Gorthuher da a'gas Kernow!

**MattKernow** · 19th August 17, 02:03 PM

Dydh da dhis! Matt ov vy, ha trigys ov vy yn Kernow yn Breten Veur. My a wra gwiska an cilt Kernewek, ha my a wra kowesel Kernewek. Metya da dhis!

Yn Sowsnek:
Hello to you! I'm Matt, and I live in Cornwall in the UK. I'm a Cornish kilt wearer, and Cornish speaker. Good to meet you!

**cessna152towser** · 19th August 17, 02:06 PM

from Scotland.

**Tarheel** · 19th August 17, 03:59 PM

Well met Matt. I work with a young man (sir named Stone) that has ancestral ties to Cornwall. Glad to have you with us.

**OC Richard** · 19th August 17, 04:01 PM

Welcome to XMarks!!

So cool to have a Cornish speaker here!

I really should study Cornish. I took a Scots Gaelic course in college, and that along with an incidental smattering of Irish and Cornish along the way does allow me to understand a bit of the Cornish you wrote there, but I should delve into Cornish.

My family were miners from Tywardreath. Here's where my Great-Grandparents were baptized and married.

They came to West Virginia and continued in mining. My Grandfather was a miner too.

Hopefully you'll excuse the photos... as you'll find out I do love photos!

I play a few different sorts of pipes including the Cornish pipes. Here I'm playing for a gathering of Cornish Bards

Not finding any of the existing Cornish tartans particularly attractive, and being a professional artist, I set myself to the difficult task of designing a tartan that looks cloth-like, yet includes the non-cloth emblems of the Bezants and St Pirans Flag. I did a load of ugly designs, and finally came up with one pretty good one: