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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.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 20, 2025 in community, Cornwall, CPR Foodbank, craft, Food Bank, Penhaligon's Friends, Postaday2025, ShelterBox

Plume Moth and A Good Read

23 Aug

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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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 23, 2025 in Cornwall, environment, garden, nature, Postaday2025, ShelterBox, Uncategorized

Tags: Abundance by Amit Majmudar, Amit Majmudar, ShelterBox book club

Seeds of Friendship

19 Aug

Before going to Roots today, I went to Portreath to join a Seeds of Friendship workshop.

It was a lovely event with everyone working on one of the suggestions on the board.

I made a friendship bracelet and S made a pin badge which she then gave to me.

The board on the street to encourage people in

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 19, 2025 in charity, community, Cornwall, craft, friendship, Postaday2025, Uncategorized

Tags: Gaza, Palestine

Singing and Sunset

13 Aug

I’ve just returned fro singing at the Eco Park tonight – a wonderful evening of song and joy

TONIGHT!

Join the Ingleheart Singers, Suitcase Singers and friends for a night of Shanties and more…

We will be collecting for Shelter Box, Penhaligons and St Petrocs

7pm – 9pm

Eco Park Porthtowan

FREE Entry and Parking

Atrium bar and food available from Canteen from 6pm

https://shelterbox.org

https://penhaligonsfriends.org.uk

https://www.stpetrocs.org.uk

In the interval I took a walk and the sky was peachy with sunset colours.

Harbour, Ducks and Nurdles

27 Jun

Once a month we have breakfast with dear friends, this time, on a beautiful morning, we were in Mylor by the harbour full of yachts.

On the drive home and on the way to Truro, we passed the duck bridge. No-one knows who put all the little plastic ducks on the bridge.

Taken from the moving car!

For the last few weeks there has been an online auction run by Truro Museum and Art Gallery. They have been raising money to run their Monday Museum Club. We saw the exhibition of the postcard sized art and I posted about it here.

The auction ended last Friday and we won two of the three pieces of art that we had fallen for. Here is Nurdle Seedheads by Michelle Costello of https://smartielidsonthebeach.co.uk

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 27, 2025 in art, charity, Cornwall, environment, friendship, Happiness, Mylor, Postaday2025, Uncategorized

Tags: Michelle Costello, Monday Museum Club, Truro Museum and Art Gallery

Mother’s Day

30 Mar

Cards, flowers, a Choose Love gift of ‘education and play for refugee children’ and – our daughter’s Maine Coon cat gave birth to five kittens! No pictures for you yet.

Remembering my lovely Mum as I use her Mum’s lovely green glass to display a Fritillary bloom that fell. More inherited stuff from Granny Hilda, she loved green glass.

And for all of you….

Thanks to the designer of the above.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 30, 2025 in charity, family, glass, Happiness, nature, Postaday2025, Uncategorized

Tags: Choose Love, mumsborneveryminute

Jacket, Soup Night and A Squirrel

29 Mar

I’ve had my Granny’s jacket for many years, wore it quite a lot but I haven’t worn it for a long time and decided it needed a new home so I took it down to Make A Mends for them to make use of it. Sarah fell in love with it so it is now hers and it really suits her. My Granny was Hilda Richards and she would be delighted that it is still being loved and worn.

We’ve been to Redruth Soup Night, great fun and for a good cause so win win all round. After the soup I had the most delicious Lemon Posset.

On the wall is another of Redruth’s red squirrels. Sadly, I don’t know the artist but I will find out.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 29, 2025 in art, charity, community, Cornwall, Food, Postaday2025, Redruth, Uncategorized

Plants, Automata and Pancake Day

04 Mar

What a beautiful day in every way! The sun shone and the sky was blue. I met friends at Community Roots where we potted on lots of celery and celeriac, admired our growing tomato plants and laughed along with the team. Later I visited the Contraptions exhibition, we met two enthusiastic young gardeners, a friend called round with some books to swap and finally I made pancakes, both savoury stuffed and, to finish, Crêpes Suzettes.

Salad leaves

Baby tomatoes, many varieties

We have a couple of Esther Smith’s pieces – I love her work.

The last remnants of the pancake batter made a rather pretty lacy pancake pattern.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 4, 2025 in art, automaton, community, Cornwall, environment, friendship, growing, nature, Postaday2025, volunteering

Tags: 89 Redruth, Esther Smith

Book Club and A Poem

23 Feb

Another hoolie, another day to read! I started ‘Black Butterflies’ by Priscilla Morris, yesterday and was unable to put it down until I finished it this afternoon. My, what a talent this young woman has. This is her first novel and it is stunning. It is set in Sarajevo in 1992 and is deeply moving. It’s a love letter to humanity, to the power of art, to family, to a Sarajevo under siege and to love itself. And, it is beautifully written.

A friend sent me this poem, knowing how I appreciate the small things, the “lovely things” that are all around us if we can take the time to stop and to notice. .

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 23, 2025 in community, Postaday2025, ShelterBox

Tags: 1992, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Priscilla Morris, Sarajevo, ShelterBox book club

Camellia, Good Words and A Special Invitation

20 Feb

There being no choir today as it is half term, a good friend from the tenors came round for coffee and we spent a happy couple of hours ‘putting the world to rights’ – if only we could! P brought me some beautiful Camellia blooms from her garden.

The following quotation is one to be treasured and acted upon.

Our choir leader, Claire Ingleheart, has spent the afternoon at Buckingham Palace! Since both her choirs started raising money for Shelter Box in 2015, even despite the ‘covid years’, between the two choirs, we have raised £7,800 and as recognition of this, Claire was invited as one of the ShelterBox contingent to a reception being held by the King and Queen at the Palace for four Humanitarian charities. What an honour! We are looking forward to hearing all about it next week.