1 Spotted in a tool box – aren’t these just beautiful things to work with?!
Tool box and sockets
Multi-coloured sockets
2 I walked down to the local allotments this afternoon to find my neighbour enjoying a cup of tea with other alottmenteers. All the following photos were taken around the plots.
Neat paths at the allotments
Beautiful ruby chard
Frog spawn
Calendula at the allotments
3 Back at home, my Three Wise Monkeys planter (made for me by local artist, Jeremy Beswick) always makes me smile, never more so when the miniature daffodils are coming into bloom.
Tete a Tete in my Three Wise Monkeys planter
P.S. One of my blogger friends is applying for the Big Blog Exchange and I would love her to win! If you haven’t any one else you are voting for, would you please consider voting for Noeleen? Thank you!
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1 The streets of Carharrack, the village I go to for my piano lesson each week, are lined with daffodils, which even on the greyest and coldest of March days as this has been, make me smile.
Near the road sign
The junction
Narcissi faces
2 I’ve finished off the smallest of the cardigans I’m making for our new Grand-baby due in just over three weeks. Two more to sew up now. This cardigan, like the others, has mother-of-pearl buttons from my Grandfather’s collection – the baby’s Great, Great, Grandfather! I really love that!
First size cardigan
3 A simple supper tonight of Stuffed Tomatoes – delicious with a spinach salad with a balsamic dressing.
Stuffed tomatoes
Served with dressed Spinach leaves
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1 From the window of the Zed Shed while other parts were being learned, I was looking at the beautiful yacht, the mast of which I showed you a few weeks ago. The beautiful graining on this wooden pulley block caught my eye.
Pulley block
2 Every week, some friends in the choir bring their fresh eggs to sell. These ones were particularly beautiful in their variety of colours and are now sitting in our old wooden egg holder in the bottom row.
Pulley block
3 Some years ago I ‘wrote’ another blog and today found a comment saying how inspirational it is! The words in the blog were not mine. Let me explain by giving you some of the first post here:
July 11th 2009
Today, while sorting some of my late Father’s papers, I came across an envelope marked Suffragette’s Diary and I began to read. Serendipity indeed – the entries begin on July 12th 1909, one hundred years ago come tomorrow. What follows is a transcript of the Diary, written by an unknown Suffragette, who was imprisoned in Holloway , along with a number of other window breakers. I have used only initials for the other prisoners though they are in the Diary in full. The only name we don’t know is that of the author.
As my Great Grandmother was a Suffragette, also imprisoned in Holloway, I have a particular interest and intend to read, transcribe and publish each day so don’t yet know how the story will unfold.
If you have time and interest, do go along and have a read. It is utterly fascinating! Please comment and let me know how it affects you.
http://suffragette12709.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/july-11th-2009/
Suffragette
P.S. I promised to let you know how much The Suitcase Singers raised for Comic Relief with our Goodbye Gig last Saturday – £111.41 from ticket sales,a small auction and contributions. Brilliant! That’s £161.41 altogether with the cake sales. Thank you so much to all concerned.
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1 There was a very heavy frost this morning , the first day of Spring, and as it melted, it dripped from the fennel in one of our chimney-pot planters.
Frost on the fennel, melting
2 Lovely friends came round for supper last night and brought this beautiful primrose which will be planted out near the new Silver Birch. As M said, one can never have too many primroses and that is so right!
Present of Primroses, their centres matching the clementines behind
3 We stomped around The Great Flat Lode this afternoon. Beautiful moss, bark, views, reflections in muddy puddles and near the end, a bank of opening Lesser Celandines. I love the auburn outside of the petals which almost matches the dry autumny leaves. This beautiful flower is also known as Spring Messenger which is just the perfect name for a flower I found today.
Moss covered tree
Bark and moss
Gorse with sea on the horizon
Clouds in a puddle
Lesser Celandine
P.S. *** I have a Guest Post over at Choc Chip’s blog while she’s doing her exams http://gobakeyourself.wordpress.com/ Pop over and have a look. I just love Uru’s blog. She’s only 17 and just look at what she does !
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1 Walking down the lane to town this morning I was surprised to see some white ivy leaves. I’ve never seen the like before.
White ivy leaves
2 Coming home again, the parking sign was all lit up with rainbows.
Rainbow road sign
3 Some petals have fallen from the purple pansy in my Mother’s Day basket. They are still beautiful.
Fallen pansy petal
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1 A beautiful, if very cold, morning meant that the sea on the horizon was very clear and very blue.
Sea on the Horizon
2 Some people regard Dandelions as weeds. I think they are glorious sunbursts of colour and I love them.
Absolutely gorgeous
3 Just look at the veining on these lovely violet garlic bulbs.
Beautiful violet garlic bulbs
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1 Beautiful warm sunshine took us outside today and our first lunch in the garden this year – a simple one of sun-warmed tomatoes and home-made guacamole with melba toasts followed by sweet clementines.
First lunch in the garden this year
2 Bees were also enjoying the sunshine and the Spring flowers.
Bees on the Muscari
3 We’ve also done our first plantings – two varieties of shallots and a big Birch tree, something the lovely Mr S has hankered over for years and has at last achieved.
Beautiful Birch under-planted with bluebells
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1 My piano teacher had had to have a tree felled as it had been almost toppled by the wild weather. The logs looked so beautiful on her lawn so I asked if I could take a photo and I was given some to bring home!
Fifteen years old?
2 The wet weather over the last four years has wreaked havoc with my potting-up table. Once upon a time, it was a beautiful coffee table made by an ex-boyfriend and given to us as a wedding present 47 years ago. It is still well loved but, truth be told, it is beginning to rot. However, these beautiful fungi and lichen are growing on it and I’m sure it will last at least another season. I’d love it to get to 50 years old!
Beautiful fungus
Golden fungus heart and lichen
3 I’d forgotten I’d planted these very delicately mauve and purple crocuses so their appearance has been a lovely surprise.
Delicate crocus
The Goodbye Gig last night was enormous fun. We sang the best we ever had; the cabaret acts were brilliant and we will have raised a goodly amount for Comic Relief but we won’t know exactly how much until singing next Thursday.
The Suitcase Singers at Miss Peapod’s
I try not to be a stats junkie but these today please me : 451 followers, 36,651 hits and read in 131 countries. Thank you all for taking the time to read my posts. Every visit pleases me!
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1 Coming home from town this morning, I walked on the other side of the road to be in the sun, which was warm, and noticed this lovely twisted tree trunk in the midst of the bright green new growth of Crocosmia.
Twisted tree trunk
2 These two are often in the tree outside our bedroom window. I like to think that they are a couple much in love! Does anyone know if they do, indeed, mate for life as swans do?
Jackdaws
3 The Gig tonight is to say Goodbye to one of our lovely choir members who is off to Glasgow. She will be taking her special Choir-baby, T, with her of course and we will miss them both so much. We’ll also be raising money for Red Nose Day.
Poster for 15th March
I’m posting early because of the Gig which I will report on tomorrow.
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1 We had our usual singing this morning, rehearsing for our Gig tomorrow evening, followed by a singing workshop with delicious cakes made by several members of the choir.
All that and the view of the Penryn River outside. Bliss!
The Penryn River and a beautiful yacht
I wonder where the ladder leads…..
2 The cakes were truly scrumptious! Thanks to all who baked.
My Lemon Butter Cake
3 I love the flowers and the mosaic which cheer visitors to the hospital.
Crocuses in the hospital grounds
This lovely piece greets people as they enter the hospital.
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