FOLK at home: May 2011

photo courtesy of google images

If, like we Folk, you thought the beast of Bodmin was a werewolf, lurking on the moor or at least a strange giant cat like creature pouncing on lambs or anything else it can get it's teeth into, we at FOLK at home can now reveal the truth, it's actually, a cornish pasty.

This beast pictured below was served to us in Bodmin on route home from our yearly sojourn at Cape Cornwall. It's thick crust of stomach bloating pastry contained some kind of animal gizzard, an altogether unfortunate incident.

This year we rented a cottage in Sennen Cove the wind howled the ocean roared and we spoke to George Payne of the Smock Shop St Ives to see if he would make us some anchor rope key- rings. He wasn't keen.

He invited us to visit him in his shed/workshop, it was amazing crammed with fantastic things, a huge front fender he's working on for a ferry in Dartmouth, great rope-work crosses and beautiful scallop shells with tiny crosses in the middle as christening gifts.