BOSCASTLE BLOWHOLE No 108 Winter 2019 £1

copyright photo courtesy Dave Burns This stunning photo of the Harbour was taken this Autumn by local photographer Dave Burns. See page 2 for more info.

Also inside: Boscastle Community Minibus page 4 Starmakers page 9 National Trust page 16 News from the Lookout page 20 Crossword page 25 Pedal Power page 30 Reading Room page 32 Useful Numbers page 40 Foreword As soon as I saw the 2020 As we head for the end would be no funds to enable late Pete Kinsman, who calendar produced by of 2019, the Blowhole the Blowhole magazine had a regular feature, Dave Burns, I thought team would once again like to continue. We also wish ‘Pete’s Peeps at the Past’. that the cover photo would to send Season’s Greetings to thank the contributers Sometimes there are spaces look great in the Blowhole. and a HUGE THANK whose articles help make on a page to small to fit Luckily, when I asked him, YOU to everyone who the Blowhole ‘a good read’. an article and there isn’t Dave said he was happy to supports us. And, of course, thank you always a suitable photo help the parish and gave We really appreciate to our subscribers and all to hand, so I decided that me permission to use it. the time and help given who read the Blowhole, we using some ‘peeps’ would If you want a copy of the by those kind individuals hope you enjoy it. be ideal. calendar, you may lucky if who deliver each edition You may notice odd As ever we would be you act quickly - contact to residents. Thanks also to snippets from bygone happy if anyone wants to Dave on 07779 041223 to all the advertisers and the times dotted here and join the team, send in or see if he has any left or if he businesses who sell copies there in this issue. Readers suggest features or help is doing a reprint. for us; without them there will be reminded of the with distribution. best wishes PA Boscastle Blowhole Team The editorial team reserves the right to accept, reject or edit any material submitted for publication. The views expressed in the magazine are those of the individual contributors and do not necessarily reflect those of the team. The editorial team include: Philippa Arthan, Arthur Bannister, Heather Colne, Audley Jarvis, Gloria Quinlan, Ann and Chris Rodda, Steve Simmonds, Sue Viner The Blowhole is available by post at a cost of £3 per issue/£12 per annum for the UK. Please enquire for overseas rates. To subscribe go to: www.visitboscastle.com/blowhole or phone 01840 250685 The next Blowhole will be published in March, the deadline for copy tbc. Items for inclusion can be emailed to [email protected] Written communications to the Blowhole can be posted to: Jonhurst Cottage, Boscastle, PL35 0AW or email [email protected] The Blowhole is published quarterly and printed by: Easyprint of Red Post, Nr Bude tel: 01288 381700 email: [email protected]

Page 2 Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 Seal Pup Rescue have been rescued for At the beginning of various reasons - from October, two abandoned malnourishment to being seal pups were discovered separated from their mum. in Boscastle Harbour on The recent storms have put separate days, fortunately pressure on the Sanctuary just before some very as they have had many stormy weather. The charity requests to take in stranded ‘Cornish Seal Sanctuary’ pups, separated from their was soon alerted and mothers and in need of quickly arrived to collect care. them. Cornwall’s only The Sanctuary also seal hospital is at Gweek provides a permanent and when the first one, home to animals that need a female grey seal (photo special care from their team photo Gillian Schultz below), was taken into the of marine animal experts. Bob Pethick reading the names of those who died in war hospital she was found to The Convalescence Pool at the memorial in Fore Street on Remembrance Day have a ruptured left eye, is where pups learn to small puncture wounds fight for their fish and Traffic Regulations/ head teacher of Boscastle/ to the back of her neck how to interact with Adult Castle Site Port Isaac primaries, and a superficial wound Grey Seals, all of which The Parish Council’sexpressed keenness to on her left whisker bed. helps them when they are Open Day on Sunday promote a forest school. Staff say she is a ‘feisty one’ released back into the wild. 17th October was well The Clerk will check and she has been named The release only happens attended, more than fifty with English Heritage Elsa by the Sanctuary. It is when they have reached a members of the public whether there are any reassuring that her injuries healthy weight. answering questionnaires restrictions on the usage have not damaged her and commenting on The seals’ care comes of the Castle mound itself, spirit of survival. We have parking issues. The large at a hefty price (£2000). the remainder of the area no details on the second volume of response means Anyone interested in is under Parish Council one, but it could not be in it will take until the next finding out more about the ownership. a better place for care and Parish Council’s meeting charity will find details on Membership of the survival. in December for Adrian http://sealsanctuary.co.uk/ management committee is Prescott, as Clerk to the The Cornish Sealcorn1.html. open to any resident of the Council, to analyse and Sanctuary is a charity village or other interested submit a report. that rescues and stakeholder. In the first rehabilitates grey The Council had instance please contact seals pups from previously had an Open Adrian Prescott on 01840 around the Cornish Day on the Castle Site 230609 or forminpc@ coastline. Each season and on this occasion gmail.com. they rehabilitate over had written to property 60 seal pups that owners bordering the St Gennys Silver Band site inviting their views The Band have their on management. Those Christmas Concert at St who expressed an interest Gennys Legion Hall on will be asked to consider Friday 13th December at membership of a proposed 7.30pm all welcome, management committee Also playing at the in collaboration with the following Carol Services Council. on Tues 10th Jacobstow Among ideas suggested Church, Sun 15th St was establishment a Gennys Church, Mon 16th wildflower meadow, and Altarnun Church, Thurs Dawn Conjoyce the new 19th Boscastle Chapel.

Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 Page 3 Boscastle Table Tennis accompanies us on the Thank you to Ron & shops, Maritime museum Club piano. Sharon Muffett for hosting, or art gallery. The When did you last play If you enjoy a sing do and to staff Laurissa, Julie Falmouth Spring festival Table Tennis? Do you come and give us a try. My & Emma who gave their is a wonderful celebration want to start now? aim for the choir is for it to time freely to cook and of coast, community and Come and join us on a be an opportunity to relax serve the breakfasts. culture including a flower Wednesday afternoon at and unwind with friends. Every year I am amazed show and guided walks. Boscastle Community Don’t worry if you can’t by how much everyone is Cornwall Garden Centre from 2pm. We are a commit to every week, a willing to help out for this Society Spring Show, friendly group and sessions drop in is fine. We meet on annual event. Thank you Wadebridge: Sat 4th April are very informal with a Mondays at 5:45-6:45pm all once again, let’s do it all 10am – 4pm Bus £3 break for tea and a chat. All at Boscastle Village Hall, again next year. From exquisite cut flowers equipment is provided and £4 per session. Email BD and rare and unusual there is plenty of parking at [email protected] or shrubs to vintage tools and the Hall. call 07812367638 for garden sheds. An artisan You are most welcome more info. area hosts an eclectic array whether you are a novice or Napoleon Inn of artwork, ceramics, a more experienced player. Macmillan jewellery and illustration, Awaydays by Minibus whilst the cornucopia of For more details please Fundraising Exeter IKEA: Mon 13th Jan Cornish food and drink contact Jill Clark on 01840 I would like to thank 10am – 3pm Bus £4 will keep everyone fuelled 250156. everyone for their support and generosity fundraising Take a ride on our annual in the Picnic Area. Boscastle Community for Macmillan cancer bus trip to IKEA Exeter Porthleven Food Festival: th Choir Support (a charity close to where this furnishing Friday 17 April 9am – As we are heading into the my heart) festival is happening. 5.30pm Bus £5 festive season, Boscastle Homewares at fantastic Porthleven Food Festival, This year you all helped Community Choir are prices or need to learn some now in its twelfth year, is The Napoleon Inn team welcoming the cold and clever storage techniques, a well-established event raise an AMAZING wet autumnal evenings or just fancy some of the on the Cornish festival £1000.00!!! with a warm smile and finest meatballs in town. calendar. The Festival selection of feel good This was raised by Truro: Thurs 27th Feb, brings people together in songs. one of their fortnightly 10am-4.30pm Bus £3.50 and around the stunning charity Quiz Nights, We currently have A chance to visit Truro harbour of Porthleven with cakes sale (thank you to members aged from eleven with no parking hassles. a national and international all who baked) and the years and beyond; I think Shop, sight-see and enjoy. chef’s theatre, food stalls, two mornings of the naps it would be fair to say Falmouth, including street food, music and awesome full English that we easily span three Falmouth Spring Festival: entertainment for all. breakfast (you can try generations! I, Morwenna, Mon 23rd March 9am – one of these again at the To book a seat for lead the choir alongside 5.30pm Bus £5 Annual Hangover Cure any of these trips, phone our most recent member Much to see and do Breakfast on New Year’s 07506 944622. Adrian Jones, who including visiting the Day from 9.30am)

Season’s Greetings from Gloria Quinlan I wish all my Friends in Boscastle a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. For the second year running I will not be sending or giving Christmas cards. 1st Jan incl. Instead, I will donate the money, usually spent on cards and postage, to charity.

Page 4 Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 Awards for Boscastle Farmshop and Café Domestic Refuse Boscastle Farmshop & Collection Changes Café wins “Best Café / Changes are coming in Tea Room” in Cornwall the way domestic refuse at the Cornwall Tourism is collected in the county. Awards. Cornwall Council plans a Robin and Jackie Haddy phased implementation of were joined by some of the changes in 5 to 6 phases their team at the prestigious over several months. They Cornwall Tourism Awards are working on the final ceremony held at Truro details of the service, but the Cathedral on Thursday, 7 current plan is as follows: November and swept away Food waste will be with Gold! collected separately, with Over 320 guests an internal caddy and an attended with Johnny external bin supplied by Cowling and Daphne the council which will be Skinnard presenting the emptied weekly. evening and needless to Recycling and garden say, the Farmshop team waste will continue to be worked hard at celebrating collected fortnightly using their achievement. the current containers. This fantastic award Other rubbish will be caps off another incredible collected from new 180 year for the Farmshop. litre wheeled bins, emptied To list but a few - Prince fortnightly. Pictured from left are shop manager Helen Sleep, Charles popped in during The new contract will restaurant manager Tracey Swann-Piper, owners his Boscastle visit in July, start in 2020, but the Robin and Jackie Haddy, head chef Will Sherry and both the Café and the changes to the service in Farmshop won gold in marketing assistant Anita Edwards-Symons. Boscastle will not happen the “Taste of the West” wonderful team who Christmas events coming until 2021. – South West England maintain our ethos of a up including festive 14 JAN 1831, REFORM Awards and recently came passion for exceptional lunches, Carol Nights and MEETING AT LAUNCESTON Third in a top ten of “Best quality and local produce. a Party Night we hope A public meeting was held Roast Dinners in Cornwall Thanks also go to all you’ll all join us again in Launceston to petition according to Trip Advisor” our lovely customers very soon. Please follow Parliament in favour of as reported by Cornwall and especially for the our Facebook page to be Parliamentary reform and to extend the elective franchise, Live. congratulatory comments first to hear about all our as out of 3000 inhabitants Robin says “We are on winning this award.” upcoming Events and only 14 can be said to be so very grateful to our With a series of News. AES represented.

