St Ives Feast

St Ives Feast - 8th February 2010

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I've now pulled together and edited a compilation video from St Ives Feast today.

It includes The Hurling of the Silver Ball, The Western Hunt in Royal Square, Return of the Silver Ball and finally Throwing Pennies at St Ives Guildhall.

Hope you enjoy it.

St Ives Cornwall - Feast Day - The Silver Ball

St Ives Feast - Hurling of the Silver Ball

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Today is St Ives Feast Day - commemorating the consecration of the Parish Church of St Eia in 1434.

Following an ancient tradition - at 10.30 am the mayor hurls the Silver Ball from the wall of the church down to the beach.

Local children then fight over it through town. Whoever returns it to the mayor on the steps of St Ives Guildhall on the stroke of midday receives a silver coin.

In this video you can see one of the local kids getting hold of the ball and then diving into the sea to get away. The others then stream off to intercept him on the other side of the harbour. Then another kid dives into the sea in pursuit !



Other traditions include a meeting of The Western Hunt to to take a stirrup cup from the mayor and the distribution of pennies to local children at The Guildhall. More vidoes showing those coming soon.

My friends Alban Roinard and Sarah Lincoln were also there - respectively filming and photographing. Sarah took the picture above. Hopefully I'll be able to publish some more of their images soon as well.

St Ives Cornwall - Website Design

St Ives Cornwall Website Design

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Today I'm featuring my own website - St Ives Cornwall Website Design.

I've built websites for many local businesses and organisations - around St Ives and West Cornwall. I've also helped a number of people with redesign and website marketing.

These include a great variety of different projects including shops, artists, galleries, pubs, hotels, self catering, holiday hire and community organisations.

One of my current projects is building a site for a series of childrens stories (adults might like them as well !) set in the Faerie Realms. This website is very much ongoing - with many more books and illustrations to be added over the coming months. Take a look here:
Fairy Press Website

I'm also working on a new site for a St Ives portrait artist - still under development so I'll feature it here at a later date.

So if you'd like help building a new website, updating your current site or with online marketing let me know. Check out my website here:
St Ives Cornwall Website Design

Fabric Stash Sale

Fabric Stash Sale - St Ives Cornwall

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My wife Jo will be holdng a Fabric Stash Sale on Sunday 7th February.

31 Bedford Road, St Ives, 10.00am to 5.00pm.

She has a vast range of fabrics and needs to clear some space !

You can choose what you want and fill a bag for a fiver.

Tea, coffee and biscuits provided.

Jo McIntosh - Knitweave

St Ives Cornwall - What's On

Long Liner Fishing Boat - St Ives Harbour - 1950s.

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I posted earlier this month that I was going to reduce the number of "What's On" posts. But there is a fair amount going on at the moment - so here's a selection from the coming week.

Tonight (Sunday 31st) there are two pub quizzes - at The Queens Hotel and at The Union Inn. Both start at 8.00 pm and offer cash prizes.

Tomorrow (1st) there is an illustrated talk at St Ives Infants School - Colourful St Ives In The 1950s - at 7.00 pm. Advance tickets are £3.00 from St Ives Tourist Information or £4.00 on the door. A fundraiser for Consols Pool Association.

On Tuesday (2nd) St Ives Jazz Club are back at The Western Hotel with The Ken Church Quartet. Entry on the door is £10.00 or £6.00 (members). Doors open at 8.00 pm with music from 9.00 pm.

On Wednesday (3rd) St Ives School of Painting have an art class - Life Drawing - at the school on Back Road and starting at 7.30 pm. No need to book, just turn up, cost is £7.00 which includes professional tuition.

On Thursday (4th) St Ives Farmers Market is open at St Ives Backpackers from 9.30 am to 2.00 pm. As ever a great selection of fresh local produce.

On Friday (5th) Carbis Bay Hotel are hosting a fundraiser for the Haiti Appeal - with proceeds split between Red Cross and local charity ShelterBox. Seventies band and disco - Neon Love Chicken. Fun auction and raffle. Free cocktail on arrival plus a buffet. Tickets are £25.00 - call 01736 795311 to book. They are also looking for items for the auction and raffle - so get in touch if you have something to donate.

Have a great week in St Ives - as ever more events on:
St Ives Cornwall - What's On

St Ives Cornwall - Cinema Next Week

Royal Cinema St Ives Cornwall - Avatar

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The Royal Cinema has another good programme of movies next week - starting Friday (29th January). The winter movie season is often a bit flat as the distributors hold back their bigger releases until Easter. But this winter so far has been pretty good.

The Book Of Eli (15, 118 minutes) - post apocalyptic gunfest.
Its Complicated (15, 120 minutes) - romance, girl stuff.
Avatar (12A, 162 minutes) - Lord of the Rings meets Apocalypse Now.
Alvin And The Chipmunks 2 (U, 88 minutes) - chipmunks as furry rock stars.
Planet 51 (U, 90 minutes) - animated sci-fi comedy.
An Education (12A, 100 minutes) - Penwith Film Society presentation.

Of these I'd personally recommend Avatar - an absolutely superb movie. St Ives only has the 2D version (the 3D projector is broken), but nonetheless this is one film not to miss on the big screen. We went to see it last week and loved it.

The cinema has a number of offers on at the moment including Choose Tuesdays (all seats £3.99) and their Movie Magic Discount Card.

More details of times and prices on their website:
Royal Cinema St Ives

Haiti Appeal Fundraiser

ShelterBox Deploys In Haiti - January 2010

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Carbis Bay Hotel are hosting a fundraising evening on Friday 5th February.

Entertainment is from seventies band and disco - Neon Love Chicken.

There will also be a fun auction and raffle.

You get a free cocktail on arrival and there will be a buffet.

All proceeds to Red Cross and Shelterbox.

Tickets are £25.00

Call 01736 795 311 to book or for more information.

Please also call if you wish to donate a raffle prize or auction item.

The hotel are also offering a special rate for rooms: £35.00 bed and breakfast.

Carbis Bay Hotel Website

ShelterBox Website

And in case you're wondering if ShelterBox are still hanging around the airport drinking cold beers with the UN rather than deploying on the ground - here they are on the ground getting things done with the help of the Dutch Marines:
Video - ShelterBox Deployment In Haiti