Andy Rodker's photos

The coast at Bosigran Head. A good contrast with the previous upload I feel! This one works reasonably well on large (imho). Sight and Sound. A bit of Mozart; www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrcZfJrIG0Y

Portreath Outer Harbour on a wild day.

Portreath inner harbour.

On the footpath from St Day to Carharrack, known as School Hill as it is used by the Carharrack children who have to attend the school in St Day and have a fairly stiff upward walk to do so! Good exercise I suppose.

Try as I might, I just couln't get a shot of these two horses together!

Another fine fellow I come across on my walk to the pub! Sight and sound: this amused me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz-AuBcmASA

She still keeps an amazing garden with interest all the year round. I don't think I've captured it at sunset before now.

The weather has warmed up sufficiently for the horse to be undressed for the first time since autumn! Perhaps on large to do horse justice! Sight and Sound: More Janis and I think my favourite song of hers and a genuine reactor not messing up a performance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=azWUxxgN_Yc

On a minor road between Carharrack and St Day, Cornwall. I don't know what goes on in that building. It doesn't look Cornish and doesn't look old (nor modern for that matter). I'll try and find out somehow ...

I occasionally take this longer route if I have time. But until today, it has been too grey and dull to bother with photos here. Today was more spring-like. There really is some rather understated yet attractive countryside around St Day. Sight and sound: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJIRgm7aDKs The Rolling Stones at their (very early) best. Perhaps better on large for detail.

A special wine and one I'd been looking forward to for quite a while. Glad I was patient! After 25 years, it was still fruity and was perfectly in balance with a fairly hefty thwack of tannin, but the latter wasn't too aggressive. I reckon this would still be enjoyable in 50 years time! As it was only my mum and me (my dad would have loved to have drunk this but can't drink alcohol these days), we have enough in the decanter for a glass and a half each with tomorrow's meal. Even though it is 25 years old, I have no doubt that it will be just as good tomorrow having been opened 30 hours previously. I know the light wasn't great so I'll write what it says on the label: Léoville Las Cases, St Julien 1998. A second class grand cru, generally referred to as a 'super-second' and commanding prices up near the first class grand cru claret level (in other words into the stratosphere!). My excuse is that I bought it before the explosion of classed growth claret prices when the market was skewed by the Chinese putting pressure on demand ... and that it was my 65th birthday! Maybe I should have thought to give the table a quick wipe with a cloth first! In summary what was so astonishing to me was that this wine was like a classic from the early 2010s, At a blind tasting I would have guessed the year as 2015 or thereabouts. Only 17 years out!

Possibly the last of my low-light shots. The weather is slowly getting more Spring-like and I shall be back in Spain next month anyway. Sight and sound. Janis again: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfK0tChiWQ4

Downtown City of Truro on the first really bright day this Spring. The cathedral sits on a very slight rise; enough for it to dominate the town (sorry ... 'city'!)

Carn Brea Castle / restaurant. I possibly posted a similar shot before, or it may have been on Panoramio, but I felt it was odd enough to be worth another shot! Sight and Sound. A much underrated singer: Eric Burdon and War: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbuIjsw2gX0 With this song, funk and laid- backness combine beautifully (imho!)

Monument erected in 1836 in memory of Francis Basset, First Baron de Dunstaville, an influential mine owner. Paid for by public subscription by legions of grateful miners (or so they say - I have my doubts that ANY mine owner would have been that beloved by his serfs / minions / slaves!). Perhaps marginally better on large for stonework detail.

Rather different weather from my last visit! A bit puzzled by the lack of boats!

In other words my occasional walk to the pub for my swift half and then a quick return to cook supper!

It's good that I can now walk this path in daylight after a few months of dark and dismal light for any shot! Better perhaps on large and then on large again, to follow the path into the light at the end of the tunnel!!