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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

The parade

The Lamb

Steam punk

Our flag

Redruth School

Steam punk

Perran Moon, our MP, having a chat

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.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 7, 2026 in Celebration, community, Cornwall, craft, flowers, Happiness, Postaday 2026, Redruth

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Cornish Lane, Mylor and Daffodils

06 Mar

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

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 6, 2026 in Cornwall, friendship, Mylor, nature, Postaday 2026

St Piran’s Day, Choir Baby and A Pasty

05 Mar

Today after choir, we sang Harry Glasson’s Cornwall My Home in the courtyard to celebrate St Piran’s Day Here it is now, especially for my sister in Hawaii.

We have another Choir-Baby after many years of none and we are all delighted to have one year old S with us and clearly enjoying the singing.

After the courtyard singing

We had pasties for lunch to mark the day but I was enjoying it so much I forgot to take a photo until it was almost all gone.

It’s also World Book Day so happy days to all you readers and to all those who have dressed up for the day, especially LiveWire 3 who at almost 15 years old has gone to school as a very beautiful and tortured Lady Macbeth.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 5, 2026 in Celebration, Choir-baby, community, Cornwall, family, Food, music, Postaday 2026, singing

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Full Moon, Sunshine and A Robin

04 Mar

Last night’s full moon is known as the Plough Moon or Worm Moon, both signifying the coming of Spring. It is also called the Sap Moon indicating the time for tapping the sap from Maple trees.

The sun has shone almost all day once the mists had cleared. We went for a walk at Trelissick Gardens and the sun was shining right on the golden squirrel of the weather vane on the Water Tower.

We could hear the most glorious bird song and then spotted the robin singing his heart out.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 4, 2026 in Cornwall, environment, nature, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Happiness Calendar, Community Roots and St David’s Day

01 Mar

Today the allotment is no longer ours but our fellow allotmenteers from the last few years came to visit Community Roots to hear about no-dig and to learn all about the garden. It was a very damp and fascinating morning which was greatly enjoyed by everyone. Here are some of them after the tour and after having worked in the new orchard.

It’s St David’s Day and here are more daffodils to honour my Welsh heritage. My Mum’s father was Welsh. They really were nodding in the breeze and the rain as I took the video through the window.

Spaceman, Flowers and Cathedral

28 Feb

We loved the Spaceman in the Lemon Street Market in Truro today.

In one of the shops were these lovely felt flowers.

I love Truro Cathedral in all weathers but on a beautiful sunny Spring day like today, it’s even more lovely.

Today is our last official day with an allotment. From tomorrow it will be cared for by a lovely young family.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 28, 2026 in allotment, architecture, Cornwall, craft, paper, Postaday 2026, sculpture, Truro

Sewing, The AGM and Reading

25 Feb

I’ve been curtain making today using some wonderful vintage Laura Ashley fabric from 1983. It’s fabric which we used for kitchen curtains in our penultimate home before moving back to Cornwall so it is full of lovely memories of our children growing up, family dinners and birthday teas in that kitchen. I’ll show the curtain in place when it’s hung..

This evening was the AGM for Community Roots which was full of information of what we have all achieved and what we will be aiming for over the next year. One of our directors is leaving and we were all asked to give one word to describe her. As you can see, she is much loved and will be greatly missed. She is the essence of Roots.

I spent the afternoon reading the latest book from The ShelterBox book Club. It’s both harrowing and full of love and hope. I’ll tell you more when I’ve finished it.

Crocuses, Tomatoes and Ukraine

24 Feb

My Suffragette garden is coming into bloom, purple, white and green crocus plants.

You may remember that last week we sowed many trays of tomatoes of various sorts. Today they were up and ready for transplanting and I was so busy doing that I forgot to take any photos. The following photo of Gardeners’ Ecstasy is from the internet, not mine!

We send our love to our friends in Ukraine as the war reaches a 4th anniversary. We remember with great fondness the friends we made among the Hooligan Art Community. Here are some photos from 2023 when they were visiting.

Slava Ukraine!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 24, 2026 in community, Cornwall, environment, friendship, garden, nature, Postaday 2026

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Amaryllis, Catkins and Daffodils

23 Feb

The last of the blooms on our Amaryllis is almost gone. The plant has been remarkable, two stems and nine blooms in total. I hope I can look after it properly so that it’ll do the same next year.

Spring is on the way, more rain and mizzle but also Catkins. The image is a bit blurry as it was windy and all five photos I took were out of focus!

I wish I could show you the daffodils lining the lanes all over the place. The yellow blurs by as I drive around to choir and it makes me smile. There were some in the car park too so here’s a taste of the loveliness.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 23, 2026 in Cornwall, environment, nature, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Singing, Reunion and A Beach

19 Feb

After a lovely sing this morning, I drove to Porth near Newquay to meet with a young colleague whom I haven’t seen for maybe 30 years! It was a delight to hear all about those years and even to feel a sense of pride in her success as a prize winning podcaster. Do have a listen to Weird in the Wade especially if you are interested in history and the slightly spooky. . N is on holiday here so it was lovely to catch up and have a very windy walk on the beach together. I enjoyed the evidence of youngsters playing in the sand.

Here we are singing. https://www.facebook.com/reel/25793568737001908