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Happiness Calendar, Community Roots and St David’s Day

Today the allotment is no longer ours but our fellow allotmenteers from the last few years came to visit Community Roots to hear about no-dig and to learn all about the garden. It was a very damp and fascinating morning which was greatly enjoyed by everyone. Here are some of them after the tour and after having worked in the new orchard.

It’s St David’s Day and here are more daffodils to honour my Welsh heritage. My Mum’s father was Welsh. They really were nodding in the breeze and the rain as I took the video through the window.

Spaceman, Flowers and Cathedral

28 Feb

We loved the Spaceman in the Lemon Street Market in Truro today.

In one of the shops were these lovely felt flowers.

I love Truro Cathedral in all weathers but on a beautiful sunny Spring day like today, it’s even more lovely.

Today is our last official day with an allotment. From tomorrow it will be cared for by a lovely young family.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 28, 2026 in allotment, architecture, Cornwall, craft, paper, Postaday 2026, sculpture, Truro

More Weeds, Pumpkins and Dahlias

12 Oct

Today our weeding has been at the allotment. Over the last three months we have been unable to look after it properly and the weeds have filled the paths as well as the beds. My job was to clear the main path. My lovely Mr S worked on the beds this afternoon. Photos later

Weedy path

Path after an hour of weeding

I walked around the plots afterwards and found produce and flowers.

Path before

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We should plant some dahlias for next year, lovely colours for the Autumn..

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 12, 2025 in allotment, Cornwall, nature, Postaday2025, Uncategorized

A Poem, Weeding and Raspberries

11 Oct

A friend of our son’s. Deasy Bamford, shared a poem she wrote yesterday and she has given me permission to share it with you. It touched me deeply.

by Deasy Bamford

We have volunteered a few times at The Ladder in town, painting the inside, helping with the planting of the garden at the back and today the volunteer force were called in again. There has been scaffolding up for a long, long time as the roof has been being repaired and weeds have had a field day! A whole bunch of people turned up and tidied everything up. I did one small patch and here are the before and after photos.

Before

After

We picked the last raspberries from our allotment this afternoon.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 11, 2025 in allotment, community, Cornwall, environment, garden, poetry, Postaday2025, Redruth, Uncategorized

Tags: The Ladder, volunteering

Purple Beans, Recipe and An Old Utensil

20 Sep

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

Flower, Eclipse and Silver Lining

07 Sep

I went to weed the leeks at the allotment this afternoon and found this pretty self-sown flower growing on our patch.

I hope some of you have managed to see the eclipse/ Blood Moon this evening. Today’s clouds disappeared so I spent half an hour looking East but we are too low down here,. However, the clouds turned pink for the duration so it was just out of sight below the horizon. I shall hope to get a photo of the full moon, the Corn Moon, later this evening.

Looking West a few moments later, the sunset was quite subdued but I do love the silver lining and the tree silhouette. .

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 7, 2025 in allotment, environment, nature, Postaday2025, sky, Uncategorized

Sturgeon Moon, Supper and Onion Crop

10 Aug

Last night’s full moon was glorious!

A delicious salad supper this evening of fresh Roots tomatoes, little gem lettuce, Puy lentils and feta cheese with a drizzle of balsamic glaze.

We have the smallest onion crop ever so in a way this doesn’t really qualify for ‘beautful things.’ Two weeks ago, our onions were looking wonderful, all ready to be lifted and left in the sun to cure but with all that’s going on at home, I haven’t been down to get them. While she was here, Daughter no 3 came down to the allotment with me do the lifting and to help weed and pick raspberries but we were shocked to see all the onion stems black and crispy and when we lifted the onions they were squishy. We looked it up and it seems they have a mould called Aspergillus niger and that they shouldn’t be eaten! All we have are the few weedy ones that were grown in a separate bed. After the disappointment with the broad bean crop, we are feeling somewhat short of enthusiasm. I’m very pleased that I lifted the shallots a few weeks ago.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 10, 2025 in allotment, environment, Food, growing, Postaday2025

Tags: full moon

Colours, Cat and A Gift

25 Jul

I went down to the lottie for the first time in a week (chief cook and bottle washer, nurse and physio and a chest infection to boot!) and collected courgettes and new potatoes which we had for tea tonight. I was somewhat dismayed to find that the broad beans had rust and it is a decimated crop. I did get a few but not enough to last the best part of a year as we usually do. The flowers are on another plot and I loved the colours

There was a black cat eyeing me from its place on the wall.

Our lovely neighbour called round to check on us and to bring me a little gift. She had been to Krowji, our local arts complex and a had met a very interesting artist, a photographer Paul Sanders from whom she bought this delightful little flower in a frame. I love it.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 25, 2025 in allotment, art, Beauty, nature, photography, Postaday2025

Tags: Krowji Arts Centre, Paul Sanders

Waning Moon, Day Lilies and Shallots

13 Jul

I missed getting a photo of the full moon a couple of nights ago but managed this one of the still lovely waning moon last night.

Our Day Lilies are magnificent this year.

We have harvested our shallots grown at the lttie. They’ve been curing in the warmth over the last week of so and this afternoon I have plited those with long enough stalks and put the rest neatly in the basket trug.