I was asked, ‘why the Poldark Pass’? ..’Well why not? ‘ was my reply ! Cornwall may be well stocked with discount schemes and vouchers for this that and the other but nothing has so far been offered for the multitude of visitors and locals who want to just get […]
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Hats! Love them or hate them it’s a fact that the hat makes the man, and the woman for that matter. Think of the Poldark men for instance. Ross, obviously, wears his tricorn as if he was actually born with one on that tousled head of his! He has done […]
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So it seems I’m not alone in a stress condition that results in preparing a word in your head and for an entirely different word actually emanating from my mouth. My family know I’m feeling stressed not by me getting snappy or withdrawing to my bedroom with a copy of […]
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It’s a funny limbo sort of day, Wednesday. It’s got it’s own nickname “Hump Day” which is nonsense! Slump Day would be worse of course but the fact is its three days since the last Poldark and another three till the next one! It’s the most Poldark free day of […]
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Film locations can by tricky in Cornwall… A quick aide memoir if you’re lost! Something has occurred to me, the film crews are not local! In traversing Cornish lanes and navigating their way around around our picturesque land to their locations they may be having a nightmare of a time […]
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Some of the old campaigners have dispersed back to their homelands but there is a small and dedicated force of resistance fighters that remain in Cornwall who have made the most of days off by catching up with laundry, filling freezers with easy cook dinner options that can be passed […]
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News from Aidan’s Maidens! So this happened today following The Daily Mail’s idiocy! http://metro.co.uk/2016/09/24/aidans-maidens-to-the-rescue-poldark-fans-defend-turner-after-flipping-out-claim-6150288/?ito=twitter If you want the real #GossOnRoss with Karen Colam, tune in to The Debbie McRory show on BBC Radio Cornwall each Monday at 3.30pm . Sorry Liam, next post!!
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It was an adventure, the Annie’s were never seen again but then that may have been because the cast and crew retreated en Masse to a new encampment and no more cake was required. Even before they’d left, we had received intelligence of their next possible advance. Almost simultaneously I […]
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Following Poldark ( day 2?3?…8? Who the hell knows,) Fangirl Down! Far Lookers at the ready ! It’s a fickle mistress this fangirl stuff! Fangirl? Who the hell am I kidding, three grandmothers at least amongst us, but Fan-sad-old-woman is a bit of a mouthful. Day two on the wall […]
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Yes, it’s official. We’re all mad! Admittedly, some madder than others but to a greater or lesser degree universally certifiable! I am of course referring to Aidan’s Maidens, a gorgeously bonkers group of women of varying ages but with a definite post menopausal bias. Today we sat on a wall […]
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