After a brief respite for a visit to the #TowerPoppies, this week we're back at Glendurgan. Or more specifically the small village of Durgan at the bottom of the valley on the Helford River. After our stroll through the gardens to the village it was great to nose around the small village, especially in the boat sheds. As well as nosing around we sat on the beach wall for a while watching the river, and of course, the other visitors!
Glendurgan has been a good source of black and white photos - this is my third from there - if you missed the others, also see:
Love this 49: Solitaire
Sometimes the traditional games are the best and a lovely wooden solitaire set would be a good buy.
I remember receiving a red and blue plastic solitaire set one Christmas in the stocking at the end of my bed. Plastic - well, it was the seventies, and what other colour combination would be suitable for a Crystal Palace supporter? I'm not sure what happened to it, but I do remember being mesmerised by it and determined to end up with a single peg in the central hole. Or at times not ending up with an isolated peg in one of the corners would have done...
I didn't realise there are two layouts of the solitaire board, although I'm pretty sure I've seen both types. There's a cross shape which is the English version and a more rounded shape which is the European version. Plus the first evidence of the game can be traced back to the court of Louis XIV and specifically 1697 where a description of the board, rules and sample problems appeared in the French literary magazine Mercure galant.
Black & White photo 18: #TowerPoppies
I thought it fitting to share this focal Black & White photo today on Remembrance Sunday. I couldn't resist allowing a little of the red of the poppies to come through.
Many people have visited the installation and I think many more would like too, I think it's both beautiful and poignant and am pleased I was able to visit three times, see the Poppies at the Tower of London. We volunteered to plant poppies one Sunday morning at the end of September and I'll share more of those photos here on Tuesday, Armistice Day. Volunteering was an amazing experience and tough on our thumbs, however it being tough on our thumbs was nothing in comparison to what each of the 888,246 poppies represent.
