Super picture! Nice glowering skies and yet the sunshine is not too far off.
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Friday, 30 December 2011 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
Thankee! The weather was so strange when I drew that - there was bright sun in Newlyn, but it was pissing with rain over the Mount, but there were dark clouds blowing overhead from Land's End almost above my head, but the sun was so low it was shining almost perpendicular in the gap between the two storm clouds.
Aaaaaaah, it's just such lovely lovely beautiful light that just does such amazing things I can never adequately express how much I love that country. KERNOW BYS VYKEN etc etc
― Sheaths of ClammyCloth (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 30 December 2011 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
(I was out on the Northern pier in this kind of bus shelter for boats, rather than on the mainland, which is why it looks like the Mount is in a weird place compared to the actual photo)
― Sheaths of ClammyCloth (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 30 December 2011 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
I have this poster up on my office wall
http://lemonodor.com/images/clui-immersed-remains-s.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 31 December 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
(it's from this exhibition: http://www.clui.org/newsletter/spring-2005/immersed-remains-towns-submerged-america )
What a great exhibition/site! I love the name Neversink for a drowned village, don't care if the etymology is different, it's still wonderful.
There was a submerged town near where my Dad used to live in California, and when we visited, the reservoir was so low that we could see bits of it sticking out and the roads going in, but I can't for the life of me remember where it is. (And my Dad's photography website is so poorly organised that I can never find any photos I'm looking for - jeez, either code some keywords or get one Flickr, Dad.)
― Sheaths of ClammyCloth (Fotherington Thomas), Saturday, 31 December 2011 10:35 (twelve years ago) link
There is apparently now Cornish Whisky (!!!!!!) but it's stupidly expensive.
yeah my dad mentioned this at Christmas, also he brought us some Cornish red wine which is like 17% and sort of pleasant but not in a way comparable to a real red wine
― Extreme Lifestyle, Saturday, 31 December 2011 11:33 (twelve years ago) link
Eh, I dunno, Cornish wine is pretty canonical, they were certainly producing wine during the Roman occupation but then again, I think the climate was even milder then. I had drunk Cornish wine, but it was at a restaurant, I recall it being fairly nice, actually.
The idea of introducing (or reintroducing as the case may be- yes, yes, whisky was brought to Cornwall from Ireland by St Piran when he surfed over on a millstone, introducing both Catholicism and surfing to the counry at the same time) Dowr Toemm into Cornwall just strikes me as a supremely bad idea because the Cornish after Methodism made them give up drinking = inventing steam engines, amazing mine technology, building fantastical feats of engineering, sticking Wheals atop impossible chasms, etc. etc. while the Cornish plus Whisky = fish fights and brawling with the English.
But that's going to degenerate into another argument about ~racist stereotypes of "The Celts"~ with Tom D and Darraghmac.
Anyway, Cornish ZOIDER and Cornish mead is where it's at in terms of Cornish bouze gourmandising. Also ridiculous Skinners Ales of which I have never had a bad one.
None of this has anything to do with drowned villages but the unique combination of BOUZE and racist stereotypes of the British Isles is always a popular diversion on ILX. I should just give up and make an "I miss Cornwall so badly" thread and be done with it.
― Dowr Toemm (Fotherington Thomas), Saturday, 31 December 2011 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
also he brought us some Cornish red wine which is like 17% and sort of pleasant but not in a way comparable to a real red wine
― Extreme Lifestyle, Saturday, December 31, 2011 11:33 AM (5 hours ago)
if it's over ~15.5% then it's fortified like port or madeira etc
― Hongro4AS (nakhchivan), Saturday, 31 December 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
good point - was labelled as a red wine tho so *shrug*
I am drinking a http://www.onlinebeerfestival.co.uk/acatalog/cornish_knocker.jpg atm, it is pretty decent and upholds their grand tradition of stupid labels for clowning aesthetes
― Extreme Lifestyle, Saturday, 31 December 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
Aye, that one is good indeed, but if you can find a http://www.skinnersbrewery.com/uploaded_images/ginger_tosser_clip.png <-- that is absolutely my favourite of them, bcuz I love a honeyed ale.
― Dowr Toemm (Fotherington Thomas), Saturday, 31 December 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link