Pink Granite Cider Trough

Hello everyone, as most of you know by now we are moving to Exmoor. We are taking the cows with us - they are currently on an extended holiday at Pendeen. The family that are moving in are French with two little girls. Their English is excellent. For the first couple of years the cottage will be a holiday home whilst M. Chevalier finishes his training as a Chiropractor, (he was an air line pilot).  Once qualified they will live here permanently. At least that's the plan at the moment.

Meanwhile we are busy packing up. The Chevaliers don't want our granite cider trough so its up for sale. Its 38 inches in diameter- we have used it as a big bird bath (placed with a slight slope backwards to hold water) or trigged up on some rings of wood to make a coffee table. Or start your own cider production!

Anyway, its currently on a pallet ready for moving. If it is bought within the village we will make a donation to the church room funds. Looking for about £450 but quite happy to haggle. That's what was paid at Lodge and Thomas many years ago - so it will go back there if not sold.

Phone Nick or Karen on 711875 if interested. Thanks

Update On Trenow Quarry Footpath

Hello Perranuthnoe,

Some of you may remember filling in footpath forms a few years back, to get the footpath reopened up through the quarry gate at Trenow. I thought it about time you had an update.

It is still lodged with the County Council and has now moved up to 21 out of 151 applications. They did say it would take a while but it looks like we may get to the top of the list in the next 18 months or so. You needed 20 applications spanning the 20 years prior to the gate being locked. In the end I had 38 applications spanning 96 years, so we will get there.

Some of you may have heard rumours that I am moving. I am selling the smaller meadows to buy bigger fields to put the cows in. I will certainly be seeing the application through to its conclusion.

Happy new year to you all Karen


Original Quarry Footpath post can be found here: http://perranuthnoe.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/trenow-quarry-footpath-can-you-help.html

Signs At The Top Of Boat Cove Lane

Dear Perranuthnoe,

Some of you may have noticed some additional signs at the top of Boat Cove Lane and so I would like to clarify the situation.

Boat Cove Lane has for a very long time been designated a Bridleway with access permitted to only those who own property (fields or homes) or who have business at those properties. All the property owners will have the access written into the deeds.  In January the wooden post with the Bridleway sign fell down and was lying on the tarmac at the bottom of the hedge. A few days later it disappeared altogether. I contacted Cornwall Council to ask for a replacement. They said they would do so in the new financial year. By July of this year (when nothing had happened) I prompted them again. My reason for persisting is three fold; - one Sunday at the beginning of July there were 14 cars parked at the end of the Bridleway that we could not get our car out even if we wanted to, secondly the owner of the dog that killed my goose had parked her car at the end of the lane end let the dogs run free with a disastrous outcome, and thirdly we have to pay for the upkeep of the lane which is being eroded by car users who should not be there.

It would seem that some don’t know (or choose to overlook) what Bridleway means- it is a route for pedestrians or horse riders. Under the Road Traffic Act 1988 Section 34 it stipulates that it is an offence to use “mechanically propelled vehicles”

I asked the Council for additional signage (a red circle with a car and motorbike) to reiterate what a bridleway means. However they said funding was in short supply but if we purchased the regulation signs they would provide the post and the fixing straps for it. This has now been done and the signs are now donated to Cornwall Council as their property. The Parish Council are also aware of the situation. There may be some of you who think the Lane should be a Public Byway. If there a grounds for changing it to thus you need to contact Cornwall Council.

This past week we have been able to get out of our driveway freely and haven’t encountered another vehicle coming down at breakneck speed to get to the beach.  Dog walkers and families will be able to walk down the lane to the beach without having to dive into the hedge as something whizzes past. Hopefully it will be pleasanter for everyone.

Karen Wall