Friendly Cove

Ooof - we're just in the middle of thunder, hail, gales and torrential rain - I was just uploading when the electricty/internet vanished briefly but it's come on again now but things are flickering! This wasn't forecast until 6pm! Everything's now gone yellow - I think we're in for a bumpy night.

Last night's film 'Women on the 6th Floor' was enjoyable, good to look at and uncomplicated - it could have a been a bit grittier in my opinion: a bourgeois Frenchman is brought alive by the exuberance of Spanish women escaping from Franco's regime. The bourgeois Frenchman was quite old and not very good looking or charismatic, and the Spanish maid was young and totally gorgeous - I wasn't very convinced about that.

A vomiting bug is currently going around school - great; and I have just spent the last hour helping out with knitting - it felt like a week. Clara, the principal, had the good idea of teaching all children from 7 upwards to knit. You know that spidery crochet that was popular in the early 70s.......

Today's blip is the large house at Friendly Cove, built in 1810 by the local landowners the Evanson family. It was described as being one of the six First Class houses in Durrus and is still pretty nice, retaining all its Georgian features and being tucked away down its own wooded driveway. It's also got spectacular views out across the estuary. A large family are currently renting it and they have sheep, geese, bees, chickens and goats. Friendly Cove was once a hotbed of Quakerism (!) hence the name after the Friendly Society and there used to be a chapel and school. Biggify to tsee the globe in one of the windows and the rather jaunty red window frames.