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.
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.
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!
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.
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
There was a bitterly cold wind up at Roots today but the hardiest of the volunteers planted all the potatoes. A less hardy group of us planted tomato, aubergine, pepper, fennel and celery seeds. Others were transplanting the baby onion plants from seed trays into modules.
Amy among the rows of potatoes
There are more beautiful primroses in our front garden.
It’s Shrove Tuesday and this evening we’ve had savoury pancakes stuffed with ham and sweet corn followed by crêpes suzettes with the juice of ruby red blood oranges.
The flowers on the first stem of the Amaryllis have finished and the second stem is so top heavy we’ve had to put it on the floor to lean against the arm of the chair! It is still remarkably lovely six weeks after planting. I’m hoping there’s at least another week of loveliness in it.
The Tête à Tête miniature daffodils are appearing all over the garden. I love the ones in the monkey planter.
Photo from 2018
I’ve been browsing again through an old paperback about life in Cornwall 100 years ago and was amused by the description of the wet weather in Cornwall – plus ça change!
From “Exploring Cornwall 100 Years Ago” Selected and Edited by Stuart D. Ludlum
The sun shone today as we sang with a view of the Penryn River. A cormorant (or maybe a shag) stayed on the buoy for the whole time we were singing. 
A beautiful old sailing boat went by.
These vibrant primulas were on sale near our bread shop.
Today, my Dear Friend Kath, to whom I dedicate my blog, would have been 76. Started writing in November 2011 when she died and still think of her every day.
We finished the streets of London jigsaw.
It was hard but was lovely to remember walking those streets in the early days of our being together . We even found the street where we came upon a junk shop and there in the window was a painting of Truro Cathedral! How serendipitous was that, it being my home city? We had met at the end of October, found the painting while I was with my lovely Mr S in early January and then we agreed to be married on January 4th, just ten weeks after meeting!
We are just home from watching a fascinating film, The Lost Boys of Carbis Bay, about a group of men who explore and climb around in the old tin mines of Cornwall, incredibly dangerous but obviously very fulfilling for those involved.
We have hundreds of onion seedlings at Roots and they will be ready for transplanting next week.
Today we transplanted 200+ baby lettuce and pak choi plants and they are now in one of the big poly tunnels as there is no room in the smaller prop tunnel where the propagating takes place. The ingenuity comes in the suspended racks to create more room for the baby plants. 
We are ten days into February so it’s a bit late to share this month’s mantra from The 2026 Almanac but I like it so here it is:
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