what to pack for week in cornwall

[mrsflux]

we are off on hols on friday for a week in cornwall.
i'm very excited as its first holiday since before ds - he's now 16mo.
anyhow the car will be rammed full of his stuff so i need to pack light which i'm awful at!

what are your essential things/ holiday capsule type list?

it is a myth that Cornwall has good weather

if you want more chance of good weather in the UK, you need to go east, not west

it is a bloody lovely place though, sun or no sun

and if the sun does shine, there is no better place on earth !

I agree wwith AF, we went last August and froze on the beach while FIL happily told us that back home near Brighton it was lovely and warm all week

We have given up hoping for good weather this year, we are packing our winter clothes and heading up North

Cornwall is still gorgeous though, even if the weather isn't the best.

The kitchen sink?

I am heading to Megavissey on Saturday and am taking clothes for all eventualities, and we are camping, so hope the weahter is kind, thanks for the tip about the A30, we are thinking of leaving our house at about 6am to avoid the traffic ( i hope)

Falmouth has a "sub-tropical climate" but that basically means that yes it's warm but it also rains constantly

It goes:
Scone (pron. skon), clotted cream (lots), jam. Cream works instead of butter and therefore goes underneath the jam (contrary to what my DH will have you believe) and therefore renders butter unnecessary.

yy feralgirl, cream THEN jam.

Anything else is wrong wrong wrong.

oh, and no blardy sultanas in the scone either. evil things sultanas.

Agree cream fisrt
BUT it is

Sc-one (rhymes with cone) I thankyou.

no, no, no jam then cream! I've never known any cornish person to do it the other way round

You won't hit our troubled section of the A30 Sixtyfootdoll, you'll be off it by then. No guarantees about the rest of it though

I don't know how I pronounce it.

Dad rhymes it with cone (he's from Cheshire) and Mum rhymes it with gone (she's from Hertfordshire)

but NO SULTANAS - that's the most important point.

Oh, and pack wellies and a waterproof. I love long clifftop walks in the rain in Cornwall. of your holiday OP.

oh how nice, we had a week in Cornwall recently and it was GORGEOUS - dd (14mo) had the most fabulous time.

for packing yy to layers, things that are warm, and a waterproof.

If you're swimming, and staying on the coast, it can be tricky to get things dry overnight: so might be worth thinking about doubling up on swimmers if you/your ds don't like climbing back into damp chilly things. (Mind you the place we stayed had a TUMBLE DRIER so towels and swimming kit were always clean and dry - the height of luxury!)

Right so I need wellies, jumpers and scones! With some combination of jam and clotted cream. Mmmmm

Just a thought on the jam/ cream order- what happens if you turn it upside down?

I am a northerner so say scone (like none) and unused to anything other than jam/ butter

Must hunt out the wet the bed sheets!

Yes to waterproof mattress covers.

DS1 (6 nearly 7 at the time) was ill when we were in cornwall, threw up all over the leather sofa's then wet the bed two nights on the trot

That was the first time in at least a year he had wet the bed and he hasn't done it since....I shall still be taking the waterproof sheets...just in case.

Wetsuits

unless you're hardcore swimmers.

Condoms, The Cub is the product of a rainy afternoon in Cornwall

You'veBeenWarnedTiggaxx

tigga - we are ttc so dc2 would be an excellent thing to come home with!

surfboards & wetsuits

flask

raincoats

pop-up tent to keep the sun off sit in whilst it rains

butter that is just so wrong.

kayak/surfboard that never comes off the roofrack but looks like you are very athletic and on a mission.

hipflask.

and big smiles.

I'm with Goober;

Butter
Jam
Cream

Last few Augusts in Cornwall haven't been so good I've noticed. We always go on hol there, but normally in June and we've always had lovely weather then. For some reason as soon as the school holidays start, the weather turns shite down there (and up in the nw of england where I am too but I suppose I'd rather be experiencing shite weather in Cornwall than shite weather in Liverpool!)

have HAD to book in August this year and it doesn't show any signs of changing. It's just so changeable.....you do need to pack all sorts of clothes. I just wish the weather would stay settled.

Sick to death of terrible weather in the West during summer holidays - whoever said to go East has it spot on!! I think next year we might be heading even further east - and down a bit, to Majorca!

They are devon cream teas, anyway.

Devon.

Not cornwall. They have got pasties and Rick Stein.

We devonians claim cream teas.

Just realised that sounds stupid: " it doesn't show any signs of changing. It's just so changeable"

What I meant is that it changes from one minute to the next, and shows no signs of settling down to one type of weather or the other.

CAH...it is bloody freezing in the NW today, innit

and yes, it was lovely in May/june

crap since start of school hols, as per

it will buck up again September, no doubt

I know, AnyFucker, I think it's a pattern now, been like this the last 4 summers. Kids are just not getting enough time doing paddling pool type of stuff....very pissed off with it.

Oh, and it's "scone" as in "s'gone - all of it, every last bit of cream and jam and even all the sodding sultanas" - well they are too nice to leave on the plate for more than a minute.

it always rains in Devon, that's why it's so green

and it's jam first, then cream, no freaking butter