A glass working day, cutting and choosing jewellery to decorate the newly cut pieces followed by an evening at the theatre with a crazy and very funny left-wing comedian.
The young comedian from Tennessee who was his support act was brilliant but I can’t find her name.
It’s half term and there were lots of youngsters helping at Community Roots today.
I showed you the poly tunnels last week with all the winter crops. Here they are one week on.
Thanks to Community Roots for these lovely close-ups of Winter salad crops.
Almost blown off my feet and wet through in moments, I managed three minutes at Portreath and got some wonderful shots of the crashing waves this afternoon.
We went to see The Collector at The Ladder in Redruth again this evening and I was even more moved than the first time I saw it last week. If you are anywhere nearby, don’t miss this remarkable, quirky piece of theatre. Here’s the link for you.
Waiting to go into choir today and looking along the Penryn River, I loved the autumn colours on this yacht.
The fuchsia plants that grow in Cornish hedges are still in flower and very lovely.
Going to my pottery classes has stirred up my creative juices again and though I think more pottery is not really for me – I have enjoyed the pottery adventure and am very happy to have tried a new skill.
I have unpacked all my glass and equipment today and have cut a couple of angels and foiled the parts for one. Choosing the bits of jewellery from my charity shop finds is always fun. 
We returned to Community Roots this morning and hoed and re-potted and loved being back in the fold. All the seeds that were planted weeks ago have nearly all been potted on and planted out in our absence. It was brilliant to see the progress in all the poly tunnels.
I love the colours of leaves in Autumn.
We have harvested the four apples on our new family apple tree. These are Lord Lambournes, crisp firm apples with a lovely flavour. Let’s hope there are more next year as it is described as a ‘heavy cropper!.’ The other branches gave no apples this year.
The Inglehearts’ Anniversary Concert last night was a blast! We had a couple of standing ovations, there were tears and laughter and the joy in the room was palpable. Amazingly, we raised £1000.00 to be shared between our two charities, ShelterBox and Community Roots. What a generous audience they were. 
Our wonderful committee have been working hard for months putting together a photo-book full of twenty years of singing for Claire. Here are a couple of the pages for you to see.
A very talented member of our choir wrote new words for the much-loved song ‘Cornwall My Home’ by the Cornish singer and song writer, Harry Glasson, who very kindly gave his permission to sing his tune with R’s words. Here I give you the chorus:
But I’ll always remember as time moves along
The love and the laughter that goes with the songs
With good times aplenty and sad times a-few
When you’re part of our choir, our choir’s part of you.
This morning I made marmalade, still needing labels.
This afternoon I decorated the ten pots I’ve made in my pottery lessons. They’ll be fired in the week and we’ll collect in a couple of weeks – photos then if they are okay!
This evening we have been to a wonderful production, The Collector, that was moving and funny, full of imagination and of love. It was basically an homage to our dear friend, Bill Mitchell. It’s on at The Ladder in Redruth for a few more weeks.
On the way to the theatre the sunset sky was very lovely.
Such a beautiful October afternoon, we drove to Falmouth, around Castle Drive, had ice-creams at Pendennis Point and then there was a rainbow with the ends in the sea.
There’s a delightful new postbox topper on our street, ready for Hallowe’en.
Next door to the post box is a garden where the hydrangeas have done much better in the summer drought than ours have. These photos are for our dear friend, P, who loves these flowers.
A wealth of beauty this morning before singing and then the geese flew over. By the time I had my camera ready they were nearly out of sight but here is what I managed to catch.
We had a few hours in Truro between appointments today, 9 am and 12 noon, and visited the Museum and Art Gallery where there is a new exhibition I’ve been wanting to see, Art Any Way.
In the gallery was one of David Kemp’s Tinners’ Hounds, known affectionately as Welly Dog (See here for our very own Welly Dog), work by Terry Shaul, Julian Christophers (a favourite local artist) and many more. Enjoy this small selection from the gallery.
Julian Christophers
Terry Shaul
When we arrived there was a family sitting on bean bags and story telling going on in front of a very beautiful paper sculpture. Not wanting to take photos of strangers or disturb the scene to ask, here is the paper sculpture and I leave you to imagine the lovely scene we came across.
I wish I know the maker to credit here.
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