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....
Just thinks that we could do with a Cornish Nation news blog.
You know a news blog that looked at Cornish, UK and World news from the point of view of the Cornish nation. You could tie it up with the web videos people were talking about on here a while ago.
Would make a change from all the county, southwest and westcountry sites and their perspective.
We have the Cornish Not English and this is Kernow sites but they are very quiet, once visited why go back there won't be anything new?
But i guess it would need journalists and lots of peoples time, always the problem.
A good blog site must have fresh news on a regular basis. Either a couple of committed individuals or a team of freelance bloggers is needed to keep it interesting enough, often enough.
I've thought about doing this on TINC but would need a group who could be relied on to provide regular content. I like the idea of a blog created around a group of columnists who update their individual column about once a week. If there were enough people keen to maintain such a blog, I don't mind providing the service and setting it up. The FrontPage of the CSP website is basically a set of headlines with a follow up to each 'story' stored in a blog type 'Archive'.
Could do something similar; each member could submit their weekly content to the database with a new headline for the FrontPage.
It could be something like a Sunday Newspaper online.
Maybe you would be able to provide a weekly column from Brittany Fullub? I could probably set up something to cover the Newquay area (yes there's still Cornish here).
Anyone else interested in becoming a weekly columnist for a 'communal blog' for Cornish news and views?
I would be interested but not sure how useful i could be up ere in Cardiff...
I could write recipes though
Also, not to stray from the original idea but, could we have a database of new cornish words that anyone can add to.
A bit like that site www.govel.net
Ive sent them loads and never had a reply so i guess there too busy.
I don't know....If this and the other Cornwall sites are anything to go by, many correspondents would be put off by a wave of hostility unless their blogs were full of "Cornish Political Correctness."
The main 'players' would shout down any opinion other than their own, and it would become a closed, inward looking forum where a handful of "Nationalists" would merely reinforce each other's prejudices until the whole thing became of no relevance to the other HALF MILLION people who live in Cornwall.
This site, neutered in the same way, is a good example.
It is those of us who are reaching to the Council of Europe, the United Nations and the human rights provisions of the European Union who have been looking out, Constable Coad. There is nothing "nationalistic" in that activity at all! I am so very sorry to say that it is the likes of you and many others like you that have taken backward and inward-looking oaths of allegiance to feudal, unelcted autocrats associated with a very centralist state that should be doing a lot more looking out than is currently the case. However, the mere fact that you frequent this forum gives me grounds for a modicum of optimism. Stay here long enough, boy, and you might just retrieve your head from out of your backside!
That might be so PC Coad. However, one's oath of allegiance to Mrs betty Windsor's Crown still stands and everything you have stated is consistent with that position.
If you are right, you have yet to convince me and have not even attempted to provide your explanation of the bizarre events that surround ALL CSP attempts to get 'equality before the law' as a universal right in the UK. Do you support the provision of this fundamentally important EU Enforceable Community Right, or not? Of course, your constant attempts to belittle the work of those who work for the public at large in trying to secure this provision in English law, is consistent with the undertaking you made to the Monarch, Mrs Windsor all those years ago.
You have been exposed as a royal lackey and all you can do is continue bowing and scraping. You'll have to come up with a lot more than that Mr Coad to convince the more intellectual of posters to this forum.
Hunlef, "shows what you know" as I was released from my oath on 24th June 2004, and so am a free agent. (Your legal knowledge is perhaps a bit limited on oaths?)
My explanation of the bizarre events surrounding legal actions by the CSP, is that it represents itself, and as the saying goes, "he who represents himself has a fool for a client"
You KNOW I believe that there is worth in at least some aspects of what the CSP wants to bring to court, I have said so on here often enough.
I do not attempt to belittle the people who are trying to get these matters before the Courts, they can do that adequately enough themselves by consistently and predictably 'getting it wrong' and then having its supporters blame everyone else.
I don't even think the 'Public at Large' even know what the CSP are trying to achieve, because the CSP just dont even seem to be trying to get the suppoprt of the Public at Large.
"Royal lackey" ...Oh come on, thats a bit rich from such an intellectual as you...
Coady this is a thread about creating a Cornish blog site with the idea to present it in a format similar to a weekly newspaper. It started well;
1st post throws up the suggestion;
2nd post expanded on the idea..;
3rd post offered to lend a helping hand..
Then came the 4th post (YOU) and you dump this in...
That is so presumptuous, and totally lacking in any positive creativity.
And you are talking about forums, not blogs.
The idea I proposed was a handful of Pro-Cornish people each contributing an article, opinion or news story each week. I've had further ideas about producing a weekly paper version to have distributed locally. What would be required is consistency and good regular content. As Fulub said in the first post ..."that looked at Cornish, UK and World news from the point of view of the Cornish nation". Was it the word 'nation' that wobbled you so much? If not why do you come straight in with negative assumptions? That, is inward looking. To discuss further options and ideas is outward (forward) looking. To assume a "wave of hostility" unless it was full of "Cornish Political Correctness" is hardly creative input at such an early stage of a good idea.
And then you wonder why some people bounce back at you..
BTW, what is Cornish Political Correctness?
If that's your real attitude then it would have been GREAT if you joined the thread with a positive contribution in the first place.
Rise in county's road death toll
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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.