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Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 Page 5 Damage to Boscastle Forrabury Church Pantomime It is regrettable to report 2020 that once again we have Have you heard about experienced an act of the new development vandalism in Forrabury programme for church, when a window Boscastle? was broken, melted wax Where do you think was dripped over pews, the new Sherriff of chairs and carpets; and a Boscastle should put pair of wooden candlesticks his new theme park? was stolen. Is the Cobweb carpark I suspect this was the the right place for a act of local vandals as there big wheel and dodgem is evidence that they spent important that we keep cars? time in church smoking your church buildings And just how can and drinking cider. open at all times for private Paradise Road be The window wasprayer and reflection, as redeveloped to fit in broken as they attempted well as for visitors, and it with the theme? to gain access to the tower. is very sad that damage is Also, will Robin be If anyone has any caused in this way. able to win Marion information about this, Revd, Heather Aston from the clutches of the or can return the wooden Churchwardens: evil Sherriff? candlesticks to us, we Peter Williams 01840 211094 Find out about these would be most grateful. Trevor Lloyd 01840 250348 plans and whether or We believe it is Rev Heather 01840 250359 What’s on at the Cobweb not the King can be in December rescued by Robin and Sat 7th Strange Brood, his Merry Men and will The Popin Celebrates Its Sun 8th The Countrymen Robin win Marion’s Sat 14th Rockin' Good Knights hand in marriage at this Second Birthday Sun 15th Ben Nicholls year’s pantomime in the (and sends all supporters Seasonal Greetings) st Sat 21 Atomic 80s Dress up Village Hall between Tues 24th Grand Xmas Draw Wednesday January Boxing Day with Callum nd th Flew, 22 and Saturday 25 New Year's Eve: Fireworks at January. 7pm, Steak Night (booking Tickets will be on sale essential) and Pirate Party Are you hacked off with being at the Visitors Centre Time with Black Friday house-bound? and the Spar shop from New Year's Day: st Are your Thursday mornings chore-bound or (Pile Up Fill Up Breakfast) 1 January. £6 for adults chair-bound? music with Strange Brood and £3 for under 12s. Then why not pop out and come to the ‘Popin’ We are open on Thursday mornings from Boscastle Gallery 10am to 12pm at the Village Hall . Come and enjoy coffee, cake and conversation The Bridge, Boscastle with fellow ‘Popiners’. We have been open since November 2017 and 01840 250248 have been going from strength to strength. There may be ‘a welcome in the hillside’ but Paintings by local artists you’ll get a bigger welcome at A wide selection of prints & cards plus The ‘POPIN’ an unusual mix of gifts and gadgets

Page 6 Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 CASTLE GOFF CAT SANCTUARY: The Future Instances like these, the unstinted help of his volunteers, keep the charity On 22nd June 1997 Sylvia task of trusteeship when received. The day I visited going, which bodes well Erdmann arrived at Castle Tony and Sylvia decide to the post contained two for the future in its new Goff, five days later she step down, hopefully many cheques of a £1000 each. charitable status. was joined by her husband years hence. Jane Castling runs a stall Tony, with 35 cats. For For inquiries, to provide ten years previously they had run a cat sanctuary in Hertfordshire but to them the farm house at Castle Goff, with six acres, a barn and outhouses, situated in charming wooded valley at Lanteglos, near Camelford, was simply paradise. They constructed a number of comfortable outside pens to house a population of feral cats, who will never adapt to a domestic setting, as well as a shifting number of cats and kittens looking for new homes. This on top of about another thirty moggies who have the run of their house. Sylvia, Lisa and Tony and with two of Castle Goff’s cats While devoting all support or simply visit their time and, needless Looking back, they and support network from contact: to say, money looking regret not a moment of the Valency House, and I after generations of their massive demands placed clearly remember selling on Tony & Sylvia Erdmann, Castle Goff Cat Rescue, beloved feline companions on them in so-called Tony’s behalf a gold Jaeger Lanteglos, Camelford, Tony and Sylvia, now both retirement. Gradually the le Coultre watch donated Cornwall PL32 9RQ in their seniority, feel they public have become aware by a client so grateful for Telephone 018402 13365 must secure the future for of the responsibilities of pet the gift he had received in ownership, a commitment the shape of two delightful For Facebook search for Castle Goff and its needy Castle Goff Cat Rescue inhabitants. for life, not just Christmas, kittens. or treated as a designer CR Already providing accessory, to be ignored or invaluable help are a dumped when the owner number of local volunteers, loses interest. Normally the lovely ladies from an affable chap, Tony Boscastle and thereabouts, sometimes has to bite Sonja Christianson, his tongue when casual Philippa Anslow, Gaynor passers-by try and foist off Wood, Elaine Kinshen and a perfectly healthy animal Catharine Thornhill. All on him. That said, no cat give their time unstintingly genuinely needing help looking after the cats, will ever be turned away. much easing the burden on Tony and Sylvia. Lisa He speaks of the Cronin has been deputed years of support, both in to take on the formidable terms of generous time and financial help he has

Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 Page 7 Boscastle Coastguard update Once on the ground he up to Cleave Strand. Just helped the paramedics, as it was getting dark, a The last few monthsthe location was remote our team members and the call came in over the radio has kept the Boscastle and required greater two lifeboat crew, package from Boscastle search team Coastguard team busy. numbers to perform a very the casualty for winching. 1, saying they had located Our first open day at the technical stretcher carry. He had sustained a nasty a casualty positioned half new station on the Tregath The lady was then taken head injury along with a way down Chipman cliffs. Business Park was a great to an ambulance parked suspected broken leg and Rescue 924 Coastguard success. Children were at a nearby farm. Unable ankle. He was winched heli was tasked due to the shown how to tie special to walk, they had called into the coastguard location and the precarious knots, save someone from 999 and used what3words helicopter and after a quick position of the casualty. A the water with our throw phone app to provide their touchdown to pick up helicopter landing site was lines, and found lots of location, good thinking. the casualty’s wife he was set up for the casualty to be excitement playing with the On another shout transferred to hospital. taken by land ambulance Blue Lights and sirens, we the Rescue Team was On the 26th October to the nearest hospital. could definitely see some paged to reports of a male Boscastle Coastguard were This was a multi agency future Coastguard Rescue who had fallen down a paged to help assist Devon effort and thankfully a Officers! So a big thank you cliff approx 20-30ft and & Cornwall Police with a good outcome. From our to everyone who visited and sustained a head injury, high-risk missing person understanding the casualty we’ll be sure to do another Cornwall Air Ambulance who had been reported only sustained minor one in the New Year. was already on scene and missing since Friday. Once injuries and the main As always, we continue assessing the casualty on scene and with the concern at the time was for to hone our skills and train condition. Team members information we had, we hypothermia. The Boscastle throughout the winter. immediately provided split up into two teams team wish him all the best. Using live scenarios we assistance and support and a hasty search was Coastguard teams were have recently trained in along with Port Isaac conducted. Team 1 started stood down at 21:00. all weathers for Search & RNLI who had dropped south of Rusey beach, When you venture Rescue, Water Rescue, two crew members ashore. heading north along the outside please make Casualty Care and Rope Due the nature of casualty coastal paths while team sure you are wearing the Rescue. position, HM Coastguard 2 started the north side of appropriate clothing and Some of the Shouts helicopter, Rescue 924, was Strangles, heading south. footwear you need. Don’t attended have included a requested and launched As the time went on and go the edge of cliff, even young lady who slipped from Newquay. Boscastle more information came for a quick photo, and If breaking or fracturing her Coastguard Team was through, our search area you see anyone in distress ankle between Port Isaac also tasked to setup the became a lot bigger, so or danger call 999. So, and Port Quin. Polzeath Helicopter Landing Site. our flanking team Bude stay safe, and from all Coastguard who were first As Rescue 924 arrived, Coastguard Rescue Team the officers at Boscastle on scene along with two Cornwall air ambulance were also tasked. Search Coastguard, we wish you a paramedics who provided relocated to the cliff top teams were now covering very Merry Christmas and pain relief, requested to allow Rescue 924 to areas along the coast from Happy New Year. Boscastle team to assist as lower their winch man. Bossiney and all the way

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Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 Page 9 Halloween at the Nap Sign of the Times On the 8th October a sign went up at the entrance to Boscastle’s car park stating that the car park would be closed from Monday 14th October for 5 days. This was an unwelcome surprise for villagers and local businesses alike. There had been no advance warning or consultation. The only car park in Boscastle was to be closed for a week while the holiday season was still in full swing. Businesses had already suffered badly from the lengthy New Road closure at the start of the year. Now it seemed winners of the fancy dress competition, Betty Alexander & Patrick Travers they were going to be stung with landlady Sharon Muffett again. It was another great turn The Parish Council out at the Napoleon Inn’s sent an urgent email annual Halloween party to Cornwall Council’s this year. The costumes were car parking Operations better than ever, the creepy Manager. A helpful Council cocktails went down very spokesman explained that well and the dancing was although the sign stated the interesting!! car park would be closed, Mike Fox in his neon it wasn’t going to be. The Halloween outfit entertained contractor CORMAC the crowd with his fab voice hadn’t got the right sign and great choice of tunes. so they used another one See you all again next year. they did have! Only 20-30 BD Laurissa, Emma, Sharon & Steve bays around the perimeter of the grassed area were to be closed to allow for ‘de- vegetation works’. As soon as the works are completed in an area the spaces will be opened again. The sign was removed. Whilst we welcome the ambition of Cornwall Council to save public Serving fantastic fresh fish n chips, money, the shortcut of using burgers and more an incorrect sign could For opening hours and to have been very expensive for the local economy. As it pre-order your food, please ring is, the works are now being reprogrammed. Hopefully 01840 250251 in the meantime they will you can also message us via our facebook page photo Tracy Bright get the right sign... SS

Page 10 Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 Introducing Dawn Conjoyce, Boscastle School’s new headteacher Here is a little about events like it mean that me...so far! I have been the children are cushioned teaching for over 25 from the impact of ever years, until now in central decreasing school budgets. London. I have worked We are all so grateful to the in what are generally Friends of Boscastle School considered to be some and the village as a whole. of the most challenging My welcome to areas of the city. My time Boscastle has been very in North Kensington and warm. I have moved to be Westminster has afforded with my husband who has me the opportunity to lived in Cornwall for some be part of a community years now. Families here are built on difference. I have supportive of the school taught children from and staff, but they are very families from all around willing to roll their sleeves the globe, many living with up and help too. As a the trauma that poverty, village school, every pupil is war and forced migration known by every member of bring. I have had the staff and so their interests, privilege of working with challenges and successes families, staff and children are all very much central to create the ‘village’ that is to each day. Boscastle needed to bring up a child. being a foundation school So many were so far from maintains the freedom to home and from extended create a curriculum and family that we needed routine that is uniquely structure for Bikelights, the Church. The children learn to create that network of tailored to the pupils. Boscastle Express no less! to swim and sail later in the support together. It has When many schools have They took part in Bookfest year too. Boscastle pupils been an absolute privilege narrowed the curriculum, and met Horrible Histories are very fortunate- this is a to serve and learn from the Boscastle has extended illustrator Martin Brown, great place to be a kid. communities. opportunities for the author Liz Kessler and poet Very best wishes I’m overwhelmed by the children to sing, dance, Mat Windle. Some also met Dawn support the school receives create and participate in authors Phillip Reeve and from the village, recently local & county events. Michael Morpurgo too. the Farm shop held a Last term the children The children are looking Halloween party to raise worked with artists from forward to Songfest and funds for us- this and other Wadebridge Arts to create a Christmas at Forrabury

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Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 Page 11 Farewell to Marianne Privett - Blowhole’s One-Time Proof-Reader People visiting or residing in the Close and Trefleur area of Trefleur Close or Clover Close had not been Lane Close must often admire built then. The the colourful garden opposite 13 road outside their Pentargon Road, once home to house was ‘unmade’, Marianne and Reginald Privett. The which added to the garden belongs to that property and impression of a rural Marianne had tended the flowers and scene. With nothing shrubs there, ever since she became a to spoil their view, resident of the village in 1987. Sadly, from their windows in 2008 Reg died of cancer and in the they could see right last few months of this year Marianne across to ‘Victoria’s has relocated to Bude. Head’. It was whilst on holiday in the There were 1980s that Marianne and Reg Privett many opportunities discovered Boscastle. They were for the couple to immediately captivated by the village become involved for Marianne told me ‘Boscastle kept in the community. calling us back’. Obviously, the well- Marianne joined known Boscastle magic was at work. the WI (still a good At the end of one of their visits, when way of meeting local they were about to return to their ladies); the Women’s home in Ilford, they took a last walk British Legion; to the harbour. Their purpose was to Ros’s painting class; take the memory of the scene home the Allen Valley with them. Looking out over the singers and several seascape before them, Marianne said WEA classes. When she joined Boscastle resident, decided to ‘I don’t want to go home’ to which the Camelford Operatic Society produce an Old Time Music Hall, in Reg replied ‘One day you won’t have however, little did she know that the aid of the Village Hall. This was the to’, that promised day happened in villagers also would reap the benefits. first show he produced in Boscastle 1987. Her singing led to many years of and, as it was greatly appreciated by Marianne remembers clearly, the entertaining the village in Michael the audience, gave him the idea for village in the late 1980s. When they Turner’s Cave of Harmony concerts. many more. Marianne was one of moved into their bungalow they were It was in the mid-1990s that the ‘Gaslight Girls’. Those of us who surrounded by fields, as Clover Lane Michael Turner, a well-known remember the Village Hall concerts will recall that ‘The Gaslight Girls’ were a singing trio, who consisted of Marianne, Myrna Lester and Daphne Rogers. When a concert was due, the area’s charity shops were sure to find Myrna and Marianne scouring the shops for suitable material, from which to make costumes. Marianne has a reputation for being a wizard at hat making, as well as being a competent needle-woman and costume maker. Considering Marianne’s skill at needlework, it is no surprise that she joined the West Country The Gaslight Girls, left to right Myrna, Marianne, Daphne Embroiderers Guild’s branch in Bude.

