daisy Cottage Useful Information. Table of Contents. 1. Useful Contact Details..........................................................Page 2 2. About the owners..................................................................Page 3 3. About Daisy..........................................................................Page 5 ◦ Arrival and Departure ◦ Bins ◦ Car Parking ◦ Facebook ◦ Hanging Baskets and Tubs ◦ Heating ◦ Ice ◦ Storage ◦ Television ◦ Website ◦ Wi-Fi ◦ Windows 4. Attractions & Day Trips....................................................... Page 7 5. Local Beaches.......................................................................Page 9 6. Restaurants & Pubs.............................................................. Page 11 7. Banking................................................................................ Page 13 8. Cinemas................................................................................ Page 13 9. Golf.......................................................................................Page 13 10. Petrol.................................................................................... Page 14 11. Shopping...............................................................................Page 14 12. Take Away Food................................................................... Page 14 13. Walks.................................................................................... Page 14 Appendix 1 – 7 Circular Walks Appendix 2 – Fire Safety Advice Appendix 3 – Emergency Action Plan Appendix 4 – Daisy Inventory Page 1 Useful Contact Details. ● St Austell Community Hospital, Porthpean Road, St. Austell. PL26 6AA Tel: 01726 873000 There is a minor injuries unit at this hospital which is open every day between 8am and 10pm, no appointment needed. ● Mevagissey Doctors Surgery, River Street, Mevagissey. PL26 6UE Tel: 01726 843701 Open weekdays from 8am to 6.30pm except for an hour at lunchtime, 1pm until 2pm. Closed at weekends. ● Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro. TR1 3LJ Tel: 01872 250000 They have an accident and emergency department open 24 hours a day. ● Dental Help line and out of hours emergency dental service. Tel: 0333 405 0290 or call NHS 111 ● Pharmacy. There is a branch of Boots the Chemist in Mevagissey just one road back from the harbour. ● St Austell police station, 1 Palace Road, St. Austell. PL25 4AL Tel: 101 ● Mevagissey Cars – Taxis. Tel: 07513 774529 ● A2B Taxis (St. Austell) 01726 66600 Page 2 About the Owners. Jeremy and Mel Upton moved to St Ewe from West Sussex in June of 2014. We love the village, our barn, and the cottages Daisy and Ermintrude. Whilst Ermintrude has been a holiday rental for some years, Daisy was newly listed in 2019. We are hoping that it will be enjoyed just as much as it's sister cottage and we look forward to sharing it with numerous guests in the coming years. We take a huge amount of pride in our cottages, and really enjoy it when we get positive feedback, either online, or in our visitors book, or even both. We have tried to include as much of our knowledge of the local area in this handbook as we can, and we update it regularly. However if there is anything else that you need, or think that we can help you with, then do please ask. The phone number for the main house is: 01726 844007 Jeremy's Mobile number is: 07979 917312 Mel's Mobile number is: 07791 576535 Page 3 Page 4 About Daisy ● Arrival and departure. The cottage will be ready for you from 4pm on your check-in date, but, of course, you can arrive at any time from then on. Please try to give us notice of your intended arrival time via text or email, and we will make sure that, either someone will be there to greet you, or that the gate will be open and the front door unlocked so that you can just go on in and make yourselves at home. On your departure morning we do ask you to vacate the cottage by 10am. Please leave your keys on the table and pull the door closed behind you. If for any reason you leave prior to your originally intended departure date, then do please let us know. ● Bins. There are two dustbins outside next to the garden gate. One is for plastic bags full of normal household waste, and the other is for recyclable items such as bottles, tins, cans, cardboard, plastic containers etc. Please place any such items unbagged in the bin marked RECYCLE, and we will sort them as required for the council rubbish collection. ● Car Parking. Car parking for Daisy cottage is on the other side of Churchtown Farm Barn. The designated space has been marked with a very fine hand painted sign. You are welcome of course to pull in off the road by the main gates to load/unload your vehicle, but please don't leave it there, as that entrance is shared with Ermintrude Cottage. ● Facebook. We have a facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/daisycottage/ for anybody who would like to be kept in touch