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Down Liskeard way
Posted by geoff the bonnie on May 16, 2024, 10:12 pm
Drove there to do some shopping and i found that as soon as we entered Cornwall, the roads were so much better than Devon with very few potholes. On the way back over Dartmoor, there were streams of motorcycles all being sensible and riding carefully. What has happened to the World mid week. Great day out with petrol at 1.38 a litre. Journey there at 67 mpg and going home a little faster at 58mpg. These high powered hybrids are more economcal than any diesel i have run since 1996 including the little 1.4 diesel Peugeot which would make 60 mpg driven carefully but never got to 67 mpg. Cornwall was full of lush plant growth and wild flowers. Not noticed it looking so good before. Plenty of speed cameras and one camera van at the side of a road and another on an overhead bridge. Someone had sprayed, GREED on one of the camera control boxes. I would guess i passed about 30 cameras. Went into a restaurant as i knew there was a photo of my Gran on the wall from 1916 when she was making shells for WW1 and aged 16. My Mum was born just 3 years later then another 11 siblings followed on. Took a snap of the picture through the frame glass but a bit blurred by the local lighting. I have a lot of my elders that came from Cornwall having lived there during the civil war then they all worked the tin mines and quarries before coming up over Dartmoor to Okehampton and Moretonhampstead. Many buried at the famous Brentor church
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Posted by geoff the bonnie on May 16, 2024, 10:18 pm, in reply to "Down Liskeard way"
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Posted by geoff the bonnie on May 16, 2024, 10:20 pm, in reply to "Re: Down Liskeard way"
Here she is at about 50 years and 11 children that lived and one died very young.
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Posted by geoff the bonnie on May 16, 2024, 10:21 pm, in reply to "Re: Down Liskeard way"