Londoner not welcome in Cornwall

[unlacedgecko]

Low standards eh. Here you have to open the pub door on any given night and see at least 20 relatives.

In Norfolk that may only mean 4 people.

 

[topground]

If the 'Cornish' had their way the tourists would stop at the Devon border, leave their wallets in a box provided and go home.

Are there any Cornish left in Cornwall?

 

[Bongodog]

Local village FB page has descended into farce, what with the " locals " and their traditional firework display upsetting the " blowins " with nervous pets.
It has universally been decided that you have to have lived here for 20 years before you can become local.

Sorry, thats just not good enough, I drop the line occasionally that I can trace my family back on Dad's side as resident in the village for at least 150 years. I'm nothing but a fraud though as Great Grandad moved half a mile out of the village into what was then the next County in 1946, and Dad didn't take up residence until 1952. That 6 year gap is enough to make me a foreigner.

 

[Bongodog]

i've gotta pair a shorts like that

I've just spent a few days in that part of Norfolk locally know as Chelsea on Sea, seems its fairly standard uniform between Hunstanton and Sheringham

 

[Martyn]

Are there any Cornish left in Cornwall?

Well I'm born, bred, fed and live here with many generations befor me so yes plenty still here.

 

[betweenthelines]

When my daughter started at University in Brighton, she got fed up with the Hoorays saying "Oh yeah, we have a little cottage down there for the summer" when she told them where see came from.

Ended up replying "Let me know the address and I'll ask my mates to leave it alone"

 

[melted welly]

Local village FB page has descended into farce, what with the " locals " and their traditional firework display upsetting the " blowins " with nervous pets.
It has universally been decided that you have to have lived here for 20 years before you can become local.

Got a tosser like that here. Parades up and down the tracks with 2 German shepherds like he’s patrolling the North Korean border.

Scared of banger ropes apparently, especially ones lit and thrown high into the trees

 

[spin cycle]

I've just spent a few days in that part of Norfolk locally know as Chelsea on Sea, seems its fairly standard uniform between Hunstanton and Sheringham

easy tiger...'chelsea on sea' is hunstanton to wells......past that we natives are hanging on for grim death.....but i admit we're loosing and it's creeping down the coast

Some people can wear anything with a certain style and panache, he is not in the same class as you Mr.Spin,

i mean @wrenbird is quite right...here i am 'owning the pink short look' and leading the 'resistance'

 

[neilo]

With cop26 and pollution etc guess fireworks and bonfires on borrowed time too???

A good job too! We had to have words last year, with a couple that decided they could throw a big fireworks party in one of our grass fields, despite there being 200 freshly tupped ewes in that 15ac field.

Last Friday night I saw some pwetty rockets going up over the same field.
When I got there, the pedigree ewes were all pushed up in the top corner of the field with their eyes on stalks. The feckers had got devious though, and were laying low as soon as they’d heard me about.
Only after 20 minutes hidden behind a hedge did another rocket go up, followed by the lights immediately going up on the quad and some lunatic tearing down the field.
The feckers legged it pretty damned sharpish again though, so quad was parked up again and a very irate farmer in dark clothing could have been found sneaking round a few gardens looking for the ignorant pillocks…

 

[melted welly]

easy tiger...'chelsea on sea' is hunstanton to wells......past that we natives are hanging on for grim death.....but i admit we're loosing and it's creeping down the coast



i mean @wrenbird is quite right...here i am 'owning the pink short look' and leading the 'resistance'

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This is great news, i though you were dead…..

Any plans to get back touring with Roger and Pete?

 

[Still Farming]

A good job too! We had to have words last year, with a couple that decided they could throw a big fireworks party in one of our grass fields, despite there being 200 freshly tupped ewes in that 15ac field.

Last Friday night I saw some pwetty rockets going up over the same field.
When I got there, the pedigree ewes were all pushed up in the top corner of the field with their eyes on stalks. The feckers had got devious though, and were laying low as soon as they’d heard me about.
Only after 20 minutes hidden behind a hedge did another rocket go up, followed by the lights immediately going up on the quad and some lunatic tearing down the field.
The feckers legged it pretty damned sharpish again though, so quad was parked up again and a very irate farmer in dark clothing could have been found sneaking round a few gardens looking for the ignorant pillocks…

Try farming next to organised event then?
Like Beirut on a good day?

 

[wrenbird]

easy tiger...'chelsea on sea' is hunstanton to wells......past that we natives are hanging on for grim death.....but i admit we're loosing and it's creeping down the coast



i mean @wrenbird is quite right...here i am 'owning the pink short look' and leading the 'resistance'

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The very definition of the word ‘panache’.

 

[Treecreeper]

Are there any Cornish left in Cornwall?

There are a few of us, starting to feel very outnumbered though. 8 properties along our road to nowhere in particular we are the only ones with any connection.to the county.
There are pluses however they all seem to need pony paddocks topped and hedges trimmed and logs delivered. Most don't seem to realise that living the lifestyle comes at a cost in that they do need to get their hands dirty from time to time.

 

[Sid]

Good hard winter with drifts , burst pipes or not being able to get to the shops daily would sort them out.

 

[Treg]

Are there any Cornish left in Cornwall?

Yes, it's just we're out numbered
In the village there is a very scenic/ pretty row of 13 cottages called Stippy Stappy , the last full time resident has just moved out
There are now plenty of signs up in the village telling 2nd home owners to go home, the flip side of that is 30yrs ago the village was a run down cheap ex mining/ fishing village, now the village is vibrant, a butchers , 2 greengrocers, 2 convenient stores, 4 pubs , 6 restaurants & numerous hotels/ B&Bs .
I'm not sure we can have a "living" village without outside money but our traditions / language, even accents are disappearing
It's a really difficult balance to find, modernising but holding on to traditions.

 

[Cowmansam]

Just got back from few days in Cornwall and the accents are definitely going only the over 40s have the accent now

 

[Jrp221]

Are there any Cornish left in Cornwall?

Yep, going back many generations. Farming on one side of the family, fishing on the other.

 

[MRT]

Just got back from few days in Cornwall and the accents are definitely going only the over 40s have the accent now

Its a strange thing accents, there are likely as many posh English accented Welsh speakers as Welsh accented

 

[unlacedgecko]

Its a strange thing accents, there are likely as many posh English accented Welsh speakers as Welsh accented

Prince Charles enter stage left.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Its a strange thing accents, there are likely as many posh English accented Welsh speakers as Welsh accented

something interesting about nationality & language I was talking about the other day to a friend about the tree planting in Carmarthenshire and mentioning the history of ground roots social justice here, and talking about the Rebecca Rioters (who destroyed the toll houses while dressed up as Women so as not to be recognised), anyway in English Rebecca Rioters (with the implied they are rioters), in Welsh "Merched Beca" (Beca Women), with the implication they are dressed as Women and Not rioters. So funny to see in the two languages the hidden assumptions about the type of people who destroyed the toll houses.