What Would You Like to See From Cornish Life?

Now that the summer has well and truly drawn to a close and Winter is very much upon us, I'd be really interested in finding out what you, the reader, would like to see from Cornish Life blog.

I've been thinking up new topics over the past few days and will also be posting some Youtube Video's to my channel and updating my photography site...

However I've come across a bit of a dilema as my focus has become lost on the blog recently...I am completely diversifying my output....I am an amateur documentary maker so want to encorporate that...I take photographs around the world....so therefore I want to include that, and I still want to document and report on the issue that concern Cornwall and the people that live there. I have become aware of a certain degree of polemcism that has spread around the Cornish blogging world of late, and in my opinion that is not where I should be heading. I want to get involved with real life and human relationships to people and places and not get bogged down with the intricate nature of polticts or polemics.

I will open this up to everyone and please feel free to comemnt on what you would like to see!


Bye for now

West Penwith Commemorates 90th Anniversary of Levant Mining Disaster

FROM BBC CORNWALL WEBSITE

'It's 90 years since a tragic Mining accident took place in west Cornwall. The main rod of the Man Engine at Levant Mine in west Cornwall broke killing 31 miners and injuring many more. See archive film and rare photos from 1919.'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/articles/2009/10/16/history_levant90_feature.shtml

I have always felt a real connection to the areas around St Just and Pendeen. It is not somewhere I confess to have considerable heritage, however there is such a human element to the landscape and a friendly face to the community that I cannot help but feel at home. I was touched, therefore, to learn about the commemorations taking place for the 90th anniversary of the tragic mining disaster which affected so many people's lives. It is a story of a happy, content but hard working community torn to pieces by a tragic accident - and it is not a hyperbole to say that most of the people that were there at this event were directly related to many of the victims.

It is nice to see something which is not altogether affected by politics, torn apart by polemicism or affected by rampant sentimentality. It is clear that this was a painful event, but from the information I got it seemed to be a truly meaningful and poignant service...and something which the community was justifably proud.

Interesting Post - Nigel Pengelly's Blog

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Just found this and read it....probably encapsulates a lot of what there is to be said about Cornish culture and the way it is changing.

Reflections of Summer - Part 2

I was sitting here in my house in Egham, Surrey (while at Uni) pondering what people who come to Cornwall on holiday go back to after summer. It then came to my atention that in the majority, Cornwall is a form of escapism for the British public in a way possibly no other place could be.

By and large, a lot of people I talked to over the summer said to me; 'We're thinking of moving down here eventually.' A lot of holidaymakers seemed to be scouting - scouting for opportunities to better their lives by moving down to Cornwall.

To be honest I can't blame them...I have been very fortunate that I have grown up surrounded by the beauty of Cornwall....but if I've learnt one thing over the last couple of summers by talking to people on holiday...it's that almost everyone would love an opportunity many of us are already in by living in Conwall.

Aid boxes go from Newquay Airport

500 charity boxes have been painstakingly x-rayed and loaded on to a cargo plane heading for Burkina Faso at Newquay Airport

The boxes, which each contain a tent, sleeping bags and cooking equipment and cost over £400, were loading on to the Antonov aircraft at Newquay airport....it is the first time Shelbox, a Cornwall based charity, has used its local airport which was given Civil Aviation Authority status earlier this year.

Cornish Life Blog and other JCLPhotographs Blogs Up and Running!

Yes that's right guys, I have finally got internet in my house and am starting the long, difficult process of updating my blogs, all my content, design as well as taking photography, having dissertation tutorials for University and picking what I want to do with my life! It's going to be a pretty busy year, hopefully I'll be able to keep up to date with this but apologies in advance if I don't keep to regular update intervals as I normally do!

Part two of Reflections of Summer is coming up, as well as looking forward to Winter in Cornwall, and asking how different people who run small businesses cope out of season.

See you soon!