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Six on Monday

I missed Six on Saturday this week as it was a very busy weekend so here are my six for last week.

First some really good news – we thought our Acer, a present for our Ruby wedding, 19 years ago, had succumbed to the drought. It may be a different shape as it recovers but it isn’t dead! We spotted some new growth today.

The Japanese Anemones are looking very good especially with the purple of the Verbena Bonariensis.

The Rudbeckia are glowing.

The Clematis Montana in the front garden has two flowers but you’ll have to look hard to see them!

Other Clematis seed heads are looking delicate and lovely.

The Buddleia is in the field behind us, not strictly in our garden but we benefit from the blooms.

I’m a bit late to the party this week but you could still pop over to Jim, over at Garden Ruminations, where you’ll find Six on Saturday and in the comments, you’ll find many delightful posts from keen gardeners all over the world.

Painting, Bath and Soup

06 Sep

Yesterday, after buying the wonderful pastries at Redruth’s monthly market, we called in at our favourite gallery in town, 89 Redruth. The room was full of very interesting work but my eye was immediately drawn to a small painting, We went in saying, we mustn’t buy another piece and came out later to have a short chat about whether to buy. Happily, my lovely Mr S loved as much as I did so we were back within minutes and today called in to collect it. It was so lovely to meet the artist and to see her reaction to my loving her work.

Sunset at Elmscott by Michelle Rudd

We went to a birthday do at recently refurbished Rose Cottage today. We just had our lunch but the guests were encouraged to make use of the spa in the delightful back garden of the pub. After cooking themselves in the sauna, they had the option of three ‘plunge pools’ – one warmed by the sun in a lovely white bath, next a cooler metal bath and lastly, for the truly hardy, a refrigerated tub!

Today we have harvested the last of our sweetcorn cobs and I have made a big batch of Corn Chowder. We had some tonight and the rest will go in the freezer to enjoy some summer sunshine on a grey winter day.

P.S. There was one more piece in 89 Redruth that I fell for and might have bought today but it had gained a red spot overnight…..

Specimen no 2 by Anita Pryor

It was good too to learn the story of this collective:

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 6, 2026 in art, Celebration, Cornwall, craft, friendship, painting, Postaday 2026, Redruth, Uncategorized

Tags: Anita Pryor, Michelle Rudd, The Wuther Collective

Sign, Patisserie and Sky

05 Sep

Our lovely neighbour who takes my cakes to the market each month, made a special sign for it on the market stall.

There was a new stall at the market, a French/Italian patisserie, Nougatine, and, my goodness, the Lemon Tarts were absolutely the best I have ever tasted.

The sky this evening was beautiful.

P.S. The exhibition at Truro Cathedral ends on October 5th.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 5, 2026 in baking, community, Cornwall, environment, nature, Postaday 2026, Redruth

Tags: Nougatine Bakery & Pâtisserie (@nougatine.cornwall), solar energy

Flowers, Cathedral and Lucy Worsley

04 Sep

This evening we went to the Hall for Cornwall in Truro to listen to Lucy Worsley, historian. She was very entertaining. On the way we appreciated the gorgous flower displays and the view of the cathedral.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 4, 2026 in Cornwall, environment, Hall for Cornwall, History, nature, Postaday 2026, Truro, Uncategorized

Exhibition at Truro Cathedral

03 Sep

After a delicious breakfast with delightful company in the Mylor Cafe, we headed to Truro to do some banking business and to visit the cathedral for a new large-scale textile exhibition Threads Through Revelation by artist Jacqui Parkinson. It’s only there for a few days from September 3 to 5 so if you are local you have a chance to see this remarkably beautiful work.
Regular readers may remember the exhibition of Jacqui Parkinson’s other work which I posted about here. It’s worth going back to. https://mybeautfulthings.com/2025/07/09/exhibition-at-truro-cathedral/

Here is today’s gallery with the information on the right hand side. Click on any photo to see the exquisite detail and read the information.

This one is for sale……..

