Thanks for the link, I would love to know the secret of making good pasty pastry. I try to make my version of the pasty but it just doesn't come out the same somehow. Talking of Cornish Miners pasties I've heard that some had them divided to hold the savoury bit at one end and the dessert or pudding bit at the other. Brilliant.

>There is a free swimming pool on the beach at Bude, filled with sea-water. I was in it a couple of weeks ago without a wet-suit and found the water pleasant.

Something else found it less pleasant, however.

Valmai<

It does look like a polar bear rather than a cow at first glance I can understand how it could have been mistaken for one. But whatever it is 'poor little sausage!'