I’ve shown you some of the countryside in my neighbourhood here (the countryside) and here (the sea).
Now I’d like to show you some of the pleasing features of our small town. I love the street signs and the hounds make me smile every day! There are many more beautiful Tregellas tapestries.If you would like to see more; I posted about some of the others here. These are the ones in the market area.
The Old Court House
The Plaque
Butcher’s Opeway
Cross Street
Delightful design around the base of each tree
Fairmeadow Opeway
Tinners’ Hounds by David Kemp
Lemins Court
The Tin Miner
Lidgey’s Passage
One of the Tregellas Tapestries, showing Cornwall’s export of daffodils, cauliflowers and potatoes
Symons Terrace and self-portrait
These two got away
Tregellas tapestry showing emigration. Thousands left Cornwall taking their mining skills all over the world
The viaduct that takes the line to Penzance and to London
Bench
Sign over the gateway leading out of the market
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1 Having my cup of coffee this morning I realised that our kitchen light was reflected beautifully in the black coffee. I had to let it cool down before I could take the photo as it kept steaming up!
Kitchen light
2 I took so many photos of Redruth this morning for another “My Neighbourhood” post to be done tomorrow. On my way back up the hill I spotted this tiny feather being blown back and forth in the breeze.
Feather caught on a rose thorn
3 We’ve had the Long-tail Tits here again today but they don’t hang around to have their pictures taken – neither do the Magpies. They are very skittish and leave if there is any movement in the house. I stayed put in the kitchen, used maximum zoom and managed to get this shot.
Magpie at the feeder
This last is for Liz, as promised. I am trying to entice her to visit Heligan!
The Heligan Giant
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1 Walking into town about lunchtime today, I was delighted to hear the sounds of the nearby primary school children at play – such happy squeals and shrieks and laughter, sounds that we have heard all our working lives and since, in our travels around the world. All children at play, wherever they are, make the same happy sounds and we heard it in Mapoch, South Africa where we went to build a classroom the year after we retired.
Children on the climbing frame in Mapoch
2 I love the yellowness of this time of year but I also find the delicacy of this pale daffodil very beautiful. The specialness of this daffodil is for two very good friends who have each lost a parent in the last couple of weeks. This is just to tell them they are loved.
Pale daffodil
3 We Skyped with T for her 2nd birthday today as she opened her presents. How lucky we are with current technology that allows us to share such events from hundreds of miles away.
For those who would like the Nutella Cookies recipe, I’ve put it on my Recipe pages today. Enjoy!
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1 The rabbits in the field behind our house are getting very frisky despite the minus temperatures.
Rabbits in the field behind our house
2 Hiding under the Pittisporum hedge was this beautiful, delicately pinked daisy, just waiting for some sunshine to encourage it to open up. A Macro Monday photo, you can see the hairiness of the calyx in this close up – lovely.
Pink tipped daisy
3 Having gone into town to post T’s card for her 2nd birthday, I couldn’t resist checking out the charity shops for some bright red shoes for our next gig on Friday. I didn’t find any shoes but did find these delightful little egg-cups which will be perfect for the Grandbabies’ boiled eggs at Easter.
Charming egg-cups
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1 It’s Mothers’ Day here in the UK and I have been cheered, as always, by the love and the warmth from my lovely ‘kids’!
I’ve also spent some time, of course, thinking about my own lovely Mum who died 20 years ago this year which is very hard to believe. She is always here with me in so many ways. Mum always insisted that she stood 5′ and half an inch tall but in fact she was 4′ 11and a 1/2″! We sometimes called her MiniMum and there are many occasions when I find MiniMum on my shoulder whispering her wisdoms in my ear. She was so warm and she was one, who in the words of Thomas Hardy, ‘used to notice’ the beautiful things. She would have loved my blog…..
Purple, white and green card, chosen with care and a nod to our history
Lovely colourful silk scarf
Gorgeous flower basket
2 While here for her birthday, our eldest gave me a recipe for the easiest cookies in the world and they taste good too! I’ve just made a batch of Nutella Cookies and will add them to the cakes I’ve made for Thursday’s Singing Workshop cake-break.
