Weekend trip with the kayak club to Bude.
Loved the bit late on Friday night driving along a very narrow lane, reminding me of coming home from a trip when I was a child.
Kayaked at Widemouth Bay - a proper beach with sand, not like Brighton and Hastings with their pebbles!
Also a walk to the top of Rough Tor. The climbing bit took me ages, reached the top way after everyone else!
Shown how to fire rushes: Pick a thick rush. Take off its flower. Spilt the thick end in half, then peel about 3 inches of the skin of one side. Put pointed end on one shoulder. Rest the thick end of the ring made by the forefinger and thumb. with the peeled-off skin hanging down through the loop. With the other hand pull the loop hard! It can go 6/to 8 feet.
Didn't hear any Cornish accents, and speaking to someone today who said you rarely hear a Norfolk accent in Norfolk now either. But you hear London accents in London all the time.
I loved Cornwall when I went there in 2006. It is like another country. It couldn't be more different from where I live now in Clacton.
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