We bought our anniversary present in Penzance last week, a lovely carved wooden owl, also a puzzle box.
We’ve cut a garden bouquet for old friends with whom we are having dinner tonight.
We had to take the car to the garage having had a recall about its passenger airbag so we drove on from there in my lovely little Beetle to the Duchy Nursery, near Restormel Castle.
I pulled our first leeks from the allotment for tea tonight and they are delicious, steamed and some put into a white sauce. The others I will put into a soup tomorrow.
Our Sweet peas are all over. These are the very last few flowers brought in to enjoy.
We took a Heligan Pineapple Cake out of the freezer today, ready for a picnic tomorrow.
While we were away I spotted a sign in a window that amused me.
As we left Newlyn, we passed by the Jubilee Swimming Pool in Penzance where the flags are gorgeous.
The sunflowers in the allotment have such heavy heads of seeds that I have brought one home and put it on the bird feeder pole where the setting sun has lit it up this evening. I hope that our visiting birds will find the seeds tasty.
While having our breakfast, we watched the gig rowers going out for their practice.
Later we went back to the art gallery to check the name of the artist who made the huge tapestries and I have updated the page, Cecilia Charlton The children’s gallery we passed on the way was a delight. I love that the children’s art is appreciated too.
The sculpture outside is very moving. It shows a fisherman casting his line as the boat arrives in port. It was built to honour dead fishermen, with over twenty local men having died fishing since 1980. Money was raised for the statue locally and the life-size bronze casting was made by local sculptor, Tom Leaper.
I also loved the little dragon swallowing a fish that we saw on a nearby rooftop.
We spent a lovely morning in the sculpture gardens at Tremenheere, an afternoon by the sea reading and the evening at the cinema in Newlyn watching ‘I Know Where the Crawdads Sing, a film which stayed beautifully true to the book. I reviewed the novel here.
What a delightful day to celebrate being married for 55 years and knowing each other for 55 years and 10 months.
It is Ukraine’s day of Independence. Independence Day is always celebrated on August 24th and marks Ukraine’s declaration of independence from the U.S.S.R. in 1991. This year is rather different from previous celebratory events as you could read here if you choose to. We are growing sunflowers and keep Ukraine in our minds and our hearts.
Today being Volunteer Tuesday it was all hands to bringing in the onion crop and then a bowl of delicious vegetable soup, made by our younger volunteers using produce from the community garden.
One of the children today was wearing a wonderful hat.
I love this window with the Community Roots logo painted on it.