Not Traveline; Not Book; Not Map; But In Porch!
How come, you may ask, is there a secret bus timetable posted pointedly in that porch? And why is this bus service not showing in any Cornwall publicity? fbb suspects that it does not appear in these timetable frames at the St Just bus stop!
Nope, not there.
Here's the full timetable as provided by the Church of St Just In Roseland.
We note that it runs on Wednesday only and links St Mawes with Tregony, although fbb suggests that the main business will be to bring shoppers into the retail hot spot that isn't St Mawes.
It will also bring more adventurous travellers to join the ferry from St Mawes to Falmouth - a lot quicker than the lengthy two bus ordeal via Truro.
Connections are not always ideal and crossing can be interrupted by bad weather. The mystery bus service is Wednesdays only, but, for the record and in (non) compliance with standard practice, NS means not Sundays.
Because there is no map for the mystery bus service, it is a bit of a challenge to work out where it goes.
Journeys run via Gerrans, Portreath and Veryan to Tregony providing links not always available on routes 50 and 51. Most journeys operate as a circulation continuing from Tregpny via Ruan Lanthorne, Phillips and Trelissick and vice versa.
The middle journey of the day, however, does not loop but operates both ways via Philleigh.
So who operates this intriguing and secret route?
RCT is Roseland Community Transport.
The service started on 11th March this year ...
... and is operated by a minibus ...
... with a flat fare of £3 - so a lot cheaper than a taxi.
Cornwall council does provide a list of a whole load of community bus services, but Round Roseland is not among them.
Maybe "the lad" who compiles the council's list is not commissioned to keep his list updated.
The secrecy continues!
Sadly, fbb was not in Cornwall on a Wednesday. Had he been there on the right day, it is likely that he would have escaped the clutches of his attentive hosts and gone for a ride.
Roseland Community Transport also runs excursions as shown below.
Whilst thinking about a ride, there is another ferry from St Mawes, operating for the summer season only.
It runs to a place called Place ...
Here us a better view of the lighthouse ...
... with its distinctive black chimney stacks.
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What A Relief 1
Three very "low relief" cottage buildings (six hereditaments) are completed (nearly so!) with one more to go. 
No 3, with yellow doors, is the best of the three with very little bodge work required.
No 4 should be completed by Monday with work on site to follow!
What A Relief 2
As a teenager, fbb was impressed with Airfix plastic kits of railway stuff and useful associated scenery, including houses and a church.
Then "Superquick" printed card kits arrived. Young fbb assembled some low relief townscape models on the road behind and higher up than his station,
One set of three low relief buildings included a cinema.
Imagine fbb's delight when he espied a scene in the current (December) issue of Railway Modeller.
There is the 'Superquick' ABC cinema of over 60 years ago, still available and on a layout of quality in a much respected periodical. fbb's layout, back then, was also a layout if quality - poor quality.
As you can see, and as fbb remembers, Superquick buildings have less detail, e.g. 'sculptured' windows and doors, generally flatter than Metcalf as in the cottages above.
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