PULA OR BUST!! PLEASE HELP US REACH OUR GOAL

PULA OR BUST! 2nd October - 6th October and probably a bit more!

Team CORE BLIMEY" consisting of Michelle and Pete Hume are taking part in the Pula or Bust challenge, which involves an old banger of a car and a fancy dress attire! (we have chosen the Flintstones!) and the aim is to reach Croatia from Cornwall! We leave 2nd October in a rally organised by bangerrallychallenge, we should get to Croatia if the car keeps going the evening of the 6th October, with many adventures and challenges to take part in to raise more for this charity. (just got to get home then!) Please support us in any way you can, spread the word we need you.

Every penny pledged will go towards this charity no overheads are taken out, if you pledge to help us, it will show on this page and will all go towards our goal of finding a cure for acute and chronic pancreatitis through the charity CORE - fighting gut and liver disease.

Please share with others and take the time to donate now on links below or alternatively send cheques made payable to Michelle Hume, I will then enter then on to the just giving site manually, for you to see, donations are being collected from now.

Anything will help the more the merrier.

www.justgiving.com/teams/coreblimey

Thank you in advance, please help us reach our very personal goal.

All money will show on the main page
https://www.justgiving.com/johncaddy

this is in memory of Dad - John Caddy please support us.

NICE TO SEE SUN!

A bit of sun on the paddocks….ideal..long may it continue

And the Azaleas are out!

EASTER

We had a Easter biscuit decorating competition of Easter lunch… heap you are right it was raining! But I reckon I won… others begged to differ!… we then went to Point to Point races in St Columb on Easter Monday. The dogs loved it, Shadow with her obsession with tannoys, she would sit and listen to them all day she loves the local football…and also she doesn't have to walk miles just sits and watches everyone…Gem made herself at home in the long grass on her back and Lucky just wanted to sit on us!… I think by the end of the day we were £1 up so not bad day out!

i think that picture might be upsie down…oh well..might look better!!

SCRAPPY TURNED TO POKER!

We have very talented pets!… Scrappy is learning poker!… I have told her its not good to gamble but I could do with a bit of luck!

TRUE CORNISH!

We are definitely unique us Cornish, and very proud of it…., I saw these two on the beach by the hidden hut in Porthscatho, cornish blanket on, saffron buns at the ready , pasty on the way and a flask to wash it down… Love them!

PURL DESIGN LLP OUR ARCHITECTURE BUSINESS IN PAPER AGAIN - GOOD NEWS!

Plans for multi-million pound community hub at St Blazey is taking shape

"THIS is about the community taking ownership from an early stage, it has got to be something that the community wants and then they are involved in making it happen."

This is the vision of Purl Design, the town's sustainable architectural firm behind the design for the multimillion-pound St Blazey AFC Community and Sports Hub on Station Road.

Two years ago Peter Hume – whose seven-year-old company is based in the town where he lives with his children and his wife and Purl Design senior partner Michelle – was approached by project leaders behind the scheme as they started to explore the option of providing residents with more sports facilities.

Mr Hume said: "We thought it sounded like a good idea but felt that what St Blazey really needs is a community sports centre that can provide what the football club wants but also what everyone else wants as well."

With his imagination sparked by the 100-year-old chronophotograph entitled The Human Body In Action, by the French scientist Etienne-Jules Marey, Mr and Mrs Hume set about designing a building of the future.

Although Sports England – who can fund part of the project – have detailed its specifications for what the building should look like inside, the couple have spent the past few years ensuring St Blazey AFC Community and Sports Hub will be "future-proof".

Mr Hume said: "We have spoken to businesses, landowners, Imerys, Cornwall Council and they are all supportive of the idea and so the past two years have been spent saying, 'OK, how do we achieve this?' There's a very strong community in St Blazey; that's important, and everyone is behind something happening."

The building will encompass multi-sports provisions for all ages and abilities and full disabled access.

It will also serve as a centre for the parish, providing a café with training opportunities, spaces which can be utilised by businesses and areas which will open up for use by community groups, from quilters to drama clubs.

A pop-up cinema could even feature within the hub.

Mrs Hume said: "For any community event there will be a space."

The hub is also sure to pick up premiership points for its ecological design. These include photovoltaic and solar thermal panels to meet the building's electricity and heat demands, a grass roof and toilets which will utilise harvested rainwater.

Residents may have the chance to work alongside local tradespeople to help build the centre.

Investigation of the viability of making bricks on site, using local larch to clad the building and crushed glass in the building's foundations to address potential flooding issues is already under way.

Mr Hume said: "Local trades could mentor college students or maybe the unemployed in brick-making and in doing so the students will learn a skill.

"The principle is that it's basically as sustainable as it can be. We know there are lots of sports halls in Cornwall that suffer when the figures don't add up to run them."

He added the hub was designed to be as cheap and efficient to run as possible and was a "bit of a blueprint" for what other buildings should aim to be.

Mrs Hume said: "It has been exciting but a huge amount of research has gone into this project to make sure we understand how the building can involve the community in the build and for it to be future-proof and sustainable."

Funding first needs to be found for a planning application to be submitted to Cornwall Council and supporters have begun to raise the cash required to get the scheme over its first hurdle.

Read more: http://www.cornishguardian.co.uk/Plans-multi-million-pound-community-hub-St-Blazey/story-20998527-detail/story.html#ixzz2zmzeoFwN

ROCKY OFF HIS FEET

Rocky has been struggling with one of his legs, we are not sure if there is a bacterial infection or whether he has landed on it wrong… But we dry stabled him in case to assess him for a few days, not sure he liked it he stuck his tongue out at me in this picture!…. It took a few days but they are back in usual paddock, I sprayed his feet with special purple spray and after a few days he seemed to be ok and then they hatched a plan of escape and so were returned to their own home paddock! goats eh!

MUST BE SPRING

Lambs are up and about and feeding well two per mum it seems. Its great when they appear, the little ones can't really work all their limbs in the right order…actually Shadow is still like that and she is nearly 6!

PIERS THE PHEASANT!…

Well we seem to have attracted a new family member here at The Mill…Piers the Pheasant, he seems to quite like it here, comes in for feeding and then off on his travels been around for quite a few days now…  you can just see him in this picture walking up the drive!