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Monthly Archives: June 2013

Humanist Wedding, Johnson’s Blue Geranium and Brooke’s Sister

1 I conducted a beautiful Humanist Wedding Ceremony this afternoon. I do love these weddings – they are so individual, special and unique to the couple involved. Enjoy some of it with me.

Before the Ceremony, which took place under the tree

Bunting in the barn, made from fabrics with special memories for the Bride

Hedgerow flowers on the tables

Bridesmaids with sunflowers

The Beautiful Bride

The Cake, the Loving Cup and the Whiskey

2 The Johnson’s Blue Geranium is very beautiful and is buzzing with bees.

Bee on Johnson’s Blue Geranium

3 Yesterday I discovered a new blog Brooke’s Voice. It is one of the most beautiful I have read and I wanted to tell you a bit about it so that you can, please, visit it and be moved as I was by the love for her sister and the talent of a young writer who is still at school. Gosh, how I would love to be her English teacher to nurture this talent. What a way with words this young woman has, painting pictures with her lyrical sentences.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 22, 2013 in flowers, Humanist ceremony, insects, nature, photography, Postaday2013, Weddings

Tags: Brooke's sister, Brooke's voice, english teacher, home-made bunting, Humanist Wedding, Johnson's Blue Geranium, nurturing talent, wedding ceremony

Fungi, Wings and Thinnings

21 Jun

1 Fungi have sprung up overnight amongst the clover on the lawn.

Fungi among the clover with raindrops

2 I love the delicacy of these wings left on our windowsill.

Wings

3 The salad leaves have been growing while we’ve been playing with the Grand-babies. We had the first of the leaves with our lunch today from the thinning out of the rows.

First salad leaves

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 21, 2013 in Food, garden, growing, nature, photography, Postaday2013, Uncategorized

Tags: fly's wings, fungi, growing salad leaves

Weekly Photo Challenge – Curves

21 Jun

Curves in the leaf shape, in the droplets of water and in the magnification of the veining – one of my favourite photos. Click on the photo for even more detail.

Droplets on a leaf

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 21, 2013 in nature, photography, Postaday2013, Weekly photo challenge

Tags: magnification, water droplets, Weekly Photo Challenge - Curves

Ball Park, Experiment and ‘Oxygen’, The Play

20 Jun

1 The Grandchildren had a lovely time in the ball-park and Grand-baby T proved to be quite a climber.

Climbing

2 J had fun discovering what his lung capacity might be. The experiment was in one of his books and proved to be great fun to do.

Experiment

3 KJ and I went to see Oxygen, a new play by Natalie McGrath, in Penzance this evening. It was wonderful, moving and totally involving. Many of you who read my blog know that my Great Granny, Granny Wiseman, was a Suffragette who was imprisoned in Holloway and force fed and that we have her Holloway Brooch in the family. I have been brought up to be very proud of her.
Tonight, I am completely overwhelmed by what she and others did to win the vote for women. It is one thing to be told family history, to read novels and non-fiction, but to see it brought alive on stage was something else indeed. I wept in the knowledge that my Great Granny went through this barbaric treatment for her beliefs. If you are anywhere where this play is being performed, do go and see it! The music is moving, the acting superb and the story, beautifully told, one everyone should know.
Venues through the Southwest and all the way up to Hyde Park can be found here.

Holloway brooch

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 20, 2013 in Dreadnought, family history, History, photography, Postaday2013, Suffragettes, theatre

Tags: Holloway Brooch, Holloway Prison, Natalie McGrath, Oxygen, Suffragette, Suffragists, Votes for Women

The Suffragette Pilgrimage, Sea Gazing and Ice-cream

19 Jun

1 More than fifty walkers turned up today to watch the opening episode of Oxygen and to walk in the footsteps of their Suffragette sisters marking the Great Suffrage Pilgrimage of 1913. That was so brilliant! The play was inspiring and moving and then the walk started, led by the actors, singing songs from the play. What a day!

