Glorious blossom all over our front garden.
Clematis Montana
Next door’s Myrtle sharing its scent with all the neighbours
I’m taking a break for a couple of weeks. Hang on in there – I’ll be back!
St Day Old Church
Join us on our lovely stroll around St Day Old Church admiring the many wild flowers, English Bluebells, Three Cornered Leek, Primroses and Buttercups.
Full Moon, Stonework and Border
Last night’s full moon, the Pink Moon, called pink as this is the season of much pink blossom, came on a clear night, much to my delight. I do love seeing the full moon.
In Truro today for some quick shopping, the sun was shining on the front of the cathedral and lighting up all the glorious stonework.
The Forget-me-not border has some white Bluebells popping up and they look lovely. 
Story Coat, My Patch and Blue Bloom
I showed you the new Redruth Story Coat in March (check it out here) when our young Town Crier wore it for the first time. Artists from Redruth and roundabout are making story patches to be sewn onto the coat and I handed mine to the maker yesterday to be attached to the coat. Now I can show you.
Just off the embroidery hoop
Detail
You can hear her story here as part of the Historic England’s Sound Walk around Redruth. There are many other stories too to accompany your ‘walk’ around our town.
We have lots of Camassia in flower, like lovely large Bluebells.
https://historicengland.org.uk/campaigns/high-street-culture/sound-walks/redruth/
Blooms Now and Looking ahead
Our Choisya Ternata bush is covered in blossom and it smells so beautifully honeyed. 
Our Forget-me-nots have gone wild this year and are simply gorgeous. 
I have planted out two tubs of Sweet peas and put bamboo poles for the support in the hope of lovely blooms and fabulous scents in the garden in the coming summer. Hope is so important in keeping our spirits up.
Colours, Clematis and Feather
I love the serendipity of the contrasting colours as the tulip is near the clematis.
Another Clematis is flowering.
Feathers are special.
A Day at The Redruth Book Feast
What a day we’ve had!
First was the Saturday Brunch debate, all about food and food production in Cornwall. The Breakfast in a Bap from The GrowBox was delicious and followed by an excellent debate with really knowledgeable people – a very young food writer, Fliss Freeborn , Graham Harvey, the agricultural story editor for the Radio 4 serial The Archers and the author of books including The Killing of the Countryside and The Carbon Fields, and one of The Bearded Farmers, local food producers. The debate, both enjoyable and informative, became quite lively. It was chaired by Orlando Murrin, a very experienced cookery writer and a semi-finalist on MasterChef some years ago. .
I loved the afternoon session too and before the last talk had already bought myself a cookery book (I have well over a hundred but can’t resist another good one!) This one is Two’s Company by Orlando Murrin and I have already marked a good number of recipes that I plan on trying. 
After Orlando Murrin’s conversation with Tim Hubbard, the last session of the day, I was also won over by his first novel , a culinary crime story. I’ve read the first chapter while the FA semi final was playing and I’m loving it! (One for you to borrow, H?) It includes recipes too!
Signed copy 🙂
And there’s more tomorrow! We are so lucky to live in Redruth.
Camellia, Poem and A Literary Salon
I forgot to take a photo of the posy we picked for our visit to Ti today, forget-me-nots with a sprig of choisya, but I did get a photo of one of the camellias in the garden of her home. 
One of the poems we read today, just the first verse, was a favourite of my Mum’s, Afterwards by Thomas Hardy. Mum, too, ‘used to notice such things.’
When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay,
And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings,
Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbours say,
“He was a man who used to notice such things?”
This evening we have been to the opening evening of Redruth’s Book Feast, a delightful Literary Salon with two wonderful women. We now have the whole weekend ok book stuff to look forward to.
Shazz Andrew and Rebecca Morden
Silver Mud and A Post Box Topper
First thing this morning, just before we went in to sing with the Suitcase Singers, the sun, which we have been missing, was gloriously lighting up the low tide mud in the Penryn River.
Another postbox topper has been spotted in Truro and sent to me. I love the little pink nosed mole. I wish I knew who to credit for this charming work.
Thank you, M.
Swans, Cathedral and Sunset
After a lovely breakfast with friends we watched the swans gliding about the lake before going shopping in Truro. 
I first saw the sunset in the car windows and then looked West to see the real thing.
