Hope The Early Birds,,

[1ozzy]

,,Are still chirping.

G'day to all.

[murraymints]

best get out of the jim jams and make a start on things..see you all later..will come back if I have any response to my mail from emmie x

[naomi24]

I haven’t tried it yet, Rocky. I’m not very well so I’m leaving it until I feel fitter. Short of spontaneously combusting I don’t really know what I’m expecting but very thought scares me a bit so I need to steel myself! Haaa! :o))

[1ozzy]

G'day Rocky, did the same
myself today, without the Baileys, worst of luck.

[DTCwordfan]

morning all, up late, ablutions and out for a DT, now going to make a coffee and tackle the crosswords etc. saw the Mater and she was fine and then came home, having to detour as we have had an awful crash on the main road and Grampound is closed off - the folk in the car are very very lucky - photo attached, not gruesome.

Talking of gruesome, what smow did just shows you. One Christmas Eve morning, the parents had been out partying and my grandparents had been in the house. My baby sister, then 4, suffered from croup and had one of those burners in her room. My grandfather came in and turned it on but, without thinking, switched the bottles with her medicine, the other one being coal tar for the burner.....the old man comes in in the morning in a haze, took what he thought was the medicine bottle...... the house to the local hospital down country lanes to begin with, then a B road and into the town, 5 miles covered in 4 minutes.....and then she was transferred from Kendal to Lancaster, once she was 'stable'.....

Anyway, a lighter note, a day off maybe - but a colleague wasn't well yesterdayso I may have to cover for her this evening. Hope not though! I want to enjoy my duck part 2 etc...

[DTCwordfan]

forgot to add this: https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/live-a390-crash-grampound-truro-7967596

[naomi24]

Oh, flipping heck! Some Christmas present for those householders!

[ynnafymmi]

The best film ever made is about to come on on BBC2.Just watching a great documentary about Dickens just now.

[lady-janine]

good morning everyone.
I read about that yesterday when I was looking for something else and was amazed at how much damage the car had caused. I was always under the impression that the car would crumble more than the house. I'm not going to put it to the test but I live in an old stone/granite house and would hope it would withstand something like that.
Those poor people. What an awful thing to happen - at any time of the year but even worse (somehow) in winter.

[naomi24]

I'm amazed at the damage to the house too, LJ.

ynna, it is a great film. I've seen it umpteen times but I'm recording it for later.

[lady-janine]

Evidently it is now the Heritage Centre so thankfully the chances of anyone actually being in the building are small. Looks rather unsafe though and I suppose it will have to be demolished.

[LadyCG]

A late morning from me. Thanks for kicking off, 1ozzy.

I've just got home after a 1h 50m journey. Peace at last.

:-)

[naomi24]

Demolishing it would be a shame, LJ, but you might be right.

[LadyCG]

Sorry I missed you, Minty. It's good to see you back.

[Chipchopper]

Glad you've taken the helm, 1ozzy.
Turned out bright hereabouts.
Hope you're all well or heading that way, keep us posted.
Take care

[DTCwordfan]

it used to be the town hall and with a clock tower athe west end as Lady J will know. It dates from probably the early C18, with alterations ofC19 and C20 alterations, including the rebuilding of the clock tower in circa 1982. It's made of mixed slatestone rubble with granite quoins, and that's evident from the various photos down here. Slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends.

I'm still amazed no one was hurt - and the road, the A390 is still closed. But then what speed were they doing when they crossed the road and hit the building, this a controlled 30mph area.

[twix123]

Looking at the photo I would think that it’s a listed building and shouldn’t be demolished, but would anyone around now have the necessary skills to make the restoration?

[DTCwordfan]

the answer to that is yes, there are the skills - think of all those folk who build Cornish hedges - and not the ones on the A30 built by Irish folk on the dual-carriageway project and already collapsing up on Bodmin.

I know of a highly skilled mason in Newquay for instance - he rebuilt the collapsed walls of my mother's dovecote after she seriously damaged it - a consequence of Alzheimer's and more rubble than that, the building having been stone and lime mortar.