woodenhead Posted May 6, 2023 Share Posted May 6, 2023 To all the Kernowyon members, did you know Kernow is loose from the rest of the UK. It rises and drops with the tide, get enough boats perhaps you could open up a proper gap.... 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted May 6, 2023 Share Posted May 6, 2023 Keep Britain Tidy! Cut off Cornwall.... One of Jasper Carrott's I think. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted May 6, 2023 Share Posted May 6, 2023 (edited) So thats why the Kernow Model Rail Centre opened a shop in Guildford! Just in case.... Edited May 6, 2023 by Hroth 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted May 6, 2023 Author Share Posted May 6, 2023 4 hours ago, Hroth said: So thats why the Kernow Model Rail Centre opened a shop in Guildford! Just in case.... For when Kernow rejoins the EU and they need a UK distribution point like Accurascale do. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted May 6, 2023 Share Posted May 6, 2023 Constant flexing along the border with Devon must mean two large bridges in the Saltash area are in imminent danger of collapsing into the Tamar then😮! Regarding opening up a proper gap, the boats would have an easier job if the top of the Tamar were excavated out to the north coast, creating a sort of Cornish version of Anglesey........ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted May 6, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 6, 2023 Well, as long as it does not float over here. 🙂 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted May 6, 2023 Share Posted May 6, 2023 30 minutes ago, Halvarras said: Regarding opening up a proper gap, the boats would have an easier job if the top of the Tamar were excavated out to the north coast, creating a sort of Cornish version of Anglesey........ Good lord NO! One Anglesey is enough! 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted May 6, 2023 Share Posted May 6, 2023 4 hours ago, woodenhead said: For when Kernow rejoins the EU and they need a UK distribution point like Accurascale do. As long as they take their awful pastry products with them.... Seriously, which sadist came up with this? 🤢 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 2 hours ago, J. S. Bach said: Well, as long as it does not float over here. 🙂 You'd be missing out on great beaches, the Eden Project, award-winning pasties and fish & chips (there doesn't seem to be any other kind 🤔), cream teas (with the cream on top where it belongs of course), Tribute/Korev/Doom Bar/Proper Job/Rattler, clotted cream and star-gazey pie (see above).........on second thoughts scrub the last one (I'm with @Steamport Southport on that 🤢!) And more pasties, can never have too many pasties..... We also have such fantastic weather that Cornwall appears to be the only part of the UK still under last August's drought order (hosepipe ban). Yes seriously! 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Jeremy Cumberland Posted May 7, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 7, 2023 The height of Cornwall is fixed - the Ordnance Survey height datum for the whole of Britain is the tidal observatory in Newlyn. If anything moves, it must be the rest of Britain relative to Cornwall. 4 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cctransuk Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 6 hours ago, Halvarras said: We also have such fantastic weather that Cornwall appears to be the only part of the UK still under last August's drought order (hosepipe ban). Yes seriously! Nope - Devon got drought-designated last week. CJI. 1 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium rab Posted May 7, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 7, 2023 11 hours ago, Halvarras said: Regarding opening up a proper gap, the boats would have an easier job if the top of the Tamar were excavated out to the north coast, creating a sort of Cornish version of Anglesey........ Didn't you know that all the guys who used to work in the tin mines are busy digging through from the Tamar to the North Coast. When they are nearly there, a secret message will go out, all the Cornish exiles will return, the last bit will be dug through, the country of Cornwall will float away, and as it does, all the incomers will be pushed off Lands End. :) 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted May 7, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 7, 2023 29 minutes ago, rab said: all the incomers will be pushed off Lands End. :) Technically known as Emmets, ISTR. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 If Brunel had built a suspension bridge insteead of the tubular one, the cables would be a sort of mooring rope to stop Cornwall floating off. 1 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 5 hours ago, cctransuk said: Nope - Devon got drought-designated last week. CJI. Missed that, but it was only last week. At least that means Devonians had a chance to jet-wash the winter grime off their patio paving, which is more than I've been permitted to do. If it has to wait another year its fetching shade of beige will probably become permanently discoloured. I have a 'Spray & Leave' product which may help but......er......it requires decent rainfall to wash it off once it's done its thing.........well, it is what it is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cctransuk Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 31 minutes ago, Halvarras said: Missed that, but it was only last week. At least that means Devonians had a chance to jet-wash the winter grime off their patio paving, which is more than I've been permitted to do. If it has to wait another year its fetching shade of beige will probably become permanently discoloured. I have a 'Spray & Leave' product which may help but......er......it requires decent rainfall to wash it off once it's done its thing.........well, it is what it is. Sprayed and Left all our paving slabs last week - pristine now after a moderate shower. CJI. