Beach Ices at Praa Sands
Ice meeting the sand at the base of the low cliff behind Praa Sands Beach, West Cornwall. 6th January 2009....
Icicles at Trewellard Bottoms
Water seeping through a wall is turned to icicles, ate Trewellard Bottoms, where Geevor Mine meets the sea....
Winter Sunset at Levant
A late afternoon scene, at Levant Mine, West Cornwall. 7th January 2009....
Winter at Levant
The old electricity generator building, at Levant Mine, West Cornwall, during the recent cold snap. 7th Jnauary 2009....
For no other sinister reason than reasons of patriotism I'd like a Non Emmet sticker for my car, the last one went with the old model.....doh
Anyone no where I can buy one?
I now live in Bournemouth though come home frequently to visit friends surf etc but last week goofed forgetting it was the works fortnight shutdown for those wonderful lemming like Emmets and wished I'd waited a coiuple more weeks.
But you are an emmett, you don't live in Cornwall anymore. Although calling visitors emmetts is rather childish and it's about time the " locals" got a life, and begin to treat visitors, spending money in their area, with a little respect.
It's difficult to see past it when you're confronted with arrogant semi naked yobs leaning over the meat counter when you're trying to do your weekly shop in the local supermarket. Sometimes it's impossible to see where the emmet stops and the chicken thighs begin........
As for them spending money.....why shoud I give them respect for that? Neither I nor anyone I know benefits from tourism in fact for me the negative aspects of tourism are overwhelming every time I step outside of my house every summer, it takes longer to get to work, to do my shopping, to post anything at the post office, to see the doctor.....and forget trying to get any money out of the cashpoint....arrrrggggghhhh
:x :x :x
Of course Diane sees none of this as she doesn't live here, but she feels qualified to tell us to get a life.....thanks.
Emmets they are and Emmets they will always be and that's what i will always call them. Pasty heads, carrot crunchers, pointy heads, s*%t kickers, wurzels, inbreds, these are the names they call us, i think Emmets is very mild compared to their insults!! :x
No I don't live there, but deal with a influx of tourists here, most of the year, so I hear the locals saying the same things as you're saying, BUT if they didn't come, there would be less jobs and less venues for us all to enjoy.
If it's so bad for you, move away
OK so if every tourist needs to be insulted with name calling, maybe we can call you locals yokels yeah. From what I've recently read, the locals can be just as rude as the tourists.
Great......first she tells me to get a life, then she tells me to move away from my homeland and family!
Well that might be OK for you Diane, but my heart is firmly in Kernow thanks.
.....I'd rather spend my summers being rude to emmets than move away.
As for the venues, most here are for the tourists only so the locals get no benefit at all and the jobs lost would be low paid seasonal work....I'd take my chances and axe tourism if I had the choice.
Diane, the locals of every tourism area have their own phrase for the holidaymakers they get. Devon's is "grockle" (meaning, anybody?). Ours is "emmets" - an English word, in fact, meaning nothing more than "ants", because they stream down our roads and streets like ants on the march, or gather in huge crowds on our beaches like an ants nest. Other areas of the UK (and probably abroad, too, may have nicknames far worse in meaning than that. Nobody minds. So why do we, the Cornish, get criticised? (And, by the way - I recently pulled up an emmet youth who was openly sneering at his hosts and calling them "yokels". I suppose his behaviour was OK.
We are generally only openly rude to tourists AFTER they're rude to us. Usually, we're a welcoming lot, even if we don't feel like it inside.
We get some really ignorant and bloody rude people. "Cornwall's crap, the Cornish are straw-chewing shit-kickers, etc., etc." My answer is always the same - "The Tamar Bridge is that way, and we're not stopping you from going back over it." It only tends to happen during the silly six weeks that we're now in the middle of, and this is when we get the real wasters. You only have to see the sheer amount of discarded rubbish littering our road verges to see what type of people come during that period (OK, we have our dirty buggers, too, but the huge increase in volume of litter happens literally overnight on that first weekend and continues through the 6 weeks). A completely different type of tourist comes here outside those six weeks. They generally appreciate the place and the people, they're genuinely interested AND they spend money. They're the ones we want all year round but they're also not daft. They avoid coming here during the silly six.
Rise in county's road death toll
The number of people who have died on Cornwall's roads rises in the last year to 35, police say.
Film con man ordered to pay £100K
The man who swindled almost £2m in a film studio scam is ordered to forfeit £100,000 by a judge.
Triplets survive against the odds
A woman from Cornwall who gave birth to triplets 14 weeks early describes their survival as a "miracle".
Call for inquiry into fire centre
Fire chiefs demand a public inquiry into the delayed opening of the regional fire control centre.
Prison sentence for benefit cheat
A man who admitted swindling more than £51,000 in benefits over a six-year period is jailed for 18 months.
Divers face trial over shipwreck
Three Cornish divers accused of plundering a shipwreck off the coast of Spain are to be tried in a Spanish court.
‘NO’ TO NUCLEAR WASTE IN CORNWALL - MPs
Proposals to bring nuclear waste to Cornwall have been described as ‘absurd and irresponsible’ by Cornish MPs.
Route Partnership Plan for Penzance unnecessary
Their plan having been rejected by the public in the final exhibition in Septmber with 90% against the Route Partnership have decided to try again in mid January after a mailout and poster campaign.The Chamber of Commerce has been at the forefront of this campaign.
