Category Archives: Cornwall
Fritillaria, Soap and Moon
It’s good to see the Fritillaria Meleagris, Snake’s Head Fritillary, coming up again.
I called into one of my favourite shops, Cornish Health Store, today to top up my supply of chocolate gingers and was given a delightful freebie of a tiny lemon soap.
Closing the curtains this evening, my lovely Mr S spotted the sliver of moon through the winter tree branches.
Posy, Signs and Sunset
We visited friends for a lovely catch-up this morning and took a little garden posy of beautifully scented Viburnum, some Summer Snowflake (Leucojum aestivum), Muscari and Forget-me-nots.
There are some very smart new street signs in town.
It being the vernal equinox and another sunny day we went to watch the sunset. It wasn’t especially spectacular but it was lovely to be out on the cliffs in the evening sunshine. The gorse was particularly golden in the early evening light.
Automata, Blue Sky and A Song
Playing with automata yesterday was great fun, such intricate work.
What a glorious blue sky today. This weather vane is at Burncoose Nursery where I called in after singing to see the magnolia blooms (nearly over) and the rhododendrons.
A good friend sent me a video of us singing this morning., Pachabel’s Canon. This is one of my favourites and one I brought to choir 13 years ago after we went to WOMAD and I learned this piece there at a workshop. I love all the parts and start with the basses, moving round all the parts and coming back to the tenors to finish. If you watch carefully , you can watch my progress!
Sewing, Secret and Sea
There are now 30 little creatures on the long fabric strands.
I’m being allowed to show you a little more of the project. The whole piece remains secret until the exhibition starting on March 31st. I wonder if you can work out what it is.
After sewing and my lovely Mr S working in the garden in sunshine, we decided to go out for lunch at the Falmouth Hotel and have a walk by the sea. It really does my soul good to see, smell and hear the sea. The blues were so beautiful today.
Out for lumch
Our next treat was a trip to Falmouth Art Gallery for a wonderful exhibition of automata which I’ll show you tomorrow.
Hail, Muscari and More Primroses
It’s been crazy weather today, wind, sunshine that actually gave warmth and many, many wild hail showers. I was delighted to watch a horizontal spider’s web outside the kitchen window act as a hammock for hailstones. If you look carefully at the photo, you can make out the strands of web holding the hailstones. 
A bank of primroses
Cookies, First Tulip and Pink
I made some Fork Cookies this morning, so called because you flatten the ball of dough with the tines of a fork.I then dipped them in dark chocolate. They are scrummy!
Our tub of tulips is flowering already, seems quite early. I’m loving the delicacy of the green and pink bits.
Both the flowers below were presents, the pretty pale pink one from my dear friend and colleague Sharon, lost in 2024 and the deep pink primulas bought for us by LiveWires 5 and 6 who planted them for us in the allotment. We dug them up to bring them home once we gave up our tenancy.
St Piran’s Day Celebrations in Redruth
It’s been a fun packed day in sunshine today, the parade, markets, daffodils, live music, flowers everywhere and so many happy, smiley people. Enjoy the gallery.
Outside the GrowBox
Outside the GrowBox
The parade
The Lamb
Steam punk
Our flag
Redruth School
Steam punk
Perran Moon, our MP, having a chat
On Bond Street
On Bond Street
On Bond Street
For those who wonder about the lamb:
Redruth Town Council uses The Lamb and Flag as its emblem building on a heritage of use in the town for hundreds of years though its origin remains widely debated. Historians believe the symbol first appeared in the wool trade during the Middle Ages. By the 19th century, people associated a lamb with purity due to its Christian connotations and used it in the mining trade to indicate the purity of the metal they were producing – the smelters stamped each ingot with the sign of the lamb and the St Piran flag was added to indicate its Cornish origin. Both copper and tin were very important in Cornwall, with various mines in the Redruth, Pool and Camborne area being the largest in the world for each of these minerals.
Cornish Lane, Mylor and Daffodils
We went to Mylor this morning to meet friends for a catch up and a delicious breakfast. The ancient trees along the way, the views and the dozens of daffodils along the way are all in the gallery. Click on any photo for a bigger view.
On the way
View of Mylor as we approach
Mylor Churchyard
In Ponsanooth
