The set of The Choir of Man, yesterday’s post, was a pub and at the start, lots of audience members were among the cast enjoying a drink. If you are local, there are still some tickets left this week at The Hall for Cornwall, Truro.
I liked the paper flowers in the shop window as we collected our bread this morning.
Walking back along Lovers’ Lane, there was lots of Cow parsley, more prettily known as Queen Anne’s Lace.
Along the way there was a delicate white feather on the path.
After a very busy morning at Community Roots preparing 24 seed trays for the winter salads and 13 module trays for Spring onions and other seeds, I’m out for the evening – going for a meal with a dear friend and then going to what promises to be a crazy evening.
The publicity material says, “An uplifting celebration of community and friendship where everyone is welcome – don’t miss this feel-good night of foot-stomping entertainment, so good you’ll want to come back and see it again and again.”
Back home. That summary was right! If you get the chance to see the show, it really is a treat.
I missed Six on Saturday this week as it was a very busy weekend so here are my six for last week.
First some really good news – we thought our Acer, a present for our Ruby wedding, 19 years ago, had succumbed to the drought. It may be a different shape as it recovers but it isn’t dead! We spotted some new growth today.
The Japanese Anemones are looking very good especially with the purple of the Verbena Bonariensis.
The Rudbeckia are glowing.
The Clematis Montana in the front garden has two flowers but you’ll have to look hard to see them!
Other Clematis seed heads are looking delicate and lovely.
The Buddleia is in the field behind us, not strictly in our garden but we benefit from the blooms.
I’m a bit late to the party this week but you could still pop over to Jim, over at Garden Ruminations, where you’ll find Six on Saturday and in the comments, you’ll find many delightful posts from keen gardeners all over the world.
Yesterday, after buying the wonderful pastries at Redruth’s monthly market, we called in at our favourite gallery in town, 89 Redruth. The room was full of very interesting work but my eye was immediately drawn to a small painting, We went in saying, we mustn’t buy another piece and came out later to have a short chat about whether to buy. Happily, my lovely Mr S loved as much as I did so we were back within minutes and today called in to collect it. It was so lovely to meet the artist and to see her reaction to my loving her work.
Sunset at Elmscott by Michelle Rudd
We went to a birthday do at recently refurbished Rose Cottage today. We just had our lunch but the guests were encouraged to make use of the spa in the delightful back garden of the pub. After cooking themselves in the sauna, they had the option of three ‘plunge pools’ – one warmed by the sun in a lovely white bath, next a cooler metal bath and lastly, for the truly hardy, a refrigerated tub!
Today we have harvested the last of our sweetcorn cobs and I have made a big batch of Corn Chowder. We had some tonight and the rest will go in the freezer to enjoy some summer sunshine on a grey winter day.
P.S. There was one more piece in 89 Redruth that I fell for and might have bought today but it had gained a red spot overnight…..
Specimen no 2 by Anita Pryor
It was good too to learn the story of this collective:
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.
This evening we went to the Hall for Cornwall in Truro to listen to Lucy Worsley, historian. She was very entertaining. On the way we appreciated the gorgous flower displays and the view of the cathedral. 
After a delicious breakfast with delightful company in the Mylor Cafe, we headed to Truro to do some banking business and to visit the cathedral for a new large-scale textile exhibition Threads Through Revelation by artist Jacqui Parkinson. It’s only there for a few days from September 3 to 5 so if you are local you have a chance to see this remarkably beautiful work.
Regular readers may remember the exhibition of Jacqui Parkinson’s other work which I posted about here. It’s worth going back to. https://mybeautfulthings.com/2025/07/09/exhibition-at-truro-cathedral/
Here is today’s gallery with the information on the right hand side. Click on any photo to see the exquisite detail and read the information.
This one is for sale……..
Another icon has gone – RIP Gloria Steinem, feminist, activist and journalist.
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
It’s been a busy morning harvesting – sweetcorn and tomatoes.
We had freshly boiled and buttered sweetcorn for lunch and I cooked four more cobs and cut off the corn to freeze. There’ll be more for lunch tomorrow.
The black tomatoes from one plant I have today made into a rich tomato chutney with a hint of cardamom. It’s delicious.
500g tomatoes made two and a half little jars of chutney
This afternoon one of my choirs, The Suitcase Singers, had our last gig of the summer at The Meudon Hotel.
Looking from the dining room down the garden.
In 2018 I was the Humanist Celbrant at a delightful wedding in the gardens of the Meudon Hotel.
We had to go to Penzance to the auction house this morning and had illusions of afterwards parking and visiting the book shop, having lunch and going to the Penlee Gallery. We thought we were early enough but oh my, the visitors were earlier and parking was impossible! So, we decided to go to Mounts Bay to have one of the best ice-creams around. The beach was empty as there was a cool wind but I did manage to get a photo of the lovely mural on the wall at the back of the shop.
Yesterday, we were given a beautiful bunch of flowers, purple, white and green as our daughters and granddaughters are well aware of their suffragette heritage.
Our present to each other for our anniversary is another of Esther Smith’s automata, this one called Flower Power which the kids thought was me.
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