Gunwalloe - Church Cove
View across Church Cove in Gunwalloe at the base of the Lizard Peninsula.
The church is St Winwalloe with it's distinctively seperate bell tower and surrounding Tamarisk hedge....
newlyn house
Wonderfully painted frontage....
rogers tower
A folly built 18th C, for Mr Rogers, a local landowner....
Just a quick note to say business as usual for the Cornish Democrat and to promote this pan-european website and blog community cafébabel.com.
They have an active blog section - babelblogs - that would provide a great means to get the true face of Cornish culture known to a wider European audience.
If you have or are thinking of creating a Cornish blog or blog in the Cornish language then why not do it with cafébabel.com.
If you bothered to look further than the end of your nose you would find that Fulub is one of the leading figures in the Cornish movement. While you are a stranger with four posts under your belt.
Verity, I have looked at your posts on this forum and the Discussion forum and all you seem to do is ask whether this post or that post is spam. OK, one or two of thse are justified but why is the one above justified? Are you going to actually contribute something in the near future?
I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic or not moonshine but I'm far from being a 'leading light' in the Cornish movement. I am just a militant cousin Jack and cornu-parisien who has a computer and wants to see his nation, Cornwall, get a better deal.
I have my opinions and whilst I know I am a rotten writer with a poor sense of humor (and yes perhaps a wind bag too) I do believe that awareness is a prerequisite for change.
That's why I think Cornish bloggers would do well to create a blog on the cafébabel website that is growing in popularity.
Hello Verity and welcome to C24. I, like you, think that the admin on this board should be harder on spam and troll posters, like that things would run far more smoothly and perhaps recent scandals would not have been so damaging.
However my post is not spam but rather and advert for Cornish / European possibilities.
I hold no grudges in debate. I know some of my ideas and theories seem mad to a lot of people but that's part of my word that I spread, together with the opinions I have on Cornwall which many including you probably do agree with.
Tenacity and determination is what brings change. Falling down because of hard debate is not my style, same goes for you. That's why we're still here day after day after day after day, pushing for justice for Cornwall.
It was 9/11 in the country the murders took place. It has now become much more than a date. It is a symbol of the day the Elites turned the gas up. Sorry, petrol.
Two countries divided by a common language. Just imagine the reception you'd get in New York if you asked someone: "Fancy a fag?" (Now, don't you start, Pink Pasty).
I heard the story of the UK lady who went to the USA for the first time, got into a yellow cab and was told by the driver to: "Just sit on your fanny, lady".
She said: "What? You want me to lean forward a bit?"
Waitperson: And for your main course, suh?
Brit diner: If your faggots are fresh, I fancy a couple of 'em hot from the grill, with plenty of gravy and mash to help them go down.
W: Shore thing, podnuh. Anything else, suh?
B: Well, I'm sorry to seem like a bit of a tit, but it's rather puzzling to see that your hens over this side of the Pond appear to be of the mammalian persuasion!
W: Suh?
B: You're offering 'Roast bosom of chicken'
And I think it was Bill Bryson who recounted a hilarious dialogue between a euphemistic Yank and her puzzled British hostess, which went something like this:
Yank: Can you point me to the restroom, please?
Brit: Oh, are you feeling tired?
Y: No. I need the bathroom.
B: (helpfully) OK, I'll just put the water heater on - it'll be ready for you in half an hour. Would you like some bath salts?
Y: Actually, I need the little girls' room.
B: ?? But my daughters are fast asleep just now.
Y: (whispers) I need the john.
B: (checks clock) John's due back from work in half an hour.
. . .
Even Cornish isn't immune to this sort of mealy-mouthed nonsense. Just compare the euphemised chy byghan, pryvedhyow, attesva with the franker caughty, pysva, trothva.
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KS: selven an Furf Screfys Savonek? -- Ya, hep wow!
My American Oxford Dictionary suggests that it's British only: bog
. . . 2 (usu. the bog) Brit., informal. a bathroom.
. . . as well as: bathroom
• a room containing a bathtub or a shower and usually also a washbasin and a toilet.
. . .
• a room containing a toilet : I have to go to the bathroom.
The amusing thing is that US 'restroom' is a euphemism for US 'bathroom', which is a euphemism for US 'toilet', which is itself a euphemism for . . .
Best to have done with all those taradiddles, and just call it a 'crapper' (after the eponymous Thomas Crapper, who supposedly invented the W.C.): http://en.wikip...omas_Crapper
Might that give us Cornish *crappor, *crappyer, or possibly *crapva, perhaps? Alas, it's unlikely: according to Nance (1938), it would evidently collide with KU crapya, to grip or grapple --which conjures up wholly inappropriate images for a meditative trip to the loo ("noun. Brit. informal. a toilet")!
edited by: Eddie-C, Apr 25, 2008 - 01:59 PM
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KS: selven an Furf Screfys Savonek? -- Ya, hep wow!
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