What a difference a week makes!

Wow! Just look at our pond now!!!!!

Only a week ago the digger and dumpers were in and out all day, the water was so full of silt and the harbour went brown - what a difference.

Many thanks to Cornwall Council and the guys who carried out the work.

Now it's up to all of us to make the most of the pond. So if you've got a boat, please bring it up on Good Friday and put it in the water!

Good Friday morning there will be refreshments in the chapel, a cake stall and display about the pond -Past, Present and Future.

You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs!

What a fantastic job the Cornwall Council lads are doing!

Three days-in and their really moving ahead, the work should be completed by Friday 12th February.

Preserving the long-held tradition of sailing boats on Consols Pond on Good Friday, has always been one of the main objectives of the Consols Pond Association, everything now appears to be on schedule for 2nd April.

Have you seen the pond!

Take a good look at the image to the right; other than in photographs it will hopefully never look like this again!

Yes, finally the pond clearance is underway, and what a fantastic job the Cornwall Council lads are doing. With just over seven weeks to go to Good Friday - it all looks very positive.

So, if you have a model boat, preferably the traditional sailing boat, please get it out now and dust it off ready for the big day!!!

Pictures of the clearance in progress will be uploaded to this blog later this week.

Fund Raising Event

Our talk and slide show 'Colourful St Ives in the 1950s' presented by Brian Stevens - raised £165 so that will help to swell the coffers. The slides which had been donated to the St Ives Museum were wonderful and showed the St Ives of my childhood. I wasn't actually born in the 1950s you understand, but throughout the years that I was growing up that was pretty much the way it looked.

So a very big 'Thank You' to Brian from myself and the Consols Pond Association Committee, your help and support is much appreciated.

More fund raising events to come in the not to distant future.

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