with events at the cottage, and in the local area, together with numerous photos that may be of interest to people who love the place as much as we do. We even run the occasional competition on there! ● Hanging Baskets and Tubs. We are very much hoping that none of our guests will mind if we occasionally go into the garden at Daisy Cottage to water the hanging baskets and tubs. We will, of course, only do this when you are not at home. ● Heating. The central heating control is in the little wooden box on the wall in the kitchen, right by the toaster. I think it should be fairly self explanatory. We have an external “Combi” boiler, so the hot water should always be left “on” to ensure hot water on demand when the tap is turned. The heating can either be left “On”, “Off” or “Auto” depending on your requirements. In Cornwall we care big time about the planet and recycling and conservation and stuff. Also Mel and I care big time about our heating oil bill so please don't leave it roaring away if you don't actually need it on. If you ever come in of an evening and need just a little blast of heat, push the right hand of the four buttons below the display which is marked “+1hr”, and the heating will go on for just one hour. ● Ice. The fridge, rather annoyingly, does not have an ice compartment, so we have put a small freezer in the garden room which has lots of ice in. ● Television. The television has an Amazon firestick installed, which gives you access to the BBC iplayer, the ITV hub, Netflix, and various other online resources. To use the firestick push the “Source” button on the main TV controller and then toggle to HDMI1. The firestick itself can then be controlled using the smaller of the two remotes. We know you didn't come to Cornwall to watch telly, but, enjoy it anyway! ● Website. As many of you know we are listed on Airbnb and HomeAway, but, also we have developed our own website which can be found at: http://www.daisycottagecornwall.co.uk/ This contains a lot of information about the cottage, St. Ewe, and the surrounding area, and also it can be used to check availability and prices, and even to book the cottage directly with us should you wish to do so. ● Wi-Fi. Wireless Network: Name: Daisy Cottage Password: 123Daisy The broadband is beamed over to Daisy cottage from the main router in our house. Any problems, let me know. ● Windows. We hope that none of our guests will mind if we occasionally go into the garden at Daisy Cottage to wash the outside of the cottage windows. We will, of course, only do this when you are not at home. Page 5 Page 6 Attractions/Day Trips Cornwall is one big attraction in itself and there are far too many potential day trips and attractions to mention, but I thought that I would supply details of some of the ones that we have done in case it is helpful. So just a few ideas in no particular order: Caerhays Castle. This beautiful castle and gardens can be found about ten minutes drive from Daiy nestled in a secluded valley above Porthluney cove. There are various woodland walks around the estate plus a spectacular lake which is teeming with bird-life. Caerhays is particularly renowned for the enormous Camellias, Magnolias and Rhododendrons which flower in the spring. The gardens are open from Mid February to mid June 10am - 5pm 7 days a week, and the castle is open from mid March to mid June Monday to Friday. Falmouth is a beautiful town, and a great place to spend a day. One can drive there via Truro which should take about 50 minutes. However, Truro can get very snarled up with traffic, so a good way to journey there is by driving to St Mawes, which is also a fabulous place, and taking the ferry. The trip lasts about 20 minutes and costs £10 or so for a return ticket. You won't get there quicker than by road but it is a much more pleasant trip. The Eden Project. Over near St. Austell is the world famous Eden project. Built in an old china clay pit it comprises two giant biomes, one of which has a Mediterranean climate, and the other has the largest indoor rainforest in the world. The park is impressive, informative, educational, and a great day out for all the family. Oh...and....at a length of some 660m they have the longest zip wire in England! In fact they now have several adrenelin inducing activities which they run under the title of “Hangloose at Eden” project. I have tried some of their rides, and they are brilliant – if a little pricey. The Lost Gardens of Heligan. Our very own local attraction. Just a mile and a half down the road, the lost gardens of Heligan are one of the most popular botanical gardens in the UK and are utterly beautiful. Also if you are not in the mood for looking at plants, but do fancy some breakfast, then the cafeteria in the visitors centre starts serving at 9.30 in the morning, and very good it is too! Oh, and you don't have to pay entrance to the gardens to use the restaurant for breakfast or lunch.