I would love to come to sunny Cornwall. It's the one place I wanted to get to but didnt when I visited a few years ago. But I've been told it's a very beautiful area.

You should have visited Liverpool. It's the European Capital of Culture, don't you know. One you go, you'll never leave. [As someone will have mugged you and put your car on bricks]

you shouldn't get me started, Manthorp once accused me of being the Cornish tourist board !

it's real nice here - there are always good pics of Cornwall here ~

http://www.cornwallcam.co.uk/

Very picturesque. Isn't Cornwall the place with all the sod roof houses? Theres no pictures of that?

Went to Liverpool, mostly remembered for the guy barfing on the side walk in front of a pub as I was passing - at 1.30 in the afternoon.

And I've got strong suspicions that you are Earl Larry's Grand Vizier...

sod roof houses ?

I thought that was the colonies ...

Sir Laurence de Berkley Compt de Camelford and lord of all he surveys ?

nah, never heard of him ..

True. Just I'm bitter to have dragged all the fleece back out. :)

Mmmm....rain smell is even better than cut grass smell.

I have it all wrong - I'm tryng to remember the place with thatched roofs, not sod roofs. Do you have thatched roofs in Cornwall?

(If you type roofs three times it starts to sound wrong. Rooves maybe?)

My dad's a thatcher y'know.

And yes, Cornwall has loads of thatched roofs.

yes, loads of thatch, most of it protected by law (ie can't replace it with a decent roof)

"...can't replace it with a decent roof"

Why do you say that? Why would you not want a thatched roof?

I don't like most of the creatures that live in thatched rooves

spiders, bugs, creepy-crawlies, mice, etc

and thacth is /very/ heavy, I would worry about all that weight held mostly by dry cob and gravity

And the fire risk, and the maintence costs etc etc

Mice will live in any roof, thatch or no thatch.

Tis true :$

<offers cheese>

Is it Cheshire? Cos I can't be doing with none of that crumbly shit.