St Ives, Cornwall
Emailing a friend in Boston, I reported that winter had been so benign in southern England this year that it was bound to snow in Cornwall at Easter. Not so. I write just after dawn as a fishing boat chugs across the tranquil bay in bright sunshine. The week’s weather promises to be as near perfect as any since my siblings and I first started our annual family reunion in rented cottages here in 1983. Wonderful. And the Sloop Inn (‘circa 1305’) has now installed a wireless connection for the laptop.
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Not all is calm. This region is steeped in military history, but its media seems almost as indignant as Fleet St about the Iran hostage incident. The Western Morning News calls the detainees ‘15 West Country-based sailors and marines’ just as 2nd Lt. Joanna Dyer, killed by a roadside bomb in Basra, is a ‘West Girl’. Missing as usual from the debate is the media’s own thespian role.
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