sitting on Welly Dog.
Category Archives: sculpture
A Painting, A Poem, and More Pebbles
I love it when beautiful things come my way out of the blue. This poem by Nicolette Sowder and its lovely art work by Lucy Campbell turned up yesterday.
May we raise childrenwho love the unlovedthings – the dandelion, theworms & spiderlings.Children who sensethe rose needs the thorn
& run into rainswept daysthe same way theyturn towards sun…And when they’re grown &someone has to speak for thosewho have no voicemay they draw upon thatwilder bond, those days oftending tender thingsand be the ones.~ Nicolette Sowder
A couple of my dear readers commented on the beautiful and enormous pebbles on Penzance Promenade and I thought that they, and you, might like another picture where a different set of the sculptured pebbles, have been joined by real pebbles and seaweed thrown up by the last crazy storm. 
Truro Cathedral Three Ways
After breakfast with lovely friends we went shopping in Truro, a rare occurrence these days. We love the model of the Cathedral on the roundabout and would love to see it lit up at night. Please note, the hedgehogs have gone into hibernation.
We parked on the top layer of the car-park and caught another view of the Cathedral just before a heavy shower.
Lastly, against a beautiful blue winter sky, from the middle of the city, a sunlit and glowing Cathedral.
A Poem, Kindness and Hope
I promised you a poem that I was sent recently. Here it is, another by Mary Oliver. Kindness is so very important, at all times, but especially now in these very uncertain times. I send love and peace to you all along with this lovely poem.
Why I Wake Early – Mary Oliver
Hello sun in my face,
Hello you who make the morning
and spread it over the fields
and into the faces of the tulips
and the nodding morning glories,
and into the windows of, even, the
miserable and the crotchety –
best preacher that ever was,
dear star, that just happens
to be where you are in the universe
to keep us from ever-darkness,
to ease us with warm touching,
to hold us in the great hands of light
good morning, good morning, good morning.
Watch, now, how I start the day
in happiness, in kindness.
There was a wonderful interview on the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning with a 100 year old man, Eddie Jaku, who had kindness in his soul, who had been in concentration camps and come out with the thought that he must counteract all cruelty with kindness. If you would like to listen to the whole interview , here is the link https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08y82p9
There were words of his that I scribbled down at the point of listening, that I wanted to keep for ever.
“One flower is my garden
One good friend is my world”
“Three H – hope, health and happiness – happiness is the only thing that doubles when you share it. ”
What a wonderful man! Do listen if you can.
I’ve been ‘resting’ all day as I was allowed to have the steroid injection in my hip yesterday and was told to rest for 48 hours to get the best benefit. I have spent the whole glorious day embroidering the panels that I am making for two of our LiveWires for Christmas. I don’t understand why I can have multiple injections. in my hip and only three in my ankles but I am not going to question it! I can’t show you the panels yet so here is a lovely photo of one of our planters in the Spring to give us all hope for the next Spring to come. 
Welly Dogs, Leaves and Geranium
Our Welly Dogs have been given poppies for Remembrance Day. Redruth is very proud of its Tinners’ Hounds made by David Kemp. Follow this link to find out more about the sculptor and his intriguing work. 
On the lane home, the trees are changing colours.
We are delighted with our new Geranium, planted only a couple of months ago. It hasn’t stopped flowering since we put it in the front garden.
Geranium Rozanne
More from our Mini Holiday
Some more pictures from our mini holiday in Mousehole (pronounced Mowzzle) and Tremenheere. Stone sculptures are being made on all stony beaches and some are very cleverly balanced. The ones in Tremenheere are from a workshop held some time ago.
Holiday Home by Richard Woods is a disturbing piece of art, blank, blind windows and very unattractive. These are the words from the Tremenheere literature, “Plays on the idea of sought-after locations and the booming market for second homes, amid a crisis of housing supply.”
I found this very moving and all the more disturbing having just come from Mousehole, where so many homes are now blind and empty second homes or places for rental and not homes for those who so desperately need a place of their own.
A window in Mousehole
Stone sculptures on Mousehole beach
Holiday Home by Richard Woods
Holiday Home tucked away
Stone sculptures in Tremenheere
The Minack, Mousehole and Tremenheere
We’ve just returned from our first holiday in 2020 – one night away in a lovely hotel, The Old Coastguard Hotel in Mousehole. We started with drinks on the lawn watching the boats go by, followed with a Minack theatre experience in the evening and after a splendid breakfast, a walk around Mousehole and then lunch and a walk around the sculpture gardens at Tremenheere. A perfect mini break! Join us in seeing some of these treats in the gallery. Click on any photo for the detail.
A delicious wine whose name I missed
From the garden across the bay
On our way to our seats at The Minack
Picnic pie at the Minack
Delicious breakfast menu
Sun rise on the horizon
St Michael’s Mount in early morning mist
Duck Lane in Mousehole
The Fitzroy barometer
info on The Fitzroy barometer
Grenfell Street. Read info in next photo
Grenfell Street info
14th century building. See next photo for info
History of 14th Century building
I love these wiggly roof-tops
Baby Sparrows, just three of the ten or so
Interesting clock tower
On the drive to Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens
Winter Heliotrope by Sheila Williams
The Garden Pagoda
Black Mound by David Nash
Garden walk
St Michael’s Mount from the gardens
National Cheese Toast Day 15th September
A busy day so just lunch as part of our celebration of National Cheese on Toast day.
Mini pizza
New Fabric, Flowers and Wood Carving
Fabulous new fabric arrived today, ordered in the hope of choir being able to start again at some point.
We went for tea with friends in their garden and took along some of the last flowers from our garden.
Part of our afternoon was a good stomp and a natter round their local woods where we came across a pair of otters.
Not All Fairies can Fly
I first fell in love with Samantha Bryan’s Fairies in the early 2000s when I saw an exhibition in the Craft Centre and Design Gallery in Leeds. The invention, the humour, the whole premise and the beautiful construction entranced me and I bought my first Fairy. Who knew that fairies don’t simply fly but have to learn? That they wear L plates to warn others of their inexperience? That they need various intricate contraptions to help them learn to fly? That they do stretching exercises before setting off on their roller boots, or with a lifting device, under an air balloon or with a propellor? That they need special protective equipment? My quirky collection of ‘Brains Fairy Aiding Inventions’ shows all these and more.
My first Fairy
Fairy doing an exercise designed to strengthen leg muscles in preparation for impact during landing
Fairy doing an exercise designed to strengthen leg muscles in preparation for impact during landing
Waiting for repaired wings and looking a bit sad 2004
Air balloon assistance
Beautiful detail
I love her pleased expression
Brain’s revolutionary V.T.O.L. Apparatus (assists fairies in vertical take-off and landing) 2003
Improved pedal powered fairy vehicle
All the Fairies have labels typed on an old typewriter adding to the quaintness of the whole.
When I retired from teaching in 2006, I was also mentoring student teachers and commissioned Samantha to make me a Fairy piece showing a Fairy being encouraged in her efforts to become fully fledged and ready to go out on her own. Samantha sent me four beautiful designs that she had sketched and this is the one I chose.
Mentor with fairy in training 2006
It’s time I added to my collection!
