Thursday, 1 September, 2022 – Elias posted some beautiful pictures today (yay!) but, as usual, I am not entirely sure what I am looking at.
So I googled “caves” and “Newquay.” I think it is possible they saw something like this: Carnglaze Caverns. But now that I look a bit closer, there’s caverns very near them, in Newquay, St. Cuthbert’s Cave (& Holy Well).
I’d planned to write a little about Elias’s comments about being in Cornwall. He said that everyone they’ve met is from a place, and they identify with it. They’re not just from London, for example; they are from East London, or West London, or Whitecastle, or Cornwall. Apparently, the people in Cornwall identify strongly with being Cornish. They are Cornish first, and English, second. Or is it British? I don’t know the distinction between being British and being English, but I know it is a distinction.
He mentioned talking to someone on the way to Newquay, from London, who had a thick Cockney accent. I mean, I think I know what a Cockney accent sounds like, because I saw My Fair Lady and Mary Poppins. Yeah, right. That’s like saying I know what a Southern accent is because I saw Steel Magnolias. That movie has the weirdest mashup of Southern accents! In any case, I know some people in England, like some people in Mississippi, can tell what area, what town, what county, you are from, by your accent. I don’t know if Elias has heard anyone speaking Cornish yet, but I googled it, just for fun, so I could hear it. Here’s the link to a woman speaking Cornish, on YouTube.