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Daily Archives: April 16, 2012

Tomato Soup, Wheal Coates and Singing with the Inglehearts

1 The cream of tomato soup that Mr S made for our lunch looked so perfectly orange and beautiful.

2 We went for our favourite local walk from Chapel Porth up to Wheal Coates coming back to the beach cafe for a delicious hot chocolate and some homemade ginger cake (made by Rosie)

3 Singing with the Inglehearts for the first time in two weeks was overlaid with sadness as one of our singers, the much loved Mo, died last week and we were practising “You are my Sunshine” to sing tomorrow at her funeral. That was hard but it did us all good to sing and to remember her with some stories. We sang ‘Wayfaring Stranger’ in her honour as it was another of her favourites.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 16, 2012 in Cornwall, Food, music, singing

Tags: "You are my Sunshine", 'Wayfaring Stranger', Chapel Porth, choir, cream of tomato soup, flowers, funeral, homemade ginger cake, hot chocolate, Inglehearts, Mr S, plants, snail shell, Wheal Coates

Senegal 4th April – To Dakar, Moving Walkways and Meeting Ami

16 Apr

1 Beautiful balmy breeze met us at almost midnight as we arrived in Dakar, Senegal.

2 I love walking along the moving walkways in the airports especially when the lovely Mr S makes me laugh by walking alongside, apparently at ease, but keeping up all the way.

3 Meeting Ami in person at last, taller and even more beautiful than Skype has allowed us to see. What a handsome and happy pair she and Daniel make. Hugs, kisses and tears (of happiness) all round.

Daniel and Ami at Breakfast 5th April

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 16, 2012 in family, Senegal, travel

Tags: Dakar, Daniel and Ami, Mr S, relationships, Senegal, Skype, travel

To London 3rd April – May Blossom, Random Acts of Kindness and a Shrug

16 Apr

1 To London on the train, masses of white May blossom in the hedgerows. Reminded me of Mum and Dad who used to drive around the Cornish lanes at this time of year to note where the blossom was so that they could go back later to collect the sloes to make sloe gin.

Hedgerows of May blossom

2 I used the time on the train to sew up the shrug I have knitted for Tabitha and sewed in the label I ordered online on which is written, “Handmade with love especially for you :)”

Shrug for Tabitha

3 I’m not a fan of the underground – crowded, noisy, impersonal – but I spotted this poster from the escalator and then witnessed just such ‘an act of kindness’. A man left the tube train as we did but left his glasses in their case on the seat. A young woman noticed, called him and through the closing doors, just managed to pass them to him. Brilliant!