I’ve been trying to catch a shot of the heart shape on a fallen tree ever since Storm Goretti and today, as we drove past, I just about managed it, albeit a bit fuzzy.
My Suffragette Garden has purple and white Granny’s Bonnets beginning to flower.
In February, when the Tête à Tête were flowering, we found a small bag of bulbs we had missed in the October planting. We popped them in a pot anyway and now, in May, they are blooming.
And today we fondly remember Ti on her birthday.
Lovely short walk in the gardens today after buying a new Clematis Montana with our daughter. The bluebells and rhododendrons are magnificent.
Our squirrel visitor is enjoying the fat balls we have put out for the little birds. Here, it just posed for the photo!
We hope the Blue Tits will make our box their home but they don’t seem to have decided properly yet.
I bought some lovely colourful new earrings at the market yesterday, made by a local maker, Chilli-G by the sea.
Today’s Redruth Market was lots of fun with the maypole dancing in the Buttermarket being done expertly.
Beginning the maypole dance
All plaited up
Undoing the ribbons
Coffee cake for the cake stall. Thanks to C for the photo.
Flowering Rocket in the Incredible Edibles trough in Fore Street
Driving to choir this morning was a blur of beautiful blueness as the hedgerows along the way are thick with bluebells. I couldn’t take a photo (as I was driving) but here are a few of the lovely flowers from our garden.
Our Clematis Montana is wonderful this Spring having been cut almost to the ground two years ago.
We sang this beautiful song, Keep You in Peace, at choir today, rehearsing for singing at the funeral next week of our very dear friend and much loved member of our choir. Thanks to S for the video.
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Today we took a washing up bowl and some toy ‘crockery’ and ‘cutlery’ up to Community Roots as the new mud kitchen was about to be made by one of the volunteers. It really pleases me that the toys used by our children and their children will now have a new life with the children who come to Community Roots. .
And here is the finished kitchen for the youngsters who come to Roots to have fun with.
All the tomatoes are in their poly-tunnel, just waiting for the stringing up.
The onions in their outside plot are coming along nicely.
After singing this afternoon, it was such a glorious day I had to go to the sea, to hear the waves, to smell the salty air and see the blues.
Tonight we have been to a cabaret, Kernewek Keskesow Cabaret.
It featured renowned performers Rebecca Mordan, Bec Applebee, Fiona O’Cleirigh and Claire Ingleheart, this powerful and uplifting show combined first-hand testimony with songs – in both Cornish and English – and was an extraordinary evening. If you can catch the tour, do! You won’t regret it..
I bought the book!
This afternoon I sang with my choir at the St Day Blossail where the blossoming apple trees were blessed and sung to, there was maypole dancing, Morris dancing, face painting and finally a concert from us, The Suitcase Singers.
Afterwards as I walked away I passed the lovely old roofless church.
Today we have bought our third piece from an exhibition in Gallery 89, a fabulous small gallery in Redruth with ever changing exhibitions. 
I fell in love with a wonderful textile piece which is, as the artist Carolyn Young says herself, made of – “little bits: threads, fabrics, fibres, paper and found natural materials. Creating intuitively, I piece, knit, stick, felt, weave or stitch fragmented parts together to become whole.” Sadly, it was both too big and too expensive to bring home.
Calling Back Her Joy by Carolyn Young
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The beautiful painting we did buy is Horizon by Lizzie Moran and can be collected tomorrow – so I’ll show you tomorrow.
Walking along the beautiful Walsingham Place in Truro this morning the honey scent of the many choisya bushes was just wonderful.
Driving under a canopy of fresh green leaves was a delight this morning.
My lovely Mr S has re-seeded parts of the lawn and the pigeons are finding it a good olace to find food.so today we bought a coupls of over-sized windmills which are now spinning above the seeds in the hope of putting the pigeons off.
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