Or, a true story of the paranormal from Cornwall
Published at 4:50 pm on October 30th, 2020
Filed under: Dear Diary, The Family.
As it’s nearly Hallowe’en, I thought it might be time to post a creepy story. And this is a true creepy story. I posted it originally on my Tumblr, six years ago, as an account of something that happened to K and I when The Children were both still only crawling and we took them away on holiday for the first time, to a holiday cottage on a farm in North Cornwall. It happened a few weeks before I wrote it down, more or less exactly as it is set down here, in the middle of the night just before we were due to leave. I haven’t edited the originally, so “about a month ago” should be read as “September, 2014”.
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Keyword noise: Cornwall, holiday, panic, paranormal, ghost stories, fog, mist, cottage, The Children.
In which we visit Penzance
Published at 9:10 am on January 2nd, 2009
Filed under: Photobloggery.
One new year’s resolution I didn’t mention yesterday: finally getting all of last summer’s holiday photos online. I didn’t mention it, because, well, it should be finished already by the time you read this. Not really worth calling a resolution, to be completed so soon.
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Keyword noise: boats, Cornwall, fog, harbour, Marazion, Mounts Bay, Penzance, photography, rope, St Michaels Mount.
In which we’re still visiting Cornwall
Published at 9:14 am on December 12th, 2008
Filed under: Photobloggery.
In which we visit Cornwall
Published at 9:05 am on December 5th, 2008
Filed under: Photobloggery.
This week, still from my summer holiday uploads: castles and derelict mineshafts.
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Keyword noise: castles, Chapel Porth, Cornwall, Haunters Of The Deep, holiday, mineshaft, photography, Restormel Castle, St Agnes, summer, Towanroath.
In which we visit the Bodmin & Wenford Railway
Published at 10:30 am on November 30th, 2008
Filed under: Photobloggery, Geekery, Trains.
This week: it’s mostly trains
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Keyword noise: Bodmin, Bodmin & Wenford Railway, Bodmin General, Cornwall, engine, Great Western Railway, heritage, locomotive, photography, railway, station, steam engine, trains.
In which it's still summer
Published at 4:06 pm on November 21st, 2008
Filed under: Photobloggery.
As it’s Friday again, some more summer photos.
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Keyword noise: boats, Cornwall, dogs, fog horn, Goonhilly, holiday, lifeboat, lighthouse, Lizard, photography, Polpeor Cove, satellite dish, sleepy, St Ives, summer, tourists.
In which we photograph the deep blue sea
Published at 9:32 am on November 14th, 2008
Filed under: Photobloggery, The Family.
I grew up not far from the sea. I didn’t go down to the beach or the seafront very often, but I was close enough that you could see out to sea from the top deck of my school bus. I’ve always felt good by the sea.*
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Keyword noise: art, boats, Carrick Roads, Cornwall, Falmouth, feedback, fishermen, genealogy, Gyllyngvase, harbour, holiday, Pete Dolby, photography, Porthminster, sea, smugglers, St Ives, summer, water.
Not only have I been behind on updating this site, I’ve been getting behind on posting photos online. I generally stick to posting 6 to 8 photos per day, partly because uploading them is such a slow and tedious job that I can’t be bothered doing any more. This, however, means that I’m still only at the start of posting photos of our summer camping trip, down to Cornwall. That was: August. It’s now: November. That’s some delay. Here, though, are some examples, of hot, sunny, summer Cornish weather.
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Keyword noise: Carrick Roads, cathedral, Cornwall, Falmouth, harbour, holiday, photography, summer, Truro.
In which we wonder whether to keep posting photos here
Published at 9:29 pm on October 9th, 2007
Filed under: Photobloggery.
One thing about using my Flickr account more: it’s meant, I’ve been going through all the photos I’ve taken in the past year, going: “ooh, actually, that’s not bad.” And: “Oh, yes, I hardly mentioned that trip on the blog.”
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Keyword noise: Cornwall, Flickr, holiday, Mevagissey, photography.
In which we look at Devon and Cornwall
Published at 9:14 pm on September 27th, 2007
Filed under: Photobloggery.
In which we go to Cornwall
Published at 4:23 pm on July 29th, 2007
Filed under: Photobloggery.
Bude, in North Cornwall, back in May. A study in clouds and sea-spray.
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Keyword noise: Atlantic, Bude, clouds, coast, Cornwall, North Cornwall, ocean, photography, sea, seaside, shore, storm, surfing.
In which we’re puzzled over Tintagel and an archaeological definition
Published at 6:21 pm on June 20th, 2007
Filed under: In With The Old.
If you looked at yesterday’s photos of Tintagel, and read all the tooltip captions and the post tags, you might have noticed that I described one of them as showing a souterrain; or, at least, a souterrain-ish thing. Noone, as far as I know, calls it a souterrain; and I’m not entirely sure why.
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Keyword noise: archaeology, Cornwall, fogou, rock-cut, souterrain, Tintagel, tunnel, underground.
In which we visit Cornwall
Published at 6:43 pm on June 19th, 2007
Filed under: Photobloggery.
This June was originally going to be Photo Month on this site, given the oodles of photos I took on holiday. Unfortunately, I took so many photos on holiday,* I still haven’t managed to sort through them all yet.
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Keyword noise: arch, archaeology, beach, castles, church, Cornwall, cove, fogou, medieval, photography, ruin, sea, shore, souterrain, Tintagel, tunnel.
In which we see where the family used to live
Published at 3:44 pm on January 21st, 2006
Filed under: Geekery, The Family.
Like a lot of people, I’ve spent a while today playing with the Surname Profiler website,* looking at how distant relatives are spread around the country, now, and 125 years ago. As I was expecting, in the 19th century my mother’s family was very heavily concentrated in one area:
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Keyword noise: ancestry, cartography, Cornwall, family history, genealogy, history, maps, migration, spatial analysis, Spatial Literacy In Teaching, surname, Surname Profiler.
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