Things Cornish

[Jock Scot]

There are these two Cornish tartan designs from the last twenty years or so. The Cornish National has a lot of mustardy yellow

http://scotweb-objects.com/images/sw...jpg?1364025856

The Cornish Hunting is a nice green and I'm longing, longing, longing...

The tartan shown in your link above is not like the one I saw a few weeks ago. Yes yellow and black for sure, but there was a vertical and horizontal white line crossing on the black, just like the Cornish flag.

[English Bloke]

Like this Jock?


This is Lochcarron's variant.

[Jock Scot]

Thats more like it John thank you, although the sett was larger on the one that I saw and in consequence, looked rather less busy.

[English Bloke]

Some pictures of Cornwall and the coast. It's astonishingly beautiful... when it's not pouring down.


Havin' a swim in the Atlantic. A first for my daughter. (how's that for in depth reporting?)


Back to the digs after a smashin' day at the beach.


Lands End.


The famous signpost.


Taking the evening air and walking a bit of the South West Coast Path.


Heilan coos. Reared everywhere in Britain now.


Cider apples... (nice cider down there too...)


Cornish pastie and a Cornish cream tea... another cliché, tasty though.

Just a few snaps from a trip we did last year. If you get the chance to visit, you'll not be disappointed.
(Weather permitting. It did rain alot when we were there.)

[Roderick Powell]

Good morning English bloke,
Smashing photos. Walked from Sennen Cove to Lands End. Heard the sound of the pipes in a Marque. The piper marched out of the marque playing his pipes and stopped in front of me and saluted."very good sargent major, Stand at ease. Stand easy."
We discussed the beautiful Cornish weather and he returned to his duties.
Quite bazarre but great fun.
I was youth hostelling in cornwall in my kilt and tweed day jacket with no trousers in my kit.
We were in the old hotel over looking Lizard point. A guest said to me "You look very smart Rod , why are you wearing a kilt ?"
"The nineteen thirties photos in the book of the history of the youth hostel association show young ladies guests in their long full skirts and male guests clad in their kilts."

"I find the kilt is a delightfully comfortable and practical garment to wear and the whole traditional experience of having kilt wearing male guests in the youth hostels is a tradition worth keeping up."
The kilt is always a good opening subject for a conversation.

[McClef]

Talking of strawberries - they go very well with lashings of Cornish Clotted Cream!

[JonathanB]

And here is a monument for Zennor churchyard (between St Ives and Land's End). There's a number of monuments to the last person who spoke Cornish and here is John Davey. (I've worked out how to do thumbnails. It's a bit small to read the text though.)

[sydnie7]

Three of my favorite things Cornish:

On every horizon


Chysauster Iron Age village


And can't forget the King Harry Ferry!


I've got some snaps from The Lizard 'round here somewhere too. . .

[JonathanB]

It was a bit blowlier when I was at Land's End, English Bloke! Those are some nice characteristic photos, though. Thank you.

[JonathanB]

When I was small in Devon, we regularly had cream teas with clotted cream. I always put the cream on first - as it was the equivalent of the butter - but I know there is a theory that the jam goes on first, as in English Bloke's photo.

My granny always called the buns "Chudleighs". In Cornwall I believe they were called "splits".