LiveWire breakfasts are fun! They ate lots of eggy bread with various tomato ketchup shapes.
A lovely time was had by all playing in the waves and the sand in Portreath.
Gull Rock, Portreath, Cornwall
The Chilli went down a storm this evening when all thirteen of us were together and so did the Summer pudding.
Summer pudding
The Rose hips were in someone’s garden in Truro or I might have picked them to make syrup.
Before the show, Estha’s Story, at Heartlands this evening, there was singing and cake in the Diaspora garden. The cakes were magnificent! All made by Little Crumbs and decorated with edible flowers.
The show was amazing! Yskynna, the aerial dance company and the singers combined to tell the story of a Cornish Bal maiden and the audience loved it. Click on any photo in the gallery for a closer look.
I have completed glass piece for a friend today incorporating her much treasured crystal heart. I’m very pleased with it.
The Bill Mackenzie seed heads were catching the sunbeams today and were very lovely.
At the weekend, Extinction Rebellion put 200 flags on boats in Falmouth harbour to draw attention to the climate emergency and I hoped our boat was one of them. We went to have a look this evening and we have a flag!
The winds are wild and Portreath is the place to see good waves and the surges of water in the harbour. We were rather late for high tide but it was lovely in the sunshine nonetheless. There were not many people around and few of those not in jackets. It’s not really feeling like August.
Walking back to the car we spotted a parrot in a van and it soon became clear that he was having a conversation with the man beside him. I took the photo from a long way away!
The wild winds have wreaked havoc with our garden. One set of beans is down, the Canna broke off at the base, there is general mayhem and the Marguerites have all been blown into the Crinodendron branches giving an effect that pleases me.
My market stall was pleasing today though not as many sales as last time for various reasons.
We have some gin stones, little cubes that we keep in the freezer, which chill the gin without diluting it!
I had two and a half hours reading magazines in a waiting room this afternoon and found several interesting recipes which I photographed. Tonight I made Maple Soy Chicken with Pak Choi and Mushroom Stirfry which was, indeed, very tasty.
Ten years or so ago, when our first Grandchild arrived, I bought a beautiful Noah’s ark. Today, as none of the LiveWires now play with it, I have passed it on to our lovely neighbour for her visiting Grand nephew and nieces to play with.
I have unexpectedly been offered a stall at tomorrow’s monthly market in Redruth to sell my glass pieces and I have accepted! I’ve made a new sign for the stall.
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A day late as I was busy all day yesterday hearing about the climate emergency and how we can each be doing our bit.
July is turning out to be a month of abundance, many more blooms that I remember from last year. Perhaps I have been more vigilant about feeding and certainly the sun and rain mix has been beneficial.
1. Day Lilies
Day Lilies
2. Alium with bees
3. Trailing Begonia called Million Kisses. We had these in all the chimneys and pots the year of our Golden Wedding.
One Million Kisses begonia in an old chimney cowl
4 Clematis and Dahlia in Suffragette colours – in the back garden, not in my Suffragette garden in the front.
Dahlias and Clematis
5. Agapanthus
Agapanthus
6. Poppy Seeds to save. There have been dozens of Poppies, all from seed saved last year and we have labelled the ones we like the best for harvesting this year.
Frilly red poppy
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