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.
Fish wait to be prepared for feeding time at the National Seal Sanctuary in Gweek near Helston. The Cornwall-based charity, which was founded in 1958 as a sanctuary for injured seal pups, is gearing up for the seal pup season when it is often called upon to rescue seal pups that have got into trouble anywhere around the coast. The centre employs a animal care team, who are on call 24hrs a day, to rescue seal pups, who, after being brought to the sanctuary receive expert veterinary care in a purpose built hospital before being transferred to outdoor pools where they gain weight and stamina before being released into the wild. The sanctuary aims to rehabilitate all rescued pups and since 1981 only two seals have been diagnosed as never being able to survive in the wild and they have now joined the full time residents at the sanctuary.
Theatre fans in Cornwall have the Minnack and the Hall for Cornwall in Truro but then what?
Theatre Breaks from Cornwall
Cornwall has almost everything you need but if you like to take in a West End musical for a change then you will need to exit the county for a short time. London Theatre breaks by train are pretty convenient really, you can never be too far away from a mainline station such as Penzance, Redruth, Truro or Liskeard and then once you've gone past Plymouth and Exeter it's super fast inter city 125 all the way to Paddington.
By booking a London Theatre break from Camborne, Launceston or Helston for example you can be up in London in time for an evening meal, one of the really big shows such as Les Miserables, Phantom of The Opera, Wicked, Oliver or Dirty Dancing and then spend a comfortable night ina posh London hotel. That's the whole point of booking a theatre break as one single package from Cornwall to the West End.
The angel is in the churchyard at Sancreed, where there used to be lots going on. Last time we visited the art gallery garden place seemed to have been made private though.
This is to make up for the really close view of a seal in the harbour at Pittenweem which i failed to shoot before he bobbed underwater and headed out to sea
Goonhilly Downs satellite station was once an important part of international communications for military and civilian purposes, and it's now a minor tourist attraction on the Lizard in Cornwall. I went there on a school trip in the 1960s not loang after it had been used to realy the first ever live transatlantic TV pictures. It was also used to bring lunar landing footage to UK TV screens.
Foodie Penpals
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A little post on ukcider is required about Foodie Penpals. If you are
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