Almost blown off my feet and wet through in moments, I managed three minutes at Portreath and got some wonderful shots of the crashing waves this afternoon.
We went to see The Collector at The Ladder in Redruth again this evening and I was even more moved than the first time I saw it last week. If you are anywhere nearby, don’t miss this remarkable, quirky piece of theatre. Here’s the link for you.
Sometime ago, dear friends, on hearing that we had never seen Cinema Paradiso, sent us the dvd. Sadly, our dvd player was not working so we didn’t see the film for a while. We recently bought a new player and today, being a wild, wet and windy one with an amber storm warning in place, seemed a good afternoon to settle down and watch.
What a very special treat we have been missing!
Thank you, K&A
My morning was happily spent with glass, this time a sun-catcher made from red glass that friends gave me a few years ago, a lovely heart-shaped piece of sea glass sent by a lovely blog friend and an old earring, again, a donation from a friend. I love making beauty out of love.
Awaiting soldering
My lovely Mr S has been feeding next door’s cats for the last few days and I remembered this charming poem, My Cats by Charles Bukowski.
Waiting to go into choir today and looking along the Penryn River, I loved the autumn colours on this yacht.
The fuchsia plants that grow in Cornish hedges are still in flower and very lovely.
Going to my pottery classes has stirred up my creative juices again and though I think more pottery is not really for me – I have enjoyed the pottery adventure and am very happy to have tried a new skill.
I have unpacked all my glass and equipment today and have cut a couple of angels and foiled the parts for one. Choosing the bits of jewellery from my charity shop finds is always fun. 
Just home from seeing a fascinating film, Derek vs Derek.
The documentary about the two farmers both called Derek, was made over three years and documents both their relationship and their opposing ideas of what to do with their land. One is an intensive dairy farmer intent on having a neat, efficient farm and who is appalled at his neighbour’s attempts at making his farm into a safe haven for nature. There are wild boars who cross boundaries and root around on once pristine fields, beavers who do their thing too
The dialogue is very direct and funny – the audience laughs out loud and chuckles along.
The film is both thought provoking and heartwarming. Do catch it if you can.
Have a look at the website too. It gives a very good flavour of the film. https://www.derekvsderek.com/
We returned to Community Roots this morning and hoed and re-potted and loved being back in the fold. All the seeds that were planted weeks ago have nearly all been potted on and planted out in our absence. It was brilliant to see the progress in all the poly tunnels.
I love the colours of leaves in Autumn.
We have harvested the four apples on our new family apple tree. These are Lord Lambournes, crisp firm apples with a lovely flavour. Let’s hope there are more next year as it is described as a ‘heavy cropper!.’ The other branches gave no apples this year.
The Inglehearts’ Anniversary Concert last night was a blast! We had a couple of standing ovations, there were tears and laughter and the joy in the room was palpable. Amazingly, we raised £1000.00 to be shared between our two charities, ShelterBox and Community Roots. What a generous audience they were. 
Our wonderful committee have been working hard for months putting together a photo-book full of twenty years of singing for Claire. Here are a couple of the pages for you to see.
A very talented member of our choir wrote new words for the much-loved song ‘Cornwall My Home’ by the Cornish singer and song writer, Harry Glasson, who very kindly gave his permission to sing his tune with R’s words. Here I give you the chorus:
But I’ll always remember as time moves along
The love and the laughter that goes with the songs
With good times aplenty and sad times a-few
When you’re part of our choir, our choir’s part of you.
I spent a happy afternoon doing sgraffito on four of my pots. I am no artist but I did have fun. It’ll be very interesting to see how they turn out. I’ll return them to the studio tomorrow and they’ll be fired soon. We’ll be collecting on November 7th!
More about the concert, which was a huge success, tomorrow.
This morning I made marmalade, still needing labels.
This afternoon I decorated the ten pots I’ve made in my pottery lessons. They’ll be fired in the week and we’ll collect in a couple of weeks – photos then if they are okay!
This evening we have been to a wonderful production, The Collector, that was moving and funny, full of imagination and of love. It was basically an homage to our dear friend, Bill Mitchell. It’s on at The Ladder in Redruth for a few more weeks.
On the way to the theatre the sunset sky was very lovely.
Such a beautiful October afternoon, we drove to Falmouth, around Castle Drive, had ice-creams at Pendennis Point and then there was a rainbow with the ends in the sea.
There’s a delightful new postbox topper on our street, ready for Hallowe’en.
Next door to the post box is a garden where the hydrangeas have done much better in the summer drought than ours have. These photos are for our dear friend, P, who loves these flowers.
A wealth of beauty this morning before singing and then the geese flew over. By the time I had my camera ready they were nearly out of sight but here is what I managed to catch.
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