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. 
Category Archives: Celebration
Birthday Cake
Happy Fourth of July!
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. 
Our Town Was Buzzing Today
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
Maypole, Cake and Rocket
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
Muguet, Happiness Calendar and Garden Birds
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.
St Day Blossail
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
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!
The savouries
Sweet treats
Chocolate egg pot, chocolate mouse in a little chocolate flower pot
Scones, jam and clotted cream
Bubbly!
Thank you so much N&G – that was a wonderful afternoon with you two and what a truly lovely birthday present!
Bluebells on the way home
A Night at the Museum
Tonight was the opening of the exhibition, Cornish Myths and Legends, at the Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery.
Arghans by Sue Hill and Pete Hill (with a little input from me!)
The hair and little creatures
Discussing the creation
Sue and L, in a very beautiful coat, talking about the exhibition
On the ride home
International Women’s Day, A Photo and A Posy
A day to celebrate all the wonderful women in my life, sisters, daughters and friends, those still with us and those who have been very special influences in my life – my Suffragette Great Granny, my Spanish Granny, my Mum and my dear friends Kath and Angie in whose memories I write this blog. To learn more about either of these much missed women, put their name in the search bar.
My Granny and my Mum
It’s the 8th anniversary of our lovely neighbours’ wedding and every year I take a small posy round in memory of Dear Bill-next-door, a posy like the ones I made for their wedding when my lovely Mr S and I were witnesses. I was delighted to find rich blues in the garden this year which Bill would have loved, the colour of the Underworld…
Posy for Sue in a pot by Nicky
St Piran’s Day Celebrations in Redruth
It’s been a fun packed day in sunshine today, the parade, markets, daffodils, live music, flowers everywhere and so many happy, smiley people. Enjoy the gallery.
Outside the GrowBox
Outside the GrowBox
The parade
The Lamb
Steam punk
Our flag
Redruth School
Steam punk
Perran Moon, our MP, having a chat
On Bond Street
On Bond Street
On Bond Street
For those who wonder about the lamb:
Redruth Town Council uses The Lamb and Flag as its emblem building on a heritage of use in the town for hundreds of years though its origin remains widely debated. Historians believe the symbol first appeared in the wool trade during the Middle Ages. By the 19th century, people associated a lamb with purity due to its Christian connotations and used it in the mining trade to indicate the purity of the metal they were producing – the smelters stamped each ingot with the sign of the lamb and the St Piran flag was added to indicate its Cornish origin. Both copper and tin were very important in Cornwall, with various mines in the Redruth, Pool and Camborne area being the largest in the world for each of these minerals.
