Shopping in our lovely greengrocers/deli/butchery in Redruth today, I noticed a giraffe lurking between the fridges.
Sometime ago I showed you some stitching I had been doing for the Redruth story coat. Today we were shown all the pieces that were on their way to be sewn on. 
Our September fruiting raspberries gave us a delicious dessert this evening.
Wage Peace
Wage peace with your breath.Breathe in firemen and rubble,breathe out whole buildingsand 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 beautyor 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.Don’t wait another minute.by Mary Oliver
We have a white magpie visiting with all the others in the garden. The photos were taken from inside the kitchen and are not very clear. Apparently it’s leucism, which is when the feathers of a bird are white or paler than normal, due to genetics. 
I came across this stitched piece and loved it. I want to try one like it.
I found this poem but it has no author so if anyone knows, I’d love to credit it.
Summer arrived in Cornwall today as we celebrate the Summer Solstice. Happy Solstice to you all, Dear Readers.
A friend sent me a photo of a delightful post-box topper of Stone Henge, the perfect piece for today.
I follow the lovely poet, Lemn Sissay, and today he posted a delightful video of one of his poems, ” ‘How do you do it?’ said Night” being sung at Stone Henge. We sing this one too and sang it for the Solstice at this morning’s rehearsal.
I missed a crafitivism session last week so have made my piece today. The pieces made are to be presented at the hustings next week to all the candidates standing in our upcoming election to remind them of their obligations to the world.
It’s a green heart with a white daisy and a purple centre and small purple, white and green flashes as on my tattoo which represents the Holloway brooch, reminding all that they should vote!
I’ve spent a happy hour browsing through Being Alive, a fabulous poetry collection and thought you might like this one by Billy Collins. It makes me think of the way exams ask for what the poem means rather than how it makes you feel.
Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins
I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.
So, of course, today we went to see Max in the big reveal of the new Storycoat.
Max in the old Town Crier coat
Sloughing off the old coat
Town crier in action wearing his wonderful new coat. He’s a natural!
Showing off the beautiful lining
Detail on the back, our new ButterMarket embroidered by Sara Clasper, craftivist, of Make A Mends
Each patch illustrates something of Redruth’s history and Max will be telling the stories at the various events when it will be on show. They are all remarkably beautiful. My patch will soon be finished and will be on the coat for its next outing for Murdoch Day, June 15th.
The Suitcase Singers sang our hearts out in Trelissick Gardens this afternoon with an enthusiastic audience up for joining in and having fun.
Afterwards we went into Trelissick House to see the gorgeous decorations, delightful Christmas trees, one at least in every room, and some quirky dancers. Click on any photo in the gallery for more detail.
It wasn’t until I unpacked the shopping from our local greengrocer when we got home that I saw, with delight, the tangerines that the lovely Mr S had picked up. I think the youngsters at GrowBox had some fun this morning. Well done and thank you!
After a busy week we managed to get to Kresen Kernow to see the International Day of Repair exhibition where my pieces of Kintsugi can be seen. 
This poem needs no words from me.
It’s a full moon tonight, Hunter’s Moon, and regular readers will know how I love the moon. Sadly, there is too much cloud so I have also missed the partial eclipse that happened this evening. I hope some of you managed to see it.
Again, I spent the first couple of hours volunteering at home and made a really beautiful veggie bag out of some offcuts of Laura Ashley material that we had curtains of in our last house. 
It was all hands on deck today to get rid of the weeds that have sprung up since the rain this last week. Enjoy the gallery and click on any photo for the caption. I didn’t get into the poly tunnels at all today as after weeding I was pricking out lots more baby brassica plants.
I just love these cauliflower harvesting machines and today we managed to get a photo as we let it into the queue.
Last week we were in Penzance for the Lit Fest and spotted the following plaque noting the marriage of Dylan Thomas, my favourite poet, to Caitlin on this day in 1937 in this lovely house in Penzance.
Plaque to Dylan Thomas and Caitlin who were married here in 1937
Another very pleasing day at Roots. My first two hours were spent at home again making another veg bag and then I joined the lovely Mr S and the other volunteers. I pricked out a tray of Romanesco cauliflower babies the seeds of which I planted only a week ago. My second tray was of swedes which I had not known until last week are also of the brassica family. The growth every week is remarkable. Click on any photo for a larger view and the caption.
We love Day Lilies.
Day Lily
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