According to the Mail - Newlyn fisherman's son gets to play for England this weekend!

According to the Daily Mail...

Looks like all hands in Newlyn will be glued to the TV this Saturday to see the son of one of the port's top skippers take to the field in Paris when he runs out to face France in the first game of this year's six-nations tournament...

Jack Nowell started his rugby career aged nine for the local Penzance and Newlyn Pirates - he currently plays for Exeter Chiefs.

now....

according to the Times it's a different story!

#eatmorefish kettles are so useful!

Ye old faithful fish kettle comes into its own when poaching big long fish like this Dover Sole - the trick is to get the water in the kettle boiling first and then add the fish - a few favourite herbs like dill or fennel or in this case garlic and ginger can be added here - a fish this size takes less than 10 minutes - it's easy to over-poach rather than under!

Many megs maketh Monday

This was the weather for much of the weekend...

shots from Cape Cornwall looking towards a barely visible Land's End pounded by yet another heavy Atlantic swell...

all of the fleet bar the port's biggest beam trawler are in port...

so Monday's market is awash with fish...

including megrims form the Sapphire II...

and a good shot of cuttles...

down the other end of the market several netters put  their fiosh ashore including hake for the Ajax...

and the Sparkling Line...

who landed some huge (by Newlyn standards) cod...

these guys always brighten the market boxes...

whereas these guys look like some sort of alien creature trying to escape...

fuel time for the Sapphire II...

while the crab fleet have plenty of gear to sort on the quay this week.

Look out France! here comes the tattoo'd street-fighting Cousin Jack!

The sports press are full of stories looking ahead to the fisrt round of Six Nations games with England travelling to the Stade Francais in Paris to play France in the opening game this coming Saturday - and top of those stories for the tiny fishing port of Newlyn is that one of its sons is predicted by some sports pundits to run out on to the pitch wearing an England senior team shirt for the first time!

look out France - some of the daily papers have branded Jack the 'streetfighter' or 'tattoo'd terror'! 

Exeter Chief's LV Player of the Year and BBC TV's SW Sports personality of the Year, winger Jack Nowell has already impressed after an outstanding game in last year's first ever Junior Rugby World cup where he scored a crucial try.

Here's what Steve James in today's Telegraph says:

Watson returned to England’s base on Sunday night hoping to impress in training ahead of selection for the France match in Paris on Saturday. England will likely choose Jack Nowell on the right wing and Jonny May on the left, with Chris Ashton omitted, but that can change.

Here's to the game on Saturday!

54 foot seas off Rockall!

Rolling seas pass the Brisons...

 and pound the cliff under the NCI watch station at Cape Cornwall...

twenty miles off out at sea, the SevenStones lightship is recording winds up to 40mph and seas up to 20 feet,but if you think the seas here are rough then look...

further north where the weather buoy near Rockall is in a different world with seas up to 54 feet!

Saturday before the next storm arrives and the skies are heavy with rain and wind

Promenades were made for jogging...

evidence of those heavy ground seas pounding the shore - acres of ficus ficus stems litter the beaches in Mount's Bay...

out to sea yet another downpour passes across the horizon...

Wherry Town Plaza hasn't any customers just yet...

the old fuel line is still intact despite the gales...

not having had an airing for some years now, the Children's Friend sails are showing their age...

the dockside crane waits for the next job...

these ton plus weights are used to heel bigger boats against the quay when drying out for repairs on the hard...

the new SAS Seas for Life plaque tell their story...

as there are no boats visiting the port that require a pilot these days now the quarry is no longer producing...

the office is used as a gear store...

the gig rowers get a chance to flex their biceps at last, in between #storms ...

going down...

leaving a trail across the harbour a punt heads for the fish market to land...

one of the port's regular resident oysterctachers chases worms down the quay...

that's what bulldogs do best, grip...

only in Newlyn is the weeding done by forklift, thanks guys says Debbie...

happy flowers in the Star Inn...

open for business...

the Cafe is full of local characters...

key components for the ice works are now on site...

looks like the fish market has taken its requirement to be seen to be environmentally friendly literally, giving  'going green' a new twist...

the Chris T'acha is safely back in port after being towed in to Newlyn at 2am by the Sennen lifeboat...

gear before beer on the Cornsihman...

time to jump ship...

this family takes its photography seriously it seems!...

the Karen N at rest...

another job waiting to be completed...

its the great hake debate.....

as 200+ boxes of best Cornish #hake come ashore from the Ajax.