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....
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Where there's a Negative - there's always a Positive. You just have to find it.
I did'nt know Former Grand Bard Rod Lyon was a Cornish Pirates fan. In fact, I did'nt know he liked sport at all !
When I approached him at the opening ceremony of the Inter Celtic Watersports a couple of years back to inform him of the Games campaign, he did'nt want to know and just walked away from me as I was talking to him.
edited by: GrahamHart, Aug 28, 2008 - 08:39 PM
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Where there's a Negative - there's always a Positive. You just have to find it.
That sounds most unlike Rod. I've always found him to be extremely likeable and dedicated. He isn't in the best of health so I'd like to think that this might have had something to do with it.
I did'nt know that. I hope that was the case as well. Thanks for that Craig.
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Where there's a Negative - there's always a Positive. You just have to find it.
And for Angarrack? And Nigel Hicks? And a host of other anti-English establishment Cornish Patriots? Mike, if that is the case, then you are on the right track (unlike the Gorsedd?).
Funny how the most independet of the celtic nations, RoI and Scotland don't have them isn't it?
Perhaps behaving like pompous twats and having an effective movement for recognition are mutually exclusive.
The untold work hours waste on this dross, composing poor poetry, songs, etc, when this effort could have been spent on useful cornish issues.
What does the gorsedh do? So far it has not been demonstrated to do anything useful.
This organisation undermines the rest of the cornish movement and should of been disbanded in the 1980s whenit became completely irrelevant.
PS if people deserve recognitiom they will be recognised popularly by the cornish people, not by a group of pseudo intellectual pseudo bourgeois, who ahve little if any affinity with the people whose ethnicity they claim to represent. The last thing we need is a pseudo nobility that hand out pseudo gongs to like minded pseudo intellectuals, unfortunately this is what we have for reason other than to satisfy the feelings of some self importnat 1920s language revivalists.
IJ, I must assume that the Gorseth Kernow has upset you somehow, somewhere along the line, because you always seem to be venting your spleen - as you are, of course, entitled to do. I do wonder, however, if your opinion is correct, then how, as an organisation, has it survived for 80 years and looks set to continue for some time to come? Because you see no good in it, does not mean that there is not. Why should it bother you anyway that some poor deluded souls should wish to recognise others for their contribution to Cornish life?
What 'honours system' isn't open to criticism? It is ever so easy to criticise, is it not? You are, nevertheless, perfectly free - if you wish to be positive, that is? - to set up whatever you consider might constitute a better alternative, and waste your own time on your own dross and make your own non-pseudo system of awards.
If it can, alternatively, be left to the 'Cornish people', then you will, I am sure, have plenty of examples to prove that what you mean is something that already happens, in the absence of a guiding hand from those poor deluded Cornish-minded souls and their, according to you, pseudo objectives.
STOP THE CORNISH GENOCIDE!- The existence of divergent views occur because the lies and deception have a more profoundly negative, and contrived, consequence for the Cornish people than for anyone else within the UK.
I would not be so quick with your criticisms any of you. Members of the many Cornish and Celtic Organisations are indeed supporting the Cornish Fighting Fund. members of these organisations do not stand in isolation either. One person can be a member of many of them. The most divisive part of the Cornish 'movement' appears to be the language lobby who through their constant bickering put many people off.
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