It was a beautiful September morning and we decided to ignore all jobs and go for a stroll along the cliff tops below St Agnes Beacon. It was the right decision, both bracing and unwinding.
Turned off the road and into a National Trust Lane towards the cliff top
Gorse and the sea
Wheal Coates and the paths
Low tide and miles and miles of golden sand. You might spot a few people on the beach.
Last night was the full Harvest Moon.
I made a big moussaka today and will freeze it in portions for almost instant dinners on the nights I don’ t feel like cooking.
Another gloriously pink-becoming-orange-becoming-fiery sunset and all within moments.
A beautiful bunch of Gladioli was brought to our door by a lovely friend who had just heard of my not being on top form. They certainly brightened my day.
Thank you A&P
In town this afternoon, just before this week’s pottery lesson, I spotted some very clever stitching in the shop window of Make A Mends.
Today we learned how to trim our pots, put our initials on the bottom and then practised throwing some more.
It was a beautiful afternoon and after lunch with a very good friend, in the sun at The Buttermarket in Redruth, I walked home along the lanes listening to bird song and noticing all the lovely things on the way.
Lovers’ Lane
Pink flowers, bright green leaves
Dark red leaves
Happy landing for the feather
Tonight’s sunset
These are the first few verses and the last verse of Adrian Mitchell’s brilliant poem, Human Beings. Do look at the whole of it here.Â
HUMAN BEINGS
           look at your hands
your beautiful useful hands
you’re not an ape
you’re not a parrot
you’re not a slow loris
or a smart missile
you’re humannot british
not american
not israeli
not palestinian
you’re humannot catholic
not protestant
not muslim
not hindu
you’re human
………………………….
      look at all that life
         all that beauty
         you’re human
      they are human
      we are human
   let’s try to be human        Âdance!
I visited a friend this afternoon and took a small posy of the last of our sweet-peas. They smelled gorgeous.
The view from W.s flat in Falmouth is absolutely wonderful, an ever-changing seascape and cloudscape.
Today is the Autumn equinox and the official start of Autumn. The air certainly had that feel both early morning and this evening with some lovely warm sunshine in the middle.
Kim has given me permission to share his poems before but hasn’t seen my message today. I’m hoping permission will be on its way because posting his poem tomorrow won’t be the same…
P.S. I was, very kindly, given permission! Thanks, Kim.
It’s bulb planting time and today, my lovely Mr S has made up two pots of purple and white Iris Reticulata and a bigger pot of multi coloured tulips. I love planting for Spring colour and planting hope for the future.
It is National Elephant Appreciation Day. I love elephants as did my dear friend Angie and today is one we both celebrated.
We have been lucky enough to see elephants in the wild and I have a small collection of elephants – wooden, glass, painted, carved. Here are some of my favourites.
My Elephant family, representing me and the lovely Mr S, our eldest daughter, our second daughter and our twins, a son and a daughter. The tiny one is the little person we never met but who will always be one of us.
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 –Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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.
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