M’s Nutella Cookies
3 I’ve been given The Dragon Award by Marilyn and I’m utterly delighted by that! Thank you so much. In the ensuing conversation, Marilyn said the following about my blog which pleases me greatly – “I love your blog. It’s beautiful. Elegant. It’s a friendly place, like visiting a good neighbour who doesn’t lock her kitchen door and always has a pot of coffee on the stove.”
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Like many others, I have a mobile phone to text and talk but it stays in my pocket. My lovely little CanonS100, however, is always in my hand and so I was delighted that I don’t have to use a phone to join in this week’s challenge.The following photos take you on a circular walk from our house and were all taken in the last few months.
View from our bedroom window. The sea can be seen along the horizon.
Our back garden on a misty morning
Sunset from the back garden
Cottage across the road lit up by the sun’s early rays
Walking up to The Flat Lode Trail
St Uny Graveyard; the tree has grown up through the gravestone.
Mysterious gate
View from The Flat Lode Trail
The lane alongside Trewirgie Road, overlooking Redruth
Lovers’ Lane
There’s a Dragon in our street!
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1 We’ve had very welcome help today moving the furniture out of the dining room prior to the lovely Mr S sanding the floorboards. (For those who know about the mini flood, we’ve decided against a carpet and are opting for beautiful floorboards!) The extending dining table has been taken apart and exposed this interesting little ivory stamp.
Majik mark and number
I looked it up and found this delightful advert for a table with similar action though the legs of ours are very different.
Advertisement for 1930s oak ‘Majik’ dining table with patent extending action, by Perkins Bros, Leicester
2 I finished the very little Leg Warmies just in time for them to be taken home by L. Thank you so much to Alana from NevernotKnitting for the pattern.
Baby leg warmies
3 When our daughters had left after a delightful 24 hours of enjoying their company, we had a walk around the garden and discovered buds on the Clematis, Montana Elizabeth. We have bitter winds forecast ( temperatures of around 0* but with the wind chill factored in feeling like -10*!) so we hope they will survive.
Clematis buds
Yesterday’s Birthday Dinner was lovely and this morning we did Birthday Breakfast and used our beautiful Tree of Life bread-warmer to keep the croissants warm.
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1 Thank you so much to everyone who offered advice about the fate of our lovely Crocuses. What a Beautiful Community indeed!
I went off for my piano lesson this morning and the patch was intact. When I returned an hour later, the beasties had been there again and uprooted another dozen and in broad daylight! We’ve protected the replanted ones with an upturned hanging basket and a child’s windmill! We think there are deep beak holes in the spaces and wonder – do Jackdaws do this kind of damage? If it happens again, I’m going to have to lie in wait to discover the culprits, be they mice or rats or squirrels or birds!
In the hedgerow near my piano lesson
Daffodils and gorse on the street side
2 Our eldest daughter was 40 yesterday and is coming home tonight for a Birthday dinner ( Smoked salmon and prawn stacks, Venison Casserole with creamy mash and cabbage with bacon followed by Chocolate Torte) No 3 daughter is able to join us and we will Skype with the other two over the course of the evening.
Posy for the table, using rescued Crocuses and Primroses
3 This afternoon I went out to collect the above small posy for the dinner table, I found this beautiful Peacock butterfly on the Muscari. Fortunately, my camera is always in my hand!
Peacock butterfly
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1 What a lovely way to encourage the customers to do the right thing!
Notice in the cafe
2 After the rain this morning, petrol puddles were left behind on the road – lovely memories of finding these as a child and being so delighted.
Petrol puddle
3 The front garden has two parts – one is my purple, white and green Suffragette garden as I have mentioned before. The other is daffodils and other Spring flowers and the lovely Mr S is preparing the ground for a Birch tree which is to be delivered next week.
Crocuses with raindrops
Daffodil back with raindrops
The next two photos are not beautiful but I need your help, all you readers who may also be gardeners. I went out to get a photo of the Suffragette garden this afternoon as it was looking so pretty. To my dismay, 30 or more crocuses had been pulled up and scattered, some near their place of planting but some over a meter away. Many were broken off at the corm and many of the corms had been nibbled/ pecked? Does anyone out there have any idea what happened and how to prevent it happening again? We’ve replanted all those we could but we have lost so many.
Garden attack
Uprooted crocuses
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