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 Hose pipe ban. What's that then? I know what those words mean singularly, but not together. You can tell it's Summer, the rain is a bit warmer.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium rab Posted May 7, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 7, 2023 4 hours ago, Oldddudders said: Technically known as Emmets, ISTR. Iwas going to use the term emmet, but wasn't sure how many of the wider audience would know the term. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted May 7, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 7, 2023 20 minutes ago, rab said: Iwas going to use the term emmet, but wasn't sure how many of the wider audience would know the term. Besides, your side of the Tamar, we become Grockles, I think. 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 2 hours ago, Halvarras said: Missed that, but it was only last week. At least that means Devonians had a chance to jet-wash the winter grime off their patio paving, which is more than I've been permitted to do. If it has to wait another year its fetching shade of beige will probably become permanently discoloured. I have a 'Spray & Leave' product which may help but......er......it requires decent rainfall to wash it off once it's done its thing.........well, it is what it is. Stop whingeing about the sun shining. Some people live in Wales, Scotland or worse still Manchester. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted May 7, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 7, 2023 10 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said: If Brunel had built a suspension bridge insteead of the tubular one, the cables would be a sort of mooring rope to stop Cornwall floating off. Don't forget the chains on the Torpoint Ferry that keeps Cornwall moored to Devon. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 I'll just drop this in here and run.......🤪 3 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Cheese Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 Cornwall eh, I worked on the Eden Project for a couple of months prior to opening and loved the area, lodged at the Ship inn at Mevagissey week on/week off...very basic but a good laugh in the evenings...some local sort used to shout obcenities at passing cars outside our bedroom in the small hours and so on. If you go there and have any food it'll perhaps through my (and 3 others) endeavours putting a load of walk in coldrooms and one blast freezer in...not sure why they wanted the BF to be honest. Haven't been back since, always makes me laugh as we were told it was an MOD project to move important plants and stuff from Kew Gardens for some reason and the penny only dropped when we saw the newly erected brown tourist signs as we approached site...we did get involved in some weird stuff back then to be fair, even my boss fell for it until we told him on arrival. On the flip side, for reasons I cannot fathom my aunt moved to some remote village down there years ago, perhaps because my uncle sailed out of Plymouth as part of the RN for many years although he was far from being a native...anyway she's in her late 80's now, last year fell over in the street and was walked past by people she recognised as being neighbours as such but offered no assistance or even conversation until an ambulance arrived 3 hours later. She now wants to move back to Southampton as she's never been made to feel welcome despite moving there in 1987...she's quite down to earth too so I'm wondering what sort of place it must be? 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted May 8, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 8, 2023 Anecdotally, Cornwall is England's poorest county, lacking much industry or other real employment beyond the hospitality sector - itself in tatters since Covid forced so many to seek other ways of paying their bills. But it is full of comfortably-off retired incomers, who have bought up the housing stock, gentrified it and in so doing rendered the place impossible for youngsters to afford to live there. As a holiday destination, it still has enormous attractions, just as it did when my parents - then unmarried - 'discovered' Port Isaac and made it their holiday residence when dad was on leave from the RN during the Hitler war. That particular village, aka Port Wenn in Doc Martin, has benefitted enormously in investment and gentrification, but at quite some cost to the place I first knew in the '50s. Be careful what you wish for, indeed..... 1 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kernowtim Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 12 hours ago, Halvarras said: I'll just drop this in here and run.......🤪 Shame Truro is in the wrong place, has drifted East! 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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