[ 09:16 saturday 27 december - great western train, camborne to london ] pulling out of redruth the sun surmounts the horizon, sending long shadows racing across the frost-crusted fields and heathland that stretches to the north coast. the sky is perfectly blue. a friendly spaniel slithers under the seat in front and nuzzles my [...]
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[ 20:53 saturday 4 october - roskear road, camborne, cornwall ] this morning i woke at quarter past six, took a train from london bridge to gatwick then flew to newquay where i was greeted by anna and adam. since the age of seven i’ve been making the journey up and down from cornwall by [...]
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[ 22:35 monday 24 december - roskear street, camborne, cornwall ] en famille, anna and adam’s sitting room in cornwall. dad unfurls a paper, adam pores over a cycling magazine, anna’s curled up in an armchair and mum’s up to something in the kitchen. after dinner we played a game rather like the victorian parlour [...]
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[ 15:14 monday 29 may - hayle towans, cornwall ] the tide has receded further than i’ve ever seen. these must be some of the biggest spring tides of the year. the departing waters have left the huge expanse of white sand imprinted with a mysterious caligraphy of wrinkles and undulations. attracted by today’s clear [...]
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[ 12:00 saturday 27 may - bodriggy street, hayle, cornwall ] two new sets of photos: – granny’s ninetieth birthday party in the shropshire hills (a blessed and happy day). – glimpses of my whirwind tour through milano, napoli, stromboli and palermo : c :
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[ 23:56 monday 8 november - shipton street, london ] i wrote this four weeks ago. the final sentence, in retrospect, is ironic and slightly forlorn. [ 21:53 monday 11 october - first great western train from hayle to paddington ] i’m on my way back to london after spending the weekend in cornwall. leaving [...]
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[ 00:29 monday 16 april - bodgriggy street , hayle , cornwall ] this evening i cycled to gwithian towans and scrambled down the cliff onto the sand . there was hardly anyone around . perhaps a dozen people visible along two miles of beach . earlier in the day i’d been walking with my [...]
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07:58 saturday 12 february – steamship company office , hugh town quay , st mary’s i sit here keeping out of the way of the frenetic ballet of forklifts on the quay outside . the gry came in yesterday afternoon with a full load . as i walked round to keith’s yard at porthmellon one [...]
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08:34 friday 31 december , penzance heliport a thick fog shrouds land and sea . it has just been announced that there will be no service until visibiity improves . anna and adam waved a bleary farewell from their doorway in hayle just forty minutes ago . the spirit will be waiting against hugh town [...]
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991001.1550 hayle station , cornwall three slightly ragged young girls , no older than seven or eight , were sitting on a fence as i wound my way here through the council estates . i pointed to a path forking off to the left and asked if it led to the station . < police [...]
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