Page 12 Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 Her work is outstanding, so cookery column much so that her peers recently voted her embroidered A Christmas Ham picture, ‘A Winter’s Tale’, the 1 unsmoked gammon joint, about 2.2kg best in 2018 and presented her with an award. Her most 4 tbsp dark brown sugar recent eff ort, ‘Messing About 1 orange on the River’, can be seen in A carrot roughly chopped the photograph. Th e group An onion roughly chopped regularly exhibits in Bude, 1 tsp whole cloves (about 30) their next exhibition will be in For the glaze July 2020. 500g chunky cranberry sauce As the years progressed Marianne felt life would be 8 tbsp maple syrup or honey easier if she was closer to 2 tsp English mustard powder the necessary amenities such Put the gammon in a very large pan and as dentists etc. It was not cover with cold water – you’ll need around a decision she took lightly, 4 litres. Add the sugar, the pared zest of for Marianne says she hated half the orange, the carrot, onion and the leaving the village and she cloves. considers herself lucky to have Cover the pan and bring to a simmer, lived in Boscastle. I think we skim, then turn down the heat and cook were the lucky ones to have gently, covered, for about 2 hours 30 experienced her singing talent. minutes (or 35 minutes per 500g if your Th e Blowhole team send joint is a diff erent size) until the internal Marianne best wishes and temperature of the meat reaches 75°C. If hope that we will still see you can’t fi t the whole joint under the water her from time to time, in at once, turn it regularly. Turn out the heat Boscastle. and leave the joint to cool overnight. GQ Lift the gammon out of the cooking Myrna‛s Chuckle stock – keep the stock, which can be Corner, Wotsit frozen for future use in Asian-style braises or soups. Mean? Heat the oven to 220°C, fan 200°C, gas Lorgnette - small back 7. Mix the glaze ingredients into a paste. garden Cut off the skin of the gammon, leaving Copper bottom - look at as much of the fat behind as possible, then her backside score it in a criss-cross pattern. Somersault - condiment Put the joint in a large roasting tin available June - lined with foil (to make the cleanup September easier). Divide the glaze between 2 bowls. Beholder - a hive Set one aside. Brush half of the glaze from Cogitate - art gallery for one bowl all over the ham and bake it for the elderly 25 minutes, basting with more of the glaze Leg room - Frenchman on from this bowl twice more during the his wedding day cooking time. Omnipotent - unisex Meanwhile, zest the rest of the orange camping loo and set aside. Tip the reserved bowl of glaze Octagon - 1st November into a small pan, bring to the boil, then simmer for 10-15 minutes until reduced Spiritus mundi - start the and syrupy. Serve this alongside the ham. week with a gin Allow the ham to cool, then sprinkle the Spaghetti carbonara - remaining orange zest over the top. burnt pasta

Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 Page 13 A Methodist Ministers View the 1870’s, which became a hymn in P.S. Why not join us in celebrating Christmas and the preparation for 1906 is perhaps better known – ‘In the Christmas message in a Carol celebrating it is a landmark time in the Bleak Mid-winter’. Christina Concert with the Tintagel Orpheus our calendar year as we share in the Rossetti was the daughter of an Italian Male Voice Choir at Delabole round of pre-Christmas events such Refugee who became the Professor of Methodist Church on Sunday, 15th as Carol Services, Organisational Italian at London University in the December at 7.30p.m. A collection Celebrations and our personal mid 1800’s. will be taken for the Children’s preparations. However, Christmas The times may seem bleak to us, Hospice South West. 2019 will be unique to our experience but we need to allow ourselves to in that in the midst of our ‘pre- be encouraged with the Christmas The Blowhole team Christmas’ round we will be sharing Message of love. The Angel in a General Election and all that announced to the Shepherds on were saddened at the goes with it. a Bethlehem hillside at that first deaths in October of Tony I am writing this article in Christmas that this message was Zackey and in November early November but already the ‘good news of great joy for all people’ of Vi Biddick. electioneering is under way, and and was joined by other angels saying We plan to publish some would say has been since our that it was a message ‘of peace’. tributes to them in a new Prime Minister took up his post. Amongst all that you experience future edition of the The political parties are drawing up this Christmastide we hope that you Blowhole. their manifestos, making known to us will discover afresh that ‘love, joy and their intentions (I hesitate to use the peace’ promised for all of us. We send heartfelt word ‘promises’), and making their Have a joyous Christmas and condolences to their comments about their opponents. New Year families and friends. Some of these comments we would Bryan and Sue Ede take issue with if they were made in our school or workplace. It seems Services over Advent and Christmas to me that the denigrating of their opponents in election campaigns is much worse than it used to be, or have I got ‘rose-coloured’ spectacles? As I was thinking along these lines the words of one of our shortest Christmas Carols came to mind: Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love divine; Love was born at Christmas, Star and angels gave the sign. These words were penned originally as a poem by Christina Rossetti, which was published in a collection of her poems in 1883. It was first used as a hymn in 1908. One of her other poems written in

Page 14 Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 Church News We have come to what everyone tells me is ‘the busy season’ for the church, and it is certainly true that with the number of carol services and special Christmas events in our schools and in our communities there is much to be done. But of course there is never really a ‘quiet’ time for our village and church communities; services are held, people are visited, and married, and baptized, and laid to rest, as the time is right for them. In recent weeks we have celebrated Forrabury church followed by the put on Messy Church once a month. our Harvest Festival in church, and a traditional laying of wreaths at the You will see the resulting collage hearty harvest supper at the village War Memorial. Mr Bob Pethick read pictures displayed in Forrabury hall, with musical entertainment out the names of those who died Church and in the upstairs room of from Mike Clay. in war. Th e two minutes of silence the Methodist Church. In November we looked forward to Christmas, and much paint and glitter was used to decorate angels and masks, as well as traditional nativity scenes. Th e next Messy Church will be held on Friday 27 January at 1530 As we prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus, the prince of peace may I take this opportunity to wish you all a blessed and peaceful Christmas, and a happy and rewarding new year to come. God bless Heather

Lay Pastoral Ministers at Jacobstow At the service more than 38kg we observe is a somber moment to of food was collected and donated remember those who selfl essly died to Foodbank to help local people in their eff orts to ensure peace and in crisis. We will also be collecting security for us all. donations to allow Foodbank to On 13 November at Jacobstow support people over the festive season. Church, Archdeacon Audrey Any donations of non-perishable Elkington, Archdeacon of Bodmin, food or ‘special’ Christmas treats, can commissioned four people as Lay be left with me at Th e Rectory before Pastoral Ministers (LPMs) to join the middle of December. our Pastoral Ministry team, working SUNDAY LIGHT

More recently we commemorated across the six parishes in our cluster FRIENDSHIPFELLOWSHIPWORSHIP our dear departed at an All Souls of churches. If you are aware of through Words & Music evening service where the names of anyone who might like to be visited, loved ones were read out and candles, or receive Holy Communion, please 2nd & 4th SUNDAY, 7pm in the form of a cross, were lit. let me know. Boscastle Methodist, Th e British Legion Service of In conjunction with Boscastle Church, PL35 0AU Remembrance was held this year at Methodist church, we continue to (UPSTAIRS ROOM)

Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 Page 15 charity’s conservation be tidying up the rubbish work in the local area. AND bringing it back up So if you’re thinking of a to the car park! So the long months of path-we can’t iron out the pre-Christmas clear out, Please be aware that good weather has finally valleys! whether it’s a hand full or it is a long walk back up whole car load, please bring broken, and here cometh We did 2 pop-up the cliff and access to them down to the National the monsoon season. For Art/craft events during the beach is steep and Trust’s visitor centre any us this has meant that the October half term difficult. ALL participants day of the week; we’re open some work has had to be weeks, where you could must be able to negociate put on hold now until between 10.30am and steep steps and be steady next summer when our tenants’ fields dry out again. However, there is still plenty to be done. Our path maintenance work has still been flowing, with the vital assistance of our volunteer group. One site that has been on our radar for a while is High Cliff, where we make a pine cone bird 4.00pm. All donations will on their feet. If adverse have begun to install new feeder, Halloween spiders be gratefully received. weather is forecast, please webs and spiders and sections of ‘zig-zag path’ Whats on: get in touch beforehand to to reduce the number of paint pebbles to look check it is still going ahead. like monsters. Everyone Sunday 12 January 2020, steps required, and the Meet at Strangles car enjoyed the event and 10am-12noon burden on those tired legs. park, Trevigue Farm, Nr We have also been cleaning weather permitting we are New Year’s Beach Clean- Crackington Haven, EX23 off and top-dressing steps hoping to do another pop- Strangles Beach, near 0LQ (Grid ref: SX135 952) up bird feeder event during Crackington at Pentargon Falls, a site Jenny Herbert which attracts many visitors the Christmas holidays. Do you need to burn off National Trust Ranger, Boscastle to Morwenstow due to its close proximity Keep an eye on https:// that Turkey and Christmas Office: 01288 331372 www.facebook.com/ Pudding?? Well, a trek to Boscastle Farm Shop. Mobile: 07484 923003 Maybe these steps will NationalTrustBoscastle/ down to Strangles for a for details www.northcornwallnt.org look less intimidating beach clean might be just now? This and other path We really need what you need! We will work at Lower Tresmorn donations of all books and Trevigue, will all help for our second-hand maintain good access for bookshop, especially walkers, but as we stress novels. The proceeds to people we meet on the from each book sold goes directly to help with the

Page 16 Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 Christmas at the Vets My name is Nicky Hallows and in extreme cases and I work at Nute vets in convulsions and kidney Wadebridge. We treat all failure. If you discover your animals large and small and dog has eaten chocolate Christmas can be a busy then contact your vet time at the surgery. Here immediately. The sooner are my top tips of hazards we can act the better. If we to avoid at Christmas to can get to them within the make sure that you don’t first hour or so we can give have to visit us during the them an injection to make festive period. them sick and hopefully Chocolate This isbring that chocolate back toxic to dogs. It contains up. If you don’t realise until a substance called later then treatment can be theobromine which is the more complicated but still dangerous component, call us asap. found more in dark than Raisins there are lots of milk or white chocolate these around at Christmas but found in particularly in cakes and puddings. Nicky and her cat Fatty high quantities in Make sure your dog cocoa powder. If a dog doesn’t help themselves to vomiting and diarrhoea, dogs will chew/swallow eats enough chocolate a slice of festive indulgence bloody vomit, weakness objects they shouldn’t, >14g milk chocolate/kg because the effects can be and in severe cases kidney maybe a part of a child’s bodyweight or >3.5g dark quite serious. Once again failure. The amount that toy or even a sock. We call chocolate/kg bodyweight speed is of an essence and is dangerous seems to vary these items foreign bodies then they can show signs the best chance of a happy greatly between individual and often we will have to of poisoning. Generally outcome is to make the animals so its not possible operate to remove them within 2-3 hours of eating dog sick as quickly as to give a toxic amount. from dogs’ stomachs or it signs will develop. possible to get the toxic Take all the precautions intestines. These signs may include substance out. If poisoning you can and if your dog Cats are much more vomiting, salivating, with raisins develops then still manages to indulge discerning, they rarely exciteability, wobbliness the symptoms can be then call your vet straight eat toxic items or foreign away. bodies. The one thing to Garlic and onions watch with cats is antifreeze. these are both toxic to dogs. They like the taste of The effects can sometimes this and it is extremely come on within 24 hours dangerous to their kidneys but more commonly often irreversibly so. People within several days. Like get caught out perhaps raisins the toxic effects vary emptying their car radiator very much from individual contents and leaving it in a to individual. They can bucket. cause a life-threatening Now you know what to anaemia but this is very be careful of this Christmas rare and more commonly hopefully you will all have we will see vomiting and a wonderful time and won’t diarrhoea. be needing the services of Finally one of the your local vet. common reasons we see Merry Christmas and a dogs over Christmas is just Happy New Year from all because people are relaxed at Nute Vets Wadebridge. and a little off guard. Some NH

Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 Page 17 to Buy interest-free loan available to always have a value as a home in real Surfbury purchasers of new properties. community, somewhere a lifetime can Therein the problem: it restricts be spent, not leave as soon as possible. With its rows of brightly-coloured CR houses Nansledan, nick-named buyers to new builds only, which “surfbury” due to its proximity to benefits largescale constructors:Who Spilled the Beans? Newquay, looks like a seaside town at Persimmon and the likes of Taylor Startled locals looked on in amazement the height of the Victorian boom. It is Wimpey are doing very well, thankyou. as not one but two policemen were the Duchy of Cornwall’s latest project, To satisfy government targets speed spotted in Boscastle on the evening of a brand new town of four thousand has meant piling in workers, many 1st November. Presumably something homes, built within Cornwall’s avowed from abroad, which has had its heavy was going down. They entered plans for 52,500 new homes by 2040. consequences: accusations of corner- the Napoleon and Cobweb Inns and cutting, multiple after-sales faults and The essential difference is that issued dire warnings. “You are not shoddy finishes. behind the scheme is the Prince of allowed to let customers watch the Wales, whose vision for an ideal new I must confess a personal interest. Rugby World Cup Final tomorrow community flowered into Poundbury, My niece and her husband scraped morning. We will be back tomorrow just outside Dorchester. The design together the five per cent deposit, used and if you don’t obey your licence will plan was both innovative and Help to Buy and mortgaged the rest be toast!”. Say what? architecturally eclectic, mixing styles on historically low rates. Tey could Both hostelries had arranged and features of several centuries, along have bought an older property, with a breakfast viewings of the live match with businesses, services and schools. decent garden, for the same or even less for their customers who had scrambled Due for completion by 2025 it is money, but with no subsidy did not to book up, kick off at 9:00 a.m. But anticipated to have 6000 residents. qualify for a mortgage. the small print on their licences says Such is the faith in the new So, in the long run property has they can’t open until 10:00 a.m. The development of Nansledan, properties always been a great investment but, as finest ingredients had been readied for have been flying off the drawing board. prices actually stagnated last year, this the full Cornish. The landlords were The trick is now to preserve the local couple are still in negative equity, and grilled about their plans and told to identity of the area from predatory if they want to sell their house it counts cancel them. second homers. as second-hand so won’t qualify for A local said the police can’t have Help to Buy, competing against new The Prince, often criticised in much on their plates at the moment builds that do. the past for his trenchant views if this is their top priority. “I think and hatred of the drab conformity Well, they are delighted. It’s brand they have over cooked it this time of modern building practice, has new, with all mod cons, quite small and ended up with egg all over their latterly outdistanced his detractors. (average house sizes have shrunk by faces. Surely there is enough bread and In the mould of the great Victorian 30% since the war) and pretty identical butter crime for them to be worrying philanthropists such as the Quaker to four hundred others on their estate about without scrambling after this. Jacob Rowntree and the Lever Brothers outside Truro. With a modest outside A passing policeman told him to cut (who built Port Sunlight) his is the space (“enough for a whirligig”) there is out the sauce or they might be a little vision and determination to provide a little opportunity to add value. So they rasher. benign environment for the common may be there for a long time – 35 or 45 A police spokesperson denied they people. There have been mooted and year mortgages are now commonplace were killjoys, saying that was the job of stalled efforts to set up ecologically – and find it difficult to upgrade to a the England team. “The time between friendly developments in Cornwall larger property. 9:00am and 10:00 is well known for but is fair to say that not since the This is the trap in which millions brewing trouble. “Some say this is New Towns Act of 1946 which created are now stuck. Eventually of course small fry, but it could mushroom out “garden cities” to draw people away like millworkers terraced cottages in of control at any moment. Another from the congestion of urban living has the posher parts of large cities they may added “it’s no yoke”. SS there been a more successful effort than become gentrified and sought after the Prince’s to create a new Jerusalem. but it is a long haul. The alternative 31 MAY 1816, VOTES IN NEWPORT More soberly, one reads that the is decay, as the more fortunate move For sale, a desirable dwelling house house builder Persimmon last year away leaving drab empty homes to be and walled garden at Newport, near was the first to celebrate a one billion sequestered by local authority tenants Launceston. Whoever purchases and net profit by a £110 million bonus from Birmingham, as has already resides there will be entitled to vote for to its chief executive, based on an occurred in some of Cornwall’s less members to serve in Parliament for the borough of Newport, it would constitute average margin of sales of £67,000 desirable areas. 2 votes being held under two distinct What good design ensures is that per house. This neatly equates with leases. the HM Government’s £50,000 Help developments like Nansledan will

Page 18 Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 Graham and Kerriann The Boscastle Team send CONGRATULATIONS To Mr and Mrs Godwin King On tying the Matrimonial Knot.

One leaf for fame And one for wealth, And one for a faithful lover, One to bring you glorious health, After over 20 years together Their dog, Hugo, did not they thought it was about attend the ceremony but And all are in a four-leafed clover.* time to make it official and made himself available for (*Taken from Graham’s jump the broomstick into the reception. ‘British Book of Spells and Charms’.) the world of wedded bliss. They both miss Boscastle On the 20th May 2019 and the museum but are Graham King, previous enjoying their new life by owner of The Museum the beach in Southbourne. of Witchcraft, and his Graham has been exploring Australian partner Kerriann the New Forest and the Godwin got married in Dorset coastline which Bournemouth, Dorset. he says is not as dramatic For anyone who has as Cornwall but has its met Graham they will not charms nonetheless. be surprised to learn that Kerriann is busy writing it was a small event with and volunteering at The a couple of witnesses and Shelley Theatre. They love some posh fish and chips to come back and visit at The Captain’s Club in Boscastle whenever they Christchurch afterwards. can. The Wellington Hotel Boscastle

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Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 Page 19 News from the Lookout the Duty Watch Keepers some local and others has to go out armed with from further afield and a squeegee, one of our now we are embarking on enterprising colleagues a repeat of the recruitment located a window cleaner campaign that brought that, thanks to a system of them in. The aim is to place magnets, meant you could small posters in local shops, wipe the outside of the village halls and other sites window from the inside. where we can catch the eye Unfortunately they of potential candidates and proved to be so lethally encourage them to come effective that it was decided and see just what we do. to remove the gadget from So, if you feel you could Another summer season towards Rusey Cliff our service in the interests of our spare a few hours each over with its usual mixture view was too limited to be fingers and consideration month and would like to of rain and shine, overseas of much help. for our insurers, before the join the 2500 volunteers and local visitors and Fortunately, thanks to rainy season began. manning the 56 stations questions about everything our new Channel 0 radio- We were proud around the country we’d from the name of the big a great improvement on the to be present at the be delighted to see you. island, at least on those previous model -we were Remembrance Day service Winter is the ideal time to days when Lundy is visible, able to keep up with the at Forrabury Church start your training ready for to how often we saw actions of the other Search although our numbers next year, so why not give dolphins and what was the and Rescue units involved were down on last year. our Manager, Chris Evans, most exciting thing we’d before we were stood down. a call on 01566 781449 been involved with. A visit to the SAR It’s worth remembering Helicopter base at Remember, you don’t And the perennial that if we are having an Newquay in December will have to walk up to the comment about how exciting time it usually give us a presentation on Lookout from the Harbour, lucky we were to be sitting means that someone else the capabilities of the new we only have to walk from in such a glorious spot- is having a day they would aircraft that have taken Forrabury so it’s not as not something we hear rather forget. over from the RN and RAF challenging as it looks. It very often in November Some of the more Sea Kings that provided the costs us around £8,000 to through to February. interesting weather we have service in earlier years. run the station so we are As for excitement? faced this summer really In the last couple always pleased to welcome At the time of writing put our new windows to the of years, we have have fund raisers as well. MW the last incident we were test, with wind and rain of welcomed new recruits, involved in was in October biblical proportions. They when Falmouth Coast certainly keep the weather Adrian & Staff welcome you to the Guard asked us to keep out but on occasion need an eye out for a missing a serious effort to keep clear. Rather than draw Cobweb Inn person. However, as the BOSCASTLE, CORNWALL last report we had was lots to see which one of FREE HOUSE  REAL ALES  WESTERINGS BAR SNACKS Spacious Self-Catering  FAMILY ROOM  RESTAURANT   SUNDAY CARVERY  Accommodation Lunch 12.00pm-2.30pm - Open All Year - Evening Meals 6.00pm-9.00pm Shirley Wakelin LIVE MUSIC SATURDAY NIGHTS, TILL MIDNIGHT Forrabury, Boscastle Tel: 01840 250314 Tel: (01840) 250278 Website: www.westeringsholidays.co.uk www.cobwebinn.com

Page 20 Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 The Order of Things Celtic crosses, marker 20 years ago in the stones and gateposts. Blowhole How come things are Granite is not naturally Millennium Yew where they are? It’s easy found in this area, it has A Millennium Yew Tree to take this question for all been brought here from was planted in Minster granted. They are where elsewhere, from the moors. Churchyard on Thursday they are and we either like The crosses mark ‘safe 9th Dec by Boscastle it, don’t like it or don’t care, routes’ to holy places, the Schoolchildren. The Yew is or lump it. When most of paths link homesteads (Tre a cutting taken from a 2000 us look at a photograph or this and Tre that) along the year-old tree. painting we don’t tend to way. Holy wells provided Precept think about what’s been safe places for pilgrims included or excluded, why and other travellers to The Precept for next year objects are where they are, refresh themselves. Some has been set at £10,500 as why a background was of the gateposts turn against £8,000 last year. chosen or ignored. Both out to be inverted Celtic The figure was set in order say something about the crosses, other crosses are in to facilitate a grant to the person who framed them foundations and walls. proposed Boscastle Sport and and those who look at them. Recreation Centre, should it For us here, decoding Why that angle, those be required. there, that settlement the landscape is a far people, those expressions Cave of Harmony there, that path there, that easier task than the more and poses, that deliberate The Boscastle Cave of mound or hollow there, developed and changed (?) anachronism, that skull Harmony presents a Magical, that stone cross there, landscapes ‘up country’. in the background? Melodious and Mirthful that holy well there? These It is part hidden and part Millennium Merry-go- “Everything happens things aren’t where they layered, but still there Round, 2000 years of for a reason” is a popular are just because there was to see. Nearby we have the Hilarious History of refrain, and that must an available space or they stone circles, the Merry Boscastle. be true. Although it may were convenient for centres Maidens, the Hurlers and be truer to say there are of population. These places the Pipers. On Dartmoor 10 years ago in the many reasons, a context were identified as special, there are the 3 stone Blowhole and an action, necessary either in themselves or as lines at Drizzlecombe, Top School and sufficient conditions. links between other special running north east to Planning approval has been When we look at the places and the populations south west. Why there received for the conversion of world, do we really see it as followed. and not somewhere else, Top School into premises for it is or do we miss most of For instance, in the why not make life easier the Pre-school Playgroup. what’s going on, has gone Boscastle area we are and transport the stones a Parish Plan on? Why is that church blessed with many granite shorter distance? Because A public meeting was it’s not about making life arranged by Forrabury & FAULKNERS easier, it’s about meaning Minster Parish Council to and significance. gauge the level of interest in PLUMBING AND HEATING SS a Parish Plan. Full range of plumbing services Rainfall totals measured in Boscastle Installation, servicing & repair of Oil, LPG & SX 09697 90138 Sept 2019 Oct 2019 natural gas central heating systems Number of days with no 7 5 Landlord Safety Certification rainfall OFTEC Registered: 14288 Max rainfall on one day 30.2mm 50.4mm Gas Safe Registered: 222122 Date on which max fell 24th 25th

