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Monthly Archives: June 2013

Sea View, First Beans and Iris Siberica

1 A new beach for us today, Praa Sands, an enormous stretch of lovely soft sand. It looks like a good place to bring the Grandchildren.

Praa Sands through Cow Parsley

2 We have harvested our first Broad Beans and Pak Choi and ate them within twenty minutes of picking! I love that feeling of satisfaction with growing , picking and then eating your own veggies that I share with Heidi of Lightly Crunchy

Trug with Broad Beans and Pak Choi

3 Our Iris Siberica is in flower. The patterns of the veining are so very beautiful.

Iris Siberica

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 30, 2013 in Cornwall, flowers, Food, garden, growing, nature, photography, Postaday2013, Sea

Tags: broad beans, cow parsley, Iris Siberica, pak choi, Praa Sands, trug

Weekly Photo Challenge: Companionable

30 Jun

Having friends to dinner is very companionable Here’s our starter for four – Pears in red wine with a blue cheese dressing and a homegrown rocket salad.

Pears in red wine wirh a blue cheese dressing and a home-grown rocket salad

Pears in red wine with a blue cheese dressing and a home-grown rocket salad

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 30, 2013 in Food, growing, photography, Postaday2013, Uncategorized

Tags: Pears in red wine with a blue cheese dressing, Weekly Photo Challenge: Companionable

Tristan and Yseult, Doorway and Mist

29 Jun

1 Kneehigh Theatre’s production of Tristan and Yseult is fabulous! We went to see it this afternoon at The Hall for Cornwall and were blown away by its sheer joy and inventiveness and its roller-coaster emotions. Just a taster – in the wedding scene the audience are asked to blow up and release white balloons – a completely magical effect. You can read about the origins of this ancient Cornish love story here.

2 We walked around the back of the Cathedral today and found this beautiful, rather neglected, old doorway.

Doorway behind Truro Cathedral

3 I loved the effect of the mist in the trees as we were driving home.

Driving home in the mist

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 29, 2013 in architecture, Kneehigh, photography, Postaday2013, theatre

Tags: love story, magical theatre, The Hall for Cornwall, Tristan and Yseult

Honeysuckle Scent, Fresh Eggs and Live Music

28 Jun

1 Walking in Truro today, I first was struck by the overwhelming and sweet smell of honeysuckle and then saw this cheeky squirrel feeding from food left out for him or for birds – I wasn’t sure.

Honeysuckle

Squirrel

2 This week’s free range eggs, bought yesterday from friends at choir, are very beautiful.

Varieties of beautiful just-laid eggs

3 Tonight we have been to the Melting Pot to see a fabulous group – Rob Heron and the Teapad Orchestra – lively and very skilled musicians from Newcastle.

Rob Heron and the Teapad Orchestra

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 28, 2013 in Beauty, music, nature, photography, Postaday2013, senses

Tags: free range eggs, honeysuckle, Rob Heron and the Teapad Orchestra

Shag on a Boat, Strawberries and Colour Combination

27 Jun

1 Looking out from the Zed Shed where we were singing this morning, I noticed a Shag sunning himself on a dinghy in the estuary. He stayed there for over an hour!

Shag sunning himself

2 Our first tiny wild strawberries are suddenly ready and they are so, so sweet!

First strawberries

3 I love the colour combination, quite serendipitous really, of the very dark Chocolate Cosmos (which really does smell of chocolate) with the violet blue of the Johnson’s Blue Geranium and the white and green of the daisies.

Chocolate Cosmos with Johnson’s Blue Geranium

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 27, 2013 in Beauty, birds, environment, flowers, growing, nature, photography, Postaday2013

Tags: chocolate cosmos, Johnson's Blue Geranium, Shag, wild strawberries

New Fern, Bristol Glass and ‘Summer in February’

26 Jun

1 I love uncurling ferns and we now have lots.

Uncurling fern

2 After six months of many of our precious things being boxed up so that the flooded dining room could be renovated, today I started unwrapping and re-discovering some treasures, among them, this beautiful old rolling pin made of Bristol blue glass which was in my Grandparents’ house.

Bristol glass

3 We’ve just come home from seeing a beautiful film which was made in Cornwall -Summer in February. It tells of the real lives of some artists in Cornwall from 1913 and there are some wonderful scenes of Cornwall’s coastline.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 26, 2013 in Cornwall, environment, nature, photography, Postaday2013

Tags: Bristol glass, Summer in February

Weekly Photo Challenge – The World Through My Eyes

26 Jun

My whole blog is the world through my eyes as I seek out the beauty that surrounds us. For this challenge, I’ve taken a different point of view, still finding beauty, but from ground level looking up the garden through the uncut grass.

Fledgling in the grass

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 26, 2013 in environment, nature, photography, Postaday2013, Weekly photo challenge

Tags: beauty, finding the beautiful in the everyday, Weekly Photo Challenge - The World Through My Eyes

Red Roses in Bodmin, Herbs and Purple Poppy

25 Jun

1 One hundred years ago today, the Suffragists on the Great Suffrage Pilgrimage of 1913 from Land’s End to London, stopped in Bodmin where the Mayor greeted them with a red rose each in a gesture of solidarity. Today, on the tour of the play, Oxygen by Natalie McGrath, along the route, the troupe stopped in Bodmin and were presented with red roses by the Mayor in remembrance of June 25th 1913. We were there! It was brilliant to hear some of the speeches again and to join the cast in the singing of the song that we learned yesterday.

The Mayor, the Cast and the Roses

Singing Oxygen, the song we learned last night

2 I love being able to cut fresh herbs for our salad dressing – two kinds of mint, chives and garlic chives, sage and three kinds of thyme. Delicious.

Herbs chopped for a salad dressing

3 The purple Poppies and the white Cistus have both opened today in my purple, white and green Suffragette garden. What excellent timing!

Purple poppy in my Suffragette garden

White Cistus

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 25, 2013 in awards, Dreadnought, flowers, Food, growing, music, nature, photography, Postaday2013, singing, Suffragettes, theatre

Tags: Great Suffrage Pilgrimage of 1913., Mayor of Bodmin, Oxygen by Natalie McGrath

Carl Sagan, Crinodendron and Oxygen, the Song

24 Jun

1 I’ve been learning about Carl Sagan by reading Alex’s amazing blog and then today was sent this quotation by a friend: Carl Sagan talking about books and I just love it.

Books by Carl Sagan

2 Our neighbours’ Crinodendron hookerianum is full of blossom. It is so beautiful. Our young one, which had more than thirty flowers last year, has none this. We’re wondering what we have done wrong…….

Crinodendron hookerianum

3 At choir tonight, we have started to learn one of the beautiful songs from the play, Oxygen, which I’ve been raving about for the last few days. Our leader, Claire Ingleheart, wrote the music for the play and was the Musical Director.

P.S. Here’s a review of the play, Oxygen, in The Stage. The reviewer agrees with me!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 24, 2013 in music, nature, photography, Postaday2013, quotations, singing, Suffragettes

Tags: Carl Sagan, Claire Ingleheart, Crinodendron Hookerianum, Oxygen by Natalie McGrath, The Stage

Toast Racks, Lavender and Foxgloves

23 Jun

1 I found a pretty little toast rack at the car-boot sale this morning to add to my small collection. The white one was my Granny’s, the blue one was made by one of my favourite potters, Jane Hamlyn, the small cream one with the flowers once belonged to my very good friend, Kath, who is the inspiration behind this blog and the new one is the one with the red line all around.

Toast racks

2 We called in at a garden centre on our way home and the scent of massed Lavender was just lovely. If only we could have so many plants in the garden!