me anytime and I would love to help out, so long as I could take photos too! 
A perfectly lovely day with perfectly lovely, and in some cases, eccentric people! The strange thing is this is all around Pensilva, where Friend is buried and where I will be buried. Before my visit with her I had never been to this area - now I have done a  Solstice sunrise, taken AH14 and TMLHereAndThere to the stones at Minions, and Trevethy Quoit, done many visit to the farm shop for teas, pizzas and the feeding of the kunekune pigs! I think if I ever leave Calstock before I die I may move to this area!!!