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Monthly Archives: September 2020

ISS, Street Art and Hugs

I couldn’t sleep last night and went downstairs soon after 5am. The kitchen was as bright as if there were lights left on and I realised that the half moon was shining in a very clear sky. I stayed for several minutes looking at the stars and then the International Space Station appeared from the right and made its way across the sky. I checked on the website and saw that it was due over at 5.22. Serendipity indeed. I went back to sleep happy!

We are enjoying the street art in our town, encouraging people to wear their masks.I really like this one.

Dear friends from choir drove by today as I was planting bulbs in the front garden. They stopped and came into the back garden for tea, cake and a chat. It was so lovely to see them but we missed our hugs.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 10, 2020 in art, friendship, Happiness, Photography, Postaday2020

Tags: International Space Station, mask wearing for covid19, Pooh Bear

Masks, Wild Blooms and a Surprise.

09 Sep

Our town has a novel way of encouraging us to wear our masks.There are lots , one on almost every lamp-post.I’ll show you more later. On the path up from town is a self-seeded Passion flower, still blooming.

Little Cyclamen are appearing in the Suffragette garden much to my surprise.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 9, 2020 in art, community, Cornwall, nature, painting, Photography, Postaday2020, Redruth

Tags: Cyclamen Hederifolium, passion flower

Suffragette Garden, Blue Sky and A Poem

08 Sep

The Japanese Anemones, the Verbenas Bonariensis and Lollipop and the Hebe are all flowering in my Suffragette Garden.

The sky has been a glorious blue today, here under and over the viaduct.

A young friend with a daughter about to go off to University is finding it hard (even harder, of course, for anyone in these Covid times than it was for us 20 years ago) but the words of Kahlil Gibran, that I have often read at Baby Namings, is still appropriate for all parents to remember.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 8, 2020 in environment, friendship, garden, nature, Photography, poetry, Postaday2020

Tags: Japanese Anemones, Khalil Gibran, On Children by Khalil Gibran, verbena bonariensis, verbena lollipop

Cake, Walk and Pond

07 Sep

I made a cake today, totally scrummy Sticky Ginger Cake, from a recipe given to me by a good friend who fed it to us last week!

Late in the afternoon we had a walk up to Carn Marth where both the North Coast near St Agnes and the South Coast near Falmouth can be seen. We looked in on the amphitheatre and the higher quarry.

Lastly we called in on a friend to take her some of the ginger cake and to enjoy her lovely, well stocked pond.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 7, 2020 in Uncategorized

Glass, Blooms and A Bud

06 Sep

I made my first glass piece since lockdown today. It was a our lovely neighbour’s birthday yesterday so I made her an Oak Tree.

There are few blooms in the garden now as Autumn has taken us over but the Nicotiana is now flowering.

And the Canna Lily has a bud!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 6, 2020 in art, garden, glass, nature, Photography, Postaday2020

Tags: stained glass art

Stamps, Hydrangea and A Visit

05 Sep

Posting cards to Spain for upcoming birthdays, I was able to get the lovely Rupert Bear stamps.

At the garden centre buying for our new border, I was taken with the colours of this Hydrangea bloom.

Daughter No 1 who lives near Exeter, has been with us for the day, helping with winterising the boat and then with digging for our new border. It is just so special to have her here – lockdown was hard on everybody.

This border is no more!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 5, 2020 in garden, nature, Photography, Postaday2020, Uncategorized

Tags: Royal Mail special stamps, rupert bear

Moon, Music and Term Starts

04 Sep

We missed the Corn Moon in all its fullness on Wednesday as it was cloudy but last night’s moon was glorious.

I have been feeling somewhat discombobulated of late, as I think many are in these unsettling times. The following piece ‘Farewell to Stromness’ by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies helps to untangle my wires (as does doing the embroidery or weeding!) It is performed here by Adrian Lord – and what a view he has!

Term has started for our family of LiveWires and for many of my ex-colleagues, one of whom sent me the photo below as he thought I might have done this with the door to my room were I still at the comprehensive school with them all. Yes, I would! Well done, Miss Robinson.

I have just read the following comment from Adrian Lord
This was filmed at Crear – a wedding and recording venue on the Scottish West coast, with views over to the islands of Jura and Islay. Crear is a very special place. When I first visited in 2015 I knew this was where I would record my music.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 4, 2020 in music, nature, Photography, piano, Postaday2020, Uncategorized

Tags: 'Farewell to Stromness' by, Adrian Lord, corn moon, full moon, Lady Macbeth, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

Sunflowers, Silks and More Masks

03 Sep

We chose a different route into town today and walked past a garage where they have planted Sunflowers on the grass beside the pavement, such a delight to see them!

Yesterday, after visiting friends in Truro, I went shopping for more embroidery silks and now I have all I need for the special wall hangings I’m making for Christmas!

I’ve made myself six more masks in the hope that choir will start again before too long. Research says we will need three per rehearsal so I have pretty ones, ones for Christmas and musical notes. I am so missing singing with my choir pals. I live in hope!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 3, 2020 in environment, nature, Photography, Postaday2020, Redruth, sewing

Tags: embroidery

A Wedding, A Dedication and A Celebration

02 Sep

On this day in 1939, my Mum and Dad were married.They were to have honeymooned in Paris but given that WWII broke out on September 3rd they had a weekend in Blackpool instead before my Dad went off to the army for five years.

My Mum at her wedding in 1939

My Dad retired early to write and dedicated his first novel to my Mum ( using a nom de plume as advised by the publishers as it was thought that women read more historical romantic fiction and that they like to read books written by women!) The novel is set in Cornwall in the late 1800’s and its background is the tin mining industry that was so important to the Cornish.

Dad’s first novel, published in the US and the UK by Weidenfeld and Nicholson, in paperback by Sphere

The dedication

Their Golden wedding in 1989 was a great big family reunion in Cornwall as by then my older brother and his wife and two children were living in Munich, Germany, my younger brother and his wife were in Atlanta, Georgia and my sister and her growing family were in Phoenix, Arizona and I was in Yorkshire with my family. The advance for Ellen Bray paid for everyone to come to the two week long party!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 2, 2020 in Beauty, Celebration, family, family history, photography, Wedding

Tags: David Wiseman, Ellen Bray, Jane Julian, nom de plume, Postaday2020

Self-Care, Caterpillar and Another Gall

01 Sep

Very timely advice came in today from Action for Happiness:

We are completely redoing our walled border outside the kitchen and while clearing away the the thuggish Clematis, Bill Mackenzie, found this furry caterpillar scuttling around on stems near the ground. We think it may be a Buff Ermine but it’s not easy to identify.

A fellow blogger kindly helped to identify the rather attractive Artichoke Gall on our beautiful and nearby Oak Tree a few days ago. This one, somewhat uglier, has been identified as a Knapper Gall by our Son-out-law who visited last Friday.