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Monthly Archives: September 2025

Purple Beans, Recipe and An Old Utensil

Yesterday, our lovely neighbour brought us some beans from her allotment. They were a beautiful purple colour but, we were warned, maybe a bit stringy. I decided to use my own recipe for Runner Bean Soup and made a wonderfully tasty lunch. It pleases me greatly that my recipe is so well used. If you google Runner Bean Soup, it comes up on the first page. Interestingly, my photo of my soup is used on the Jamie Oliver recipe!

Because of the stringiness, I put the soup though a sieve and used my Mum’s old wooden pestle to push it through very easily. The result was a lovely creamy soup though, sadly, not purple. Sorry, we ate it before I could take a photo!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 20, 2025 in allotment, Food, friendship, Kindness, Postaday2025

Yucca, Spider, and Bee

19 Sep

I think this is a Yucca. We see it across the road and today, on the way to the allotment, I got my photo.

On the wood of the cage that protects our raspberry crop, was this rather magnificent spider, an Orb Weaver, I think. Apparently the females are twice the size of the males so iIm thinking this is a female as she was 1.5cms. I this is a male the female must be enormous!

It was good to see a bee still collecting nectar.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 19, 2025 in allotment, Cornwall, environment, nature, Postaday2025, Uncategorized

Flag, Detail and A Poem

18 Sep

Collecting our bread order from our local bakery, I noticed that they are ready for Redruth’s International Mining and Pasty Festival this weekend, daffodils wrapped in the Cornish flag..

As we left the car park, I noticed a bit of architectural detail I haven’t noticed before. It looks like two little houses up on the edge of the building.

The Irish poet Derek Mahon, once described as ‘a source of optimism and replenishment’, wrote this poem which I like very much. I tell myself, “Everything is going to be alright.”

Birthdays, Jigsaw and A Good Read

17 Sep

Forty eight years ago today, I held my new baby twins for the first time, two beautiful babies born either side of midnight so having their own birthdays! Here they are at about two years old.

We’ve just finished a jigsaw that daughter no 2 bought for us, lovely memories of a holiday in Venice with my Dad as we did this one. It was a particularly poignant memory as he had always loved Italy and this was his last holiday before suddenly losing his sight a few months later..

I’ve just finished reading this one and thoroughly enjoyed it. One of my lovely friends lent it to me but I can’t remember which one! I’ve asked two but to no avail so if it was you, please tell me so that I can return it!.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 17, 2025 in books, friendship, Postaday2025, Uncategorized

Tags: David Nicholls

Cake, Seedlings and Squash

16 Sep

I decorated the cake with lemon icing and we all sang Happy Birthday to our esteemed leader!

There were very many seedlings, brassicas and salad leaves, to pot on today and we had a team of eight volunteers on the job.

The squash harvest is in. Thanks to Amy for the beautiful photos.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 16, 2025 in community, Cornwall, environment, Food, friendship, growing, nature, Postaday2025

Tags: community roots, growing vegetables

Hope, Flowers and Cake

15 Sep

I’ve planted the wall on the other side of the steps with Tête à Tête, hope for the future, golden mini daffodils all the way up both sides of the steps. I’ve also put in more white winter flowering pansies to fill the gaps until Spring.

To create space, I had to pull out the almost finished Cosmos and Cornflowers and made up a small posy for myself.

I made a birthday cake today, Lemon and Chocolate Marbled Cake. Here’s the mixture in the tin just before going into the oven.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 15, 2025 in baking, environment, garden, nature, Postaday2025

Concert and Soup

14 Sep

We’ve been out this evening to The Hall for Cornwall to a concert by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. It was brilliant and the conductor, Enyi Okpara, was a delight to watch, so expressive and very entertaining.

A quick, rather blurry shot as they were tuning up

We had our home grown Pumpkin soup for supper.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 14, 2025 in Cornwall, Hall for Cornwall, music, Postaday2025, Uncategorized

Tags: Enyi Okpara

Kitten, Kite and Water

13 Sep

I showed you one of the Maine Coon kittens last week, here, and now here she is at 6 months old and just as pretty!

Last Thursday, I took photos before choir but that night, the unveiling of Lowarnes at The Lost Gardens of Heligan took precedence over everything else for my blog so here they are today, a kite flying above the cafe in an attempt to deter the seagulls and the sun on the river.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 13, 2025 in Cornwall, environment, nature, Penryn, Postaday2025

Tags: Maine Coon kittens, The Penryn River

Hot Chocolate, Waves and My Beetle

12 Sep

Our eldest daughter came down today and took us out for supper by the sea. I had the most delicious hot chocolate before the best fish and chips.

The waves were wonderful.

Waves at Portreath

Our daughter came to collect my VW Beetle, a car I have loved for about 20 years. I am getting a ‘new’ car next week, an electric Mini Cooper!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 12, 2025 in Cornwall, environment, nature, Portreath, Postaday2025, Sea

The Lost Gardens of Heligan and Lowarnes

11 Sep

Regular readers will remember the fox sculpture being built next door. Tonight was the unveiling of the remarkable sculpture in the Lost Gardens of Heligan.

Even having watched ithe sculpture being constructed in the garden next door over months, to walk down the path and come across the wonderful 6 meter high fox was amazing, a breathtaking moment that actually made me weep. Here she is in her new home where she truly looks as if she has landed in her rightful habitat.