Scraping

Another Monday morning spent scraping paint and an afternoon spent getting ready for tomorrow meant I didn’t get to take a photograph, not even whilst walking Paddy, so another one from the weekend.
Saturday walking through Redruth.
On the Main Street, standing on a plinth, is a piece of art, a tin miner, wearing a bump hat with a candle stuck to the top and a string of candles around his neck. He has outstretched arms, holding a short-handled pick axe in the right hand and an ingot of tin in his left hand. It commemorates the fact that in the eighteenth century, Cornwall was probably the richest tin and copper mining areas of the world, Cornish tin miners were renowned for their great mining skills and travelled all over the world.
He looks kind of imposing but most people passing didn’t seem even to glance at him. It may be different in the summer when the county has more visitors.