Hey-ho … select one of the most out of the way places in little old England … this be long … so be warned!
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| St Ives, Penzance across the peninsula - both shown ... Newquay airport and Falmouth both marked |
… Carbis Bay: a village of ribbon development above a cliff beach … population about 2,000 … where my Cornish roots stem from and where I took my first beach walk – has to be about as major an event as walking on the moon – surely?!
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| Ordnance Survey map One-Inch map - sheet 189: Land's End |
… a post with tongue in cheek as I write, or facetiously stated …
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| If you can get here - you can shop |
… bring in the sewer police – check all the waste pipes and drainage sewers for potential trouble-makers …
… close down the roads, trails, coastal paths …
… alternative routes – have you lived down there? practically none available …
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| Digging the meeting rooms |
Also no planning permission was given – it was just ‘done’ … chop, chop, chop …
… with all that expansion – I wonder where the parking will be …
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| Tregenna Castle Hotel |
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| The cruiser accommodating the extra security |
... tower over the little bit of land - St Ives a Royal Navy vessel, and the cruiser in Falmouth ...
… Hayle Towans, across the bay from the Carbis Bay Hotel, is Mount Recyclemore – highlighting the growing threat of e-waste … climate change, and building a greener future all subjects on the G7’s agenda …
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| Adam Handling - the chef |
… Food – a subject after my own heart … the chef, Adam Handling, was selected for his sustainable menus … and focuses his restaurants on food, drink, art and music – the newly created meeting rooms will be used by the Ugly Butterfly group after the event for both teaching and as a restaurant …
… a favourite I spotted was lamb sweetbreads with seaweed and Cornish potatoes – yummy! … for my 21st I requested that we serve sweetbreads … took the family and guests by surprise, as too the hotel … delicious! = a memory …
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| The Ugly Butterfly logo |
... my Ma's care home was in Newlyn, just outside Penzance very near the crabbery (crab is on the menu) ... so guess where we went when I visited!
… the meat, fish, vegetables, herbs and desserts will as far as possible be made from local foods …
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| Royal Navy guarding St Ives - but towering above the town ... |
... spread 5,500 police officers, every ten feet, around for security …
… further security detail will be there too …
… have your two pieces of ID available and probably a lock-down certificate or two, or even three … just check the zone though … it might have gone from green, to zombie amber … ready for show at all times … even leaving your home, should you live there …
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| All closed with nowhere to go ... I love these wooden signposts we use here |
… cars are banned, train stations closed, buses suspended, and as I mentioned the South West Coast Path blocked … to keep protesters out …
… some will benefit, some will just move out for the duration … a local b+b has no bookings, but is full of police! = benefit …
… police are insisting that protests must be held in designated areas … is that normally the case, when you protest – me thinks not.
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| Roadside verges - I hope .. and planted around Newquay airport |
… Newquay airport … tidy it up, fill those potholes too … look who’s coming G7 leaders perhaps … they could balloon in, or glide in, or even drive … if they’ve enough IDs on them – passports at the ready … or for that matter sail in …
… time is of no essence – the powers that be are coming … more importantly the Boris man – will he wear a wetsuit, or just a cozzie – that’d be interesting … my imagination reels!
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| From Newlyn looking towards Penzance ... on a very wet day (c 1900) |
...the interesting thing is that my mother seriously looked into that for heating the care home business she owned in Newlyn back in the early 1980s … way too expensive then – but it was an option …
Boris prevailed – the pool is heated!
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| Closed off tomorrow 10th June |
… I have now found out that Stanley, Boris' father, an Ottoman by descent, was born in Penzance – that was a surprise … not sure what my mother would have said!
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| Working on the new meeting rooms - they were still being built last week |
… the Cornish are great – they’ll embrace anything … cow-poo is being collected and the carbon gas emitted is being used to run the Council vans …
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| Tin Mining +/- 1890 Camborne and Redruth |
… I thought these security guys could fly their planes and helicopters … but they seem to be practicing a lot!
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| Looking down from St Michael's Mount battlements ... |
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| Looking up ... |
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| Windsor Castle - Crimson Drawing Room after restoration from 1992 fire |
… the powers that be – the President and his wife, will stop over to meet the Queen at Windsor Castle on Sunday …
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| Botallack Engine buildings |
Let’s hope that whatever is agreed, is then pursued and achieved …
… the Cornish economy is supported in the foreseeable future … and that the fishing businesses have their lives sorted out …
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| Mount Recyclable G7 summit - built on Hayle Towans facing across St Ives Bay towards Carbis Bay |
… that everyone leaves, taking their rubbish with them … so the Cornish coasts and countryside are left as nature intended, and that the people can be peace again …
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The links I used to write up this post … with many thanks for all their information and pics I’ve ‘borrowed’ … they bring the post to life so I’m very grateful …
Cornwall Live - which has been regularly updating details of the 'goings on' ...
Ugly Butterfly - details re the chef and general info ... wonderful reading: I think!
iNews G7 Summit - introduces us to the menu ...
PS - that yellow sand on Carbis Bay beach has been shipped in ... oh the expense! After all I was toddling on that beach in 1949 and ever after ...
Hilary Melton-Butcher
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