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The Concert, The Book and The Song

The Inglehearts’ Anniversary Concert last night was a blast! We had a couple of standing ovations, there were tears and laughter and the joy in the room was palpable. Amazingly, we raised £1000.00 to be shared between our two charities, ShelterBox and Community Roots. What a generous audience they were.

Our wonderful committee have been working hard for months putting together a photo-book full of twenty years of singing for Claire. Here are a couple of the pages for you to see.

A very talented member of our choir wrote new words for the much-loved song ‘Cornwall My Home’ by the Cornish singer and song writer, Harry Glasson, who very kindly gave his permission to sing his tune with R’s words. Here I give you the chorus:

But I’ll always remember as time moves along
The love and the laughter that goes with the songs
With good times aplenty and sad times a-few
When you’re part of our choir, our choir’s part of you.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 19, 2026 in art, Celebration, charity, community, Cornwall, friendship, gigs, Happiness, History, Postaday 2026, ShelterBox

Tags: community roots, Harry Glasson

Singing, Our Concert and Memorabilia

12 Oct

I love singing and this afternoon was back at our choir rehearsal. It appears that the happy chemicals seratonin, oxytocin and dopamine are all released when singing together and I certainly fely better for the session.

Our annual concert is only six days away! We are celebrating the Ingleheart Singers’ 20th Anniversary. I have been in the choir for the last 18 years and 7 months and our concert is going to have a selection of pieces from those last 20 years. If you are local, do come and join us and please, introduce yourself! It will be an evening full to bursting with JOY!

We are collecting memorabilia of those years and today I took along a poster and programmes from Until The Day Break, a wonderful open air theatre production I was instrumental in producing. Claire had brought in a card from a wedding we sang at and at which I was the Humanist Celebrant.

If you’d like to see more of Until the Day Break, where the Ingleheart Singers were the singers, click here.

Extra info for the concert:

Free parking, bar open, raffle, donations on the door to Community Roots Cornwall and ShelterBox

Thankyou to Ruby Ingleheart for the lovely poster!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 12, 2026 in Celebration, community, Cornwall, friendship, Happiness, Humanist ceremony, Perthi Kov, Postaday 2026

Tags: Porthtowan Eco Park

Painting, Bath and Soup

06 Sep

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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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 6, 2026 in art, Celebration, Cornwall, craft, friendship, painting, Postaday 2026, Redruth, Uncategorized

Tags: Anita Pryor, Michelle Rudd, The Wuther Collective

Birthday Cake

11 Aug

Yesterday, I made a vegan, gluten free chocolate cake for the birthday of one of our wonderful directors of Community Roots. Sadly I couldn’t be there this morning but I’m told it went down well.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 11, 2026 in baking, Celebration, community, Postaday 2026

Happy Fourth of July!

04 Jul

Sending love and good wishes to all my family and friends and all my readers in America on this your 250th anniversary.

Here are two of our fridge magnets collected on trips to your beautiful counrty.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 4, 2026 in America, Celebration, community, family, friendship, Happiness, Postaday 2026

Tags: Thomas Jefferson

Our Town Was Buzzing Today

13 Jun

Two celebrations in Redruth today – Murdoch Day ( a celebration honouring the legacy of William Murdoch, the pioneer behind the use of coal gas in lighting) and Redruth Pride and the town has been buzzing with the parade, activities, live music on various stages and lots of market stalls. The sun shone too which is such a bonus. Enjoy the gallery and click on any photo for the caption and more detail.

Wonderful display outside our greengrocery/ butchery and deli shop

Delightful activity for children to draw themselves.

School bus! Part of the schools’ parade

Each child carried a cut-out of an engine house, all named for local copper/tin mines

Stilt walkers

Another stilt walker

My lovely neighbour and her sister helping to carry the enormous Pride flag

The start of the Pride flag

Redruth Town Band with our Town Crier in his beautiful coat about to announce the band’s performance

Just rung the bell and making the announcement

One of the amazing hats worn by the band

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 13, 2026 in art, Celebration, community, Cornwall, Postaday 2026, Redruth, Tin mining history, Uncategorized

Tags: Redruth Pride

Maypole, Cake and Rocket

02 May

Today’s Redruth Market was lots of fun with the maypole dancing in the Buttermarket being done expertly.

Beginning the maypole dance

All plaited up

Undoing the ribbons

Coffee cake for the cake stall. Thanks to C for the photo.

Flowering Rocket in the Incredible Edibles trough in Fore Street

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 2, 2026 in Celebration, community, Cornwall, Food, growing, nature, Postaday 2026, Redruth

Tags: #The Buttermarket Redruth

Muguet, Happiness Calendar and Garden Birds

01 May

May 1st is La Fête du Muguet in France and our dear friend Kath, to whom this blog is dedicated, always gave me a bunch of Lily-of-the-Valley or, if they were away in their house in Meysaac, a card would arrive on the day. The flowers symbolise happiness and good luck and I grow them in the garden in memory of my lovely friend.

Here is the Meaningful May calendar of happiness.

It’s a lovely time of year for bird song. Here is what we heard in a 10 minute recording.

Happy Beltane to you all.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 1, 2026 in art, Celebration, environment, friendship, garden, Happiness, nature, Postaday 2026

St Day Blossail

26 Apr

This afternoon I sang with my choir at the St Day Blossail where the blossoming apple trees were blessed and sung to, there was maypole dancing, Morris dancing, face painting and finally a concert from us, The Suitcase Singers.

Afterwards as I walked away I passed the lovely old roofless church.

A Birthday Treat and Bluebells

15 Apr

The first message to come through on my birthday (31/12/2025) was an invitation to Afternoon Tea at The Greenbank Hotel in Falmouth and this afternoon we went with our Dear and very generous friends to celebrate my birthday with a splendidly delicious afternoon tea and the most wonderful views. Enjoy the gallery and imagine our tastebud joy!