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Fox, Day Lily and Dessert

The beautiful fox next door is now a “Flat pack fox’ as one of the makers described it! The pieces are going to be galvanised and then they will go straight to Heligan to be re-assembled in its permanent home. The wood pieces are all numbered and bagged up ready for the re-make..

It’s the turn of the day Lilies in our garden and they are gorgeous.

Day Lilies with Welly Dog and our ‘meadow’ in the background

We are picking raspberries every day at the allotment. I’ve frozen some and every other day we eat a bowlful!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 6, 2025 in allotment, environment, garden, nature, Postaday2025, sculpture, Uncategorized

Tags: flat pack sculpture

Ladybird, Potatoes and Poppy

04 Jul

I was picking the tops off the broad beans at the allotment this morning when I spotted a yellow ladybird. It might be a 22 spot but I can’t see enough spots to be sure. I was taking the tops off the beans to stop black-flies and to use tonight, stir fried quickly in garlic butter – delicious.

22-spot ladybird (Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata)

We harvested our first new potatoes today and had them for tea too, boiled with mint and then tossed in freshly minted salty butter – another treat for the taste buds.

The poppy that seeded itself continues to give us another flower or two each day.

Happy 4th July to all my readers in America. Our thoughts are with you.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 4, 2025 in allotment, Cornwall, environment, Food, garden, growing, nature, Postaday2025

Tags: 22-spot ladybird, Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata)

Roses, Pie and A Quotation

28 Jun

On our walk back up from the allotment where we picked another pile of raspberries this afternoon, we passed a garden full of roses, all with that wonderful evocative rosy scent. Did any of you try to make perfume with rose petals as a kid as I did? It never worked but that didn’t stop me trying year after year!

I made a pie for dinner tonight and it was as delicious as it looks.

I read these words by Arundhati Roy today and felt them worth sharing with you, Dear Readers:

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”

~Arundhati Roy, ‘The Cost of Living’

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 28, 2025 in allotment, baking, Cornwall, environment, nature, Postaday2025, Uncategorized

Tags: Arundhati Roy, Chicken and Mushroom Pie, The Cost of Living

Beans, Lavender and Poppy

26 Jun

Our Broad Bean crop is looking promising

Our allotment neighbour has a lovely Lavender border., loved by the bees.

This is a self sown Poppy and it is glorious.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 26, 2025 in allotment, Beauty, bees, Cornwall, environment, flowers, garden, nature, Postaday2025

Jam, A T-Shirt and A Song

23 Jun

The raspberry plants at the allotment are overflowing with fruit and I knew we hadn’t used all the raspberries from last summer/autumn that I had put in the freezer so I made Raspberry Jam, the perfect jam for inside a Victoria sponge cake. We also had a pile of fresh raspberries in a meringue case with some crème fraiche for dessert tonight!

At singing this afternoon, one of the basses was wearing a t-shirt with an excellent slogan.

Our new song is by Chumbawamba, Sing About Love, and I love the words, especially the last verse.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 23, 2025 in allotment, Kindness, Postaday2025

Tags: Chumbawamba

Planting, Pansies and Pollinator Patch

24 May

I’ve planted up the wall with Rosemary and Thyme for long term and Lobelia and Petunias for the summer.

The pansies in the edibles trough are full of colour.

The pollinator patch at the allotment is full of Sweet Williams which LiveWire 3 planted last year.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 24, 2025 in allotment, environment, garden, Postaday2025, Uncategorized

Weeds, Pinks and Purples

16 May

We’ve spent several hours weeding at the allotment today – the first half of the onion/shallot bed this morning and the rest this evening. It’s looking better.

Before

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 16, 2025 in allotment, Cornwall, garden, nature, Postaday2025, Uncategorized

New Moon, Soup and Hope

02 Mar

Last night my lovely Mr S spotted the tiniest sliver of the new moon, above it Venus and below a richly red sunset sky and I caught the photo with the better of my two cameras.

Friends came for soupy lunch today before we went together to see the live streaming of Macbeth by the Donmar Warehouse. It was absolutely brilliant! Catch it if you can.

Leek and Potato Soup with some of the last leeks from our allotment.

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer gave me permission some time ago to post her lovely poems as long as I credit her properly. This one seems so particularly apt after the last few days.

Hope by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer University of Arizona Poetry Center. Thank you for this one.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 2, 2025 in allotment, Cornwall, environment, friendship, nature, poetry, Postaday2025, theatre

Tags: Cornish Sunset, Donmar theatre, Hope, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Daffodil, Cyclamen and A Cat

09 Jan

Our first daffodil has bent over its head so the bloom won’t be far behind.

We have just one pink cyclamen. I thought I had bought only white ones!

We walked down to the allotment today, not to work but to see how the potatoes were doing. There isn’t one plant! We didn’t dig so I suppose there may be some tubers in the ground….. While there we did see the resident ginger cat.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on January 9, 2025 in allotment, Cornwall, environment, garden, nature, Postaday2025, Uncategorized

Garden, Singing and Calm

21 Nov

I love this picture, bright and cheery as winter sets in. It’s the garden (though not in today’s bitter wind) and singing which induce a sense of calm in me…….