Still taking things easy so here are some photos from 11th November 2018 when my choir went to St Ives to sing around some very special sand art.
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Another Quiet Day
Storm, Buttermarket and Our Town Crier
It should have been the Mining and Pasty Festival today but some of the day had to be cancelled and the rest moved indoors as there was the most tremendous storm turning our main street into a river. There was thunder and lightning throughout Cornwall and a local photographer gave me permission to show you his amazing photo taken looking over St Ives.
Photo by Gary Phelps – who managed to get this picture this morning 😁 St Ives, Cornwall, UK 21st September 2024
Our ancient Butter Market is undergoing renovation and should be opening next month. We were allowed a walk around today and it is looking very good indeed.
Our Town Crier Max was about town doing his thing and kindly stopped for me to get some photos.
Max, our young Town Crier wearing the Story coat, showing my patch of Gracey Briney
One of my “Gwennap’ patches, at the bottom and my Gravestone patch
Bottom two are mine too, using some Senegalese fabric from my stash.
Seagull, Train and The Sea
More photos from yesterday for you….
One of the many in St Ives. Ice-creams and pasties have to be very well protected or they will be stolen.
The train journey travels right along the coast and is just glorious.
From the train as we returned, looking across to Hayle.
Happiness Calendar and A Good Day Out
The lovely Mr Smith’s birthday is today so his chosen trip was to St Ives and the Tate followed by lunch at his favourite place in Penzance, Mr Billy’s.
Porthminster Beach
Very tame and photogenic Robin on our walk into town
Fenced off sink-hole on Porthminster Beach
Looking over the wall towards St Ives and Harbour Beach, tide coming in
Looking over the wall towards St Ives, tide coming in
On the way through we called in at a new gallery, The Livingstone, and I totally fell for a wonderful pair of earrings. Sadly, they were being sold with a necklace that I didn’t want (and I couldn’t afford the whole set anyway). 
About Ken Spooner, the artist
I loved this van belonging to a decorator, parked near the harbour.
Work going on at the Tate, Porthmeor Beach beyond
Tide in
It has been a very Happy birthday day – family phone calls, cards and presents and serendipitously bumping into good friends in Tate St Ives!
Topophilia, Apricity and A Gift
I love finding new words. There is a word for love of a place: topophilia, popularised by the geographer Yi-Fu Tuan in 1974 as all of “the human being’s affective ties with the material environment.” In other words, it is the warm feelings you get from a place. It is a vivid, emotional, and personal experience, and it leads to unexplainable affections. This is the word to describe my love of Cornwall. I grew up in Cornwall and left to become a teacher when I was 18 only returning to visit family for the next 40 years but I always needed to come home. That we did 13 years ago.
St Ives where we had our honeymoon in 1967
Apricity is another lovely word meaning something I have described several times in recent posts without having the proper word – it is the warmth of the sun in winter. I felt it again today.
I was late to the allotment this afternoon and when I arrived the lovely Mr S told me that an allotment friend had been along and brought me a beautiful piece of glass. She had had to remove it from a doorway and had thought of me and my glasswork. It is really lovely and I will enjoy getting to work with it before too long. Thank you very much S. I’ll let you know what I make with it. 
Otobong Nkanga
Last Friday we visited Tate St Ives to see two exhibitions, one the Otobong Nkanga “From Where I Stand” and the other, Tate St Ives in Colour, a magical interactive piece to play with by Peter Hudson..
Otobong Nkanga’s beautiful and enormous tapestries focus on the relationships between people and the land through our consumption of the Earth’s natural resources. It is very hard to do justice to this moving and dramatic exhibition. If you are local, please try to get there before January 5th when it closes.
Photo by The Tate 
St Ives, Happy Dogs and A Robin
The tide was in when we arrived in St Ives, the sea being whipped into white horses.
St Ives – tide in
I loved the poetry pillars in Tate St Ives.
Poem in The Tate Gallery
We always love watching dogs playing on the beach. These two were racing about and I’m pleased that my photo caught their sandy splashes and their reflection.
Dogs dashing through the waves
By the time we had visited Tate St Ives and were on our way back to the train, the tide was well out.
St Ives – tide out
A very friendly Robin was sheltering from the bitter wind in the shelter on the platform as were many of those waiting for the train.
Robin by my feet in the shelter on the station
A Day in St Ives, The Tate and A Puppy
Despite the day starting grey, we wanted to take a on the wonderful train ride to St Ives and the sun came out!
Tide out on arrival
Joy!
View from the Tate St Ives
Looking into the curved glass at the reflection
Sidi, 11 weeks old today, waiting patiently for the train
Tide in, taken from the moving train as we left
A Day Out with Very Dear Friends
Join us on our day out – to St Ives on the train, one of the best rides ever along the Cornish coast, in St Ives, to Mounts Bay and thence to Chysauster Ancient Village, home for a break and on up to Carn Brea and home for a relaxed and happy dinner with delicious fresh Runner Beans from the garden. Click on any photo for more detail.
Godrevy from the train
St Ives
Stone balancer at work
Swervy World, the band we saw on Friday night at Krowji
True
Street names
Reserved deck chairs
Balanced stones
St Michael’s Mount
Heather at Chysauster
Inside a house at Chysauster
View from Chysauster
Under Carn Brea Castle
St Ives and Tonight’s Show
To whet your appetite, one photo of St Ives. I am pretty tired after tonight’s show. I’ll add photos tomorrow.
St Ives lighthouse with Godrevy behind
