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Automata, Blue Sky and A Song

Playing with automata yesterday was great fun, such intricate work.

What a glorious blue sky today. This weather vane is at Burncoose Nursery where I called in after singing to see the magnolia blooms (nearly over) and the rhododendrons.

A good friend sent me a video of us singing this morning., Pachabel’s Canon. This is one of my favourites and one I brought to choir 13 years ago after we went to WOMAD and I learned this piece there at a workshop. I love all the parts and start with the basses, moving round all the parts and coming back to the tenors to finish. If you watch carefully , you can watch my progress!

Sewing, Secret and Sea

18 Mar

There are now 30 little creatures on the long fabric strands.

I’m being allowed to show you a little more of the project. The whole piece remains secret until the exhibition starting on March 31st. I wonder if you can work out what it is.

After sewing and my lovely Mr S working in the garden in sunshine, we decided to go out for lunch at the Falmouth Hotel and have a walk by the sea. It really does my soul good to see, smell and hear the sea. The blues were so beautiful today.

Out for lumch

Our next treat was a trip to Falmouth Art Gallery for a wonderful exhibition of automata which I’ll show you tomorrow.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 18, 2026 in art, Cornwall, craft, environment, Falmouth, Gyllyngvase, nature, Postaday 2026, sculpture, Uncategorized

Shop Window, Clay and Tulips

14 Mar

I may have been at this workshop if I hadnt already made plans to be creative this afternoon.

Yesterday I helped make some little clay creatures for a new project being created by my lovely neighbour and today I coloured the ones that were dry enough, ready for tomorrow.

All our lovely white tulips are now blooming.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 14, 2026 in art, craft, flowers, friendship, garden, nature, Postaday 2026, sculpture, Uncategorized

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

Porcelain, Dumbbells and A Word

26 Feb

I have two beautiful little porcelain boxes. They were given to my parents on their Ruby wedding anniversary by the man who was their Best Man and who became my Godfather, Maurice Oldfield. These little boxes became mine in due course and I love them.

In November last year I joined an online exercise class designed for women over 60 and I am loving it! Feeling stronger and fitter and far less arthritic pain. We have just graduated from using cans of beans as weights to little dumbbells weighing twice as much and mine arrived in the post today!

We have rain again today, a soft mizzle and I turned to my beautiful book , Ninety-Nine Words for Rain and this one describes today’s drizzly stuff. I just wish I knew how to say these lovely words.

Singing, Reunion and A Beach

19 Feb

After a lovely sing this morning, I drove to Porth near Newquay to meet with a young colleague whom I haven’t seen for maybe 30 years! It was a delight to hear all about those years and even to feel a sense of pride in her success as a prize winning podcaster. Do have a listen to Weird in the Wade especially if you are interested in history and the slightly spooky. . N is on holiday here so it was lovely to catch up and have a very windy walk on the beach together. I enjoyed the evidence of youngsters playing in the sand.

Here we are singing. https://www.facebook.com/reel/25793568737001908

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 19, 2026 in art, Celebration, Cornwall, environment, friendship, nature, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Tags: Nat Doig, Porth, Weird in the Wade

Scarlet, Yellow and Rain

16 Feb

The flowers on the first stem of the Amaryllis have finished and the second stem is so top heavy we’ve had to put it on the floor to lean against the arm of the chair! It is still remarkably lovely six weeks after planting. I’m hoping there’s at least another week of loveliness in it.

The Tête à Tête miniature daffodils are appearing all over the garden. I love the ones in the monkey planter.

Photo from 2018

I’ve been browsing again through an old paperback about life in Cornwall 100 years ago and was amused by the description of the wet weather in Cornwall – plus ça change!

From “Exploring Cornwall 100 Years Ago” Selected and Edited by Stuart D. Ludlum

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 16, 2026 in art, Cornwall, flowers, garden, nature, Postaday 2026, sculpture, Uncategorized

Tags: Exploring Cornwall 100 Years Ago, Stuart Ludlum

More Buttons, Jigsaw and A Word

15 Feb

These aren’t in fact buttons but they were in Granny’s button collection. I don’t know what they are – any ideas?

Another Christmas jigsaw finished. This was fun.

I should have given you this word yesterday on Valentine’s Day as it is a term of endearment for one’s sweetheart! It means literally, “cute little pig’s eye” and comes from Chaucer.

From my pack of Forgotten English Knowledge cards

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 15, 2026 in art, nature, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Bracelet, Buttons and A Word

14 Feb

When I was eight or nine, my Granny went to Austria and brought me a lovely wooden bracelt with paintings of flowers. It no longer had the elastic threaded through but I do still have the pretty wooden beads.

In the bag with the beads were a collection of buttons some of which also came from my granny.

The sun shone this morning! The beautiful book I was given last week had 99 words for rain and one for sun.Here it is.

Sending love to all my Dear Readers on this Valentine’s Day.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 14, 2026 in art, Austria, Beauty, flowers, painting, Postaday 2026

Jigsaw, Cathedral and A Film

11 Feb

We finished the streets of London jigsaw. It was hard but was lovely to remember walking those streets in the early days of our being together . We even found the street where we came upon a junk shop and there in the window was a painting of Truro Cathedral! How serendipitous was that, it being my home city? We had met at the end of October, found the painting while I was with my lovely Mr S in early January and then we agreed to be married on January 4th, just ten weeks after meeting!

We are just home from watching a fascinating film, The Lost Boys of Carbis Bay, about a group of men who explore and climb around in the old tin mines of Cornwall, incredibly dangerous but obviously very fulfilling for those involved.