Category Archives: St Mellion
Parish Council Co-Option Process
With an advertised vacancy on St Mellion Parish Council, I’ve been reading up this morning on how the co-option process works. Â If ten parishioners formally request an election there will be no co-option but for the purposes of understanding the … Continue reading
No Solar, No Access
Yesterday saw the first regular Parish Council meeting since 9th July. Â Although meetings happen on a monthly basis, August is the annual exception and no public meeting takes place. Â In the intervening period, the council have clearly been anything but … Continue reading
Section 106 – Two weeks today
Two weeks ago today, I blogged about my concerns on how St Mellion was considering spending the Section 106 money provided by St Mellion International Resort. Â That Blog entry contained a letter that I’d sent to Christine, The Parish Clerk. … Continue reading
Problems with me carrots!
Yesterday saw the planned, informal meeting in St Mellion to discuss the need for allotments. Â Allan Cavill from the National Allotment Society came all the way from Taunton to talk about allotments in general and specifically about St Mellion’s wish … Continue reading
Parish Council Extraordinary Meeting
On the 13th September 2007, a Section 106 agreement was signed by four parties: Caradon District Council Bennelong Golf (St Mellion) Ltd Nat West Bank Cornwall County Council The agreement relates to planning application E2/06/01399/OUT that grants St Mellion International … Continue reading
Callington to Saltash on a bicycle
The A388 runs from Bideford in Devon to Saltash in Cornwall. Â It forms the main commuter route from Launceston to Plymouth and passes through Callington on the way. Â It’s an extremely busy road, thanks in part to its linking the … Continue reading
The need to be quorate
To extend my recent blatherings about St Mellion Parish Council, I thought I’d do a short post on the recent issue the council had to address in order to remain quorate. Â First though, what exactly does “quorate” mean? In order … Continue reading
A month on in the parish
It’s been just over a month since I first expressed my opinions on the St Mellion Parish Council elections. There have subsequently been two monthly public meetings of the council and I’m pleased to say that I found them energetic … Continue reading
St Mellion Parish Election 2013 – Response to Alan Twist
Following my previous post regarding the Parish Council elections, I’d like to proffer my thanks to Alan Twist for his concise comments. Alan, please accept my apologies for the false supposition that the Solar Farm was the driving force behind … Continue reading
St Mellion NIMBYs (Ltd)
Sat here today licking my wounds after being defeated in yesterday’s Parish Council Elections. Â As a rule, voter apathy surrounds these elections and even a 30% turnout is considered respectable. Â That’s assuming voters are even required to turn out. Â More … Continue reading
Another Ferret loss
Following the passing of Darcy earlier this year, today we lost Missy. She was the runt of the pack, much smaller than Darcy and almost a different species compared to the monster that is Tommy. After some rough calculations, based … Continue reading
Welcom Bay – Perrenporth
Don’t know why I’ve left it six months to publish this article. Oh well, better late than never! This was a walk undertaken by Tim Clayton, Colin Kelly and myself. We started from Welcom Bay on the 11th September 2011 … Continue reading
It’s the little things
Just a quickie to say thanks to the driver from Burcombe Haulage who stopped in St Mellion village on the A388 during rush hour to let me cross over with my dogs on Monday evening. Apologies to the commuter zombies … Continue reading
Last year Womble, this year Darcy
Last year I Blogged about the death of our Ferret Womble. Today it’s the turn of her long-time partner Darcy. Darcy was a polecat and always the wildest of our flock. When visitors wanted to hold one, Darcy was the … Continue reading
Hi Sue!
I recently discovered that Sue Appleby (our neighbour), is a follower of my Blog. She describes it as interesting but a bit Victor Meldrew-ish. So I’m no longer just a cynic, I’m also a grumpy old man. I would vow … Continue reading
Bye bye Wimble Womble
This morning Lou discovered that our ferret, “Womble” had died in the night. She’s been looking weak lately and old age was taking its toll on her. Lou thinks she was about 11 years old. We got her from the … Continue reading
Goodbye Green Fields
Since moving into the village of St Mellion, almost two years ago, I’ve walked our dogs, Ollie and Murphy two or three times every day in some local fields. Sadly (for me) today is likely to be the last time … Continue reading
Terracotta Tiling
As part of our home refurbishment, Lou and I chose Terracotta tiles for our living room floor. This proved such a success with us that we went on to lay them in the hallway and are now doing the kitchen. … Continue reading
Broken Boiler
No sooner did I Buy fuel oil than the boiler falls apart. Sods law or what? The first hint of a problem was the electrics tripping out. The cause was quickly narrowed down to the boiler and taking the cover … Continue reading
First oil order
I’ve been putting off ordering heating oil ever since we moved in. Now the tank is sucking on air and I can’t put the inevitable off any longer. Just ordered 900 Litres from Keltic which should be delivered on Monday … Continue reading