This is the lake or pool that Swanpool near Falmouth is named after. There's road which separates the swanpool from the beach, and a big car park to one side. From the car park you can walk all around the swan pool but that does mean walking along the main road for one side and then on the far side, the footpath meanders away from the lake a bit and you only get the occasional glimpse, such as the one in the photograph here.
The Truro Agricultural Show is a traditional folk song which commemorates the occasion when the Royal Cornwall Show was merged with teh Bath and West show in 1861 and held in Truro.
There were occasional visitors to the old Truro Folk club (The new folk cottage) who used to sing this unaccompanied, but here's a version by Andy Roberts with a guitar (of sorts).
The Truro Agricultural Show Lyrics
Good people all who hear my voice, you now have reason to rejoice;
For off to Truro you may go, to see the Agricultural Show;
But don't go kissing the girls you know, at Truro Agericultural Show.
A motley crew you will see there, fat farmers and their wives so rare
Their bounc'n daughters neat & clean, wi' a porkpie hat &a crinoline
So don't go kissing the girls you know at Truro Agericultural Show.
From Newlyn east and Saint Columb too, there's Humpback'd Jim
and Carroty Joe; and a special train upon the rail,
to bring all the thieves from Bodmin Gaol.
So don't go kissing the girls you know at Truro Agericultural Show.
They've got a band from Plymouth down, the best that ever was in the town;
And all the gentry will be there -'tis most as pretty as Whitsun Fair!
But don't go kissing the girls you know at Truro Agericultural Show.
There's horses, ponies, cows and calves, for Truro don't do things by halves - there be Devon bulls, sheep, pigs, and geese;
You can see it all for a shilling a piece!
But don't go kissing the girls you know, at Truro Agericultural Show!
There's things up there that'll make you laugh,
there's a two-legg'd cow and a nine-legg'd calf;
A billiy-goat that comes from Wales, with 16 eyes & 17 tails.
So don't go kissing the girls you know, at Truro Agericultural Show!
Now all around I hear you say, "we'll see that show this very day..
So off we go, all in a row, to Truro Agericultural Show!"
And don't go kissing the girls you know, at Truro Agericultural Show
In history, there have been wreckers at work wherever there are rough seas, rocks, shipping lanes and poor people. The Cornish wreckers are particularly well known though, and the legend of the old Wreckers Prayer lives on. The wreckers prayer song, however, was only written around 2003 by Andy Roberts based on a memory from the Isles of Scilly and an experience in the Basque country, Northern Spain.
Foodie Penpals
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A little post on ukcider is required about Foodie Penpals. If you are
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