At Roots today there were lots of little fungi. I’ve tried to identify it but havent managed to.
There were lots of jobs today and 35 volunteers so everything got done! 
The fennel had been harvested and someone had put a marigold on the pale stems and green fronds which was a lovely colour mix.
Over the years I have knitted, crocheted and sewn for all sorts of causes / charities. The following is taken from the Craftivism Manifesto which you can see in full at the end.
“Your craft is your voice. Craftivism is about raising consciousness, creating a better world stitch by stitch, and things made by hand, by a person. Craftivism is about creating wider conversations about uncomfortable social issues. A craftivist is anyone who uses their craft to help the greater good or in resistance to a greater societal ill. A single individual crafting can make a difference. Or they can craft together and benefit from the fellowship of other crafters.”
At the moment I am knitting 5″ squares in red, green and white for Fariha whose words follow:
“We are looking for people to sew, crochet, knit or embroider squares for a project called Stolen lives, Stolen Futures. Gaza’s children remembered. Each square represents 10 children murdered by Israel. We are looking for 5” squares in black, red, white, green or a combination of these colours. Each square is precious like the children it represents. Please DM for details of where to post squares.
Fariha has kindly given me permission to share her photo and words. If you would like to make a square, I can pass you the address.
My squares so far
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.
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.
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
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.
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/
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.
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
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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