Visitors Welcome Shock!
In case you were wondering (or moaning), not all visitors are greeted with
open hostility. No sirree Bob. Some of them are most welcome. Especially if they
are Spooky St. Iveans (and buy drinks)!
Here's the evidence.
Regular users (and abusers) of Spooky St. Ives should be familiar with the
entertaining e-mail contributions from the almost legendary Andrew Macdonald.
Well, Andrew and Helen were down in the old town just this week and even got to
meet up with the Reporting Team for a few jars.
See, civilised behaviour. It's really not that difficult, is it?
Fly Me To The Moon
Quelle surprise!
In one of the year's most expected developments the inflatanauts have
abandoned their attempt to launch the British space age in their
stratosphere-defying balloon.
The inflatanauts are threatening to return for another attempt next year.
Given their previous ditherings we would suggest that they start the countdown
on January 1st.
In the meantime, if there are any children's' entertainers out there who are
interested in a cheap and extensive supply of material to make balloon animals
out of .....
Bogged Down With Paperwork
Ooh, how can you resist such a tempting offer?
An application is to be put before the Penwith planners next week to convert
the public toilets in the Park Avenue car park into offices. Won't you just
enjoy sitting at your desk contemplating ..... all those who have gone before,
sitting there contemplating!
Stoned On Magic Mushrooms?
You've got to laugh sometimes, haven't you. Nothing to do with St. Ives
really, other than the Camborne Ghetto isn't that far away and, well, the story
just proves what a weird bit of the world this is.
Snippet from the West Briton - 'Theft of Granite Mushrooms'.
We kid you not. Police are asking for any information relating to the theft
of three miniature granite mushrooms (14-18 inches high) , swiped from a garden
in Camborne.
We would suggest that they direct their enquiries towards those rather
confused, disappointed and distinctly un-high new age travellers in the camper
van down the road!
A Poor Performance!
Whinge, whinge, whinge. That's all I ever get accused of. Well, for all you
nay-sayers here is the official evidence.
The first public consultation exercise took place this week to assess how
best to try and improve matters for families in the area under the government's
Sure Start Programme. Government statistics show that the St. Ives North and
South and Gwinear and Gwithian wards, which contain over 750 children, are in
the top 20% of the UK's poorest.
So, all those well-off people you see wandering around town when you come
down can't be locals, then, can they?
Oh, and in another (EU, we think) economic survey Cornwall ranked 182nd (out
of two hundred and something) in Western Europe on the affluentometer.
Now, you were telling us about how rich the tourism industry is making us ...
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