Still in Cornwall- and enjoying the lovely weather. As we usually visit at a different time of year, when it's rainy and cold, it's nice to see it in the sunshine!

Treated myself to a visit to GJ Beads the other day, and as Jill runs classes every Thursday, I booked myself onto one. It was great fun to sit and bead for two hours and just play around with colours and fringing. We were making a 'Freeform Nugget Pendant' and I really enjoyed myself. I made my pendant reversible and now just need to make a necklace to attach it to.

Cornwall is full of great art and artists. I love the work of Seb West and Andrew Potter, so always have a look at their galleries in St Ives whilst we're here. This year I bought a lovely print from The Whistlefish Gallery- the artist isn't on their website unfortunately, and yesterday we visited a lovely glass gallery in Porthleven- really beautiful pieces. The light down here is wonderful- very inspiring and soothing.

For the first time since we started visiting St Ives, we walked to the Chapel Of St Nicholas, which was great to see up close, and discovered a National Coastwatch Institution station. Reading the plaque outside we were shocked to discover this is a voluntary organisation run on donations and hard work. It was set up in 1994 after the government cut back on funding for coastguard stations. We were invited inside and had a great time looking through the telescopes and spotting ships miles away. It's great to know these people are there looking out for others, a real shame it isn't considered essential enough by the government to fund it.

You can see some photos of the Chapel here.