Sunday, August 20, 2006
Around and about....
I was looking at some wonderful pictures On fiona's home page, http://eyes-have.blogspot.com/ (must really find out how to link!) and thought that this was something that every one could do. Not everyone has the exciting backdrop of Hong Kong but surely I must be able to find a few places to rival those impressive towering structures.
Let's see what made this part of Cornwall famous, the old and the new. In the fore ground is a relic of a bygone age, the shell of the engine house to a long disused tin mine, and in the back ground, the newer scars on the landscape left by the china clay industry. Imerys is the company responsible, which just happens to be an anagram of 'misery'!
Worship has always been at the heart of Cornwall. The great preacher, John Wesley, claimed the West Country for his own. Here is our local Primitive Methodist Chapel, although what a primitive Methodist is, I'm not quite sure!
Modern shopping came to this part of the Country several years ago, and shops to rival Wal-Mart and Tesco have sprung up to service the needs of the local population. Every thing from a loaf of bread to a band-aid can be found here (but it save times if you ask).
On the high ground above the town, is the dormant volcano known as Mt. Ozzle. It's last and most terrifying eruption was in the bitter winter of 1947 when ash and hot cinders spewed forth to cover the surrounding countryside. Cornishmen from far and wide came to the slopes of Mt. Ozzle to collect buckets of molten lava to take home to warm their cottages. Thankfully, plastic buckets had not been invented then.
Just out of town is the famous Charlestown Harbour. Ships from from the four corners of the world load and unload a multitude of goods for the homes and businesses of the County.
Many of you will have heard about the increase in airport security recently and the County Airpot has taken it to heart. Baggage handling is presenting a problem and body searches are getting a little out of hand........... but a lot of fun!
My next posting will take you around our town and you will see why we are twinned with Beruit.
so this is how - it's ever so easy
tpe into your post what you want to show up, like 'click here' and then highlight the text, press control+shift+a and a little box will pop up...just copy the url from the place you want to link and put it in that box and voila...there you have it!!!!!
Miranda and ~tvs helped me on that one
blue blue sky!!
gosh that is one pointy volcano you have there
thank you for sharing :)
Thanks for the info Fiona and thank you too S.D.
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