I’ve made myself a beautiful scarf and matching fingerless gloves for singing at outdoor gigs over the winter months.
Fingerless so I can still turn pages if I need to.
I can’t remember where I found this poem but saved it to share sometime so here is is now. I especially love the last three lines. 
Our very talented, local knitter has been busy again and made a wonderful topper for today.
We wear white poppies in remembrance of all victims of war – the wars happening now, the civilians and the refugees and as a commitment to peace. The white poppy is also worn to challenge militarism and any attempt to glorify or celebrate war. I was pleased to see a white poppy included in the topper.
I found a poem about Peace for today and first found this one attributed to Mary Oliver. Here it says that was wrong, it is a poem by Judyth Hill. Thank you for this.
Wage Peace
By Judyth Hill*
Wage peace with your breath.
Breathe in firemen and rubble,
breathe out whole buildings
and flocks of redwing blackbirds.Breathe in terrorists and breathe out sleeping children
and freshly mown fields.
Breathe in confusion and breathe out maple trees.
Breathe in the fallen
and breathe out lifelong friendships intact.Wage peace with your listening:
hearing sirens, pray loud.
Remember your tools:
flower seeds, clothes pins, clean rivers.Make soup.
Play music, learn the word for thank you in three languages.
Learn to knit, and make a hat.
Think of chaos as dancing raspberries,
imagine grief as the outbreath of beauty
or the gesture of fish.
Swim for the other side.
Wage peace.Never has the world seemed so fresh and precious.
have a cup of tea and rejoice.
Act as if armistice has already arrived.
Celebrate today.* Sometimes mistakenly attributed to Mary Oliver
I was given more quince yesterday. Having already made quince jelly and membrillo, these I am going to roast following a recipe given to me yesterday by one of the volunteers.
Thanks W for the honey roasted quince recipe
There’s a new postbox topper to celebrate Hallowe’en and I love it!
Coming home from taking the photo, I just caught some sunset. It looks like a raging fire in the sky.
It’s been a stay home day today as the wind howled, the rain fell and the temperature dropped so it was lovely to receive photos from my dear SIL of pumpkins in the Botanical Gardens of Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you V. perfect timing!
Pumpkins
More Pumpkins
It was very special too, to receive a gift in the post today of a beautifully knitted pumpkin which will take pride of place on our table through this Hallowe’eny time of year.
Thank you so much, Judith. I love how the knitted pumpkin is such a perfect replica of the ones in the photo above.
We had a few bananas in the freezer that needed using up so I made a Banana, Pecan and Raisin Cake for tomorrow.
As Nancy suggested, I decided to make a scarf with the lovely sprkly yarn I showed you a while ago..I think it will take me some time!
I found this piece the other day . It’s a good philosophy to live by!
One of my favourite shops in town has started to stock wool and I went in today to see the new shelves – lots of gorgeous colours!
I couldn’t resist buying some very pretty multi-coloured wool and am now thinking of what to make with it!
I like to bake a big dishful of whatever, have some for tea and freeze away several potions so that we have ‘ready meals’ always available for when we don’t feel like cooking. Tonight it was a big dish of Moussaka. .
There’s a new postbox topper on our street, four frogs fishing. 
The evening sunlight lit up our lovely boat sculpture and threw a pleasing shadow. 
I came across this poem, Rhapsody by William Stanley Braithwaite, today and wondered why I had never read it before. It’s in the book, A Poet for Every Day of the Year edited by Allie Esiri.
By William Stanley Braithwaite 1878 – 1962
We had the most delicious soup for lunch today, Red Pepper soup, brought to us by dear friends.
Red Pepper Soup. Thanks M x
Exercise for Mr S now includes a short walk along our road to the post box where there was a delightful new topper of ice creams and ice lollies.
I’ve been talking with a fellow blogger about the lack of butterflies this summer but we do have some pollinators.
Having spent three delightful days with LiveWires 2 and 3, their Mum and the gorgeous Maine Coon family, we are now back home in Cornwall. I love the five hour train journey – time to read, knit and watch the countryside whizz by. We were on the sea side on this journey so here are a few photos from today.
I woke very early this morning and caught the beautiful colours of the Solstice sunrise. Happy Solstice to you all.
As it is Knit in Public Day, I took my latest piece into town and knitted in our regular and favourite coffee shop in town.
The Craft Collective had planned to knit outside but as you see from their sign, we had some heavy showers today so they retreated indoors.
I found this on an Fb page I follow – and send solidarity to all those out on protest today, knitting or not. I hope you have all been safe.
National Knit in Public Day falls on June 14th. Consider knitting at a local NO KINGS DAY RALLY! Nothing says pacifist like a group of knitters, knitting in public.
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