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Community Roots Today

Community Roots Today

The birthday, for which I made the special cake yesterday, was celebrated in style! Here we have just finished singing Happy Birthday to Matty, one of the directors of the project. He loved the cake and said the lemon drizzle on top ‘shone like diamonds in the sunshine.’

We also had a special and very delicious lunch made by one of the volunteers, Lemon Chickpea Soup, using a recipe from rainbowplantlife.com

We’ve had a new bright and lovely mural painted near the entrance, artist Omi O’Connell.

 

 

Painting, Bath and Soup

Yesterday, after buying the wonderful pastries at Redruth’s monthly market, we called in at our favourite gallery in town, 89 Redruth.  The room was full of very interesting work but my eye was immediately drawn to a small painting,  We went in saying, we mustn’t buy another piece and came out later to have a short chat about whether to buy. Happily, my lovely Mr S loved as much as I did so we were back within minutes and today called in to collect it. It was so lovely to meet the artist and to see her reaction to my loving her work.

Sunset at Elmscott by Michelle Rudd

We went to a birthday do at recently refurbished  Rose Cottage today. We just had our lunch but the guests were encouraged to make use of the spa in the delightful back garden of the pub. After cooking themselves in the sauna, they had the option of three ‘plunge pools’ – one warmed by the sun in a lovely white bath, next a cooler metal bath and lastly, for the truly hardy, a refrigerated tub!

Today we have harvested the last of our sweetcorn cobs and I have made a big batch of Corn Chowder. We had some tonight and the rest will go in the freezer to enjoy some summer sunshine on a grey winter day.

P.S.  There was one more piece in 89 Redruth that I fell for and might have bought today but it had gained a red spot overnight…..

Specimen no 2 by Anita Pryor

It was good too to learn the story of this collective:

 

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Exhibition, View and Bunting

Exhibition, View and Bunting

We went to Falmouth today to see an exhibition of paintings by a local artist, Julian Christophers. I first met him when I was part of the art collective Fannie and Fox where I used to sell my stained glass work. I always found Julian’s paintings to be full of joy, full of colour and always smile inducing.  I especially love his portraits. Today’s exhibition met all expectations.

Here are two of his pieces for you to enjoy but for those of my readers who are local, go and see them for yourself. You’ll come away smiling!

Loula’s Meadow – mixed media showing flowers from a dog’s viewpoint

Afterwards we went into another local gallery where the view from their window is another beautiful piece of art.

View from the window of the Beside the Wave gallery.

Falmouth Week is coming up and the streets are full of bunting.

 

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Truro – A Short Walk

I had a spare hour in Truro today and walked some old haunts finding lovely things. The blooms everywhere were remarkable, I found a Chough at the bus station and rediscovered the Victorian post box.

A Cornish Chough and a Gull

A Red Admiral butterfly at the side of the stream

 

Window, Book and Green Tunnel

We had a delightful breakfast with friends this morning, chatting, laughing and of course eating a delicious meal over more than two hours. On the way out I noticed the bistro window and was very taken with the illustration so carefully painted there.

My best book buddy lent me a book on Saturday and I have read it in two sittings. As it says on the back, “This is a gentle and welcome reminder that no matter what your age, there are always fresh discoveries ahead and pleasures to be enjoyed every day.”  That’s what this blog is all about, of course, and I thoroughly enjoyed this read. I have already read Margareta Magnusson’s The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, a practical and wise guide to clearing out the clutter so that your family don’t have to do it later.

Walking home from a film showing this evening, we came up Church Lane and loved the tunnel of greenery that we walked through.

 

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Rijks Museum and Goodbye Amsterdam

The Night Watch by Rembrandt being cleaned, love the t-shirts

Miniature kitchen in one of the dolls’ houses

I Love this jacket!

Taken from the Eurostar on the way home after a brilliant holiday with our very good friends.

 

 

Stedelijk Museum and Blossombs

The Stedelijk Museum was fascinating, I’d been looking forward to seeing the Karel Appel works,

We later found a wonderful painting bursting with joy, Bal Tabarin by Jan Sluijters.

and discovered a room full of protest art work.

 

When in the gift shop, I found the perfect gift for Sue-next-door who looked after our place while we were away. I bought us a miniature egg box full of seed bombs too. Today, I have followed instructions and ‘planted’ them. We’ll look forward to seeing what comes up!

 

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Gallery 89, Textiles and A Painting

Today we have bought our third piece from an exhibition in Gallery 89, a fabulous small gallery in Redruth with ever changing exhibitions.

I fell in love with a wonderful textile piece which is, as the artist Carolyn Young says herself,  made of –  “little bits: threads, fabrics, fibres, paper and found natural materials. Creating intuitively, I piece, knit, stick, felt, weave or stitch fragmented parts together to become whole.”  Sadly, it was both too big and too expensive to bring home.

Calling Back Her Joy by Carolyn Young

Detail

Detail

The beautiful painting we did buy is Horizon by  Lizzie Moran and can be collected tomorrow – so I’ll show you tomorrow.

 

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Bracelet, Buttons and A Word

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

 

Jigsaw, Cathedral and A Film

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.

 

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