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View, Weaving and Cake

I arrived at the venue for the Humanist Baby Naming I was conducting this afternoon and what a view! The wind dropped, the rain held off and we had the most joyous ceremony you can imagine.

Across the Carrick Roads

Friends and family were asked to write their wishes for the little boy’s future on coloured strips of linen. They will be woven to make the body of the sailing boat which is made up of cream linen strips on which friends and family wrote wishes for the lovely young parents when they were married. What a beautiful idea!

Linen wish weaving

Also saved from their wedding six years ago, in the traditional manner, was the top tier of their Wedding cake decorated by the bride, to which their little boy, who will be one year old on Monday, has been added.

Wedding Cake

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 5, 2019 in Baby Naming, Beauty, Cornwall, environment, Happiness, Humanism, Humanist ceremony, Photography, Postaday 2019

Tags: linen wish weaving, wedding traditions

Queen Anne’s Lace, A Poem and Our House

29 Sep

Our walk ‘around the back’ along a short stretch of the Flat Lode Trail was rain free today. It was wild and windy and quite hard work but very satisfying. I was delighted to find Cow Parsley as our niece-in-law, a brilliant poet, recently shared the following poem about Queen Anne’s Lace, the much prettier name used by Americans.

Cow parsley or Queen Anne’s Lace, a much prettier name used in USA

Fresh seed pods

Seed heads dried out

Queen Anne’s lace grows quiet
by the roadside in spring.
With brilliant purity, leaves of chartreuse
and flowers champagne.
With edible bitter roots,
wild carrots you could call out by name.

Queen Anne’s lace grows dark
and brittle as a backdrop by fall.
She stays the night just as quiet as before,
with a heart hard as timber by sunrise
still delicate and breakable and
by some fortune still ignored
by the creatures with limbs that might call
out her name and

snap her by the stem for a memorial.

She will not break beneath the endless rains
the frost of the morning or
the bleak quiet of the cul-de-sac,
the shades of grey you could call out by name,
the warm bodies which brush blithe
against the lines of her form.

Queen Anne’s lace sleeps with
her fingers to the sky
and her body deformed in glory,
patient for the warm rains of late winter
and the sun like a cold flashlight
in the hazy sky which will beckon her
to wake once more and
glimmer by the highway
in hindsight
restored.

By Kari Bijou

We call this walk ’round the back’ as it goes up behind our house which can be seen, just, in the next zoomed in photo. Ours is the yellow painted one (the paint is called Cornish Cream) with a window in the attic, on the right of the two Victorian semis.

Our house

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 29, 2019 in Beauty, Cornwall, environment, nature, Photography, poetry, Postaday 2019

Tags: cow parsley, Flat Lode Trail

Cookie Cutters, Shoes and Clematis

06 Aug

There was a closing down sale in one of Truro’s kitchen shops today and I bought a couple of cookie cutters in the shape of owls, irresistible actually!

I wish I could wear high heels as these would be perfect for gigs with the Ingleheart Singers whose colours are black and red.

A new Clematis, Huldine, is flowering and it is very pretty with its delicate purple lines on the back of the petals.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 6, 2019 in Beauty, garden, nature, Photography, Postaday 2019

Tags: Clematis Huldine

A Floriferous Day

31 Jul

Our town is full of flowers.

There are very tall sunflowers in a neighbour’s garden.Our garden is full of flowers too and this is the bunch we took to friends this evening when we went for supper.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 31, 2019 in Beauty, garden, nature, Photography

Tags: Sunflowers

Six on Saturday – On Sunday

28 Jul

A day late as I was busy all day yesterday hearing about the climate emergency and how we can each be doing our bit.
July is turning out to be a month of abundance, many more blooms that I remember from last year. Perhaps I have been more vigilant about feeding and certainly the sun and rain mix has been beneficial.

1. Day Lilies

Day Lilies

2. Alium with bees

3. Trailing Begonia called Million Kisses. We had these in all the chimneys and pots the year of our Golden Wedding.

One Million Kisses begonia in an old chimney cowl

4 Clematis and Dahlia in Suffragette colours – in the back garden, not in my Suffragette garden in the front.

Dahlias and Clematis

5. Agapanthus

Agapanthus

6. Poppy Seeds to save. There have been dozens of Poppies, all from seed saved last year and we have labelled the ones we like the best for harvesting this year.

Frilly red poppy

To see those who were on time with the SoS challenge, visit the propagator

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 28, 2019 in Beauty, Cornwall, environment, garden, nature, Photography, Postaday 2019

Tags: Begonia Million Kisses, Cornish garden, Suffragette colours

Boat Trip, Singing and Sunset

22 Jul

The Ingleheart Singers have been on their annual boat trip tonight and it was brilliant. We all take food to share on the trip out from Falmouth to St Mawes, then we entertain the punters in the local hostelry and then board the boat for the trip back home. We sing all the way back, entertaining those on the quay side, those in their boats and onshore in Falmouth.