Tenors plus one soprano before the ShelterBox Christmas Concert in Truro Cathedral
Tenors in full voice! Thanks K for the photo.
Cake for tomorrow’s market
I wish I could have caught the Cold Moon near the horizon so that its super moon-ness could have been appreciated.
Just home from singing with my choirs at the ShelterBox Christmas Concert. .I hope some of you managed to follow the livestream.
Truro Cathedral at the end of tonight’s concert
This morning before our rehearsal, I was watching a couple of Swans and then realised there was a Grey Heron nearby and a Curlew. I didn’t identify the smaller birds.
I have just started reading the latest book from the ShelterBox Book Club which arrived on Saturday. The opening pages are drawing me right in and I’m looking forward to finding time to read.
I found this poem very moving and hope you do too.
Just a reminder about tomorrow’s Christmas Concert for ShelterBox that you can livestream if you’d like to. Here’s the link https://shelterbox.org/carolconcert/
I picked a little garden posy today for Sue-next-door to mark the birthday of her lovely Bill – rosemary for remembrance with the last of the blooms in our garden..
At Community Roots today, I spent a while looking through a beautiful little book made by pupils from a local school who spent a day in our community garden recently.
Here’s our Advent candle.
I have had the loveliest afternoon, first singing where we rehearsed for our part in Thursday evening for the ShelterBox Christmas concert in Truro Cathdral followed by a couple of hours with a delightful young friend who has asked for help as she learns to knit. 
She brought me a very pretty little bunch of flowers as a thank you.
The Christmas concert we were rehearsing for this afternoonwill be livestreamed around the world ,so if you would like to join us, you can register here.
Please do tell me if you register to watch. It would be lovely to know that some of you might be ‘with’ us.
I baked a cake for the Christmas Lights Switch-on market  and put white stars and gold spray on to make it Christmassy.
My choir had our first Christmas gig this evening at the opening night of Krowji Christmas Open Studios in Redruth. We were collecting for our charities, Penhaligon’s Friends and ShelterBox. There is some wonderful work in the studios. If you are local, it’s a brilliant place to find presents and lovely cards.
I gave my new Christmas tree earrings an outing.
Crocheted earrings
I was up early (for me) this morning so hoped to see a lovely sunrise. It wasn’t a pretty one but it was dramatic and looks almost like a black and white shot.
I went back to Roots this morning just for an hour and helped to sort the veggie bags for tomorrow’s veg bag distribution. It was good to be welcomed back by everyone.
We have bought a game that we had thought might be fun for the LiveWires when they visit at New Year. We’ve played it and had great fun but think the elastic bands may prove to have other uses when the younger LiveWires start playing!
Still taking things easy so here are some photos from 11th November 2018 when my choir went to St Ives to sing around some very special sand art.
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In Redruth today we had such a good time (and did the shopping!) We met a young DJ, Redruth Ben, whose programme on local radio we listened to this afternoon, went into gallery 89 and saw some delightful art work and our favourite busker, Sam, was in town and sang ‘Streets of London.’Â All in all, a brilliant morning. 
And, last night’s not quite full moon, first night without clouds since the Beaver Moon on November 5th.
It was a good sing this morning. This was our warm-up song.
My reading for the last week has been ‘Mad Honey ‘ by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan. it was brilliant, informative, compelling and one of those books you just can’t put down. Like others of her books, it deals with very important issues while being a cracking good story.
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