Let me introduce myself. I moved here 3 years ago and so am now a true Cornishman and so thought that it would be interesting if I write a few observations about life here and submit them to the Gazette, hopefully I will do so regularly or ‘directly’ as we Cornish folk say!!
I have spent a lot of time travelling around the Princedom and have visited a lot of teashops in a lot of towns and so I feel that I have a good insight into the way of life here.
I used to work in Public Relations but took early retirement. Having had few happy holidays in Wiltshire I decided to move to the West of England. Sadly, I couldn’t get a place nearer to Bristol so had to make do with Cornwall. I used to live ‘over the bridge’ (although some people say I should live under it!) but am now amongst you.
I bought a harbourside cottage and am getting used to the place: the town could do with a bit of a tidy up but we will get there eventually! The smell of fish coming from those noisy boats is antisocial but my petition to stop the harbour being spoiled by fisherman is gaining favour with most of the yachties and second home owners who visit their quayside cottages in the summer, so I expect victory soon! (Can anyone explain why fishermen sometimes drive their boats to sea in the middle of the night waking us residents up? Can’t they work proper hours like normal people?). The atrocious behaviour of some of the coarser elements of the townsfolk on a Mayday is dreadful! Who do these people think they are, singing and dancing all day long and disrupting the place?
I like the community spirit here; a while ago a group of us got together and formed a club to go to Holsworthy Waitrose to do proper shopping. The choice in the local shops is dreadful and the people surly. The first, and only, time I bought some cream from the shop it was off, I took it back and complained that it was too thick and that it had gone all crusty and all they did was laugh at me...but who’s laughing now, eh? That shop is now a charity shop (actually that is a bit of a nuisance as it was also the post office, but I am on the internet and so luckily I can stay in contact with civilisation.)
Driving around the place is a bit of fun. I am so glad I have a 4X4 but I am sure that those potholes in the road are no good for my suspension and I do wish farmers were made to clear up the mud they leave on the road as it gets my car dirty. On the subject of farmers, don’t you just hate it when they drive along at a snail’s pace in their tractors holding up traffic. They behave as if they own the bloody place!
I love the way Cornish people speak; has anyone else noted that the local accent sounds a lot like the London one? Wherever I go I hear people speaking it, it is like I am in good old London Town! Some of the Cornish words are quaint; wherever I go and whoever I talk to calls me ‘friend’ or ‘chum’, or as you say in Cornish ‘Tuss’.
Anyway, that is me! I hope to get really close to you all through my words, yes, I really want to get under your skin.
My first article will be about my visit to Launceston.
Until then Bye-Bye
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