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Potatoes, Primroses and Pancakes

There was a bitterly cold wind up at Roots today but the hardiest of the volunteers planted all the potatoes. A less hardy group of us planted tomato, aubergine, pepper, fennel and celery seeds. Others were transplanting the baby onion plants from seed trays into modules.

Amy among the rows of potatoes

There are more beautiful primroses in our front garden.

It’s Shrove Tuesday and this evening we’ve had savoury pancakes stuffed with ham and sweet corn followed by crêpes suzettes with the juice of ruby red blood oranges.

 

 

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Baking, A Treat and Music

I spent the day baking for tonight and tomorrow. One cake was for this evening when we joined friends and others for an open mic evening with a pot luck supper. The other cake and the bread buns are for tomorrow when we have a Tree Planting event at Community Roots and will need to feed the volunteers and the choir.

There is always an interesting spread at a pot luck supper and tonight there was a special treat – utterly delicious ba bao fan, Eight Treasures Rice.

One of the ‘turns’ was a wonderful player of an accordion.

The evening was in aid of Children of Peace.

 

Another Christmas Gig

As we are about to start singing

On display

Just finished singing The Twelve Days of Christmas with audience participation

One of the beautiful horses

Lights across the Trehaddle Valley on zoom

No zoom

 

 

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ShelterBox Concert, Truro Cathedral and River Birds

Just home from singing with my choirs at the ShelterBox Christmas Concert. .I hope some of you managed to follow the livestream.

Truro Cathedral at the end of tonight’s concert

This morning before our rehearsal, I was watching a couple of Swans and then realised there was a Grey Heron nearby and a Curlew. I didn’t identify the smaller birds.

 

New Book, A Poem and A Reminder

I have just started reading the latest book from the ShelterBox Book Club which arrived on Saturday.  The opening pages are drawing me right in and I’m looking forward to finding time to read.

I found this poem very moving and hope you do too.

Just a reminder about tomorrow’s Christmas Concert for ShelterBox that you can livestream if you’d like to. Here’s the link https://shelterbox.org/carolconcert/

 
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Posted by on December 3, 2025 in community, ShelterBox, Uncategorized

 

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Happiness Calendar, Knitting and Flowers

I have had the loveliest afternoon, first singing where we rehearsed for our part in Thursday evening for the ShelterBox Christmas concert in Truro Cathdral  followed by a couple of hours with a delightful young friend who has asked for help as she learns to knit.

She brought me a very pretty little bunch of flowers as a thank you.

The Christmas concert we were rehearsing for this afternoonwill be livestreamed around the world ,so if you would like to join us, you can register here.

Please do tell me if you register to watch. It would be lovely to know that some of you might be ‘with’ us.

 

Cake, Krowji and Earrings

I baked a cake for the Christmas  Lights Switch-on market  and put white stars and gold spray on to make it Christmassy.

My choir had our first Christmas gig this evening at the opening night of Krowji Christmas Open Studios in Redruth.  We were collecting for our charities, Penhaligon’s Friends and ShelterBox. There is some wonderful work in the studios. If you are local, it’s a brilliant place to find presents and lovely cards.

I gave my new Christmas tree earrings an outing.

Crocheted earrings

 

 

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Doves of Peace

I was back at singing this afternoon! Joy! A friend at choir brought in some `Christmas cards to sell,  made by his partner and they are really beautiful. I thought you might like to see his words on the back too.

This is one of four lovely designs.

20% of each card sold will go to ShelterBox

 

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Concert, Charities and A Badge

For the song we were singing, Sithi Malweni, when this photo was taken at the concert last night at the Eco Park,  I had left the tenors and moved to the sopranos as I love their part and it’s not too high for me.

We were collecting for our charities last night, ShelterBox, Penhaligon’s Friends and we raised an amazing £931!    What a wonderfully generous audience and choir.  We also collected items for the local food bank. These trollies are full of what we collected. 

Here are the flowers, card and special badge that we gave Claire. The stitching on the badge,  ‘Lead in love’ is from one of our songs, “We Shall be Known” and is the way our wonderful leader, Claire, leads at all times.

 

Plume Moth and A Good Read

I saw my second Plume Moth today. They are remarkably delicate creatures.

I’ve just finished reading the latest book from the ShelterBox Book Club and loved it. It’s a story of love and tensions within a family, motherhood over generations and the abundance of Gujarati food shared at all the family gatherings.  The writer draws you right into the family and their distress when they learn that their mother, the narrator, has a terminal diagnosis and examines their differing reactions as the months go by. The online discussions will be interesting and I really look forward to the Q&A with the author Amit Majmudar who, we are told, “is a diagnostic nuclear radiologist as well as a poet and author. ” As it says on the cover, this story is “heartbreakingly lovely.”

 

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