We met our lovely friends for breakfast as we have done each month for a couple of years. It was the turn of the Blue Bar in Porthtowan today and as usual we enjoyed  delicious meals and talked almost non-stop!
Breakfast for me was Toasted Banana Bread with Mascarpone and Berries with Honey – yum.
The red flag was up so there was no-one in the sea where the waves were crashing onto the shore.
Geranium
We went to the Hall for Cornwall tonight, for the first time since the pandemic started. We laughed all night being entertained by Omid Djalili and his intro act whose name I must find out as he too was very funny.
I potted up the freezer jam today and now it’s in the freezer awaiting scones and cream – and visitors!
We discovered a new family run nursery today and bought a couple of lavender plants to be here in pots now and to be transferred to the pollinator border at the allotment in the autumn. Behind the selling area is a beautiful meadow. Catching wind blown flowers is quite hard so I made a very brief video with blustery blooms and bird song too. I did get one of the cornflowers in a moment of lull..
It’s strawberry time and we have run out of our favourite Strawberry Freezer Jam. We have had only four on our plants so today I bought some to make the jam.
Strawberries mashed with sugar and Certo added. Resting now for 24 hours.
I found a delicious sounding recipe, Easy Italian Pear Cake, the other day, and made it today. It is very good especially with some vanilla cream.
Easy Italian Pear Cake
We are delighted that we can harvest new potatoes at the allotment. Here is the biggest dug up today.
There is a thing about painting stones and leaving them for others to find and to put somewhere else. This one I spotted as we left the Eco park after today’s lovely session singing with the Ingleheart Singers
.One of our eggs came with a feather which pleases me.
We have a lovely white poppy.
We made a little posy of garden flowers for our dear 103 year old friend with whom we had coffee and a natter this morning. 
The meadow planted last year is full of flowers.
Our Wisteria has one bloom, its first in five years.
…… for my Dear Mum who died on this day in 1993 and who is much missed all these years later. I still find myself thinking, just for a split second, “I must tell Mum ….”
It’s Open Studios week in Cornwall and this morning we went to visit the studio of one of my favourite local artists, Sasha Harding, one of whose beautiful paintings we bought twelve years ago. Today we bought two small ones which I will show you when we have hung them. This is one wall of her gallery, taken with permission, of course. 
A lovely sunny day called for a proper summertime lunch with homegrown leaves.
I’ve made a coffee cake for tomorrow’s market as I do almost every month. I decorated it to be a crown and sprayed the points with edible gold as a nod to the jubilee celebrations.
A beautiful sunset and a new moon as I was drawing the bedroom curtains last night.
Across the water as we were having coffee after singing, a heron landed, stayed long enough to have its portrait taken and then took off again. 
Our golden rhododendron is gorgeous. The bees love it too.
Here is this month’s Action for Happiness calendar. To find a bigger copy and one to share click here. 
It’s been a beautiful day. Join us on our lovely, peaceful walk around Bonython Gardens.
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