Jack Frost pays Penzance a visit.

Must be cold, there's a frost on the prom! - almost unheard of for Penzance.......

apart from the Billy Rowney's trip there wasn't much fish on the market this morning......

this handful of reds would fetch much money though........

and so would these elusive mackerel, still in very short supply......

slime covered pollack of the highest quality.......

and a handful of boxes in the chiller were up for grabs.......

even the trawls left on the quay were frozen solid........

no doubt this year's tree will shortly become festooned.

St Ives' lifeboat picks up poorly French fisherman.

The St. Ives Lifeboat, The Princess Royal, yesterday went to the aid of a member of the crew of a French fishing trawler, Iroise from Concarneau.


The St. Ives Lifeboat Station received a call at 3.30 pm yesterday from the Launch Operations Manager of the Penlee Lifeboats to say that a French trawler, registered at Concarneau in Brittany (one of France’s largest fishing ports) had reported that a member of its crew was sick and in need of urgent medical attention. The trawler was some 40 miles off St. Ives but came into the bay where The Princess Royal, with Coxswain Tommy Cocking at the helm, rendezvoused with the vessel and effected the transfer of the crewman to the Lifeboat.


The sick seaman was safely taken to the St. Ives Lifeboat Station where an ambulance was waiting to take him to hospital.

Whitehall gets the message - will Hugh's campaign help?

Debating fish ahead of EU quota negotiations - maybe the FishFight campaign will have helped concentrate minds on the true cost of the hugely wasteful current quota system.

Fresh baked anchovy dish.

Take a dozen or so fresh anchovies.......

head and split the belly with a small sharp knife and then, using the thumb slide it under the backbone.....

and lift away from the body........

to leave a clean fillet.......

chop fresh fennel, pine nuts, parsley and raisins.........

after soaking the fillets in a weak brine for 20 minutes, dry with kitchen paper........

add one layer skin side down and cover with the mix........

then add a layer belly side down.......

and sprinkle with breadcrumbs..........

chop a mix of your choice to add........

to the couscous (cover the couscous dish with foil)........

bake the fish for around 20 minutes at 180 and put the couscous in the oven for the last ten.

Pete's sardine shot.

 Full to the gunnels.......

with a good shot from their small ring net.

Sales over the horizon, but not the canvas type.

 There's no end to the inventiveness of some when it comes to utilising old or damaged harbour boxes.......

 the Manx Ranger has a new set of guiding on gear on the winch.......

 still working, a crabber's glove.......

 these buoy ropes have been in the water for some time with the amount of weed growth they have picked up.......

 looking for a lift back to it's home country, a 10 kilo fish box more commonly found aboard French day boat vessels......

 everything in its place and a place for everything.......

 aboard the Govenek of Ladram looking ship-shape and Bristol fashion..........

 possibly the biggest hailstones ever seen.......

 all aboard the Midnight Express with PJ wondering where that boy Joe has got to........

  shots of a good shot get checked out on the quay........

 as the St Ives cat heads out to shoot some more gear.......

 a very nautical sort of trompe l'oiel is one of the lots in the coming fine art sale at WH Lane........

also coming up for auction, sadly owing to one of Penzance's character's suffering a stroke, the stock and collection of Tony Sanders' gallery and antique shop, with many examples of marine art, artefacts and an especially diverse collection of Newlyn Copper.........

nearing completion, one of Penzance's landmark buildings, Lloyds Bank has had a facelift.

Inside the Arctic Circle.

Not only does the current blast of arctic air bring snow to the far West of Cornwall but as the sun comes up the sky is more akin to the early morning light inside the Arctic Circle.......

with the sea around the Lizard shimmering in the Bay........

as another snow shower passes overhead........

looks like this snowman had one to many in the night........

and, yet again, one man's house seems to have his own personal solar power supply up and running........

this season the in colour is red.......

it seems - PZ336, the Nazerene skippered by Jeremy Hosking.