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Small Copper, Tin and Copper Mine and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

1 Mr S spotted a beautiful little butterfly on the trellis early this morning. It’s a Small Copper.

Small Copper butterfly

2 We loved doing the first of our walks from Sue Jackson’s book “Discover Cornwall” this morning! So good to have the author on the end of the phone when we got ‘lost’ – entirely our fault! The view from the top is amazing, all the way across Cornwall from one coast to the other! Photos from the walk follow –

Baronet’s Engine House

Granite marker

Carn Marth Amphitheatre, built in the old small quarry

Large quarry at Carn Marth

Glorious heather and gorse

Looking over to the North coast

3 Friends lent us the dvd of ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” and we’ve thoroughly enjoyed it this evening – a delightful mix of laughter and tears.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 14, 2012 in Carn Marth, Cornwall, insects, local history, nature

Tags: Baronet's Engine House, blogging, Carn Marth Amphitheatre, Discover Cornwall, Postaday, postaday2012, Small Copper, Sue Jackson, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Tin and Copper Mine

St Uny Engine House, Curl and Story-time

29 Jul

1 Had a lovely walk up round the back of our house on The Great Flat Lode Trail as Jake wanted to see the engine house again. (Click on any photo for an enlargement)

: St Uny Engine House

: Curl

: Tonight’s story

2 The back of Tabitha’s head and its beautiful curl are something very special!

3 Another special moment, every evening, is story-time. Tonight it was, ‘Make Way for Ducklings’, a story that my parents brought home from a holiday in Boston about 1980 for our four children.

Our last night with P&V who leave tomorrow morning. It has been a beautiful seventeen days.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 29, 2012 in books, children's, Cornwall, family, local history

Tags: Make way for ducklings, Postaday, postaday2012, St Uny Engine House

St Uny Engine House, The Heligan Giant and The Mud Maid

12 Jun

We have had the most beautiful day today! First we had a walk along the Flat Lode Trail to find a tin mine for Jake and this afternoon we went off to The Lost Gardens of Heligan to find the Giant and the Mud Maid.

I’m going to tell it through photos – enjoy! Click on the first one and then click the arrows on the right to get the whole story.

In the carry-sack

Setting off on our walk

Uphill in knee deep grass

Looking at the view

Having a shoulder ride

Beautiful honeysuckle

St Uny Engine House

Horse knee-deep in buttercups

Jake’s turn in the carry-sack

Beautiful Heligan

Just look at the detail in this foxglove flower

Down the path to the glade

The putto in the pond

The Bee Boles

Information about the Bee Boles

Jake under the Gunnera

“I’m going up this path!”

Admiring the dove cote

Setting off to find the Giant

Beautiful wild flower patch

Contrast – old leaves and new growth

Jake has just whispered to the Giant, “We’ve found you! We are friendly faces!”

The very beautiful and serene Mud Maid

Children pyjamaed and ready for the five hour drive home

And now they’ve gone home and the house feels very quiet and empty!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 12, 2012 in art, books, children's, environment, family, flowers, garden, local history, nature, sculpture, senses, The Lost Gardens of Heligan

Tags: arts, Great Flat Lode Trail, Heligan Gardens, illustration, nature, outdoors, Pete Hill, Postaday, sculpture, St Uny Engine House, Sue Hill, The Heligan Giant, The Mud Maid, travel, vacation

Serendipity, Opportunity and King Edward Mine

29 Apr

1. An absolute downpour today, all night, all day but – serendipity indeed – a friend asked us for something from the shed so Mr S went out and caught the mini-flood in our yard just before it came through the air brick into the house. Beautiful timing!
2. Yesterday when we moved the Clematis a few pieces had to be cut to remove it from the trellis but that wasn’t a disaster but an opportunity to have some beautiful flowers indoors.

Clematis indoors

3. Through pouring rain, along roads running with rivers, through patches of floods, we arrived at King Edward’s Mine in Troon for their Open Day. With Pip conducting, The Inglehearts sang, first accompanying the delightful children from Troon Primary School and then accompanied by the rain drumming on the corrugated roof . We had a lovely sing and all felt better for it!