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Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 Page 21 Farewell to Anne and Aubrey Cronin In the 2003 summer pumps, in Delabole. When edition of the Blowhole, I was told that Aubrey came Jim Castling wrote ‘Frank from Delabole, I said ‘So Bridges has hived off his you’re an incomer’. Aubrey petrol station and shop laughed delightedly, and to new proprietors’- they said I should include that were Anne and Aubrey in the write up. Aubrey Cronin. Sixteen years worked in the Delabole later, we regretfully have family business, eventually to say farewell to the going on to work in the couple, when they retire to Co-op in Boscastle, Port Somerset in November. Isaac and Delabole - 40 When Frank made years in retail. In the 2003 the decision to have the Blowhole edition, Anne forecourt as a separate was reported as saying she was ‘glad to be able to take business from the motor Anne & Aubrey this business on and keep repair business, Anne had many ways. Apart from the taken retirement from it local’. A business very Thank You much appreciated by and obvious essential items such Lloyds Bank in Camelford. Anne, Aubrey and needed for Boscastle’s ‘Top as bread, milk, local eggs Aubrey joined her in their Lisa have been Town’ residents. After a and potatoes, if you wanted new venture, after many overwhelmed with all few years, their daughter, vegan, vegetarian, organic years in retail. They both the messages, cards Lisa, joined them in the or gluten-free products, had a wealth of experience and presents received garage shop. they provided for such in merchandising, Anne needs whenever possible. on the closure of the having grown up around Having been born and Filling Station. We are her father, Claude Knight’s bred in Boscastle, Anne I for one will be sad to see them go, but like sorry to leave the top business. Claude owned has come to know all the of the village without a the general store, TV and local families as well as many Grandparents, they are anxious to share their shop, but retirement is cycle repair business on becoming acquainted with long overdue. Paradise Road for many many of the incomers. In grandchildren’s lives before Once again thank years (the building, no 2003 she said ‘We have the children ‘fly the nest’. you for all your good longer a shop, has since already found that the Good luck Anne and wishes. been renamed ‘Dolphins’). shop is a meeting place Aubrey and best wishes for the future. Aubrey, Anne and Having worked in Lloyds for people to keep up with Lisa GQ Bank, Anne had the village news’ - nothing has necessary accounting changed since then! expertise for their new We customers/clients/ enterprise. friends, call us what you Aubrey’s family ran a will, have been catered for general store, with petrol by Anne and Aubrey in MK Computers

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Page 22 Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 CENTRAL GARAGE High Street, Delabole Stuart Biddick Neighbourhood complete the questionnaire Tel: 01840 212388 Development Plan as this is your opportunity Update to shape how the NDP Piano Tuner ~ Pianos for Sale evolves and the area that we For those that have not heard GOOD FURNITURE & ALADDIN’S CAVE of this, the Neighbourhood all love so much develops in Development Plan is a the future. We will arrange We Buy & Sell Second-hand Furniture process that has been for drop-off points for the Especially Pine, Old & New performed across both completed questionnaires country and county to around the parish as well Open Monday - Friday noon - 4pm allow the people of the as postal return and we can Give us a visit - without obligation also arrange collection as parish to steer and agree You’ll be surprised what you’ll fi nd! how future developments well if you prefer. in their area are conducted. If you want to follow A dedicated team the process, our progress, of local people have or get to know the team been selected as the Co- in more detail, then please ordination Committee and look at the our website we have been meeting on a https://www.boscastle- bi-weekly basis to move the ndp.uk that contains all process forward. documents and minutes produced to date and the As we are working hand roles and responsibilities of in hand with the Parish the Co-ordination team. Council, a detailed set of criteria and the scope of You can also register on our remit for the project the website for updates and (Terms of Reference) have apply to get involved in the been produced and agreed process as well. by the Parish Council. Please let us know if you Disputes I Family 01208 72328 On the 24th September, have any questions, have a www.sproullllp.co.uk Property I Wills we held an open evening great Christmas and New Offi ces at Bodmin, Camelford and Wadebridge at the Village Hall that Year and we look forward was very well attended, to seeing your completed that explained what we questionnaires early in Philip Sleep Flooring Professional & reliable family run business with over 20 years experience. had done to date and 2020. canvassed opinions from MD 01840 212077 the parishioners on what 20 FEB 1818, THE areas are important and BOROUGH OF TINTAGEL We off er a large selection of SHOP OPEN There is likely to be a carpet, vinyl, karndean, Mon-Fri 9am-2.30pm what they wanted us to contested election in the initially focus on. remnants & safety fl ooring SAT 9am-5pm ancient borough of Tintagel. at honest prices. Following that meeting, The electors, 9 in number, Unit 4 Pentire Workshops we have drafted an initial are split into 2 parties each Free consultation, free fi tting strongly opposed to each Delabole questionnaire that has been and free delivery (terms apply) put forward for approval by other. These candidates, no PL33 9BA doubt, will publish addresses, (behind Atlantic Signs) the Parish Council and we as it is learnt that the mayor hope this will be delivered and one or two more of the to every household early in electors are actually able to the New Year. read; a proof of the extension We urge you all to of information in this enlightened age.

Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 Page 23 wreaths and other artificial flowers A REMINDER OF CHURCHYARD REGULATIONS (except plastic) may be laid on a Due to some unauthorised work on a Responsibility for the safe grave for a period of not more than grave in Forrabury churchyard it has installation of any memorial rests two months. become necessary to bring to your with the monumental mason. (d) The Parish Priest may attention the regulations regarding Ongoing liability for the memorial’s authorise the removal of any memorials and tributes which are maintenance in a safe condition wreaths, cut or artificial flowers allowable in Churchyards. These are subsequently lies with the person which have withered, deteriorated specified by the Chancellor of the who purchased it and, after that and/or become unsightly. Diocese of Truro. person’s death, the heirs of the (e) One suitable toy or tribute The purpose of these regulations deceased. may be placed on the grave of a is to Memorial Regulations child (i.e. a person under the age of 18 years) provided that it is removed ‘preserve suitable and 9. Designs and statues. harmonious surroundings for our after a period of six months. …..Headstones of rectangular parish churches and maintain the No ornaments or additions may shape or with curved tops are dignity of our burial grounds. These be placed on other graves save for permitted. Memorials of other regulations are binding on clergy, flowers or wreaths as described shapes, as well as sculpture and funeral directors, and parochial above. church councils (PCCs) and those statuary, may only be authorised by the Chancellor…Kerbs, railings, 17. These regulations supersede involved with using the churchyards and replace those previously in for burials of bodies or of cremated chains, chippings or glass shades are not permitted. force. remains (ashes), and for the erection Timothy J. Briden of memorials/gravestones’. 13. Inscriptions Chancellor of the Diocese of Truro This notice is intended to clarify (a) Dedications should be what is allowed. A full set of the simple, reverent and consistent with published regulations are available the Christian faith… Boscastle Oil-Ordering at the back of church, or from (b) Additions may be made to an Group me, or are accessible on the Truro inscription at a later date following Hope you managed to get your Diocese website at ttps://www. a subsequent interment in the same September order in to take advantage trurodiocese.org.uk/wp-content/ grave or for another suitable reason. of the discount available to us. If your uploads/2019/07/1.-Diocesan- However, any such addition must name is not already on the register, Regulations-full-May19.pdf be separately approved by the Parish ring Myrna Lester on 01840 250520 The regulations provide specific Priest, and the lettering, layout and for details. The next order is due in details as to what type of memorial is wording must be consistent with the March for April delivery. permitted, and the size and materials original inscription. Applications of that memorial. should be made to the Parish Priest Save Your Postage Stamps Before a memorial is installed ……. Used Postage Stamps are worth permission needs to be granted by 16. Flowers and other tributes £20 per kilo to the Royal National me, for memorials that fall within the (a) Except where the design of Institute for the Blind so please don’t regulations, or by the Chancellor of a headstone includes an integral discard them when they come your Truro Diocese for anything else. receptacle, plants or cut flowers way - put them in the collection box in the surgery or put them If anyone has any questions about may be placed in a removable through my letter box at 8 Pentargon this please contact me. container which must be sunk flush Road. I’m always pleased to receive Reverend Heather Aston with the ground. The Parish Priest Priest-in-Charge: may authorise the removal of any unwanted collections or albums; they containers which do not comply too can be left in my porch or I can Relevant extracts from the full collect. Thank you. set of regulations with these regulations, or which ML have become redundant... 2. The right of a parishioner in 31 DEC 1874, A BLIZZARD IN THE (c) Wreaths and cut flowers NORTH a churchyard is confined to that may also be laid on a grave, but At Bude the snowstorm on Wednesday of interment. The erection of a must be removed as soon as they was most severe. The roads away from memorial over a grave remains a have withered. Remembrance Day the coast on towards the moors are privilege, and requires permission as poppies, traditional Christmas impassable, and the mails were seven outlined below (4). hours behind their time.

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Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 Page 25 ANN RODDA: THE FRENCH CONNECTION implored, “On nous a vu a When I elected to take up invitation to an English la tele! Vous etiez toute nue a place at Leicester rather tea party. Otherwise !” than an Oxford college I was forgettable, the tea part I had a couple of French admonished “You realise, was prepared by putting boyfriends, one a budding Ann, “ said Miss Engledow, bags into cold water, then photographer, who actually headmistress at Truro High bringing to the boil before visited my home in Mount School for Girls, “that is serving. Horrible. Hawke. Quite what he was a provincial university!” That is probably one expecting I never knew “Ah yes,” I replied, “But it reason the French suppose but father took him off to includes a year in France”. I the English know nothing the local pub, returning could also have added, I had about cooking. at midnight with a rather a boyfriend there. bedraggled specimen. I am But I challenge anyone She blonde, me brunette… not sure my father, a local My only previous in their right mind to enjoy two delightful young blacksmith, was impressed. knowledge of the country andouillette, which is a kind hussies determined to enjoy “No wonder the French was as an au pair to a of tough gristly sausage our freedom, we headed collapsed in 1940” was professional family living in packed with all the bits of inexorably for the Cannes his only comment. Things a top floor flat in the busy offal, including bones, that Film Festival which was rather faded after that. centre of Paris. Imagine, this butchers cannot otherwise celebrating the arrival of was a rather overwhelming get rid of, cooked in a thick Latterly we frequently that minx Brigitte Bardot experience for a callow 17 brown sauce that tastes stayed with Ken & Pat and all her entourage. In year old from a small village like shoe polish, wolfed Stanton-Nadin in Kerlay, a spirit of hedonism we in Cornwall. The husband I down all over France with a small village in the valley delightedly cast away our think was a lawyer, perfectly much delight. Followed by of the Blavet. Although he inhibitions and bikini tops kind but abstracted, his something I believe called spoke not a word of the to join the revels on board wife clearly harassed isle de fal, a kind of suety lingo, Ken communicated a yacht owned by a film by the effort of looking pudding floating in pale via the universal language of director (that’s what he after infant Eric, a rather juice. An alternative choice those who love mechanical told us anyway). Naturally scrawny and demanding is a bowl of smelly molluscs contraptions. He was fondly the television cameras were child. Like many French scraped from the underside remembered as the quirky there, all of France agog at they had a reputation for of an oil tanker or a dish of gent who wore a leather the doings of the beautiful being obsessed by bowel ammoniac gone off skate, flying helmet when he drove people. When I returned to movements. One day both and you have the daily fare his vintage MG round the academy where I was Monsieur and Madame of the lorry drivers who the village and a snorting teaching I was greeted by were unavoidably absent for crowd into routiers all over traction engine to local a gaggle of excited young several hours, leaving me France where a four course rallies. It was a pleasure to girls “Mees, Mees, they alone after hurried but strict lunch with wine adds up to stand beside his greasy soot- instruction to administer just ten euros. young Eric’s daily enema. Quite; I confess many I had never encountered times we were easily such a thing. My French persuaded to ignore the at that time was probably kitchen pong in delight at inadequate to ask the the abundant (if rough) obvious questions, so faced allocation of local reds and with this small plastic object ciders at each dining table. I decided to cut it into small Alcoholic haze concealed a pieces and add to his feed. multitude of culinary sins. Naturally he heaved it up. I spent my student year Afterwards I confessed. in France at the university Shaking his forefinger in Toulon. As well as Monsieur admonished On attending lectures we were ne mange pas! expected to act as teaching My only other clear assistants in local schools. memory of their hospitality There I chummed up was a special (for them) with the lovely Gabrielle.