The episode begins at Land’s End

The episode continues

One of the actors answering J’s question,”Why did they walk all the way to London?”

Grandbaby T watching the whole cast singing

The walkers set off led by the cast

About to hit the trail, The Cornish Way

On their way

The actors waving the walkers on their way

2 The children and I only walked at the start and then waved everyone off (There will be more photos very soon from the walkers themselves) We took the children to play in the sand at Mount’s Bay……

Gazing out to sea

3 …….. and finished off the day with a delicious Cornish ice-cream, thinking all the afternoon of those of my dear friends walking the trail at the same time as those amazing women walked exactly 100 years ago today. The Suffragettes in 1913 walked for themselves and for those who couldn’t and that’s what my people did for me today. Thank you.

Strawberry ice-cream

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 19, 2013 in Cornwall, Dreadnought, photography, Postaday2013, Suffragettes, theatre

Tags: Cornish ice cream, Oxygen, suffrage, Suffragettes, the Great Suffragette Pilgrimage, women, women's rights, women's vote

Feather, Crane and Rainbow

18 Jun

1 Grand-baby J’s favourite place to visit, after the beach, is the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth. Walking around the outside beforehand, there were feathers floating in the harbour on the slightly oily surface. I love the reflection here and the trail as the feather has been blown along by the wind.

Floating feather on the water in Falmouth harbour

2 It was such a misty morning that we couldn’t even see across the harbour to Flushing. I loved the way the crane almost vanished in the mist.

Crane at Falmouth Docks, lost in the mist

3 Grand-baby T loved seeing the fish in the underwater tidal pool in the Tidal Zone and she became very excited about the rainbow that only she could see from her lower perspective.

Rainbow at the top of the tidal pool

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 18, 2013 in Beauty, environment, nature, photography, Postaday2013

Tags: falmouth harbour, National Maritime Museum, rainbow, Tidal Zone

Baby Hair, Truro Museum and A Special Song

17 Jun

1 Isn’t this just beautiful? Baby hair, just washed.

Just washed baby hair

2 We spent the morning in Truro’s Royal Cornwall Museum investigating all the exhibits.

I’m off to explore

3 Such a lovely surprise when we came home and I opened up comments on my blog. Meme, whose blog I so admire and who writes and sings songs, has written us a song for the Suffragette March on Wednesday. I don’t usually re-blog but this one I have just done. Click on one of the red links above for a direct link to Meme’s song for the Suffragette Pilgrimage or go back one post on my blog.

Thank you so much, Meme, for this song which I shall teach to the other marchers as soon as we set off. I’ll hope to record us singing it for you!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 17, 2013 in Grandchildren, photography, Postaday2013, Suffragettes

Tags: baby hair, Meme, Royal Cornwall Museum, Suffragette Pilgrimage

Women Are on the Rise

17 Jun

Thank you so much, Meme, for this song which I shall teach to the other marchers as soon as we set off. I’ll hope to record us singing it for you!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 17, 2013 in Uncategorized

Empty Beach, Surfer and White Foxglove

16 Jun

1 Despite the Cornish mizzle, we decided on a run on the beach. While J went off rock climbing with his Aunty M, Grandbaby T went off for a walk along the sand.

Am I the only one on this beach?

2 There was a lone surfer enjoying the waves.

Surfer

3 A beautiful white foxglove has arrived in our garden and is just lovely in the evening light.

White foxglove and Libertia Grandiflora

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 16, 2013 in Cornwall, flowers, garden, Grandchildren, nature, photography, Porthtowan, Postaday2013, Sea

Tags: rock climbing, surfing, white foxglove

Baking, Rock Pooling and Drawing

15 Jun

1 The two big Grandbabies really aren’t babies any more! J made some cup cakes this morning with very little help, cracking the eggs and doing all the mixing on his own. T enjoyed the results.