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Veggie Bags and Veggies

I did all my volunteering at home last week and for another hour today, sewing two more of the bags that Roots uses rather than bags for the weekly veggie deliveries.

When I arrived today, I was amazed at the growth of the vegetables (and the flowers) since I was last there. My job today was sowing two trays of Spring Onions. Enjoy the gallery.

Poppy

Marigolds

Produce

The bund with wild flowers

I filled these two trys with Spring onion seeds, 5 to each cell.

More amazing growth

Colour in the bund

Volunteers in the fields

Poppies and Vetch

I am back! This is my first full day in Cornwall as we got back yesterday at 10 pm! In the morning we went to visit the allotment to replant a tiny tomato plant, protect the growing vegetables and scatter some seeds to create a flower bed!

We found some beautiful flowers in other people’s allotments. Their colours made it finally feel like spring – I missed those bursts of colour and patterns so it was great to see some dancing in the sun!

Later on, we had some delicious, classic, fish and chips. I noticed the gorgeously artistic napkin holders made out of different coloured beads which is something I hadn’t seen before but I thought it was really cool and now I think I’m going to have to find some of my own. Although I think they’re one of a kind!

Some of the fine beadwork made by the women in Mapoch, S Africa, where we did our volunteering in 2006

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 6, 2023 in allotment, art, environment, nature, photography, Postaday 2023, volunteering, Voluntouring

Tags: Tulips, Zulu beadwork

Singing in Truro Cathedral

01 Apr

What a fabulous event this was to be a part of!

Truro Cathedral Concert

Our wonderful audience raised £720 for our three charities. Here we are singing the wonderful last song, “We Shall Be Known” by Karisha Longaker of MaMuse.

Thank you to the lovely Mr S for the video.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 1, 2023 in Celebration, charity, community, Cornwall, friendship, gigs, Happiness, Kindness, music, Postaday 2023, Truro, Uncategorized

Tags: CPR Food Bank, MaMuse, Man Down, ShelterBox, We Shall Be Known by Karisha Longaker

Charities, Posy and A Beach

02 Mar

The river this morning when we started singing was very calm and the masts reflected almost perfectly. After singing we had two visitors from the charities we have supported over the last year, Penhaligon’s Friends and ShelterBox, £400 to each, thanks to our generous audiences. Here we are presenting the cheques to their representatives.

Photo thanks to Mandy Rolleston

This afternoon we visited our dear friend, Ti and took her a little bouquet of flowers from our garden.

Afterwards we went to Godrevy for a walk in the chilly air with the glorious warmth of the sun on our backs – a day of apricity!

Love, Working and Dessert

14 Feb

It’s Valentine’s Day and I send all my readers love.

We’ve been up at Community Roots again, pricking out and mulching. Enjoy the gallery.

Onion seedlings with their seeds as tiny caps

Pricking out into the modules tray

Biscuits made yesterday went down a treat…….

Mulching trees on the bund

Fabulous growth in the poly tunnels

Eric and his grandson making useful things

We had a lovely Valentine’s dinner tonight and Pears Poached in Red Wine with Star Anise and Cinnamon were our scrumptious dessert.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 14, 2023 in community, Cornwall, environment, nature, photography, Postaday 2023, Uncategorized, volunteering

Tags: community roots, Pears Poached in Red Wine with Star Anise and Cinnamon

Sage, Tie Dye and Sunset

24 Jan

At Community Roots today we prepared Willow whips for planting and then I worked with P and G to take cuttings from the rather tired sage plant while the lovely Mr S worked on other jobs.

In November we put elastic bands on the veg bags so that they could be tie dyed. Today we undid them and this is the one I worked on.

We caught the sunset, the new moon and Venus in one shot this evening.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on January 24, 2023 in community, Cornwall, environment, friendship, growing, photography, Postaday 2023, volunteering

Tags: community roots

Planting, Pizzas and Angel Wings

06 Nov

Fabulous day today as the volunteers at Community Roots planted trees and shrubs as windbreaks to protect the site from salty winds and later shared a delicious pizza lunch. Do click through the photos to see the captions. Some of the photos were taken by other volunteers and are here with permission.

New rain jackets being modelled

Supervision

Planters on the bund

Bringing the juvenile cuttings

Planting

Planted

Pizza fire

Pizzas in the oven

Pizza van, menu and queue

My pizza, pesto, sun dried tomatoes and mushrooms

The youngest volunteers with their ‘Pizza kitchen’

Pizza made for me by L

Cuttings prepared by the team I was part of today

Later in the afternoon, I cut wings for ten more Angels for Ukraine, tomorrow I will file all the rough edges and foil later in the week.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on November 6, 2022 in art, Celebration, community, Cornwall, environment, Food, friendship, glass, Happiness, nature, photography, Postaday2022, volunteering

Tags: community roots

Peace and Charity Auction

13 Oct

Singing at the Zed Shed where this vision of peace greets us in the morning, is very soul restoring.

Choir this morning have recorded a short piece for the ShelterBox Auction. The top bidder for us will win an hour’s concert! Here is a YouTube video for you of The Suitcase Singers singing Anne Glanville

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnXNwa5XTVA

When our Ukrainians were with us, I contacted Spotlight South West to encourage them to see the show and do interviews with the Hooligan Art Community. Here is the interview for you to see. It takes a while to load.

Fungus, Lunch and Harvest

20 Sep

Loved this very delicate fungus growing at Community Roots on Volunteer Tuesday. I have tried to identify it but had no luck. https://www.wildfooduk.com/mushroom-guide/.

Lunch was a delicious spread of salads all picked from the gardens.

The squash harvest is wonderful! This is just half of it.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 20, 2022 in community, Cornwall, friendship, nature, photography, Postaday2022, Uncategorized, volunteering

Tags: community roots

Allotment – Flowers and Fun

10 Jul

We had a shared lunch at the allotment today – lots of courgettes in evidence! My muffins (recipe to come as soon as I can) were joined by Courgette Fritters and more muffins and some delicious Cinnamon rolls. I took some photos of a couple of flowers around the plot.

Chatting together we talked about travelling and learning languages and I remembered learning some IsiZulu for our volunteering in Mapoch, near Pretoria when we first retired. I made flash cards to learn with and afterwards wrote a diary of our experiences. Here is the opening paragraph of my diary and some of my flash cards.