Daniel in Cornwall
@danielincornwall.bsky.social
Chilli growing, photography, cooking stuff, rugby watching, paddle boarding, occasional Land Rovers and general Cornwall things. Also tax. Mostly in Penzance, sometimes London. Not Cornish.
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Very noisy tawny owlet photo (in the camera's defence, it was pretty much dark and I was using a 300mm zoom at ISO 12800). There are a pair in the garden and at the moment they spend every night shrieking for food at 5 second intervals which is cute for at least an hour.
This isn't any less painful to watch the second time round.
Under Gatland, Wales’ attack came under heavy criticism for being incredibly deep
Here, under totally different coaches, the problem persists: Wales spend 2 and a half mins getting up to the 10m line then taking themselves back over half way
Arg then win turnover and score in 30 seconds
Here, under totally different coaches, the problem persists: Wales spend 2 and a half mins getting up to the 10m line then taking themselves back over half way
Arg then win turnover and score in 30 seconds
November 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This isn't any less painful to watch the second time round.
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Highlights of Friday night’s win at Nottingham are here - 5 excellent tries from the back 3 as well as Harry Yates pretending to be a forward for the 6th.
cornish-pirates.com/pirates-tv/n...
cornish-pirates.com/pirates-tv/n...
Nottingham v Cornish Pirates Highlights :Cornish Pirates
cornish-pirates.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Highlights of Friday night’s win at Nottingham are here - 5 excellent tries from the back 3 as well as Harry Yates pretending to be a forward for the 6th.
cornish-pirates.com/pirates-tv/n...
cornish-pirates.com/pirates-tv/n...
Getting towards end of harvesting now: 1kg of ghostly jalapeños heading for sriracha; about to strain, sweeten and bottle the first attempt at Cornish-grown limoncello, not sure what to do with 200g of very pretty but weirdly small ajì limon chillies.
November 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Getting towards end of harvesting now: 1kg of ghostly jalapeños heading for sriracha; about to strain, sweeten and bottle the first attempt at Cornish-grown limoncello, not sure what to do with 200g of very pretty but weirdly small ajì limon chillies.
An excellent Friday evening a long way from home.
Fantastic away victory with three tries from the backs in each half. Matty Ward and Arthur Relton added another one each in the second half and Harry Yates finished it off.
FT Nottingham 28-36 Cornish Pirates
FT Nottingham 28-36 Cornish Pirates
November 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
An excellent Friday evening a long way from home.
This wasn't on the list of expected outcomes... looks like Blue Islands operating using a spare ATR72 (wonder if they will actually paint in Skybus livery) rather than the pleasure of flying a Twin Otter all the way to Gatwick.
www.cornwall.gov.uk/council-news...
www.cornwall.gov.uk/council-news...
November 7, 2025 at 10:17 AM
This wasn't on the list of expected outcomes... looks like Blue Islands operating using a spare ATR72 (wonder if they will actually paint in Skybus livery) rather than the pleasure of flying a Twin Otter all the way to Gatwick.
www.cornwall.gov.uk/council-news...
www.cornwall.gov.uk/council-news...
OK, starting to get a bit excited about going to the final night of the tour in Berlin now.
Radiohead review – bards of the apocalypse return for a brutal bacchanal
Radiohead review – bards of the apocalypse return for a brutal bacchanal
Powered by a pounding rhythm section, the crowd dance to even the tricksiest drum patterns at Radiohead’s first gig in seven years – one that demonstrates the pure joy this band can bring
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
OK, starting to get a bit excited about going to the final night of the tour in Berlin now.
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And with that we are straight into the play off places after a tricky start to the season: finishing the weekend 6th in the Champ.
November 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
And with that we are straight into the play off places after a tricky start to the season: finishing the weekend 6th in the Champ.
Nanjizal x Mordor
October 31, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Nanjizal x Mordor
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🌳 As a #NationalTrust member I’ve just voted for the recommended slate to keep out the bogus, right-wing entryists of “Restore Trust”. Anything this creep wants is bad for Britain and bad for our heritage.
🌳 If you’re a member, vote Recommended Slate now: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
🌳 If you’re a member, vote Recommended Slate now: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
One vital reason to vote in the National Trust elections and for the NT endorsed candidates. We can't risk the Restore Trust candidates getting any influence on it.
October 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
🌳 As a #NationalTrust member I’ve just voted for the recommended slate to keep out the bogus, right-wing entryists of “Restore Trust”. Anything this creep wants is bad for Britain and bad for our heritage.
🌳 If you’re a member, vote Recommended Slate now: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
🌳 If you’re a member, vote Recommended Slate now: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
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Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
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Great Western Railway is offering free Standard Class travel on 28–29 October for Eastern Airways passengers and staff stranded by the airline’s collapse, covering Newquay–London Gatwick routes, in coordination with other UK train operators.
news.gwr.com/news/great-w...
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October 28, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Great Western Railway is offering free Standard Class travel on 28–29 October for Eastern Airways passengers and staff stranded by the airline’s collapse, covering Newquay–London Gatwick routes, in coordination with other UK train operators.
news.gwr.com/news/great-w...
news.gwr.com/news/great-w...
