PRESIDENT’S been able to free up as many as MESSAGE 120 beds at the Royal Cornwall ‘Dydh da’ (‘G’day’). Hospital for 12 weeks. It’s a sign of strange Hotels involved include the St times that we have Moritz Hotel at Trebetherick, the our May CAV Carnmarth Hotel in Newquay CORNISH ASSOCIATION Newsletter and yet and Penventon Hotel in Redruth. OF we haven’t met since February! Good on them! VICTORIA, INC. I hope that all of you are fit and well and that you’re coping with Back here in Oz, life is a bit NEWSLETTER the isolation and social distancing. different though, isn’t it? No. 133 Unless miracles occur it appears Out here in Doreen, the guy that our May CAV Meeting and across the road washes his car MAY 2020 most likely our June CAV three times a week and the Meeting will not occur. fellow a few doors down mows Corporation Reg. No. A0008264A We will, of course, keep his lawns twice a week! Newsletter Registered by Australia members posted about the The kids in the street mostly see Post as Print Publication No. 100001610. resumption of our meetings and their grandparents through this will occur when the current flywire screens, but all the restrictions on gatherings are neighbours are helping each CONTENTS lifted. Be assured that your other out in lots of different Committee is monitoring the ways. It’s what a community does President’s Report pp 1 & 3 situation and whilst we would in a crisis: one and all! like to get back to normalcy, we We try to walk every day, except Notices for Members and will take no risks with your when it’s raining. When someone Birthday greetings p 2 health by rushing back our else approaches its like the gatherings too soon. parting of the Red Sea as we all Recent Happenings p 4-5 try to keep our 1.5 metre Someone asked me what would distance! Memories of Baldhu pp 6-8 happen if we couldn’t meet in July The hardest thing is dealing with when we would normally have the relative isolation from our A touch of humour p 8 our AGM? elderly parents, kids and Please see June Whiffin’s report grandkids. News from our Country Cousins on page 2 Be assured that we So far all is OK so we consider pp 9-11 have been given an extension ourselves very lucky. We have regarding our AGM until later in mastered the ‘HouseParty’ app Reminiscing p 11 the year. and have had two virtual birthday parties playing games with the Agan Kernow Project p 12 As I write this, the United app online. Kingdom has 148,000 confirmed This way we get to see everyone Pasty Orders p 12 COVID-19 cases and more than online and sing happy birthday 20,000 deaths, including 68 in with a virtual cake! It’s not the Cornish Easter Cakes p 12 Cornwall. same but it’s sufficient. So we in Australia should count Using Facetime on our iPads we Robert Malachy Serjeant p 13 ourselves very lucky compared had a virtual lunch recently with with our British and Cornish some of our friends, which was a The Black Death p 14 cousins. very civilized way to spend an I read an interesting story hour. The ‘Obby ‘Oss p 15 recently about three hotels in Cornwall that have offered Lyn and I have a number of Cornish Tid Bits p16 rooms for patients who are projects in the garden as well as recovering from operations or getting on with things around the COVID-19 but are not strong house that we’ve put off over the enough to return home. By taking last few years. We’ve just picked them to the hotels the NHS has the last of my Zucchinis and Lyn CAV News No 133 - May 2020 Page 1 IMPORTANT NOTICE CAV NEWSLETTER CORNISH ASSOCIATION Annual General Meeting 2020 OF VICTORIA INC. An extension of time for us to hold our The CAV Newsletter is 2020 AGM was lodged with Consumer published in February, May, OFFICE-BEARERS: Affairs Victoria at the end of March. August & November and President: Hopefully we will be able to advise the distributed via email and in Ken Peak usual AGM details in the August some cases by mail. Ph: 0400 309 469 newsletter in accordance with the [email protected] Incorporations Act. If you have an email address, Past President: please consider having your Neil Thomas June Whiffin newsletter emailed. Ph: 03 5278 3250 Secretary [email protected] For distribution contact The Birthday Greetings Secretary. Secretary: Wishing Stephen Amos a June Whiffin very happy 80th birthday Deadline for contributions Ph: 03 9877 2968 [email protected] which he celebrated on for the next issue: 13th April. Saturday 18th July 2020 Treasurer: