I’m taking a break for a day or two but will be back. Here’s a sunset from last January for you.Take care of yourselves. 
Monthly Archives: January 2025
Be Happy
Robin and Camellia
The birds have been very busy at the feeders but it’s hard to get a photo of them as they flit about so much. The Robin, however, poses!
Next door’s Camellia has been flowering for a few weeks, just a few so far but it will be full of flowers soon.
Smiley Face
I’m always hungry after a choir rehearsal and usually choose a toasted Bovril sandwich when I get home. Today when I opened the new jar, there, on the lid, was a smiley face! 
Missed you at singing V – here’s a cheery smile for you.
Daffodils and Empathy
The daffodils that our. lovely neighbour brought round to mark the day we moved in seventeen years ago have all opened up. She has done this every year from the very first day we rolled up to an empty house awaiting the arrival of the removal lorry the next day. The two tall ones at the back are ones that I brought in from the garden after the winds brought them down. . 
Let us all practise empathy. Thanks to Morgan Harper Nichols for these words.
Storms and Another New Word
We visited a new gallery in town today and I loved these words on the wall.
I think the author of these words may be O. A. Rice but I can find no further detail about them.
I fell in love with a painting too – it moved me in ways I don’t really understand. When we know where it’s going, I’ll show you a photo.
My SIL sent me the following word, new to me and, oh, so evocative of old bookshops and archive ares of libraries.
First Iris and Celebration
The first Iris Reticulata is blooming in the Three Wise Monkeys planter.
Tonight was the Official Opening of The Redruth Buttermarket and with many others we were invited for the evening which was very enjoyable.
Chicken Kebab
Lemon posset
Lemon Cheesecake
A Poem For Our Times and A Postcard
And, if you’d like to send a postcard to this brave and wonderful woman, here is her address.
A Walk in Sunshine
We have a three day weather warning for storms coming up so when we woke to sunshine, we decided to make the most of it by taking a walk around Trelissick Gardens, having our lunch there and then spending much of the afternoon in the garden back home planning which veggies to grow and in which plots.
Do join us on the walk. Click on any photo for a bigger version.
On top of the water tower
Snowdrops
Tree skeleton
White Camellia
The Carrick Roads
Pine cones
King Harry Ferry
Squirrel
Daffodils
Wonderful tree
Iris
Cryptomeria Japonica
Info about the beautiful tree
Longer view
Ballet, Cornish and Tossers
We’ve been to the Hall for Cornwall this evening to see The Nutcracker by the Mergaliyev Classical Ballet company and what joy that was. I’ve come away feeling proper happy. We loved the live music, watching the musicians almost as much of a treat as watching the ballet. 
I thought you might like to read a little bit of Cornish on the safety curtain at the interval. 
Waiting to pay for parking in Truro afterwards my eye was caught by a shop front. 
