Despite it being the Rugby World Cup Final (Well done, South Africa!) and blowing a hoolie (winds of 70 – 100 mph!) the Market, all indoors today, was a success with a lovely buzz about it.
Part of the display on my stall – Christmas colours and Angels
The Choisya is putting out some blossom again! Its scent is gorgeous but with so few flowers you have to get close to appreciate it.
And …. our Christmas Cactus is blooming early.
We have stopped listening to the Today programme on Radio 4 in the mornings as the combative nature of the interviews and the general bad news is not contributing to our well-being. Instead we are listening to music, this morning on Radio 3, and caught the delightful Elizabeth Alker in her Breakfast slot. One of the pieces she played was Jeanne by Georges Brassens and I loved it so thought I would share it with you here. If you’d like a translation of the words, click on this link.
Super delicious new soup for lunch, Herby Broccoli and Pea, one I shall repeat.
Herby Broccoli and Pea Soup
I’m loving making Angels for the Christmas markets. Here are the latest bunch, all foiled and ready for soldering.
More of my ‘choir’ of angels
We arrived home on Wednesday evening and went straight to the sea.
Porthtowan
We spent Thursday unpacking etc. On Friday morning we went to stand with the Youth strike for the Climate in Truro
The Red Rebels
…….. and in the evening to a splendid Sing and Supper at Mount Pleasant Eco Park with friends.
The delicious menu
Saturday saw us in Truro again for International Peace Day and taking part in a flashmob in Truro Cathedral. The following video gives a flavour of the wonderful event.
Today I have made my first Christmas angel of the season out of Victorian window glass and some pretty beads I picked up while away.
This afternoon we have been blackberry picking and got caught in a drenching storm and this afternoon ……..
Water rushing down the hill
….. I have made a blackberry cake, Thomasina Miers’ Spiced Blackberry and Brown Sugar Crumble Cake and so – we are home! 
More about our adventures in later posts.
I am so enjoying my Glass workshops with Lisa Macfarlane! Today I went for something without a template and created a design that I am delighted with. Here are the pieces with their copper foil, awaiting the solder and tomorrow, when I can photograph it against the light, I’ll show you the finished hanging piece.
Beautiful pieces
Other people made some lovely decorations too. Click on the image to see the whole.
Outside, on the wall of the car park, the multi-coloured Ivy caught my attention. It’s a bit fuzzy as I took the photo through the windscreen.
Ivy
What a day today turned out to be! A dear friend called in for coffee this morning and then we were invited to a special showing of Bill Mitchell’s attic. Sue had made an attic cake and after each person had seen the film (See below) and Bill’s amazing attic full of remarkable things and inspiration, we were invited to make a cake decoration of something we had seen. This is the cake as we left and I will show you the finished cake later.It was a beautiful tribute to a wonderful man. You might like to read my tribute to him written last year. https://mybeautfulthings.com/2017/05/03/bill-mitchell-our-friend-next-door-2121951-1442017/
After that we ventured into a very cold town for a brief visit to Redruth’s Old Tyme Christmas Market in the newly refurbished Butter Market. Clare Summerson’s Light show, ‘Spirit of Light’ was fabulous, truly beautiful. They were hard to photograph they were moving so only two here.
The Christmas Tree was lovely too.
Christmas tree in the Butter Market
My choir, The Suitcase Singers, were due to be recorded for a TV programme this morning. I have missed so many of our choir events this Christmas and did not want to miss that! Our lovely choir leader gave permission for me to go along and mime so that is what I did! The lovely Mr S dropped me at the door and picked me up at the end. It is to be on ITV at 6pm on 21st December as part of a programme about typical Cornish Christmas celebrations. Here we all are in Penryn Town Hall.
The Suitcase Singers – thanks to J for taking the photo.
The lovely Mr S had a plan when he picked me up and I was whisked away to have lunch at Falmouth Pavilions where the annual Christmas tree event was in full swing.
One Angel caught my eye.
Pretty angel
A question for my fellow Bloggers – has anyone tried the new editor, Gutenberg? I am about to renew my (expensive) subs to WordPress and am concerned about the complexity of the new editor. I’ve given it a run-through and didn’t take to it though that was just a brief try. If it’s going to be a pain rather than a pleasure, it may be time to call it a day or maybe I just need to spend some time re-learning! I’d love to know what other Bloggers are thinking.
You may have read a few days ago of the Christmas Boxes we have contributed to, to provide Christmas dinner in a box for the most impoverished families in Cornwall. Today, they have been collected from all over Cornwall and these are the words of the lovely, hardworking organisers.
“965 boxes donated – that’s something like £30,000 of food, helping around 5,000 people this Christmas.
That is awesome!
We are so proud of the people of Cornwall!!”
Isn’t that amazing? What generosity from one of the poorest areas of Europe!
The lovely Mr S put up our tree today. We’ll decorate it tomorrow.
Our Scandinavian tree
I loved the idea of hugs being like jump start leads. Thank you so much to the makers, creatorsneverprosper.
Hugs
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