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Monthly Archives: June 2018

A Celebration of Women

What a fabulous afternoon being a part of celebrating the Centenary of some women getting the vote! We all gathered in Mawnan Smith – The Mawnan Smith W I, singers from my choirs, Guides, Brownies and Rainbows and many supporters and we marched along to Trebah Gardens, singing some of the way when we had enough breath! We finished in the amphitheatre and sang for all the wonderful people who had joined us along the way. Such a wonderful feeling of solidarity, such a deep feeling of community and an acknowledgement that there is still some way to go and that we must carry on where our sisters have fought before. Click on any photo for a bigger view and the caption.

An Invitation

Present from a friend

Dressed up ready!

Celebrating 100 years of some women first getting the vote

Purple ,white and green

The crowds are gathering

Banner made by members of the Mawnan Smith Women’s institute

Remembering

Mawnan Smith WI

On the march

Poster

The choir have just finished performing

Two more Singing Suffragettes

Trebah Garden

Votes for Women!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 10, 2018 in Beauty, community, Cornwall, friendship, knitting, Photography, Postaday2018, Suffragettes

Tags: Centenary of Women's Suffrage, Suffragettes, Suffragists, Trebah Gardens

Rose, Dendrites and Raspberries

09 Jun

Just look at this glorious rose! It was a present from dear friends for our Golden Wedding Anniversary last summer. It smells divine as well as looking so spectacular.

Crown Princess Margareta

We are late in cleaning our terrace this year but the joy in discovering the dendrites anew each year is still a delight.

Dendrites

We have made a cage around our Raspberry bed this afternoon to protect the fruit from the birds.

Raspberry cage

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 9, 2018 in Beauty, environment, garden, nature, Photography, Postaday2018

Tags: Crown Princess Margareta

Colours, Bee and The Cause

08 Jun

Inspired by Ali of The Mindful Gardener, I collected today’s dead-headings together and she is right, they do make a lovely palette.

Dead-headings

The bees are busy – thankfully.

Busy bee

Tonight we are going to see The Cause by Dreadnought Southwest, an imaginary meeting between two redoubtable women, Millicent Fawcett and Emmeline Pankhurst. You can read more about the play here.

The Cause by Dreadnought South West

Fabulous play! If you get the chance to see it, do go – it is mesmerising and moving.

Door Stop, River View and White

07 Jun

There was a delightful door stop keeping the fresh air flowing in the Muddy Beach cafe after singing today. This one won’t steal your chips!

Seagull door stop

It is always lovely looking across the Penryn River.

Boats and birds

The white part of our garden is coming along well – Lupins, Poppies and White Foxgloves.

White garden

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 7, 2018 in art, environment, garden, nature, Photography

Tags: Penryn River

Community Garden, Thistle and Surfer

06 Jun

I went singing at the Eco Park today to learn ‘Lean on Me’ for a community sing on World Refugee Day. Watch this space! Their community garden is developing well.

At the Eco Park

Planters

I love the thistle heads at this time of year.

Thistle head

This evening I went for a second session to learn the song along with about 30 others. (There will be a video in time. ). This evening the session was at the Blue Bar so the lovely Mr S and went early to have our supper there first. We always enjoy being by the sea and watching the surfers.

Lone surfer

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 6, 2018 in charity, Cornwall, nature, Photography, Postaday2018

Tags: Blue Bar, Porthtowan

Troon, Garden and Bullfinch

05 Jun

Leaving Troon last night where my choir rehearses in the Primary School, there was no-one else on the road so I stopped to take a photo of their lovely welcome to their village, a planted up model of an engine house.

On the way into Troon

We are pleased with how our garden is looking. It will be even better when the Sweet peas are in flower.

Looking up the garden

A pair of Bullfinches are nesting nearby and feeding regularly at our feeders.

Bullfinch

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 5, 2018 in Cornwall, environment, garden, nature, Photography, Postaday2018

Mum, Imagine and A Memory

04 Jun

It’s twenty five years since my lovely Mum died. I love this photo of her with her little brother. She must have been about six or seven and he about two or three. I wish I knew.

Mum with Geoff

A very good friend, folk singer John the Fish, sang ‘Imagine’ at Mum’s Humanist funeral.

Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today

Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people sharing all the world

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one.

The following photo was taken in Carn Brea Castle, just nearby, on the occasion of Mum and Dad’s Golden Wedding in 1989. They were married on September 2nd 1939, the day before war was declared and had their honeymoon in Blackpool rather than Paris which had been the chosen destination.

My Mum and me in 1989

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 4, 2018 in Photography

Tags: Imagine, John Lennon, John the Fish, love, Mother and daughter

Cake, Buoy and A Singing Trip

03 Jun

I made a vegan Chocolate, Date and Coffee cake for our shared supper on board for The Suitcases boat trip from Falmouth to Mylor to sing and then along the River past all the lovely creeks and inlets. Our singing went down well with our audiences. Click on any photo for the caption and a bigger view.

Decorated with nasturtium flowers

Singing outside

A Buoy

This is Pill Creek, the first place I lived when we first moved to Cornwall when I was 6 years old. We lived in the house with the long verandah.

Trelissick

King Harry Ferry

Stillness

Trelissick House

Sunbeams

Singing on the boat on the way home

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 3, 2018 in Beauty, Cornwall, environment, Photography, Postaday2018

Tags: King Harry Ferry, Suitcase Singers, Trelissick

Redruth Market, Guard Dog and Thrift

02 Jun

The inaugural Redruth Street Market was held today and it was lovely to see our small town buzzing. We had pizzas for lunch from the travelling pizza van, Flour Power Pizza Parlour and they were delicious!

Buying pizzas

Making pizzas

Sunsets this last weeks have been amazing so we went off to the cliffs to watch another beauty take place. There we met a beautiful dog guarding its owner who was asleep in his van after surfing.

I’m watching you!

The Thrift along the cliffs was glorious too.

Thrift

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 2, 2018 in Cornwall, Food, nature, Photography, Postaday2018, Uncategorized

Tags: Flour Power Pizza Parlour, Redruth, St Agnes Beacon

Raindrop, Dogwood and Sheep

01 Jun

A walk around Burncoose Nursery and gardens today, just for fun, not intending to buy anything, found puddles everywhere and droplets in the Lupin leaves after the morning rain. I love the patterns made here. Zoom in if you can.

Water drop in a Lupin leaf

We really wanted to buy the beautiful Dogwood, China Girl, but can’t really find room for it.

Dogwood – Cornus China Girl

We are enjoying watching the lambs in the back field growing up. There seem to be five now, of various sizes. I have to be very careful taking photos, keeping my distance or one of the sheep takes fright and they all rush to follow. I took this photo from the upstairs bedroom on a long zoom.