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Monthly Archives: March 2013

Super Bowl, Maritime Museum and Painting

1 The Lemon Butter Cake (recipe to come later) that I was making this afternoon called for a very large bowl so I brought out the Family Super Bowl! It has a brilliant design that allows it to be tipped up and remain stable when the mixture is being beaten and it holds 10 1/2 pints! It has been used for making Christmas puddings for years and years!

The flat area to help stabilise the bowl

The Gripstand bowl

2 At The Maritime Museum in Falmouth a replica Bronze Age boat was launched today after months of work. It’s 16 metres long, made from green oak and has been built using replica Bronze Age tools. It’s a sewn plank boat, a kind of boat unique to England and Wales. The hull of the boat was made by stitching wooden planks together as nails had yet to be invented. You can find out more here.

The Bronze Age sewn plank boat

Inside the boat

Detail of sewn planks, holes plugged with grease

3 This panel caught my eye and reminded me of Monet’s paintings.

Decorated panel

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 6, 2013 in art, baking, Cornwall, craft, Falmouth, History, local history, nature, painting, photography, Postaday2013, Uncategorized

Tags: Bronze Age boat, Falmouth Maritime Museum, Gripstand bowl, Lemon Butter Cake, photography, Postaday, postaday2013, sewn plank boat

Garden Colour, Visiting and Truro

05 Mar

1 The curved herb wall is full of tiny bulbs which are bursting with Spring colour. The crocus which has died and fallen from its stem has the most vibrant and wonderful colours.

Purple and orange

Curved herb wall with Spring bulbs

Crocuses

Beautiful red stems on the Cornus Controversa

Tete a Tete daffodils

2 We took this little Spring bouquet to very old friends in Truro today, one of whom is very poorly. They looked after my Dad when he first moved to Cornwall in 1953, took me in for a holiday when I was 14. My family had moved North for a brief time and I was so desperately unhappy to have been taken away from Cornwall and they had me, a tricky teenager, to stay for two weeks! They have been such lovely loyal friends for such a long time.

Small garden bouquet for a friend, Pittosporum and Tete a Tete

3 Truro was lovely as always

Clock Tower on Truro City Hall

Planter on the way into Truro

Clock Tower on the former West Briton Offices, Truro

Flowers in a half-barrel on to of a pole

Flowers in a half-barrel on top of a pole

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 5, 2013 in architecture, art, Cornwall, environment, flowers, garden, nature, photography, Postaday2013, Truro, Uncategorized

Tags: photography, Postaday, postaday2013, Spring Flowers, Tete a Tete, Truro, west briton, West Briton Offices Truro

Weekly Photo Challenge: Lost in the Details

05 Mar

Walking around Hampstead Heath we came across an almost still pond with beautiful reflections. At the far end I could see logs mirrored in the water, looking like a gaping mouth.

Fallen tree in the far distance

Fallen tree not quite so far away

Fallen tree getting closer

Fallen tree closer still

Fallen tree in detail

Fallen tree – close up detail

Click on the first photo and follow the slide show through as I take you closer and closer to the detail.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 5, 2013 in art, driftwood, environment, nature, photography, Postaday2013, Weekly photo challenge

Tags: photography, Postaday, postaday2013, reflection, trees, water, Weekly Photo Challenge: Lost in the Details

Grandbabies, Reading and Crossing The Tamar

04 Mar

1 We played with T in the morning and collected J from school, a rare treat – for all of us, before catching the train home.

Scooting home from school

2 This book is a wonderful read with Harold, on his Unlikely Pilgrimage, noticing all the beautiful things around him. If you haven’t yet read it, do! It is tender and touching, funny and sad and is full of life’s lessons………

Reading this took me two train journeys

3 The journey home was, as always, lovely especially riding into the sunset, here reflecting in the Tamar as we cross into Cornwall.

Sunset over the Tamar

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 4, 2013 in books, Children, Cornwall, environment, Grandchildren, I've read, nature, photography, Postaday2013, Uncategorized

Tags: beauty, photography, Postaday, postaday2013, Rachel Joyce, reflections, River Tamar, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Precious Curl, Hampstead Heath and A Paper Creation

03 Mar

1. Just look at this beautiful curl.
2. We had a brilliant walk around Hampstead Heath looking at the City of London in the distance, investigating rabbit holes and trees, playing hide and seek and meeting lovely, friendly people.
3. We were giving KJ and L a few hours to themselves so had the Grandbabies to ourselves for the afternoon. We sang silly songs, read stories and made a dragon.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 3, 2013 in environment, Grandchildren, nature, photography, picture story books, Postaday2013

Tags: creating with paper, David Milliband, Hampstead Heath, London view, Postaday, postaday2013

London Plane Tree, Reflection and Baking

02 Mar

1 Beautiful Plane trees line North Finchley High Street.

2 The children waved at their reflections in every window – until I stopped to take a photo.

3. Baking a pineapple upside down pudding was great fun.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 2, 2013 in baking, family, Food, Grandchildren, nature, photography, Postaday2013

Tags: baking, London Plane Tree, pineapple- upside-down pudding, Postaday, postaday2013

Manet Exhibition, Burlington Arcade and P J Crook

01 Mar

1. We loved the Manet exhibition at The Royal Academy, my favourites being the portraits of Berthe Morisot whose work I also admire. The building is very beautiful too.

2. We had never been in The Burlington Arcade before. It is carpeted! Walking through was so quiet after the buzz of London streets. There were uniformed attendants who were happy to have their photo taken and a shoe-shine stand. I loved the gloves and the fan in a shop display.

3 Through the arcade is Cork Street, a street lined with art galleries. In one we discovered the work of P J Crook which I just fell in love with. Her paintings overflow onto the frames and are just brilliant, full of imagination and wonder and all sorts of detail.