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Singing, Our Concert and Memorabilia

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.

A delicious lunch was made for every volunteer, a very tasty tomato sauce with spaghetti.

There were other activities for children including the Gratitude Tree which was a delight.

Lastly there was a parade around the garden led by the trio Jaclarabag with such verve that got everyone dancing at the end of the walk.

Setting off on the walk

Nearly done

Dancing with the enormous veggies

And tonight we are just home from a brilliant evening at The Redruth Comedy Club where Mark Steele and Marcus Brigstock kept us laughing all evening.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 13, 2026 in community, Cornwall, environment, Food, friendship, growing, music, nature, Postaday 2026

Redruth International Mining and Pasty Festival

12 Sep

That was a cracker of a day at the festival!
Our town was buzzing – live music, delicious cakes and excellent coffee, some wonderful outfits, meet ups with friends, bubbles in the park and, in the afternoon, two fascinating talks.

Beautiful cloak in Cornish tartan

Bubble fun for the youngsters in St Rumon’s Gardens

Redruth Town Band with the yellow trombone

Bubble fun for the youngsters in St Rumon’s Gardens

Three Daft Monkeys

Busy Bond Street

The first talk, by Sharron Schwartz, was about the Cornish miners who went to work in Mexico and Wisconsin in the 1820s. Cornishman were experts in hard rock mining and their skills were called for all over the world. The other talk, by Dr Lesley Trotter, was about the women who were ‘left behind,’ The Married Widows of Cornwall.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 12, 2026 in America, community, Cornwall, embroidery, festival, History, Postaday 2026, Redruth, Tin mining history

Tags: Dr Lesley Trotter, Sharron P Schwartz

Bulbs, Cake and Today

11 Sep

I’ve put some hyacinth bulbs in the special glasses today, put them in a dark cupboard for the roots to develop and in about 6 weeks they should be ready to come out into daylight and then hopefully be in flower for Christmas, maybe New Year.

Tomorrow is Redruth’s International Mining and PastyFestival.

So I’ve made a coffee cake for the cake stall.

On this day, 9/11, people have been remembering the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives in the attack on the twin towers.
Here in Cornwall, hundreds of people attended a memorial service in Hayle this afternoon to remember Rick Rescorla, a Cornishman who died in the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre.
“Today, twenty-five years after the attacks changed the world, the proud Cornishman from Hayle continues to be remembered on both sides of the Atlantic. Having already helped hundreds to escape, he bravely went back into one of the burning towers to look for missing staff members.
Last seen moving upwards as he sang songs from his beloved Cornwall, they echoed through the staircases as he urged workers to keep moving.”

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 11, 2026 in America, community, Cornwall, Hayle, nature, Postaday 2026

Tags: 9/11, Rick Rescorla, twin towers

Sign, Patisserie and Sky

05 Sep

Our lovely neighbour who takes my cakes to the market each month, made a special sign for it on the market stall.

There was a new stall at the market, a French/Italian patisserie, Nougatine, and, my goodness, the Lemon Tarts were absolutely the best I have ever tasted.

The sky this evening was beautiful.

P.S. The exhibition at Truro Cathedral ends on October 5th.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 5, 2026 in baking, community, Cornwall, environment, nature, Postaday 2026, Redruth

Tags: Nougatine Bakery & Pâtisserie (@nougatine.cornwall), solar energy

Happiness, Cake and Carrots

01 Sep

It’s time for this month’s Happiness calendar.

I made a scrumptious Lemon Victoria Sponge cake for the volunteers today and it went down a storm. It was rather delicious!

We have a wonderful carrot harvesting team as I think I mentioned a couple of weeks ago when I used some of the carrots for the following week’s cake. We have a bunch of youngsters from toddler to nearly 9 years old who are superb at pulling up the carrots! All the parents gave permission for the photos to be used here

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 1, 2026 in Children, community, Cornwall, environment, Food, growing, nature, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Rainfall, Harvest and Feather

18 Aug

There has been rain over the last two nights but only 3 mls recorded since last Tuesday at Community Roots. A farmer on the radio this morning said the 8 mls he’d recorded was, ‘”A Goldilocks amount, not too little and not too much!” We hope for a little more over the next few days but with family about to visit, not so much as to spoil their fun!

More tomatoes were harvested today.