Didn't take a photo as I was driving and couldn't be bothered to stop, but there's some...interesting shared space/implied roundabouts in Bodmin. Some drivers seemed very confused by them. Also took this photo of some nice granite kerbs in Tintagel.
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Like this one? maps.app.goo.gl/yCSfPtgERqWZ...
aug 25, 2025, 8:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes! Also this one which is bigger: maps.app.goo.gl/UkA4VAWnRVYW...
aug 25, 2025, 8:37 pm • 0 0 • view
I like it. Confused drivers often drive more slowly.
aug 25, 2025, 8:44 pm • 1 0 • view
If you go to Mevagissey can you check whether "Hitlers Walk" is still there? (Named after an officious park keeper.) www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
aug 26, 2025, 5:42 pm • 0 0 • view
I will if I ever do, but I live right at the other end of England and have no plans to go there.
aug 26, 2025, 6:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Interesting chimney. Never seen one like that before. @edward-a-james.bsky.social do you know anything about that style?
aug 27, 2025, 7:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Zoom in for evidence of yesterday's mountain biking fail...we had to pick grit out of his hand with tweezers, poor boy 😥
aug 26, 2025, 4:51 pm • 6 0 • view
Not a fail, a learning curve. It comes with the territory.
aug 26, 2025, 5:25 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes I'm gonna try and persuade him to go again later in the week.
aug 26, 2025, 6:00 pm • 2 0 • view
Obligatory family holiday Scrabble game...my youngest child won (and not through me letting him!) 🙈
aug 26, 2025, 7:47 pm • 5 0 • view
Boscastle. You may remember the devastating flash floods here in 2004 (I presume it was national news and not just down south!) and on a dry summer's day like today when the river is barely a trickle, it's hard to believe that the water level rose, in a couple of hours, to roof height.
aug 27, 2025, 6:55 pm • 12 0 • view
Northerner here: yes I remember the Boscastle flood. And I think of it every time we visit Cornwall.
aug 27, 2025, 7:14 pm • 1 0 • view
I was in a roadside diner near Poitiers that day in 2004 and TF1 20 Heures was on the TV... their first story was reporting on Boscastle. It made *international* headlines.
aug 28, 2025, 10:11 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh wow! I did some reading about it when we got home after our visit and watched some of the old BBC footage - it was quite something. It rained heavily here yesterday and I thought how, for the residents of Boscastle,it must feel very worrying anytime they get a lot of rain...
aug 29, 2025, 6:55 am • 2 0 • view
Lots of onshore wind turbines in Cornwall. Personally I don't think they negatively impact the scenic landscape at all. Excuse the rubbish photo (taken by my son whilst I was driving)!
aug 28, 2025, 8:34 pm • 16 0 • view
I love that the general public are trusted to negotiate these steps; in this day and age I wouldn't have been surprised for the mezzanine that this leads to, to be closed off. This is inside the old post office in Tintagel, a small National Trust property.
aug 29, 2025, 7:29 pm • 4 0 • view
Would be nice to be able to use these on all residential sections of public highway...
aug 29, 2025, 7:33 pm • 24 1 • view
I’m in a campsite at the moment and yes it is 5mph and yes everyone is adhering to it and yes the same people go home and oppose 20 mph where they live. Baffling.
aug 29, 2025, 8:11 pm • 2 0 • view
Home! Here endeth my Cornwall holiday thread, hope you liked my random photos ☺️ Stopped at a farm shop on the way home, thought I'd share this snap which illustrates my lifelong - and very firm - opinion on the great scone debate.
aug 30, 2025, 4:11 pm • 9 0 • view
I put cream on first because it's easier to spread the thick cream onto the scone, and then daub the runnier jam on afterwards. It's a purely practical decision.
aug 30, 2025, 6:11 pm • 10 1 • view
Cream does go on first. There is a historical story to explain it but prosaically cream was used where we would now use butter. Presumably cream was easier to make than butter.
aug 30, 2025, 4:17 pm • 3 0 • view
We’ve had great family holidays here (great cream tea at the farm shop on the road leading into town).
aug 27, 2025, 7:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Hope you got to see the Museum of Witchcraft
aug 27, 2025, 7:00 pm • 1 0 • view
We didn't actually go in as I had my dog with me and they're not allowed. I might see if I can nip back without him as I would like to visit!
aug 27, 2025, 7:35 pm • 1 0 • view
He's alive, isn't he? They don't know they are born .... !!!
aug 26, 2025, 5:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Ha ha yes! Doesn't help that he's still recovering from falling out of a tree the other week, that one needed an a&e visit with a suspected broken arm 🙄
aug 26, 2025, 6:00 pm • 1 0 • view
If you are NTing Cornwall, have a look at he controversy around the proposed new car park at Trelissick last year. One complaint was that pedestrian crossings would make the road more dangerous for drivers.
aug 26, 2025, 5:36 pm • 0 0 • view