Stephen is a very early Rod Phillips member of the CAV and is Submissions are welcome at Ph: 03 9807 1950 proficient in the Cornish any time but must be [email protected] Language and a Language received by the deadline Pastoral Care/Welfare: Bard of the Gorsedh Kernow. date. Evelyn Jones Ph: 03 9725 0286 Please use plain text font size [email protected] 12, without formatting. Photos and tables should be Ballarat Branch (Adm. Sec.): included separately - not as Lorice Jenkin Pastoral Care part of a document. Ph: 03 5332 2920 [email protected] If you know of someone who is unwell, Acknowledgment of source celebrating a special birthday or just needs is required. Geelong Branch (Adm. Sec.): a cheery greeting, please let Evelyn Jones Ruth Taylor know the details so she can be in touch. The email address for the Ph:03 5241 4617 CAV Newsletter - [email protected] Evelyn’s details are: [email protected] CORRESPONDENCE: Ph: 03 9725 0286 The Secretary [email protected] Please mark - Article for 19 Monash Grove CAV Newsletter. Blackburn South 3130 SUBSCRIPTIONS: The Treasurer 5 Virginia Street ROSTERS Door Afternoon Tea Mount Waverley 3149 For when we meet Ted Curnow Frances von Kalm NEWSLETTER EDITOR: next Felicity Sigmonnt Robyn Coates Ted Curnow Marjorie Barrett Ph: 03 9478 6135/0419 551 320 Helen Law [email protected] Ted Curnow Penny McGuire-White Fees: Max Procter Membership: Single: $40.00 Family: $60.00 Life Single: $400.00 If attending afternoon meetings, please bring a plate to share for Life Family: $600.00 afternoon tea. CAV News No 133 - May 2020 Page 2 made them into portions of questions posted on our CAV our material. The CHSI savoury ‘Zucchini Slice’ that we’ve website shortly. Your stories Committee (and/or their reps) put in the freezer for a rainy day. don't even have to be typed – want to meet with us at our next If you would like Lyn’s recipe let just send me what you have and I Committee meeting (COVID-19 me know. I’ve done the same will gladly edit them; it will give crisis pending) to talk about a thing with pasta sauce and lamb me something else to do! memorandum of understanding. stew. At the moment these things Thanks to Marcus Curnow we’ve In relation to the CAV Library won’t be moving too quickly. In still got a few pies and pasties in that’s currently stored in plastic any case, our Library is perfectly the freezer, so we are stocked tubs in the shed, I had a number OK where it is. I gave the for the winter! of informal discussions earlier in Committee and our members an the year with historical undertaking that I would try to I’ve planted my winter veggies associations located within the ensure that we kept our Library this year and I’ve got Silverbeet, Central Victorian Goldfields material together, so that our Onions, Potatoes, Carrots, Peas, about the storage and materials were not ‘cherry-picked’ Broad Beans, Swedes and maintenance of our Library. by other libraries and/or Turnips. We won’t be self- Your Committee endorsed the historical associations. Our sufficient but it all helps. When idea regarding my informal discussions so far are in line with we are inside Lyn has her discussions be held over the that undertaking. I will keep porcelain painting (as well as Christmas period. members posted about our knitting baby clothes for our No decisions have been made, as future discussions. soon to be born grandson) and I the COVID-19 crisis has meant have my family history ‘annals’. that any official meetings have We have been informed that This keeps us from mischief. been put on hold. A number of CAV language stalwart Marjorie How are you all coping with the organisations on the goldfields Barrett has been in the Alfred isolation? Perhaps members were contacted, but the keenest Hospital with a recurrence of her could share their stories of life interest has been from the respiratory illness. We wish her a amid the lockdown? I’m sure Castlemaine Historical Society speedy recovery and our some of you have some (CHSI). thoughts are with her family at interesting ideas on how you are June Whiffin and I have spoken this time. using your time. Send me an with a curator and archivist at Since we last met I can also email and let me know. Castlemaine and their inform members that our representatives even visited the Newsletter Editor and Speaking of using your time shed on the Monday following Committee member, Robyn during the lockdown, I refer you our February meeting.