Why is Cornwall best?

Many thanks to @Fat Controller and also @“M” for getting the post moved for me.I was busy trying to watch the programme while it was on the telly and would have missed a chunk of it trying to get the problem sorted.

I thought that Ginsters was in Cornwall because all their lorries have the Cornish Flag on them unless being blonde I have got that wrong

I know the true Cornish pasty has the main course at one end and the dessert at the other,well that is what the Cornish history programmes tell us and I have seen old photos of them.

I do think the television is a marvellous invention and I have learnt more from programmes on the box than whatever I did at school

I don’t like the expensive houses in Cornwall and I read somewhere last year that some houses have been built with a local material (can’t remember what it is off the top of my head at the moment) that are causing the houses to practically fall apart over time or so I saw on Right Move last year and it can be a struggle to get a mortgage on the properties.

Also in the summer months there are too many people down there and at times the seas are a bit too polluted (see SAS....Surfers against Sewage articles) and I think one of the coves was full of stuff being washed into it the other year

We quiet like Somerset ourselves and can get far away from the madding crowds when we walk in the hills but I expect that is because they are all down at Butlins

 

Mundic concrete, they also have Radon gas (been to a seminar covering both many years ago).

Twice in the past I've been in Cornwall and driven back to West Somerset for the remainder of my hols to get away from the crowds (and the surfers that make so many beaches unfishable).

 

Nice read WO

Just back from the beach.......yes bit cooler but still feeling warm and all calm with the promise of another lovely day. Never get enough of this even though I do this most days......rabbits and the odd fox, refreshing air from a flat sea this morning and 3 miles of big soft sand. My start to the day.
Wherever you are have a great day everyone

 

A little question regarding Cornwall. Does it have heathland?

 

Morning Sandy .....yes, some. Spectacular in far west when sweeping down over rocks heading to the sea.
Cornwall is really about the coast......ranging from fearsome rugged rocks ....take a picnic there and you feel you are sitting on top of the sea ....... to the smooth soft access dunes to the beaches.
The Land of Legend, pirates , witchcraft, King Arthur and me :rasp:


We had to laugh here when I read about the houses falling down, mundic, radon and worse; nothing like how it is in Cornwall. We Cornish are a robust, healthy big race living on fresh fish and fresh produce. We surf, swim, play rugby (champions for 2 years running and usually making the final of the County Championship) and breathe healthy fresh air. Yes, house prices are high. Yep, we are inundated by visitors in summer....I guess there are a few who like to come here :rasp:

Never been to Sweden Sandy.....sounds a great place to live. New Zealand too, which is a possibility for me . I do love Cornwall but my antipodean roots are stirring again

 

Bodmin Moor.

 

You asked for it !!!! :rasp::rasp:

 

King Arthur lived in Somerset, near the Sparkford motor museum

 

Honoured members of the GC Jury. Based on the evidence presented here, I put the following facts to you all.

One: Cornwall is certainly an island, and as such not a part of England. This is proven without reasonable doubt due to the fact that of the two main roads into Cornwall, both cross water. Also, it has a long coastline as is common to larger islands.

Two: As it is proven in (1) above that Cornwall does not belong to England, the question arises as to where it does belong. As one of the main roads into the area is known as the "Atlantic Highway" which in itself is a known road in the Viking kingdom of Norway, and also the the fact that they eat strange foods wrapped in nettles, this in itself is enough evidence to suggest without reasonable doubt that it does, in fact, belong to the Viking kingdom of Normandy, and therefore, France.

Three: The case of fairies dance with Teddy boys wearing coats made of kangaroo skin made on Savile Row in morning clouds on heathland has not been proven.

Judge Sandy Ground,
Tongue-in-Cheek

 

Love that Sandy.....made me chuckle