Page 26 Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 blackened fi gure and reply “Nice backside” is a polite on his behalf for an award translation. Oakwood Building from the mayor in gratitude Like much of Brittany the for the contribution of les village, was overwhelmed DANIEL ROOTS anglais by Brits who bought up CONSTRUCTION Th e heart of the little every delapidated hovel 01840 250644 / 07968 808135 village was Chez Angele, they could lay hands on, did where the proprietress them up at some expense [email protected] shanghaied us into sampling and, when the novelty wore Roofi ng • Carpentry • New Build her home-made aqua vita, off , discovered the diffi culty Extensions • Renovations a brew of such secret and of selling on. Kitchens • Bathrooms deadly manufacture it was One gets a little weary sold undercover in old of their lack of eff ort to FREE QUOTATIONS newspapers, two glasses of integrate by not at least which could slay a horse. trying to learn their hosts’ ANDREW LEEDS CHIMNEY SWEEP Over time we became language which, to give due, AND STOVE INSTALLATIONS friends. She also tried to the French never tolerate, sell us land belonging to always determinately Tel: 01840 250114 her brother. Marcel lived replying to any query in • Va c u u m & B r u s h • Stove Installations the ground fl oor of an their own tongue (much - no mess ancient farmhouse shared like us Brits in fact). So • Flue lining • Servicing & Repairs with his chickens, various when I came across a newly • HETAS certifi cation carved armoires and a black arrived expat having trouble • Cowls & Bird guards and white TV propped in a supermarket I had the • 20 mile radius on wooden pallets above advantage of being able to earth fl oors, and still wore converse quite amiably with traditional wooden sabots the manager and sort out on his grimy bare feet. her minor diffi culty. “Wow,” Hospitably off ering a she gushed, “you do speak glass of wine to his guests he French well, how long have HEDLEY VENNING was warned by Angele not you been out here.” “Oh, BUILDING CONTRACTOR to open a decent vintage, as we’re just on holiday for a Your local tradesman with 30 years experience we wouldn’t appreciate it. couple of weeks,” I replied (strictly true) “but you ------Gathering I had understood • New Builds • Renovations the exchange, in reparation should be able to pick it up she off ered to teach me to say quite easily.” • Roofi ng • Plastering Good Morning in the local I hope it destroyed her • Stonework • Drain Clearance Breton dialect. “Brau Orea”, confi dence for ever. Not ------or sounds to that eff ect. very Christian of me I Tel: 01840 250113 Next day I greeted each in agree, but mildly satisfying, the bar (as is the custom) nonetheless. Mobile: 0797 4581836 to be met with broad grins. AR

Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 Page 27 ‘What Does Nature Mean to You?’ ascending lark, riding a with the seasons providing buffeting wind, sounding a reassuring continuity Some months ago, the city. Growing on the jubilant at being in ‘Nature’ of life? In the graveyard Cornwall Wildlife Trust blackthorn and looking and never wavered in his nearby lichen splattered magazine posed the like frilly crepe-paper, grey- song as he climbed higher grave stones, with their question ‘What Does green lichen decorated the and higher. His musical poetic messages also reach Nature Mean to You’? I branches. The ruby, ripe talent and aeronautical back in time. The furrowed can’t recall the substance blackberries tasted wine- skills enviable as he field with its scattered of the article but I would sweet and the sun-warmed, became a small melodious geology tells of a far greater like to share with you, black sloe mouth-drying. speck high above the distant past, but the future Dear Reader, all that I Carried on the breeze was fields. Rabbit droppings is anticipated in the harvest remember of the day I set the salty fragrance from the reminded me that the to come, as are the messages forth to (possibly) answer sea and the whooshing of landscape is home to more of hope for a life to come, the question; to explore the waves, which sent spray than the grazing cattle on the gravestones. ‘Mother Nature’ and the arching across the harbour, and sheep. Then, in the It is so easy to see our ‘Nature’ I encountered that could be heard before the calm waters of the bay, a countryside as a picture day. ‘Blowhole’ came into view. curious seal’s head popped postcard, but there is so up, as he leisurely swam The day was sunny, with In a short space of much more to be gained, about. He will be aware, a cool breeze blowing from time and distance, Nature if we take the time to open however, that when the the sea, and it was not long had quickly given me the our minds and senses to it. sea’s colour changes from before ‘Nature’ revealed answer to the question – I touched the wooden city Mediterranean blue to itself. Hidden amongst the ‘Nature’ awakens my senses made by the burrowing dark sombre tones, Nature leafy branches of the trees of hearing, seeing, taste, insects; heard the love call should be respected and a wood pigeon was cooing, touch and smell but Nature of the unseen dove; saw never taken for granted. perhaps serenading his lady also alerts my senses, in the lichen covered grave love or just expressing his subtle ways, to the world As I took in my stones; smelt the newly pleasure of the day. Further around me. By standing surroundings, countless furrowed earth and tasted on, lying on the footpath, quietly (and with patience) questions were coming the salty mist rolling in there was a fallen branch, the rewards can be the thick and fast. Nature may from the sea. My curiosity drilled with many, perfectly unexpected sighting of a have awakened my senses, and senses, had been dulled round holes. Insects hovering falcon, looking but she also awakened by too much time spent in had made it their home. for food for its young or my curiosity. How many centrally heated retreat. Numerous tiny burrowing fox cubs at play (which species of birds could I Now, they were awakened creatures had hidden their of us was more surprised see and identify? What by Nature and that was busy lives in this wooden by the encounter?) or an were those insects that the answer to ‘What Does made their home in the Nature Mean’ to me. fallen branch? How many ‘What Does Nature Mean THE NAPOLEON INN different lichens could I to You’, Dear Reader? High Street, Boscastle find? Did I smell anything GQ Tel: 01840 250204 other than the sea? I www.napoleoninn.co.uk put curiosity aside to be A delightful 16th century pub full of character answered at a later time Delicious food freshly cooked by our team of talented chefs and continued to admire using local ingredients wherever possible Real ales served straight from the barrel the countryside. JAM NIGHT every other Monday The field’s newly BOSCASTLE BUOYS every Tuesday night ploughed furrows were LIVE MUSIC Every Friday (not Jan or Feb) dotted with shards of slate QUIZ NIGHT every other Wednesday and nuggets of quartz, giving me a glimpse of the Book your CHRISTMAS PARTY or CHRISTMAS DAY LUNCH with us now geology of the area. The Christmas Eve...mulled wine and mince pies farmer’s attempt to tame Christmas Day...open for drinks Boxing Day...usual opening hours Nature is an example of Celebrate with us on NEW YEAR’S EVE music from the awesome Man’s continual struggle Smug Jars and book now for ourANNUAL HANGOVER to survive, thankfully,

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Page 28 Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 Harbourmaster’s News Ginner-Mawer Dance School Dear Blowhole Team On a Saturday night, the I am researching the village would hold a dance Ginner-Mawer Dance in the village hall. Then School, which was based in on a Sunday morning the Boscastle during WW2. In Ginner-Mawer students particular, I am interested would go in and scrub the in the life of Irene Perugini, floor clean, ready for them née Mawer. to dance barefoot on the I have found two Monday morning. The mentions of Ginner- girls filled their buckets of Mawer in previous water from the pump, and editions of the Blowhole emptied their dirty water magazine, in memories straight into the stream of Nick Valentine and outside the hall. All the fishing boats came successful in keeping their David Whitaker and in It would be wonderful out on Saturday 28th instruments in place. I do an obituary for Dr John if there was anyone else September with the threat not know what to make Tyerman Williams whose who has any memories of storm Lorenzo landing about increase in sea level then wife, Mary Starling, of anything to do with the following week. In the but we certainly saw some was pianist for the Ginner the Ginner-Mawers, event I think the worst of very high spring tides this Mawer School at the the school, the teachers that storm was over Ireland autumn. Village Hall. or staff. If you do have any memories or any but the season came to Of course there are no Irene Mawer and her rather an abrupt and husband, Mark Perugini, information about them visiting boats at this time and or the school - even perhaps premature close. of year although I have lived at Bourne Street Rene - Black Jack- and Cottage. People struggled the tiniest fragment of just approved an entry in a memory would be of Onward - are laid up on a Yacht Cruising Almanac: to pronounce their name blocks on the quayside and and called them Mr and interest to me - I would ‘Boscastle - A love to hear from you. the other boats in sheds picturesque medieval Mrs Perry-Green-Eye or and gardens or down at the fishing village Mr and Mrs Per-Rug- You can contact me, boat yard. Annie! Ruby Ginner and Janet Fizz Curtis by email ‘Approach HW-0200 her husband, Alec Dyer, at fizzycloud@hotmail. The storm that came and stay only in fine nd also lived in the village. com on Saturday 2 November settled weather. Difficult Many thanks in advance was far worse with wind to locate from the The students (all girls) for your help. speeds in excess of 100 seaward. Beware lobster lived in various digs Best wishes miles per hour recorded pot markers in approach. throughout the village. down west at Gwennap Their landladies acted Janet Unlit night entry The Blowhole team can Head. So, winter now and dangerous. Essential to as ‘mum’ feeding and a few repairs to attend to. mothering the teenage help with communicating identify Meachard to with Janet if you wish. Jeff Cherrington from enter. Narrow entrance girls. the National Trust tells me with very sharp bend to that they, in association stb. Two berths and dry with Plymouth University, out on hard sand over have laid some instruments rock. Heavy bumping on in the harbour to try to any slight swell.’ measure any increase in In fact we (the Harbour sea level and to assess Association) also charge M. Biddick & Son Ltd what impact this will £5.00 per night to stay over have to the lower lying - not many takers this year Electrical Contractors properties. Given the and none at all in Winter. heave and movements Chris Key Tel: 01566 86183 Mob: 07974 676583 of the sand and stones, I Harbourmaster email: [email protected] am hoping that they are

Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 Page 29 To the Mediterranean...by bicycle that we like cycling, food, ferry booked, but of course beer, wine and having a work and life beckon for us Frank Bridge relates his recent adventure laugh. Many a prank is all. For those of you who know the way and we have had played when someone is Again, we travelled me, you’ll know I’m partial several expedition drivers foolish enough to leave their together in a van which to the odd adventure. to whom we are thankful, plate of food unattended, carries our bikes, spares, Despite my age I still have including our very own only to return, bite in, and camping gear and food no intention of slowing ‘Kenny cabs’ and Tracey wonder what an earth has supplies. We take it in down just yet, it keeps me Gifford. now replaced the filling in turns to drive for a day, young. For some strange their sandwich. Childish? whilst the others put It all started twenty reason, this year, our Or just boys being boys? peddle to the metal. After years ago with four of us. ‘planner’ dreamt big, no What’s the point of life, a light breakfast the cyclists My friend used to sit in his longer content with twenty or spending time with head off around 8-8.30am. office and daydream crazy four hours but ‘the big mates if there isn’t humour The driver’s role is to pack adventures that should take one’. “Can you all take involved? up camp, then meet at a place in the space of twenty time off over the summer?” Out on the road, if rendezvous point, by luck, four hours, known as our he asked. We all readily someone falls behind, usually a patisserie, for 8 ’24 hour specials’. Some of agreed. He decided that we wait and regroup coffees (we never got the our previous exploits have we should cycle from the throughout the ride. We hang of their sizes) and included: North to the South coast support each other in an several croissants at around •cycling from Marble Arch of France, following rivers unspoken type of way. 11am. Lunch, around the to the Arc de Triomphe and or canals, for the cool Over the years we have all forty mile mark, is then getting lost in Paris cycling respite they would afford fallen into our own specific selected by the van driver- the wrong way up the dual us, during some potentially roles which works very well. a French feast spectacular carriageway with the late sweltering hot days. The Eric is Chef extraordinaire, for any food connoisseur Ron Hart as our designated kicker? Camping! To say whose obsession with out there! We would meet driver desperately trying to I was a little apprehensive onions knows no bounds, in whichever village had find us. about placing my delicate, Nigel is the planner and been ear-marked by the •cycling the Normandy achy muscles & bones, on dreamer, Keith sets the driver (often by text en- beaches top of a hard floor at the cycling pace and I fix all the route), as a suitable stop- •a cycle trip to Belgium (and end of each day, was the mechanical problems. point in the local Lidl it’ numerous beer houses! part of the plan I liked the So this epic adventure carpark. Hungry and ready least. However, a quick trip •and one of the toughest… would see four MAMIL’s for food, we would be met starting at 3am, running up to a certain low-budget (middle aged men in lycra- by tables and chairs set out Snowdon, cycling the Isle of supermarket and a self- RUDE!) cycle 725 miles for our Al fresco dining Anglesey and the Isle of Man inflating roll mat later, I felt from Dieppe on the North experience. Due to the in one day. We slept when we better prepared. coast to Port St Louis de large menu choice provided could, catching a few Zs on Our motley crew is aged Rhone on the South (near nearby, food would be laid the ferry or in the van. from late fifties to mid- Marseille). There was no out like a King’s feast. We seventies, with different could have given many a These ‘specials’ have time frame, except the fitness levels and styles. But celebrity chef a run for his always been fun and along hope to average 60miles the most important part, is per day. We had no return money! Talking of which, HARBOUR LIGHT CLOTHING Ladies, Men’s and Children’s Stylish Clothing Delicious Gerry’s Ice Cream NEW IN: Boscastle embroidered hoodies and t-shirts - adults and children Cornish tartan DOG Bandanas, collars, leads and doggie ice cream

