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« Reply #30 on: January 28, 2025, 18:25:11 » |
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Wonderful to meet up with GBM - and THANK YOU for the warm welcome and hospitality in Penzance. Still full of pasty .  It is days like today that make me double appreciate the friends I have here and we have al become. That was my first trip to Penzance since a few days before the initial covid lockdown - so first in nearly five years. I hope it won't be as long next time - catching up with the same friends again. We'll all be round for many years, even if the HSTs▸ are gone. |
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« Reply #31 on: January 28, 2025, 18:53:24 » |
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A bit long range, the current forecast for Tuesday in west Cornwall from our friends in Norway is currently sun, and a *lot* of fresh air from the north west.
After very nearly taking a morning trip to Gunnislake and back in the world's oldest 150... Off the HST▸ at Penzance and met by GBM, who kindly presented us with warm pasties, from St Buryan no less. I will not need to eat for at least three days and at least one seagull is very angry with me. Later, on the north coast, the fresh air was arriving in sufficient quantities to lift the sand off St Ives's Porthmeor beach and fling it across town. After the pasties, neither Graham or I had any need of sandwiches (which would in any case have had the most authentic of fillings). Now on the way home on the 17:50 from Penzance, currently at Par, and making its way up country to a rendevous with its catering crew at Plymouth. Mark |
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« Reply #32 on: January 29, 2025, 15:57:20 » |
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Lovely to meet you both, and apologies I couldn't stay longer.
My wife kindly facilitated it, with the unwitting cooperation of grandson.
Unfortunately he'd just woken up from a car nap and didn't want to see the trains, which is unusual for him.
Pasties are very contentious in Cornwall!
Everyone has their own favourite baker - some with a lot of pepper (more pepper than pasty!), some with less.
We're of the less variety, so our local small farm shop (St Buryan farm shop) are great for us.
We also stop off when going by road at the larger Strawberry Fields farm shop in Lifton-again, not quite so peppery.
Each to their own.
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« Reply #33 on: January 29, 2025, 18:30:53 » |
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Pasty’s
If the Bristol contingent want a good pasty, Helluva pasty are a good baker not far from my house and are always my choice here. I noticed on Monday they have a hut in a lay-by between Lime Kiln roundabout and the airport.
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« Reply #34 on: January 31, 2025, 10:14:45 » |
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Pasty’s
If the Bristol contingent want a good pasty, Helluva pasty are a good baker not far from my house and are always my choice here. I noticed on Monday they have a hut in a lay-by between Lime Kiln roundabout and the airport.
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« Reply #35 on: January 31, 2025, 21:54:53 » |
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Pasty’s
If the Bristol contingent want a good pasty, Helluva pasty are a good baker not far from my house and are always my choice here. I noticed on Monday they have a hut in a lay-by between Lime Kiln roundabout and the airport.
Pasties are very contentious in Cornwall!
Everyone has their own favourite baker - some with a lot of pepper (more pepper than pasty!), some with less.As noted above Helluva’s extra peppery version is the stuff of dreams for those who like peppery |
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« Reply #36 on: January 31, 2025, 22:40:35 » |
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I shall endeavour to purchase one, from the layby on the A38 just east of the Limekiln roundabout, for my lunch tomorrow. |
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« Reply #37 on: February 01, 2025, 17:25:10 » |
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I shall endeavour to purchase one, from the layby on the A38 just east of the Limekiln roundabout, for my lunch tomorrow. To link to another discussion, this building used to be a public toilet. |
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« Reply #38 on: February 01, 2025, 17:33:42 » |
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I shall endeavour to purchase one, from the layby on the A38 just east of the Limekiln roundabout, for my lunch tomorrow. We may have been very close to crossing paths if you were in that area, I drove the 1100 falcon from Bristol to Plymouth today (1140 off the airport) How was the pasty? I’m hoping as good as the native pasty huts around east cornwal |
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« Reply #39 on: February 02, 2025, 11:46:37 » |
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After very nearly taking a morning trip to Gunnislake and back in the world's oldest 150...
We missed an opportunity there - it's off to Wolverton to be spruced up See this thread on Faceplant |
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« Reply #40 on: February 02, 2025, 18:15:47 » |
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Good grief. Did you take a photo of that picturesque hole in the bodywork by... was it the cab window?
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« Reply #41 on: February 02, 2025, 18:34:02 » |
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Good grief. Did you take a photo of that picturesque hole in the bodywork by... was it the cab window?
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« Reply #42 on: February 03, 2025, 19:31:36 » |
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Only slight corrosion!
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