Dear Bard, did some googling on this one and found the answers to my questions. In doing so I learned something about the Cornish tongue, and it is lovely. I'm a huge fan of "Doc Martin", and scenes of the beautiful Cornish coast. What a delightful piece, thank you!
I was raised in gullworthy cottages a mere spit from the banks of the good old Tamar who has featured variously amongst my own little scribbles over a good many years .. Girt lush squire .. I will have to give lady Fay a nudge since I believe she resides thereabouts ... Neville
Having been raised for the first two years of my life in a mining town (Now a ghost town) so the lines: "ghosts of centuries of mining towns and specters of legend" have a special meaning for me. Although they say that one does not remember befor they aquire language I have vivid visual memories of this mountain mining town that the details were confirked by my parents. In this town in a house next to ours there was a card game where a man was shot to death and the word spectre has meaning. dydh da to you as well.
Thanks Soren. And yes, I have memories from before I could form words, snippets of images and short 'reels' as it were and have had my older family members confirmed the accuracy of those wordless memories which I later on relayed to them.
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Interesting. I'm expanding my Cornish vocabulary and my understand of the UK landscape. dydh da
Yes it is quite interesting!
Bit of French there? Doh! I'm not expanding my Cornish vocabulary! lol.
Hey orchi, thanks.
Dear Bard, did some googling on this one and found the answers to my questions. In doing so I learned something about the Cornish tongue, and it is lovely. I'm a huge fan of "Doc Martin", and scenes of the beautiful Cornish coast. What a delightful piece, thank you!
Doc Martin is quite the teleseries! Gotta find the reruns.
I was raised in gullworthy cottages a mere spit from the banks of the good old Tamar who has featured variously amongst my own little scribbles over a good many years .. Girt lush squire .. I will have to give lady Fay a nudge since I believe she resides thereabouts ... Neville
Thanks N. There is so much lore and magic to the west!
Having been raised for the first two years of my life in a mining town (Now a ghost town) so the lines: "ghosts of centuries of mining towns and specters of legend" have a special meaning for me. Although they say that one does not remember befor they aquire language I have vivid visual memories of this mountain mining town that the details were confirked by my parents. In this town in a house next to ours there was a card game where a man was shot to death and the word spectre has meaning. dydh da to you as well.
Thanks Soren. And yes, I have memories from before I could form words, snippets of images and short 'reels' as it were and have had my older family members confirmed the accuracy of those wordless memories which I later on relayed to them.
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