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Page 30 Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 To the Mediterranean...continued money was no object: evening budget extended to breads, cheeses, salads, the heady heights of three hams, whatever your Lidl euros for a bottle of wine, heart desired! Sometimes, to enjoy with our meal. if we had been good A couple of trip highlights MAMIL’s, we could eat in a were Bastille day, when in real restaurant. What I love the evening we wandered about France at lunchtime, into the town of Lyon and is no matter how posh the stumbled upon a fabulous restaurant, truck drivers, fireworks display. In builders, the mayor and Arles, at night there was a cyclists all congregate church that had light shows to lazily eat and drink. depicted on its outer walls, Everyone is welcome, no which was very atmospheric snooty nosed looks. The and quite mesmerising. usual menu is two to three Another time, we got courses, often including berated by a shop owner water, bread, wine and for accidentally helping coffee. How civilised! Lunch ourselves to sandwiches find a higher perch from The weather during the was always pleasantly long from the counter, but in the which to view the ‘whoosh’ twelve days cycling was and plentiful. Afterwards, end she threw her hands up as it passes. A vineyard kind to us and thankfully the cyclists would head in the air and let us get on provided the perfect slope, always hot. At its peak heat off during the hottest part with it. We just giggled. unfortunately a misplaced we endured 94F one day, of the day, with around Without realising it, parts foot on the soil and he fell hydration was certainly twenty five to thirtyof our route coincided onto one of the protruding the key. We were truly miles left to ride until the with sections of the Tour spikes used for the vines. grateful for the route and its evening’s destination. The de France cycle tour. This This pierced the skinproximity to cool water. On driver packs up the feasting meant the road could be through his cheek, coming our last day we could smell table, selects a campsite at closed for several miles out centimetres from his the Mediterranean. We random and then scoots and hours at a time. On eye! When next we saw him decided to leave the van and on ahead to check in. We one particular occasion, he was covered in blood cycle the last twelve miles would arrive around 6 with the excitement of the and being bundled into a together towards the sea. pm and set up the tents, peloton’s speedy approach Tour de France ambulance! As the landscape opened up whilst Eric would begin sounding, one of our Without the van at this we could see the bright blue his onion based meal. Our number trotted off to point, unable to exit the of the ocean. On arrival road blocks and with little at the beach, still in our French, we had to wait for cycle gear, we ran into the our war-wounded friend to waves, enjoying the feeling phone us. Then we drove to of the cool water. Heaven! the hospital and eventually What a relief! What an found him suitably stitched achievement with a great up, looking a little worse bunch of friends and pretty for wear, loitering around much in one piece! Now the foyer. Naturally with a for a nice bit of lunch by serious amount of bruising, the seaside, before heading looking like something out back to collect the van and of a horror movie, we were drive to catch the ferry to sworn to secrecy and not England. Bring on the next allowed to take or share his daydream adventure! photograph until our return Route- Dieppe-Amiens- to the UK (wives/family to Reims-Nevers-Lyon- keep sweet - otherwise we Avignon-Arles-the sea! won’t be allowed out to play FB again).

Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 Page 31 away as life got in the way. All the bookworms were This is her debut book interested in this book but The Reading Room but she first wrote about for several different reasons. Our Cornish fishing village books again. She had left her 630-mile coastal path Firstly, its setting is so was being hit by the worst their makeshift home in the walk as a present for her familiar to us because most storm for many years. My valley and ran there to see husband on his birthday. of us have walked most, Cliffside cottage echoedif she could get in and hide She then submitted it as if not, all of the coastal with the roaring sound of the before the door was locked. an article for The Big Issue path. It was intriguing to sea. The wind was howling I reached forward to take and was so moved by how view such familiar places and heavy rain battered the her in my arms but I felt enthusiastically it was through the eyes of walkers window panes. I had lit my nothing but emptiness and received that she decided visiting for their first time. fire in the afternoon and the dampness. I panicked and to write the book. Perhaps, also alarming to glow of flames from it filled jumped up in terror to find She lived with her learn of the reaction local the room. ‘A good blizzy’, as myself standing in front of husband in a farmhouse in people sometimes gave my old Granfer used to say! my fire, soaked in cold tea Wales. It was their home and to these unconventional I chuckled to myself and and my mug shattered on visitors. It provoked pulled my favourite chair the floor. It had only been a their livelihood. Tragedy some soul searching and closer to the fire. I wrapped dream! struck them suddenly when a bad investment took their meaningful discussion my hands around my cuppa I changed my clothes home and their business. At about our prejudices and and relaxed cosily into the and made another mug cushions. Just as I was feeling the same time her husband attitudes. Most of us of tea but the emotions ended up questioning our settled, I felt an icy finger of the dream hung in the was diagnosed with own judgemental way of tap me on the shoulder. air. I thought about the corticobasal degeneration, assessing newcomers. All of Cold shivers shot down my tremendous value of real or CBD. This illness would us admired the courage and back and for a brief moment books for our children. I not only shorten his life, I froze in my seat. I then thought about the joy I but also severely limit the determination displayed sprang up in panic. It was have experienced taking my quality of it. Amazingly throughout by this amazing as if a force from ancient children, my grandchildren they took the decision to couple. Their decision to times was telling me what I and hundreds of my pupils embrace their misfortune undertake walking 630 already knew. The books in to visit libraries. I thought and use their unexpected miles with just a small tent The Ancient Reading Room of the awe on their faces as ‘freedom’ to attempt the for shelter and in all seasons were in danger. I recalled they carefully handled books seemingly impossible. was possibly foolhardy and seeing a window ajar last that enthralled, amused and With only £48 benefits per reckless but as they said time I passed by there. The inspired them. We need to week between them and a they had nothing to lose thought of all our precious strive to preserve libraries tent, they began to walk and the two big things they books being ruined was and access to books. They the South West Coastal could gain were hope and unbearable so I grabbed my bring companionship and Path. They hoped it would purpose. coat, locked my door and offer windows to other fought the storm all the way help them cope with the They story has a slow worlds and other lives for feeling of despair and give start but because the down into the harbour. young and old alike. them a space to make new challenge before them Outside The Reading Thank goodness ourplans. This is a book about was so enormous the Room I could just make Ancient Reading Room is a journey in every respect. reader was unable to stop out a shape slumped over here to welcome you all. the doorstep. The nearer Please come on in and join I got the more horrified I us once more. became. A small, bedraggled child, wearing clothes that THE SALT PATH were mere rags, raised its BY RAYNOR WINN head to reveal a dirty, tear As a child, Raynor Winn stained face. I bent down was an avid reader and she closer and between her sobs loved to write. Her dream, she began to tell me why she when she grew up, was to was there on such am awful write a book with a penguin night. Her mother had told on the spine, just like the her that they were locking The Reading Room forever ones she loved to read. She and she could never see the admits her dream melted

Page 32 Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 reading. It was a well embarks on a journey wildlife. It is a fascinating It is written in traditional written book, with some of discovery sparked by account of the ecology of style which allows the plot powerful descriptions. finding this treasured shawl our countryside and has and characters centre stage. One bookworm felt the and a lock of hair. Whilst been an inspiration to It opens a window on a life character of Moth was not emptying their late parents many other farmers and in the 1910’s. sufficiently developed and house Mair stumbles on it landowners. This is a long book with they would have liked more hidden in the bottom of They introduced free a slow start but it is a well background knowledge a drawer. It captures her roaming cattle, ponies, pigs written story. about him. The way his heart and makes her realise and deer, then watched the Other Authors Enjoyed health improved in such how little they know about magic happen as it, once By Our Bookworms This circumstances was truly her mother’s background. again, became a functioning Summer include Peter uplifting and we all wanted She feels all the clues are ecosystem heaving with all May, Ann Cleaves, Sue a happy ending. I will say being held in her hand as the common species they Grafton. no more except that the she caresses this beautifully had lost. Thank you for popping ending was a cliff hanger in crafted item. It is an inspiring story of many respects. into share our Bookworm An emotional story hope leading to The Knepp ramblings. We hope we We would all which has a beautifully Experiment becoming a have inspired you with recommend this book. One painted setting and well- model used all over Europe some of our discussions bookworm heard Raynor crafted characters. There are to generate benefits to the about the books we have speak at The Fowey Festival eye-opening descriptions land. read. Do let us know what and found her to be an of the life and hardships of In the present climate you have been reading. engaging speaker. She was the weavers of the shawl. with the concern about Post your thoughts on also able to enlighten us A book that is a must-read the environment generated our INSTAGRAM page. about the end of the story. for any lover of romantic by climate change and We’d love to meet you Quality of writing: 8 novels. pollution this book is @keeperofthekey on Storyline: 8.5 WILDING essential reading. It will INSTAGRAM where Recommended Books BY ISABELLA TREE help revive hope that the we have a virtual reading world is an amazing place room. I post things to do THE KASHMIR This book tells the capable of healing itself if with books and some of the SHAWL story of The Burrells who we remove the problems, bookworm reviews from BY ROSIE THOMAS are forced to accept that the intensive farming we have showered on to it. previous years. Imagine it is 1941 and on the heavy clay soil of HALF OF THE Keep reading until next the globe is engulfed by their land at Knepp was HUMAN RACE time. World War II. A newly- failing economically. They BY ANTHONY We hope you will join wed Welsh girl left her took a leap of faith and QUINN homeland to travel with us again once more in the let the 3,500 acres return This novel is set in her missionary husband Reading Room. to nature. This book is a the early part of the 20th to the remotest part of Yours truly gripping memoir of their century and it tells the story India. Her life there is journey demonstrating of the women’s suffrage Keeper of the Key gradually unearthed by the resilience of the land movement, World War I her granddaughter who and the diversity of British and cricket. The Old Coach House Portable Appliance Testing Relax in the beautiful Boscastle & Surrounding Areas surroundings of this 300 Bed & Breakfasts - Holiday Lets - Businesses year old coach house, with large, secluded mature garden and private parking

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In summer it’s the large fl owering shrub, bearing colourful blooms that densely packed clusters of attract pollinators, but rose, pink or blush white, winter-fl owering plants sweetly scented blooms, need to use a diff erent on bare stems. It’s perfect strategy. Fortunately for for growing in the front us this strategy consists garden or near an entrance of releasing deliciously or walk, where its fragrant, piercing but delicate pretty blooms can be fragrances that carry in properly appreciated. the cold winter air. Most Daphne bholua of these shrubs prefer to Jacqueline Postill (see be planted in a sunny photo) has a strong upright and sheltered spot where habit and is a perfect shrub winter sunshine can most to grow against a wall in eff ectively work its magic. full sun or partial shade. Ideally somewhere close to It is not reliably hardy so a regularly used pathway or it’s not a plant for a cold, companions to accompany best in an acid soil in door, so that you can enjoy exposed position and I its glossy green summer partial shade where it will the scent without having suppose I am lucky mine foliage. Like all daphnes form a spreading shrub up to visit the bottom of the has survived up here in it should only be pruned to fi ve feet. Th e RHS says garden, or walk across a my garden at over 750ft lightly or it may die back. it ought to be pruned to soggy or frozen lawn. Th at’s above sea level. Now it is All parts of the plant are shape in the spring after the big mistake I made established it is smothered toxic, so if you do pick some fl owering but as I’ve only by planting Viburnum every winter in clusters of to bring indoors, be sure to just been told this bit of bodnantense Dawn down deep pink buds that open wear gloves. If height is an information, I’m afraid at the bottom of the garden, to soft pink, gorgeously issue, try Daphne odora that pruning to shape is about as far away from the scented fl owers through aureomarginata instead something that has never house as possible. Th at was January and February. It – it’s more compact but happened to my winter in the days when I knew is a semi-evergreen plant equally fragrant. hazel. But it still manages nothing; these days at least growing a new crop of Another winter to be a handsome resident. I know how ignorant I am. leaves after fl owering that fl owering plant I grow is Sweet Box (Sarcococca Dawn is a fantastic winter- needs summer fl owering Corylopsis paucifl ora or hookeriana) is a modest winter hazel. Th e hanging evergreen shrub, enlivened clusters of delicately by shaggy cream fl owers perfumed pale primrose that bloom along the length yellow fl owers smother the of its stems. And it does • Microsoft certified & Apple authorised computer & network technician. shrub. Corylopsis grows have two virtues that make • Windows PC & Mac, Android & iOS. Sales & service - home or business. • Hardware repair, software troubleshooting. D SCOTT ELECTRICAL • Anti-virus/system maintenance. 1, JORDAN VALE OLD ROAD BOSCASTLE CORNWALL PL35 0AJ • WiFi/network consultancy & installation. • Website design & construction. • On-site repairs from £40. INSTALLATIONS • Chromebooks from £199, Windows PCs from £299, iMacs from £499, Macbooks from £599 SALES & SERVICE

