[modeleng] Re: St Agnes
- From: Allen Messer <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 06:55:22 -0700 (PDT)
Peter, are you really serious, or are you just pulling
our legs a bit? Here, in America, you can go anywhere
you please without a passport.
Al Messer
--- Peter Sheppard <peter.sheppard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's normally a joke for travelling the other way
> into Cornwall where a
> passport is required!
>
> They have their own flag, language and Parliament
> (The Stannary Parliament).
>
> Tourists are barely tolerated, called "Grockles" in
> Devon and "Emmets" in
> Cornwall.
>
> I used to live at Ivybridge (Devon) about 12 miles
> from the Cornish border.
>
> I only learnt one Cornish word and that was
> "drekley", as in "I'll do it
> drekley". The dictionary definition of "drekley" -
> "Like manyana, only
> slower" :-)
>
> There was a very good article in the Plymouth Post a
> few years ago about a
> fault line developing along the River Tamar (that
> separates Devon and
> Cornwall) and that Cornwall would start floating off
> into the Atlantic.
> There were grand plans to move all the attractions
> from Land's End to
> Plymouth!
>
> (Oh and the date was 1st April if I remember
> correctly!)
>
> Cheers
>
> Peter
>
>
> >
> > You go through Churchingford in Devon Davy? Some
> more of the Tel forebears
> > hail from there (notably Wilmingtons)
>
>
> Errrr, TEL, I thought all of your ancestors were
> "transported" and here you
> claim to have some that got left behind! Being the
> poor ignorant Southern
> Red Neck that I am, why does one need a passport in
> this Devon situation???
> Is not Devon part of Old Blighty?
>
> Any'ow, I really drooled over the St. Agnes photos
> and just wish we had
> something this size over here in the colonies.
>
> Jesse the red neck Tennessee Rebel
>
>
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