Interesting Facts

Imagine this, you have a blood clot and you're being rushed to hospital, then the ambulance stops and you realise it's to pick up a couple of hitchhikers. Well, that's exactly what happened to  60 year old Glenn Buscombe. (He was in the vehicle when it picked up a pair of hitchhikers, and dropped them in the next town before taking him to A&E in Plymouth. Unsurprisingly one of the hitchhikers was a woman in a skimpy skirt.) Source

You've probably never heard of Bissoe, I know I hadn't (it's in Cornwall), but, they have a brand new bus shelter. Why is that interesting? Well, because there hasn't been a bus service since 2008. (This isn't a case of mad councillors, squandering public money though.  The shelter was built for free by a local concrete company, who noticed the old one was looking rather shabby. The production manager, Simon Lucas, said "We are aware there are no buses coming here at the moment but we'd like to hope that the new shelter might encourage them to come back." He added, ""There's no real focal point to the village when people come here, so we thought this would mark it out." If you build it, Mr Lucas, they will come. I think it should be featured in Visit Cornwall.) Source

You've heard of the Welsh, the Irish and the Scots, well say hello to the Cornish. (Not the pasty, the people. Cornwall has won recognition as a national minority. Flag - St Piran Language - Cornish Nationality - Cornish In the census of 2011, 84,000 people declaree themselves “Cornish”, but only 557 people claim that the Celtic dialect is their main language, although there are now dual-language street signs throughout the county. I don't think you can call yourself Cornish, if you can't speak Cornish. There should be a test.) Oh look!  There is! Can you tell the difference between Dothraki and Cornish? http://www.buzzfeed.com/robinedds/dothraki-or-cornish-can-you-tell-the-difference

Seemingly tea and coffee are grown in the UK (see previous post).  (Tea is grown and sold from the Tregothnan estate in Cornwall, and Arabica coffee is being grown in the rainforest bio dome at the Eden Project, That said, I doubt they could grow enough to satisfy the tea and coffee drinking habits of the UK. Accroding to the BBC, the coffee harvest at Eden produced about 2kg of cherries, which would create approximately 300g of dried coffee beans to make around 50 cups of Cornish coffee.)  

Cornwall has a legal right to its own Parliament. (Cornwall, once a separate country, has never formally been integrated into England, and the right to its own parliament, confirmed and strengthened by the Charter of Pardon 1508, was granted in perpetuity and cannot be lawfully rescinded.)