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Page 34 Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 Friday 7th February, Winter Fragrance 7.30pm Melange: North Cornwall’s Melange it worth growing – firstly finally, on a more seasonal blend a stunning mix of its flowers have a perfume note, at this time of year voices with instrumental that will stop you in your everyone is thinking about energy in a repertoire that tracks, and secondly it is their Christmas lists, what melds classic jazz with Latin perfectly happy in deep to buy for Auntie Gwen and contemporary songs. shade providing the soil is and Uncle Harry. The Saturday 29th February, moist but well-drained. So, newspapers and magazines Events at St Endellion 7.30pm Cornwall if you have a shady spot are full of suggestions, most Saturday 4th January Camerata - J.S. Bach near a doorway or path, it of them priced well beyond The Chris Treglown Brandenburg Concertos will more than repay you my own Christmas budget Foundation presents: 3, 4, 5 and 6: with its glorious winter for buying gifts. Personally, ‘Sure on this shining The maiden performance by fragrance. Sadly however, I always find a ball of night’: this new chamber orchestra. An evening of beautiful Conductor: Janet Wright. music performed by Friday 13th March, members of MJUK Music 7.30pm Balagan Café and Arts, winners of the Band: Chris Treglown Fund. Parisian and American Sunday 19th January, jazz, the Chalabi music of 3pm Wells Cathedral Algeria, Argentine Tango, School Showcase Balkan and Western concert: European folk music are Three outstanding young woven together by this music students showcase exciting new band. their talents in this Sunday Sunday 22nd March, 3pm although I have bought gardening string in one of afternoon concert that has Cornwall County Youth and planted several over those little tins particularly become a regular feature Choir: the years, I have never yet acceptable and yesterday I of the Endelienta calendar. Come and enjoy young managed to get one to found the perfect gift for £8 to include tea and cake. voices filling St Endellion survive in my garden. all vegetable lovers this Friday 24th January, Church. The choir is made year (look no further!) So, there you are: on the 7.30pm Ninebarrow: up of young people aged one hand I am the proud chocolate Brussels sprouts Combining breathtaking 14 to 18 from across the possessor of a glorious (Choconchoc chocolate vocal harmonies and county. daphne, a slightly difficult sprouts: £9.50). Have a melodies, the award- Tickets for concerts are plant that is the joy of my lovely time this Christmas wining folk duo deliver £10 unless stated otherwise, winter garden and on the and let’s look forward to songs and stories inspired accompanied under 16s other, have completely a jolly good gardening by the landscape and free. Tickets available from failed to keep the much season in 2020! traditions of the British www.endelienta.org.uk or easier Sarcococca. And Pat Thorne Isles. 07787 944935 AN PARTR NEATE For all your foot IST ICK health needs TR Professional foot care in the FEET comfort of your own home CONSTRUCTION Painful Callus Reduced Verrucae Treatment Toenail Clipping Reflexology EXTENSIONS • RENOVATIONS Ingrowing Toenails Everything you require to keep Painful Corns Removed your feet pain free NEW BUILD • BATHROOMS Paddings & Dressings Claire & Simon Phone: 07989 327 873 Neate DIPCFHP Qualified foot health practitioners FREE QUOTATIONS Mob: 07968232344 / 07870508867

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Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 Page 37 of the High Street stores. of the war-dead. Th is must and Mabel was honoured In the comfort of your have been a steep learning with an OBE for sharing home you can choose what curve for women who the conditions which the you like and send it back had been brought up with men had endured. with relative ease. You can a decidedly Edwardian As you can imagine even send a picture of your outlook. there were quite a few head which can be placed Back at home there was questions and talking Boscastle WI on a model to show what considerable prejudice and points throughout, and you would look like in the suspicion regarding their afterwards several of the Our September meeting garment you may have work (they were suspected members bought a signed saw us back in the Village chosen, before you decide of being camp followers copy of her novel. Hall where our speaker was to purchase. and enticing the soldiers!). We meet on the second Lesley Robinson, who gave Our October speaker However, a Commission Tuesday of each month us a very interesting talk on was Amanda Harris who sent to make enquiries at 2.00 p.m. in Boscastle how shopping has changed gave us a fascinating talk completely exonerated Village Hall. Why not give through the years. on the Women’s Auxiliary them. us a try? From before the reign Army Corps. When, in May 1918, SV of Charles II, through “It’s 1917 and the war is Abbeville was severely Marshgate WI the Regency and beyond, dragging on and more men bombed, the WAAC men showed more interest are desperately needed by the helped to clear up after the Th e sweet sounds of than women in shopping, army at the Front. So, the destruction, and in fact, a local choir is one of especially for clothes. decision is taken to recruit when the war ended, they Marshgate WI’s favourite Th ey certainly spent a women to replace them in stayed on to help with the things, so their September great deal on their apparel clerical positions behind the demobilisation. meeting was a special treat. and keeping up with the North Coast Harmony lines in France.” Having been released by fashions of the day. Lace, arrived at Otterham & St Th us, the WAAC was their war-time experiences silks, velvet and (would Juliot Hall for a visit and formed. One of these was from the straitjacket you believe?) ribbons the fi ve performers were Amanda’s grandmother, of their Edwardian were keenly sought after. singing even as they came Mabel, who kept a upbringing, how diffi cult Apparently, the more in the door! scrapbook dealing with must it have been for them ribbons you wore, the her time in the Corps. to come home and return WI members already more your status in society After reading this, Amanda to the hum-drum routine knew they were in for a rose. Not just clothes, but decided to write a novel of normal life. Th eirspecial time, as they had furniture, paintings, and based on her grandmother’s work had by this time invited the choir over for sculptures were also highly experiences. been greatly appreciated, their Treat Yourself Day last prized. year, when the choir regaled Following a very short especially by Queen Mary, Over the years shops period of training, which changed too. From included marching, Mabel warehouses and small found herself in Abbeville, shops selling one item France, where she would only, the department be based for the next two stores sprung up: Harrods, years. Th irty thousand Selfridges, Fortnum and troops were stationed in Mason. Harrods was the and around Abbeville, fi rst to have a ‘moving where there were hospitals, staircase’ and people were stores, and prisoner-of-war off ered a ‘reviving’ drink camps. once they had survived the experience. Having said Not only did the women that, it only went up one have to deal with the fl oor! administrative side, they learned to become drivers Now we have the and mechanics and also Internet and we are had to attend to the graves gradually seeing the demise

Page 38 Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 modern music, including beautiful piano solo and also readings and jokes, which were enjoyed by all. Th e event, at Otterham and visitors and members with St Juliot Hall, also included their a cappella singing. a supper and raffl e, and has Th is time they sang cleared about £180 for the popular melodies, then CAA donation. encouraged the WI Marshgate will donate members to sing along more than this, as they with them, before staying also held a large event for tea and cake. at the hall in June to Marshgate WI ladies take part in Jill Lamede’s are looking forward to Magical Moments festival giving a gift…and not just of events celebrating the for Christmas. After their 60th anniversary of the open November meeting North Cornwall Area they are happy to be able of Outstanding Natural to make a substantial Beauty. Th is event, which donation to Cornwall Air also included a choir and Ambulance, their chosen refreshments, will enable charity of the year – the WI to at least double helped by the generosity the amount from the of their booked performers concert, and they will soon Tintagel Orpheus Male be making arrangements to Voice Choir, who asked hand over a cheque to the only half of their stated CAA. fee to boost profi ts for the Remember to check CAA. our website at www. Th e choir treated the marshgatewi.org. audience of members uk/, especially the messageboard page, and and guests from all over meet us on Facebook. the Camelford area to Wendy Trevennor a delightful concert of Secretary folk, traditional and more HIGHFIELD MOTORS Christopher Key Proprietor: F Luff arelli Solicitor Trebiffen, Boscastle, PL35 0BN Servicing, Repairs & Tyres at Highly Tel: 01840 250200 Fax: 01840 250900 Competitive Prices for all cars, motorcycles and vans Established 1997 serving the local community MOT’s Class 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 7 conveyancing & wills probate, general litigation, etc Tel: 01840 212666 Highfi eld Road Industrial Estate Member Law Society Personal Injury Panel Camelford Agricultural Specialist ~ Harbourmaster PL32 9RA

Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2019 Page 39 Opening Hours and Useful Numbers Camelford Library Emergency Services: Coastguard, Fire, Police, Ambulance: Dial 999 and Information Service Police Station: For non-urgent issues: 101 Town Hall, Market Place, Doctors’ Surgery and out-of-hours emergency Camelford, PL32 9PD doctor: 01840 250209 Tel: 0300 1234 111 NHS Advice : If you are feeling unwell and need a Library renewals line: 0845 607 6119 telephone health assessment, please call freephone 111 [email protected] Local Hospitals: Mon & Tues: 10am - 4.30pm Bodmin - East Cornwall 01208 251300 Wed, Thurs & Sat: 10am - 1pm Minor Injuries Unit 8 am – 10 pm, seven days a week X-Ray department Monday to Friday 9am until 4.45pm. Closed on Friday Launceston Community 01566 761000 Minor Injuries Unit open 8 am - 8pm, seven days a week X-Ray department Mon to Fri 8.30am - 5pm, Sun 9am-5pm Stratton Community 01288 320100 NatWest Bank Minor Injuries Unit open 8am - 10pm, seven days a week The Mobile NatWest bank calls at the main X-Ray department Monday to Friday 9am until 4pm carpark on Fridays, from 1.45pm until 2.30pm NHS Emergency Dental Service: 0333 405 0290 Boscastle National Trust & Visitor Centre: Boscastle Spar 01840 250010 or 01840 250353 Local Churches: Tel: 01840 250419 Church of England 01840 250359 Cash machine during business hours Methodist 01840 214818 Post Office facilities Catholic 01840 770663 Shop open daily at 6am Harbourmaster: 01840 250200 Parish Council: Chairman: 01840 250529 Cornish Stores Clerk: 01840 230609 email: [email protected] Phone for opening hours Tel: 01840 250344 Minibus Bookings and Enquiries: 07506 944 622 Community Centre Bookings: 01840 250442 British Divers Marine Life Rescue to report concerns Mobile Library about any marine animals: 01825 765546 0800 032 2345 or 01872 272702 RSPCA: 0300 1234 999 Visits every fourth Friday: Due at Boscastle, Paradise Road 10.20 -10.40 Cornwall Council One Stop Shop: 0300 1234 111 Tintagel - King Arthur’s carpark 10.55 -11.15 Environment Agency: 0800 807 060 December no visit, 24th January Floodline: 0345 988 1188 South West Water emergency: 0344 346 2020 Waste Tip, Bowithick Quarry SWW leak reporting 0800 230 0561 Sanding Road, Tintagel, PL34 0HH Highways: 0300 1234 222 Tel: 01840 770778 Western Power emergencies: 0800 365 900 Open Friday to Monday: 9am – 4pm Village Hall bookings: Jane Spachett: 07985737356 Closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day & New Year’s Day Village website: www.boscastlecornwall.org.uk

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