Things I have learned:
- Cornish Pasties are delicious! You fold a circle of flaky pastry around a filling of thin cut potatoes and seasoned beef to form a half-moon with a thick crust at the curved edge. The tin miners in the Cornwall region would bring these for their lunch down in the mines. They would hold them by the thick crust, eat all the rest, then throw the crust away on account of their hands being so dirty.
- Thatched cottages still exist. People still live in them! The thatching is quite attractive and will often have decorative edging at the crown or a small animal made from thatching sitting on the top ridge. The thatched animal is apparently the thatcher's signature. I've seen an owl, a crow, a fox, and a kangaroo.
Things I have seen:
- The high green tide smashing against rocks and cliffs with caves in at St. Just.
- Fisherman's huts with nets and ropes coiled on the roofs clustered by the water's edge and seaside villas with koi ponds higher up in the fields.
- Heather covered hillsides marching down to cliff's edge and the black rocks below.
- A small brown bird balanced so perfectly on the wind that he appeared to hang perfectly still, as if suspended from the sky with an invisible string. Then he would suddenly flip upside down and dive after something in the sea.
-A tree-lined lane disappearing into the mist.
- A wonderful bicycle made in the late 1800s modeled after a penny farthing with yellow painted wooden wheels, a black painted metal body, and red pinstripe accent lines all-over.
Phrases I have heard:
"Santa doesn't do livestock. They tend to panic in the chimneys." -TV show
"...huge tracts of land...." - lady at the table behind us
- Thatched cottages still exist. People still live in them! The thatching is quite attractive and will often have decorative edging at the crown or a small animal made from thatching sitting on the top ridge. The thatched animal is apparently the thatcher's signature. I've seen an owl, a crow, a fox, and a kangaroo.
Things I have seen:
- The high green tide smashing against rocks and cliffs with caves in at St. Just.
- Fisherman's huts with nets and ropes coiled on the roofs clustered by the water's edge and seaside villas with koi ponds higher up in the fields.
- Heather covered hillsides marching down to cliff's edge and the black rocks below.
- A small brown bird balanced so perfectly on the wind that he appeared to hang perfectly still, as if suspended from the sky with an invisible string. Then he would suddenly flip upside down and dive after something in the sea.
-A tree-lined lane disappearing into the mist.
- A wonderful bicycle made in the late 1800s modeled after a penny farthing with yellow painted wooden wheels, a black painted metal body, and red pinstripe accent lines all-over.
Phrases I have heard:
"Santa doesn't do livestock. They tend to panic in the chimneys." -TV show
"...huge tracts of land...." - lady at the table behind us