March 5, 2014

“Gool Peran Lowen” - Saint Piran’s Day in Brisbane

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Published: 5 March 2014 

Why are you celebrating a Cornish Day in Brisbane QLD?

Because Queensland, Australia is Where I am now is awesome just like Cornwall where I grew up!

  • The place is beautiful

Queensland:

Gold Coast

Cornwall:

Cornwall beach

  • Its Warmer than the rest of the country

  • All the best farming and produce come from ‘ere

  • We’ve both captured tropical rainforests in a bloody dome

Queensland:

KONICA MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERA

Image Source: Visit Brisbane

Cornwall:

Cornwall Rainforest dome

Image Source: schtumple

  • Flooding. We like a drop of rain.

Queensland:

5347515302_7544fedf14_b

Image source: Rae Allen

Cornwall:

  • Beaches

Queensland:

Queensland beach

 

Cornwall:

Cornwall beach

Flickr: ennor / Creative Commons

  • People talk funny 🙂

Queensland:

Cornish:

 

Cornish Fayre - The food, the food

 

Cornish-Lunch

Pasties

pasties

Heavy Cakes

heavy cakes

Scones - Cream Tea’s

IMG_8701

Your scones are pending ...

Sadly the Clotted Cream was a #FAIL

The little ones preferred the ice blocks

Hannah-Visiting

 

Helicopter

When I was a kid we used to see Peter De Savary on Spotlight swooping in on his helicopter to visit Land’s End. On Monday I got my first helicopter, a gift from Google Australia for being a Google Partner. We decorated for today with the Cornish Flag.

Cornish-Helicopter

Happy St Piran’s Day to “ONE and ALL”

pirans-post-in-brisbane

UPDATE (Friday 7th):

Ben managed to make some clotted cream
IMG_20140306_202609_791

Sources:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/38-reasons-you-need-to-go-to-cornwall

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/happy-st-piran’s-day---gool-peran-lowen----call-for-public-holiday-in-cornwall-.html#uW6PNru

Facebook/TheCornishPastyMan (in QLD)

Why are you celebrating a Cornish Day in Brisbane QLD?

Because Queensland, Australia is Where I am now is awesome just like Cornwall where I grew up!

  • The place is beautiful

Queensland:

Gold Coast

Cornwall:

Cornwall beach

  • Its Warmer than the rest of the country

  • All the best farming and produce come from ‘ere

  • We’ve both captured tropical rainforests in a bloody dome

Queensland:

KONICA MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERA

Image Source: Visit Brisbane

Cornwall:

Cornwall Rainforest dome

Image Source: schtumple

  • Flooding. We like a drop of rain.

Queensland:

5347515302_7544fedf14_b

Image source: Rae Allen

Cornwall:

  • Beaches

Queensland:

Queensland beach

 

Cornwall:

Cornwall beach

Flickr: ennor / Creative Commons

  • People talk funny 🙂

Queensland:

Cornish:

 

Cornish Fayre - The food, the food

 

Cornish-Lunch

Pasties

pasties

Heavy Cakes

heavy cakes

Scones - Cream Tea’s

IMG_8701

Your scones are pending ...

Sadly the Clotted Cream was a #FAIL

The little ones preferred the ice blocks

Hannah-Visiting

 

Helicopter

When I was a kid we used to see Peter De Savary on Spotlight swooping in on his helicopter to visit Land’s End. On Monday I got my first helicopter, a gift from Google Australia for being a Google Partner. We decorated for today with the Cornish Flag.

Cornish-Helicopter

Happy St Piran’s Day to “ONE and ALL”

pirans-post-in-brisbane

UPDATE (Friday 7th):

Ben managed to make some clotted cream
IMG_20140306_202609_791

Sources:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/38-reasons-you-need-to-go-to-cornwall

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/happy-st-piran’s-day---gool-peran-lowen----call-for-public-holiday-in-cornwall-.html#uW6PNru

Facebook/TheCornishPastyMan (in QLD)

Ben Maden

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One comment on ““Gool Peran Lowen” - Saint Piran’s Day in Brisbane”

  1. You're awesome! Love this post, and yes in every comparison I'd pick Kernow over QLD. But if I've gotta be stuck somewhere outside the homeland it might as well be here! 😛 (except for that crazy 6° business last night - felt like I was back in Penzance! )

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