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My sister and her daughter live in St Just. As we take care my wife's mother, its quite difficult for us to get away - but as I have a neice I haven't yet seen - its more of a family occasion than a holiday.

St Ives is a place with many resonances for me also.

My literary hero, Christopher Isherwood spent some time there and his acounts of St Ives were my favourite reading as a teenager.

As a kid I visited the place so every merry junk shop, artists studio, wharf, surf board hire, corner nook and cranny is heavily populated with ghosts.

In the 1970's I knew the folkscene there. my favourite singer/songwriter of all time , Roger Brooks lived there. I knew him from the time he turned up wearing a top hat to do a gig with St Ives poet Bob Devreux at our folk club in the midlands. i sing two of roger's songs, and one is on my album. Also Also Clive palmer of the Incredible string band used to be around the town at that time.

One time I saw Roger share the bill with bert Jansch at Penzance Arts centere.

I used to love the little theatre the amdrams in St Ives used - there was a curtain which they closed and outside the window was the sea.

As you say Brenda and John the Fish were a presence round about that time - they had the Piper hotel in Penzance when I was around.

From the deafening silence, I imagine I will spend my time strumming my guitar to myself. and fighting off memories, regrets, nostalgia, etc

thanks for replying to the thread

big al whittle