Another icon has gone – RIP Gloria Steinem, feminist, activist and journalist.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 3, 2026 in art, Cornwall, craft, embroidery, embroidery, friendship, Postaday 2026, sewing, Truro, Uncategorized

Tags: Jacqui Parkinson, Threads Through Revelation

Posy, Lunch and Wendell Berry

02 Sep

Lots of our choir went to have lunch at the Tiger Feet Cafe at the Eco Park to celebrate the 80th birthday of one of our tenor team. I took a small posy in purple, white and green from our garden.

I had the most delicious lunch of a Rosti Stack with avocado, tomatoes and onions. The tomatoes were ones I had had a hand in growing at Community Roots which is just next door.

The poet, Wendell Berry died yesterday at 92. I’ve put his poetry on here before and here again is The Peace of Wild Things. If you’d like to know more about this remarkable man, here is an article from today’s Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/01/wendell-berry-us-author-dead

My Dear SIL has just sent me this perfect and very lovely poem for today, by Wendell Berry……..

September 2

In the evening there were flocks of nighthawks

passing southward over the valley. The tall

sunflowers stood, burning on their stalks

to cold seed, by the still river. And high

up the birds rose into sight against the darkening

clouds. They tossed themselves among the fading

landscapes of the sky like rags, as in

abandonment to the summons their blood knew.

And in my mind, where had stood a garden

straining to the light, there grew

an acceptance of decline. Having worked,

I would sleep, my leaves all dissolved in flight.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 2, 2026 in Uncategorized

Tags: Poetry Lovers, Tiger Feet cafe

Happiness, Cake and Carrots

01 Sep

It’s time for this month’s Happiness calendar.

I made a scrumptious Lemon Victoria Sponge cake for the volunteers today and it went down a storm. It was rather delicious!

We have a wonderful carrot harvesting team as I think I mentioned a couple of weeks ago when I used some of the carrots for the following week’s cake. We have a bunch of youngsters from toddler to nearly 9 years old who are superb at pulling up the carrots! All the parents gave permission for the photos to be used here

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 1, 2026 in Children, community, Cornwall, environment, Food, growing, nature, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Harvest Swap, A Posy and A Poem

31 Aug

We pulled more Sweetcorn today and gave a couple to Sue-next-door in exchange for some of her beans grown on her allotment.

There was a neighbourhood wedding at the weekend, the whole event being in the garden and the field behind. Today our neighbour brought us one of the pretty table jam jars of garden flowers.

Looking for a poem for today in my “A Poet for Every Day of the Year, I found one that appealed to me under today’s date.‘What’s the Railroad to me?”,”I’ve included the introduction too as I really enjoyed learning about Thoreau.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 31, 2026 in allotment, friendship, garden, nature, poetry

Harvesting, Preserving and Singing

30 Aug

It’s been a busy morning harvesting – sweetcorn and tomatoes.

We had freshly boiled and buttered sweetcorn for lunch and I cooked four more cobs and cut off the corn to freeze. There’ll be more for lunch tomorrow.

The black tomatoes from one plant I have today made into a rich tomato chutney with a hint of cardamom. It’s delicious.

500g tomatoes made two and a half little jars of chutney

This afternoon one of my choirs, The Suitcase Singers, had our last gig of the summer at The Meudon Hotel.

Looking from the dining room down the garden.

In 2018 I was the Humanist Celbrant at a delightful wedding in the gardens of the Meudon Hotel.

Humanist Wedding, Phillip Pullman and Blooms

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 30, 2026 in Cornwall, environment, Falmouth, gigs, growing, nature, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Tags: The Meudon Hotel

Six on Saturday – Suffragette Garden

29 Aug

My Suffragette Garden, all purple, white and green, needs some overhaul. The clematis, Polish Spirit, seemed lost last year but is now doing a good job as ground cover which is pleasing. I think I’ll encourgae it up the fence as well.

Polish Spirit

Nearby are the delicate white Autumn flowering cyclamen.

Cyclamen hederifolium f. albiflorum:

I have just bought some crocus bulbs to lift the patch in the Spring and there are already Narcissus lurking underground to make their appearance next year.

The Japanese Anemones are looking good and please me greatly.

Japanese Anemone – Honorine Jobert

The Choisya Ternata gives us white and green in the summer months but I do need to get more purple for then. There was some Verbena Bonariensis but it has. disappeared sadly. Re-planning, replanting on their way.

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.