What Was In That Porch?
Before the big reveal (?), fbb must redress an omission from his piece on the Church of St Just. A very new visitor centre has been built, near the caff.
It exhibits items and information from the history of the church; interesting but too esoteric to find a place in today's posting. But one internal wall has an unusual display.
At first it looks like a dark grey reproduction of ancient Christian symbolic crosses in low relief. Upon closer inspection, it turns out to be the text of the whole bible complete with book names chapters and verses.
The real cross is in the churchyard!
It was beyond the scope of fbb's wobbly hand and the subdued lighting to get a good in-focus enlargement of the small print used, but fbb can confirm that the complete text was there from Genesis to Revelation. fbb only took a few visual samples, he did not stay to read it all.
But he did read what was in the porch.
The Big Surprise
fbb has visited many a Church and always peruses the notice board which can often give a flavour of the ecclesiastical life of the congregation.
He has never seen these items displayed on any notice board!
Because of poor light in the porch, fbb has sourced copies of what he observed.
Firstly was this:-
Yes, folks, the church provides a bus timetable for the service that stops at the top of the lane leading down to the water's edge. And there is also a Sunday service from both Church and Bus!
Atop the hill, outhbound towards St Mawes, you have the luxury of a bench and a retired phone box repurposed as a take and swap mini library.
The opposite direction is for Truro! and offers no luxury whatsoever. Indeed the 'flag' shares a pole ...
... with the give way sign, a utilitarian concept which may not be legal! Both poles have substantial timetable frames, although fbb was unable to view the contents from his hosts' limo, he is sure the timetables therein will be up-to-date.
Route 50, operated by GoAhead's Go Cornwall subsidiary, runs every 90 minutes. Back in the day it was two hourly ...
... with the 'other' hours taking you to Veryan. First Western National had competition from Western Greyhound's 550 ...
... until the greyhound fell spectacularly at the fence marked 'insolvent'.
Nowadays the service is usually provided by double deck buses.
So what happened to Veryan, you may ask. In a reorganisation upon the arrival of GoAhead and Cornwall county's expansionost policy, service 51 runs from St Austell to St Mawes.
The two routes are shown on this extract from the network map.
St Austell is just off the map, top right. Connections are available between the 50 and 51 at Tregony Square.
Now, a question! How many Squares are there at Tregony?
fbb has searched diligently; and can find only one - which makes the timetable somewhat worrying. Here is an extract.
The 0800 is timed at Tregony Tregony Square, then the school, then back to Tregony The Square. Whilst the colour shading of these morning journeys is manageable, take a look at the other direction.
There are no 51 buses on Sundays.
CREAM - Schooldays
PALE ORANGE - Saturdays and non schooldays
PALE GREEN - Taunton College days
PINK - Saturdays and College Holidays
As fbb has often opined, how many passengers are put off travelling because they don't know whether it is a schoolday or not, ot whether Taunton College might be having a few days off.
It IS confusing; and most Cornwall timetables suffer from similar problems. One solution is to add the actual term/holiday dates to each timetable.
But didn't fbb say there were TWO rare notices on that church notice board?
Surely he did not mean TWO bus services at St Just in Roseland. The network map shows only service 50. Traveline lists only service 50.
Surely the Cornwall timetable book has always shown every bus service?
What's going on!
We will see tomorrow.
We will see tomorrow.
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Blundner No 1
fbb does occasionally have trouble with both a wobbly left hand and less than perfect eyesight. So when attempting to fix bargeboard to a dormer window roof, he subconsciously reached out for a proddy thing to prod the bits into place.
A pen fell into his hand.
What escaped the octogenarian mind at the critical moment was that this particular pen was replete with very wet, very black ink.
Of course it oozed everywhere!
And everywhere!
The skills of Bill Bodge and Fred Fudge were needed yet again. But it will do - no one will notice, apart, of course anyone who reads this blog. 
It'll do!
Blunder No 2
fbb transfers "stuff" from his upstairs Raspberry Pi, emulated as a RISC OS (ex Acorn/BBC), to his Linux laptop - and vice versa.
But fbb lost his stick with important stuff on it, ready to transfer from top to bottom. Fortunately he had a spare; but where was the missing device!
Could it be in fbb's trouser pocket?
Hopefully not as said leg coverings had been through the washing machine - no sign in there!
Three washes later Mrs fbb found the stick wedged in the floppy rubberised washing machine door seal. It had been washed several times.
Without much hope, fbb plugged it in and ...
... it all worked perfectly!
Isn't technology wonderful?
Isn't technology wonderful?
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