Thursday 28th August 2025

Woke at 0830. Got up and made tea. Put a packed lunch together while Aki cooked eggs for breakfast. Sat at the dining table watching squalls of rain roll in from the Channel. Helen and Martin rocked up in their electric hire car at 1100…they are stopping in Liskeard for a few nights. We walked down into Mousehole for a coffee. I left them there and drove to the theatre via the Farm Shop in St Buryas. 

Helen and Martin coming to see the matinee later. Got to the theatre to learn that, due to an extreme weather alert, this evening’s show had been cancelled, so the matinee becomes our final performance. The show went well, with Martin South playing Ahab with the audience of a head mic…bet he’s very relieved there’s only one show today…as, indeed, am I! The rain held off. Then it was get out…I hauled my guitar up to the car park, then descended one last time to collect my belongings. With my hernia op due next week, I was happily able to observe the chain gang in action as they passed the dismantled set up the cliff face! 

Aki phoned to say she was on a bus from Penzance to Treen, and I drove off to meet her in the Logan Rock Inn as the forecast rain started to come down. Found myself driving past Nutty Nick, walking in the lane toward the Logan Rock Inn...as it was raining, and he was in a t-shirt, I slowed to offer him a lift...he stared resolutely into space, shook his head grimly, and walked on. I got to the inn and rescued Aki, and we drove off before Nick turned up...I couldn't bear the thought of having to share the space with him for an hour or so before the rest of the gang turned up. As the weather was worsening, we decided to turn back to Mousehole. Parked up and walked down the hill to the Old Coastguard Hotel and snacked on some starters, and enjoyed a couple of beers as the rain hurled itself against the window panes of the old coastguard look-out. In a perceived break in the weather, we decided to make a dash for the AirBnB...as we crossed the road in front of the hotel the rain suddenly came down in drenching gusts that seemed to shoot up my trouser legs as we walked up the steep hill. We were soaked by the time we got in. Dried off and prepared for an early night...got to be out by 1000 tomorrow morning.