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A Good Read, Supper and A Poem

After a very busy morning working at Community Roots, I spent the afternoon reading. This is a thoroughly enjoyable saga of life at the time of creating stone circles. I loved the characters, imagining all the places and relationships and the construction details. I’m not a fan of the style of writing but the power of the story pulls the reader through

Supper was a delicious cheese topped fish pie.

Another poem from the little booklet, Pessimism is for Lightweights by Selena Godden. I think this one is more positive than the last one of hers that I shared. .

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on November 3, 2026 in books, community, Food, poetry, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Tags: Salena Godden

Young Volunteers and Winter Salads

27 Oct

It’s half term and there were lots of youngsters helping at Community Roots today.

I showed you the poly tunnels last week with all the winter crops. Here they are one week on.

Thanks to Community Roots for these lovely close-ups of Winter salad crops.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 27, 2026 in community, Cornwall, environment, Food, garden, nature, Porthtowan, Postaday 2026

Tags: community roots

Young Veggies, Autumn Leaves and Apples

20 Oct

We returned to Community Roots this morning and hoed and re-potted and loved being back in the fold. All the seeds that were planted weeks ago have nearly all been potted on and planted out in our absence. It was brilliant to see the progress in all the poly tunnels.

In the propagating tunnel

I love the colours of leaves in Autumn.

We have harvested the four apples on our new family apple tree. These are Lord Lambournes, crisp firm apples with a lovely flavour. Let’s hope there are more next year as it is described as a ‘heavy cropper!.’ The other branches gave no apples this year.

The Concert, The Book and The Song

19 Oct

The Inglehearts’ Anniversary Concert last night was a blast! We had a couple of standing ovations, there were tears and laughter and the joy in the room was palpable. Amazingly, we raised £1000.00 to be shared between our two charities, ShelterBox and Community Roots. What a generous audience they were.

Our wonderful committee have been working hard for months putting together a photo-book full of twenty years of singing for Claire. Here are a couple of the pages for you to see.

A very talented member of our choir wrote new words for the much-loved song ‘Cornwall My Home’ by the Cornish singer and song writer, Harry Glasson, who very kindly gave his permission to sing his tune with R’s words. Here I give you the chorus:

But I’ll always remember as time moves along
The love and the laughter that goes with the songs
With good times aplenty and sad times a-few
When you’re part of our choir, our choir’s part of you.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 19, 2026 in art, Celebration, charity, community, Cornwall, friendship, gigs, Happiness, History, Postaday 2026, ShelterBox

Tags: community roots, Harry Glasson

Sgraffito and the Concert

18 Oct

I spent a happy afternoon doing sgraffito on four of my pots. I am no artist but I did have fun. It’ll be very interesting to see how they turn out. I’ll return them to the studio tomorrow and they’ll be fired soon. We’ll be collecting on November 7th!

More about the concert, which was a huge success, tomorrow.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 18, 2026 in art, ceramics, community, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Tags: pottery

Singing, Our Concert and Memorabilia

12 Oct

I love singing and this afternoon was back at our choir rehearsal. It appears that the happy chemicals seratonin, oxytocin and dopamine are all released when singing together and I certainly fely better for the session.

Our annual concert is only six days away! We are celebrating the Ingleheart Singers’ 20th Anniversary. I have been in the choir for the last 18 years and 7 months and our concert is going to have a selection of pieces from those last 20 years. If you are local, do come and join us and please, introduce yourself! It will be an evening full to bursting with JOY!

We are collecting memorabilia of those years and today I took along a poster and programmes from Until The Day Break, a wonderful open air theatre production I was instrumental in producing. Claire had brought in a card from a wedding we sang at and at which I was the Humanist Celebrant.

If you’d like to see more of Until the Day Break, where the Ingleheart Singers were the singers, click here.

Extra info for the concert:

Free parking, bar open, raffle, donations on the door to Community Roots Cornwall and ShelterBox

Thankyou to Ruby Ingleheart for the lovely poster!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 12, 2026 in Celebration, community, Cornwall, friendship, Happiness, Humanist ceremony, Perthi Kov, Postaday 2026

Tags: Porthtowan Eco Park

Card, Kindness and Hoodie

08 Oct

Our dear friends at Community Roots have missed me on our Tuesday volunteering sessions and have sent me a delighful card full of lovely get well messages.

Thank you so much everyone!

I sent for a sweater, not my usual style but I loved the message.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 8, 2026 in art, community, friendship, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Tags: community roots, Hoodies for Heroes

Community Roots Today

15 Sep

The birthday, for which I made the special cake yesterday, was celebrated in style! Here we have just finished singing Happy Birthday to Matty, one of the directors of the project. He loved the cake and said the lemon drizzle on top ‘shone like diamonds in the sunshine.’

We also had a special and very delicious lunch made by one of the volunteers, Lemon Chickpea Soup, using a recipe from rainbowplantlife.com

We’ve had a new bright and lovely mural painted near the entrance, artist Omi O’Connell.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 15, 2026 in art, baking, community, Cornwall, environment, Food, friendship, mural, nature, painting, Postaday 2026

Robin, Leaves and Cake

14 Sep

At the local plant nursery today there was a very friendly robin.

I loved the colour of these leaves but didn’t take note of what the plant was.

I’ve made a special cake for Community Roots tomorrow as a birthday is being celebrated.

Lemon Victoria Sponge with a Lemon Drizzle Topping

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 14, 2026 in baking, community, Cornwall, nature, Postaday 2026

Tags: Burncoose Nursery

Harvest Celebration at Community Roots

13 Sep

Another cracker of a day, this time with our wonderful Roots community and many, many visitors celebrating the harvest, especially of Squash. Click on any of the photos for a bigger version.

The Welcome table at the gate

We used a human chain of all the people to bring the squash in for drying before storage. The children each took a parent onto the squash patch and the harvesting began in earnest. Each beautiful vegetable was handed around the chain and put on the racks to ripen off.