The International Day of Peace 2026 is observed on September 21, 2026, with the official United Nations theme “Invest in Peace – For Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day”.
Fabulous bright red berries on the Cotoneaster Horizontalis
First enormous leek from the garden, used in the Chicken, Mushroom and Leek Pie, below
Pastry cooked while filling was being made halved the prep time – crisp and crunchy all round, not soggy where it had touched the filling!
It has been the loveliest September day today so to continue the theme of being calm and not thinking too hard, we had a stroll around the gardens at Trelissick.
In fact it’s only five today. I mentioned that I’d done some planting a few days ago – the trough is a delight , the front door pot, a disaster!
I grow edibles in the trough that is under the kitchen window. There are chives, rosemary and nasturtiums and I have recently taken out the courgette plants which did not like the situation and gave us one courgette each all summer.. Now we can look out of the window onto a bright and cheery splash of pansy colour. 
I was late getting the Wallflower plants and got the last ones at the garden centre. Very few of them look viable but I am hoping some of them may recover……..
The Clematis Montana is still giving us blooms, a few every few days, despite the coolth and the wind. Strangely, the blooms are a much deeper pink than they were last Spring. 
The geranium, Johnson’s Blue, is also having a second flush, lots of new green growth as well as a profusion of flowers. 
There are brown autumn leaves everywhere and we loved this one, caught on an invisible thread, dancing in the breeze. (Video taken from indoors through the window.)
Jim, over at Garden Ruminations, hosts Six on Saturday Pop over and in the comments, you’ll find so many delightful posts from keen gardeners all over the world.
Just want to say thank you to all you lovely readers who were concerned for my well being and sent love and best wishes. I’m okay and recovering from the upset of the last three days. I’ve had a wonderful afternoon today learning how to throw on a potter’s wheel. More tomorrow.
The last three days have been a whirlwind of appointments and tests and all is now well. It seems I have had a TIA, a minor stroke that has no lasting effect and is why I had to miss singing yesterday. The NHS have been wonderful from Specsavers on Wednesday afternoon, the GP on Thursday morning and the Consultant this afternoon. I can’t believe the speed with which I’ve been seen and looked after. It’s been a bit scary but I now have medication that should stop any recurrence. However I can’t drive for 28 days as ,despite meds, the next month is a bit iffy. My lovely Mr S is happy to drive me around and friends have offered lifts . All will be well.
On the wall in the hospital entrance is a remarkable piece of ceramic art, ‘Custom House Quay’ by Peter Wright.
For a treat afterwards we went to the bookshop where I found three books to buy and then to Fat Face where I found a sweatshirt which really ought to become the uniform for those of us who volunteer at Roots!
Unexpectedly, I had to miss singing today and it’s been a bit of a day. My lovely Mr S bought me some cheery sunflowers.
Here is a poem for you – And the Days Are Not Full Enough by Ezra Pound.
Today is the birthday of one of our twins. Her brother, born 9 minutes earlier, celebrated his birthday yesterday. Love you both xxx
Perfect gardening weather this morning so we’ve spent time planting and clearing up, lots more still to do – photos on Saturday.
Oh, yes! I will be singing tomorrow morning – what joy.
The birthday, for which I made the special cake yesterday, was celebrated in style! Here we have just finished singing Happy Birthday to Matty, one of the directors of the project. He loved the cake and said the lemon drizzle on top ‘shone like diamonds in the sunshine.’
We also had a special and very delicious lunch made by one of the volunteers, Lemon Chickpea Soup, using a recipe from rainbowplantlife.com
We’ve had a new bright and lovely mural painted near the entrance, artist Omi O’Connell. 
At the local plant nursery today there was a very friendly robin.
I loved the colour of these leaves but didn’t take note of what the plant was. 
I’ve made a special cake for Community Roots tomorrow as a birthday is being celebrated.
Lemon Victoria Sponge with a Lemon Drizzle Topping
Another cracker of a day, this time with our wonderful Roots community and many, many visitors celebrating the harvest, especially of Squash. Click on any of the photos for a bigger version.
The Welcome table at the gate
We used a human chain of all the people to bring the squash in for drying before storage. The children each took a parent onto the squash patch and the harvesting began in earnest. Each beautiful vegetable was handed around the chain and put on the racks to ripen off.
A delicious lunch was made for every volunteer, a very tasty tomato sauce with spaghetti.
There were other activities for children including the Gratitude Tree which was a delight.
Lastly there was a parade around the garden led by the trio Jaclarabag with such verve that got everyone dancing at the end of the walk.
And tonight we are just home from a brilliant evening at The Redruth Comedy Club where Mark Steele and Marcus Brigstock kept us laughing all evening.
That was a cracker of a day at the festival!
Our town was buzzing – live music, delicious cakes and excellent coffee, some wonderful outfits, meet ups with friends, bubbles in the park and, in the afternoon, two fascinating talks.
The first talk, by Sharron Schwartz, was about the Cornish miners who went to work in Mexico and Wisconsin in the 1820s. Cornishman were experts in hard rock mining and their skills were called for all over the world. The other talk, by Dr Lesley Trotter, was about the women who were ‘left behind,’ The Married Widows of Cornwall.
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