Lovely walk today on the beach, met friends (by accident), watched the waves, dodged the incoming tide – not everyone managed! Enjoy the gallery.
Not abandoned, watched over by a Grandad
Waves
Birds on a wire as we leave
Category Archives: Porthtowan
Signs, Soup and Seed Bombs
Another very productive and happy day spent at Community Roots,
My job, making signs for the crops of salad leaves
Learning how to make seed bombs
Delicious soup made by S, a volunteer
Signs in place
Seed bombs made by the girls and others
Throwing the seed bombs onto the bund
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Rainbow, Roots and Pink Blooms
I spend much of my days at the moment rushing from the back of the house to the front as sunshine breaks through the showers and promises a rainbow. The one I caught this morning was lovely.
You may remember a couple of weeks ago when I showed you the poly tunnels just planted up with the plug plants. See how they’ve grown!
After working today, we went to the nearest beach at Porthtowan just to see and hear the sea. It is always uplifting to do just that. It was very pleasing to see the Erigeron in flower.
Erigeron Sea Breeze Pink at Porthtowan
Community Roots Today
A very busy today, weeding, planting and deleafing basil plants ready for volunteers to take home to make pesto. Age of volunteers today ranged from 2 to 78! Click on any photo for more detail.
Preparing the poly tunnel for the planting out of winter lettuces
Three hours later – all planted out
Young volunteer
Squash being stored
Taking cuttings
Cosmos still giving lots of colour
Later, at home, I made lots of delicious fresh pesto, now in silicone moulds in the freezer for use later. Each portion will make Pesto Pasta for the two of us..
Lemn Sissay
The wonderful Lemn Sissay has given me permission to share his poem with you.
Let there be peace
Let tears evaporate to form clouds, cleanse themselves
And fall into reservoirs of drinking water.
Let harsh memories burst into fireworks that melt
In the dark pupils of a child’s eyes
And disappear like shoals of silver darting fish,
And let the waves reach the shore with a
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Listening to him on Radio 4 recently, I learned that one of the songs we sing at choir is one of his morning poems. I’ll try to get a recording soon.
Roots Harvest Celebration
Poster by Imogen Street-Rees
Brilliant, heart-warming and positive day today! It has been a day of Harvest celebration with lots of happy people, lots of delicious cakes, wonderful music and lots of laughter, a real uplifting day to be a part of.
Enjoy our gallery of the event.
Pumpkins at the entrance
Our working poly tunnel full of bunting
I made an Apple, Almond and Cinnamon Cake
Busy
Lots of fun
Collecting lunch
The set
Leo enjoying the music of Jaclarabag
Many Hands
Today at Community Roots a poly tunnel needed clearing ready for new over wintering plants that will help to fill the ‘hungry gap.’ With lots of people all working together, the whole thing was cleared in a couple of hours. A time lapse film has been made that I’ll share later if I can.
Beginning to clear the jungle of foliage from the tunnel where aubergines, cucumbers and squash have all been harvested
Our youngest volunteer hauling his wheelbarrow to the mountainous compost heap.
Almost clear and a few rescued crops
It’s wonderful what a bunch of people can achieve working and laughing together!
Community Roots
It was so lovely to be back at Community Roots today (A pause on reporting our adventures on our road trip.) Working with the volunteers, laughing and catching up as we pricked out baby lettuces and set them on their way, was simply a joy! See the 100’s we potted on in the gallery below.
This one landed on my sleeve while I was working and I managed to catch it on camera. I love the furriness and the delicate wings
Babies potted on
Even more baby lettues
Poly tunnel prpped for planting
Squash harvest
Butternut squash still on the vine
Another Family Visit
Daughter No 3 visited today with her lovely family including LiveWire 4 and we have had a truly splendid day. We met for lunch at The Blue Bar in Porthtowan, a family favourite, spent several hours at the beach, paddling and making beach art. We spent the next few hours picking tomatoes at the allotment, baking cookies, picking sweetcorn cobs for tea and enjoying a delicious evening meal together.
Paddles and reflections
Clouds up the valley
Seaweed art
Jellyfish
Sea anemone
Whale
Another jellyfish
Mermaid
Cookies ready for the oven
Choc chip cookies
Three sweetcorn cobs from the garden to share for dinner.
Beach, Jellyfish and a Spider
Beware arachnophobes – the photo is last so don’t scroll down that far. No 1 daughter visited today and we had lunch out followed by a walk along the beach, surprisingly un-busy for a warm if cloudy day mid-summer holidays.
Sea colours
I think this is a Compass Jellyfish, about 8″ diameter
Spider alert! Needs id.
Can’t id this spider. It was very flat and in the car (not squashed!) Stripy legs, body about size of fingernail, the back looks like a mask…….
