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Monthly Archives: July 2016

Kindness, Shoreline and Celebrities

I have been a part of Shoreline today on the beach at Sennen and it was wonderful. Click on the red link for photos of the earlier production. Being in it, of course, means no photos but heightened emotions. The sun was setting, the tide was coming in, the dancers were in the waves and I couldn’t sing the words “sing for the mother and the child she holds” if I watched the dancers struggling in the water.

This is the beach just as we finished. It was a stunning performance this evening and I heard some people as they were leaving, talking about how very moving it was. As we moved towards the part of the beach designated for the second performance some people asked me what was happening and I explained and invited them to stay for the promenade performance. I was told afterwards that I had been talking to one of our well known actors, Alun Armstrong! Yesterday Dawn French happened upon the performance on the beach and tweeted about us.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 11, 2016 in Beauty, Celebration, Cornwall, Happiness

Tags: Alun Armstrong, Dawn French, ingleheart singers, Sennen Cove, Shoreline, Simon Birch dance, Suitcase Singers

Purple, White and Green in the Front Garden

10 Jul

Much of our front garden is planted in purple, white and green to honour my Suffragette heritage. This month we have next door’s Clematis Niobe which is over the fence and our Hydrangea Black Lace and the Seeboldii contributing to the colour scheme.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 10, 2016 in Beauty, nature, Photography, Postaday 2016, Uncategorized

Tags: Clematis niobe, Hydrangea Black Lace, Seeboldii

Shoreline, Bows, Thirsty Dog and Bedruthan Steps

09 Jul

Shoreline is a beautiful production on Cornish beaches incorporating dance and music. Do click on the red link to discover what it is all about and enjoy the gallery of today’s Premiere on Watergate Bay Beach. Click on any photo for the bigger picture. Today we watched our choirs singing – in the productions on Sennen and at Kynance next week, I will be a part of it all.

A little girl in the audience had beautiful bows in her hair.

Leaving the beach and the choir having their picnics before the second performance, I spotted a new use for a sand spade.

After that very emotional performance, I felt the need for some sea and space so we went a few miles up the coast to Bedruthan Steps where we were blown about by the wind on the cliff tops.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 9, 2016 in Beauty, Cornwall, dance, environment, gigs, Photography, Postaday 2016, Uncategorized

Tags: Bedruthan Steps, Claire Ingleheart, Simon Birch dance, Suitcase Singers, The Ingleheart Singers, Watergate Bay

Signs, Footprints and A Bookshop

08 Jul

I post here anything that makes me smile and these signs did just that. I love the idea of the mad rabbit and the ferocious hamster! I know someone who would love Chien gentil.

We noticed a plaque on the pavement that pleased us too.

This bookshop, Beerwolf Books, was another delight today, books to browse through, beer or coffee to be enjoyed and a special table to put one’s drinks on while browsing! Just perfect.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 8, 2016 in art, Beauty, books, Falmouth, Photography, Postaday 2016, Words

Tags: chien gentil, Lapin lunatique

Love, Pansies, Lettuces and Begonias

07 Jul

I like the sentiment in this.

We have salads, herbs and edible flowers in our trough.

Our Begonias are quite stunning. I love the blue of the Lobelia beginning to show through.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 7, 2016 in Beauty, environment, garden

Tags: garden flowers, love, nature, photography

Geranium, Vapour Trails and A Poem

06 Jul

Our white Geranium has some rogue petals that I like a lot.

The lovely Mr S noticed some interesting vapour trails in the sky this morning.

This poem pleases me. I hope you like it too. I find it quite delicious!

Pretty Words by Elinor Morton Wylie

Poets make pets of pretty, docile words:

I love smooth words, like gold-enamelled fish

Which circle slowly with a silken swish,

And tender ones, like downy-feathered birds:

Words shy and dappled, deep-eyed deer in herds,

Come to my hand, and playful if I wish,

Or purring softly at a silver dish,

Blue Persian kittens fed on cream and curds.

I love bright words, words up and singing early;

Words that are luminous in the dark, and sing;

Warm lazy words, white cattle under trees;

I love words opalescent, cool, and pearly,

Like midsummer moths, and honied words like bees,

Gilded and sticky, with a little sting.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 6, 2016 in Beauty

Tags: Elinor Morton Wylie, nature, photography, poetry

Walk By Gyllyngvase Beach

05 Jul

A bit of deja vu today as our walk was along Cliff Road, Gyllyngvase, Falmouth with me using just one crutch. My knee is still swollen and I am black, blue, pink, yellow and purple from ankle to thigh but was reassured after a three hour visit to our wonderful Minor Injuries Clinic at Barncoose Hospital and an X-ray yesterday that it is ‘just’ soft tissue damage that might take weeks (!) to heal but is not a serious injury. Rest and exercise in equal measure should do the trick.

Here are a Bramble flower, the promise of a Blackberry later in the season, a seal out in the bay and some seaweed in the clear blue water with views across the bay – for some reason in reverse order. What beauty!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 5, 2016 in Beauty, Cornwall, environment, Gyllyngvase

Tags: Falmouth Bay, nature, photography, Seal

Mount’s Bay, Nigella and Borage

04 Jul

After going to Apple Crumble in Penzance to collect our mended iMac,we stopped off in Mounts Bay, one of our favourite places. We watched the activity in the bay and had the most delicious ice creams.

Everything in the garden grew like crazy while we were in London. The Love-in-a-mist, the Nigella is all in flower. The structure of these flowers is quite exquisite.

The Borage is flowering too. I love using the beautiful blue flowers in salads.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 4, 2016 in Beauty, Cornwall, environment, garden

Tags: edible flowers, St Michael's Mount, water sports

Political Sand Writing on Cornish Beaches

03 Jul

All over Cornwall today people have been showing their support for Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, by writing in the sand on more than thirty of our beautiful beaches. Thank you to Stacey Guthrie for organising the event and inspiring so many of us to take part. Thank you too to all the photographers. Only the first photo is mine.

Porthtowan

Kynance

Tolcarne Hayle

Gyllyngvase
Portreath

Polly Joke

Porthpean

Marazion

Perranuthnoe

Penzance Wherrytown

Pendower

Tolcarne

Portherras

Pendower

Looe

Poldhu

Looe

Sennen

Godrevy

Porthcurno

Praa Sands

Kennack Sands

Readymoney Cove

Penzance
Gwithian Beach

Upton Towans

Porthgwarra

Perranporth

Gunwalloe Beach

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 3, 2016 in art, Beauty, Cornwall, environment, friendship

Tags: #Jeremy Corbyn, beautiful Cornish beaches

Lovely People, Pink Laces and Cornwall

02 Jul

As well as finding many beautiful things in the last few days, I have made a couple of observations while getting about using a crutch in London – 1. The city is full of kind, considerate and helpful people. 2. Travelling about by bus and tube and on foot is so very difficult when one is, albeit temporarily, disabled. Pavements are uneven, there are stairs everywhere and the buses are wobbly! It has been a case of, take a walk in someone else’s shoes.

Here I have tied T’s pretty pink laces just before we left for our six hour journey home after a very busy and happy week.

I’ve often shown you the beauty of the Cornish coastline. Today here is some of the beauty of the county as seen from the train.