1. Lockdown [Event]
2. New career [Event]
3. Welcome to St. Decay [Project]
4. Whatsapp video call art sessions with family [Communication]
5. Creating the video for Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts [Project]
6. Being featured in Cornwall Today magazine [Publishing]
7. Peachicks and fungi at Pencarrow House [Nature]
8. Finally finishing and printing It’s A Shame About Ray, Rashisms and Collected and Selected Poems [Project]
9. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov [Novel]
10. Baking cakes and bread [Event]
11. The bluebells of lockdown in Tehidy Woods [Nature]
12. Redesigning barnflakes.com website [Project]
13. Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens [Art/Nature]
14. Baby seal in spring, old seal in winter [Nature]
The symbolism of this was palatable: in spring a baby seal was on the otherwise empty beach at Porthcurno, just a few feet from me. Towards winter, I came across what I thought was a large dead seal on a beach on the Lizard. I went right up to it, it farted loudly, wailed, and slowly crawled back to the sea. I felt I’d disturbed it, like it was meant to die where I’d found it. I hoped it was swimming off to live some more.
15. Cornish Choughs [Nature]
We were lucky enough to see this lovely and scarce Cornish bird, with its distinctive red feet and beak, several times on the coast during lockdown, including once when a mother was feeding its chicks, who made one hell of a racket.
16. Bob Dylan – Rough and Rowdy Ways [Album]
17. A lovely rainy weekend in London [Event]
18. Camping under the stars in a bell tent in Stithians with M [Event]
19. The coffee and doughnuts after the 7 hour walk around Colliford Lake that should have taken 2 hours [Event]
20. The Earth at Eden [Art]

Previously on Barnflakes
Top 30 of the year (2019)
Barnflakes’ top 20 of the year (2018)