Wouldn’t be a proper LibDem bar chart if 7 was less than half the size of 16.
BREAKING - Liberal Democrats have overtaken Reform to become the largest group on Cornwall Council.
We are the only party that can stand up and win against Nigel Farage, Reform and their divisive, populist politics.
We are the only party that can stand up and win against Nigel Farage, Reform and their divisive, populist politics.
October 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Wouldn’t be a proper LibDem bar chart if 7 was less than half the size of 16.
Not ideal… maybe one day NQY will have a proper airline with some onward connectivity on the London route.
Eastern Airways on brink of collapse with jobs at risk
#Cornwall #Kernow
🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...
#Cornwall #Kernow
🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...
Eastern Airways on brink of collapse putting with jobs at risk
Hundreds of jobs are at risk after the airline filed a notice of intention to appoint an administrator.
www.bbc.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Not ideal… maybe one day NQY will have a proper airline with some onward connectivity on the London route.
Finally the chickens have that carport they’ve always craved.
October 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Finally the chickens have that carport they’ve always craved.
This is better.
Excellent result on the road: tries from the wings in the first half (Cambriani x2 and Relton) then the forwards took over in the second (Petch, Moody and Ratcliff).
London Scottish 10-38 Cornish Pirates
London Scottish 10-38 Cornish Pirates
October 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This is better.
Always exciting to see some tax polling; interesting that "equalise CGT and income tax" has dropped off the question list (always reliably popular as a tax that is mostly paid by "other people"). Would be good to see something on charging CGT on sale of principal residence.
The Green Party's proposal for a wealth tax on 1% of assets above £10m and 2% on assets above £1bn comes top of our list of tax reforms that Britons would support, with 75% giving it their backing
yougov.co.uk/economy/arti...
yougov.co.uk/economy/arti...
October 23, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Always exciting to see some tax polling; interesting that "equalise CGT and income tax" has dropped off the question list (always reliably popular as a tax that is mostly paid by "other people"). Would be good to see something on charging CGT on sale of principal residence.
New Strictly presenter just announced.
[Keir Starmer's Britain, 2027]
your alarm rings; you yawn and wake up, and slowly turn around
with horror, you realise that your spouse isn't in bed with you; instead, it's Louise Casey
you scream, get dressed, run out of the house and onto a bus
Louise Casey is driving it
your alarm rings; you yawn and wake up, and slowly turn around
with horror, you realise that your spouse isn't in bed with you; instead, it's Louise Casey
you scream, get dressed, run out of the house and onto a bus
Louise Casey is driving it
October 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
New Strictly presenter just announced.
a chainsaw, a relaxed attitude to personal safety, and offering to help woodland owners works about as well
October 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
a chainsaw, a relaxed attitude to personal safety, and offering to help woodland owners works about as well
Weather working unusually well this month: therapeutic peaceful sunset to finish the weekend; bleak chilly squalls to accompany the start of the working week.
October 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Weather working unusually well this month: therapeutic peaceful sunset to finish the weekend; bleak chilly squalls to accompany the start of the working week.
First attempt at Newlyn mackerel tempura went pretty well (only downside was making about twice as much as needed and feeling obliged to eat all of it)
October 19, 2025 at 8:11 AM
First attempt at Newlyn mackerel tempura went pretty well (only downside was making about twice as much as needed and feeling obliged to eat all of it)
Today is the day that bluesky finally made it as the leading tax policy analysis platform.
It simply should not be possible to make a steam train out of our marginal taxation rate graph.
October 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Today is the day that bluesky finally made it as the leading tax policy analysis platform.
Accurate but as depressing as ever - still, looking forward to seeing @cornishpirates.bsky.social kick off our season at the Mennaye tomorrow
English rugby’s Champ era gets under way dogged by same old ups and downs
Rebranded second tier should be signalling a brave new world this weekend but uncertainty over promotion and relegation again clouds the picture
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Accurate but as depressing as ever - still, looking forward to seeing @cornishpirates.bsky.social kick off our season at the Mennaye tomorrow
Chilli processing time. Sorting into stitchable, worth pickling and a pile for the dehydrator. And millions of spare ghostly jalapeño - probably 500g+ still on the plant.
October 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Chilli processing time. Sorting into stitchable, worth pickling and a pile for the dehydrator. And millions of spare ghostly jalapeño - probably 500g+ still on the plant.
Finally... looks like some traditional rugby weather will be along by Saturday too
3 days to go… a reminder of October’s fixtures, all starting on Saturday afternoon with Hartpury’s visit.
October 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Finally... looks like some traditional rugby weather will be along by Saturday too
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What’s both amazing and terrifying simultaneously
My test of any new AI video model is whether it can make an otter using wifi on an airplane
Here is Sora 2 doing a nature documentary... 1980s music video... a thriller... 50s low budget SciFi film... a safety video.. a film noir... anime... 90s video game cutscene... a French arthouse film
Here is Sora 2 doing a nature documentary... 1980s music video... a thriller... 50s low budget SciFi film... a safety video.. a film noir... anime... 90s video game cutscene... a French arthouse film
October 1, 2025 at 8:39 AM
What’s both amazing and terrifying simultaneously