A sore throat kept me away from singing this afternoon, not wishing to share any germs, but I did make a lemon cake for tomorrow’s volunteers.
John Dryden has the right idea here, live each day for itself. It’s a skill I am trying hard to master.
I like checking Sandi Toskvig’s Almanac from time to time. Here is today’s entry and a link to the music Sandi suggests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1OJvqKNGg4 
Our very talented, local knitter has been busy again and made a wonderful topper for today.
We wear white poppies in remembrance of all victims of war – the wars happening now, the civilians and the refugees and as a commitment to peace. The white poppy is also worn to challenge militarism and any attempt to glorify or celebrate war. I was pleased to see a white poppy included in the topper.
I found a poem about Peace for today and first found this one attributed to Mary Oliver. Here it says that was wrong, it is a poem by Judyth Hill. Thank you for this.
Wage Peace
By Judyth Hill*
Wage peace with your breath.
Breathe in firemen and rubble,
breathe out whole buildings
and flocks of redwing blackbirds.Breathe in terrorists and breathe out sleeping children
and freshly mown fields.
Breathe in confusion and breathe out maple trees.
Breathe in the fallen
and breathe out lifelong friendships intact.Wage peace with your listening:
hearing sirens, pray loud.
Remember your tools:
flower seeds, clothes pins, clean rivers.Make soup.
Play music, learn the word for thank you in three languages.
Learn to knit, and make a hat.
Think of chaos as dancing raspberries,
imagine grief as the outbreath of beauty
or the gesture of fish.
Swim for the other side.
Wage peace.Never has the world seemed so fresh and precious.
have a cup of tea and rejoice.
Act as if armistice has already arrived.
Celebrate today.* Sometimes mistakenly attributed to Mary Oliver
In Redruth today we had such a good time (and did the shopping!) We met a young DJ, Redruth Ben, whose programme on local radio we listened to this afternoon, went into gallery 89 and saw some delightful art work and our favourite busker, Sam, was in town and sang ‘Streets of London.’ All in all, a brilliant morning. 
And, last night’s not quite full moon, first night without clouds since the Beaver Moon on November 5th.
We enjoyed the illustrations in the lift at Truro Museum and Art Gallery where we were to see the new exhibition, ‘Framed: Open Cornwall’, 150 pieces of art all by artists in Cornwall Visitors are invited to vote on ‘best in show,’ most skilful pice’ and the ‘piece that makes you happy.’ I totally fell for a beautiful piece that made me happy and would have bought it but for it being a four figure sum!
by Keith Sparrow
Coming home, I tried to take a photo of the Bassett Monument up on Carn Brea. but almost lost it behind a lamp-post. Can you just make it out?
I love skeleton trees especially with pink clouds behind them.
The sun shone this morning, the last morning of our mini holiday at The Falmouth Hotel .What a wonderful and welcome short break this has been.
We’d been home only an hour when my lovely Mr S spotted a fox in the back field. We watched it for some time, prowling around.
On the wall just outside the back door there was a Ladybird. I’ve never seen one with 19 spots before. I learned it’s also known as the Water ladybird with a marvellous name Anisosticta novemdecimpunctata!
A message from WordPress today says it’s 14 years since I started writing my blog. That’s a great number of beautiful things!
We visited Falmouth Art Gallery today where there were two exhibitions, one highlighting their collection and one called Out Of Paper showcasing so many paper creations.
I love the painting in the first exhibition by Unknown Artist of The Killigrew Monument which we had walked past earlier in the morning.
There were some beautiful cut paper sculptures. I love the fact that Secret Garden, when translated into French, ‘Jardin Secret’ refers to your inner soul.
The Paper Yarn piece really appealed to me and I added my words to be woven in next time the artist pops in. 
If you, Dear Reader, are local or maybe visiting Falmouth before the end of January, this is a lovely place to spend a couple of hours.
Just to add, I am remembering my lovely Mum today, on her birthday. As a little girl she was always delighted to think that everyone was celebrating her birthday with a firework display.
It’s been a rough weather day today with driving rain, fierce winds and wild, wild seas, and we serendipitously met friends at The Falmouth Hotel for a delicious lunch, watching the waves from inside the dining room.
The Falmouth Hotel
Beautiful stairwell
High tide at Castle Beach
Tiramisu with espresso ice-cream!
Autumn leaves down the lane from Gwennap Church
Berries on the yew trees in Gwennap Churchyard
View from the window onto Castle Beach, full tide
Do join us for a lovely Autumn walk around the gardens of Trelissick.
We saw a Seagull stomping and dancing on the grass encouraging worms to emerge. Several did. We’ve never seen this behaviour before.
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Redruth market was very busy today and I discovered a new stall full of deliciousness, hand-made Turkish Delight and chocolates. I treated myself to two pieces of Turkish delight and got two coffee chocolates for my lovely Mr S.
From Red Robin Pantry
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