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Community Roots Today

The birthday, for which I made the special cake yesterday, was celebrated in style! Here we have just finished singing Happy Birthday to Matty, one of the directors of the project. He loved the cake and said the lemon drizzle on top ‘shone like diamonds in the sunshine.’

We also had a special and very delicious lunch made by one of the volunteers, Lemon Chickpea Soup, using a recipe from rainbowplantlife.com

We’ve had a new bright and lovely mural painted near the entrance, artist Omi O’Connell.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 15, 2026 in art, baking, community, Cornwall, environment, Food, friendship, mural, nature, painting, Postaday 2026

Harvest Celebration at Community Roots

13 Sep

Another cracker of a day, this time with our wonderful Roots community and many, many visitors celebrating the harvest, especially of Squash. Click on any of the photos for a bigger version.

The Welcome table at the gate

We used a human chain of all the people to bring the squash in for drying before storage. The children each took a parent onto the squash patch and the harvesting began in earnest. Each beautiful vegetable was handed around the chain and put on the racks to ripen off.

A delicious lunch was made for every volunteer, a very tasty tomato sauce with spaghetti.

There were other activities for children including the Gratitude Tree which was a delight.

Lastly there was a parade around the garden led by the trio Jaclarabag with such verve that got everyone dancing at the end of the walk.

Setting off on the walk

Nearly done

Dancing with the enormous veggies

And tonight we are just home from a brilliant evening at The Redruth Comedy Club where Mark Steele and Marcus Brigstock kept us laughing all evening.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 13, 2026 in community, Cornwall, environment, Food, friendship, growing, music, nature, Postaday 2026

Reflections, Light and Tomatoes

10 Sep

Waiting by the Penryn RIver before going into choir this morning, the reflections of the masts in the still water were lovely.

It was interesting how different the light was looking the other way up the river towards Falmouth just a few moments later.

I collected up the last of our tomatoes today and roasted them prior to making Roasted Tomato Sauce to go into the freezer for some tomatoey pasta reminiscent of summer in the darker months.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 10, 2026 in Cornwall, environment, Food, nature, Penryn, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Shop Window, Cow Parsley and A Feather

09 Sep

The set of The Choir of Man, yesterday’s post, was a pub and at the start, lots of audience members were among the cast enjoying a drink. If you are local, there are still some tickets left this week at The Hall for Cornwall, Truro.

I liked the paper flowers in the shop window as we collected our bread this morning.

Walking back along Lovers’ Lane, there was lots of Cow parsley, more prettily known as Queen Anne’s Lace.

Along the way there was a delicate white feather on the path.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 9, 2026 in Cornwall, craft, environment, nature, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Six on Monday

07 Sep

I missed Six on Saturday this week as it was a very busy weekend so here are my six for last week.

First some really good news – we thought our Acer, a present for our Ruby wedding, 19 years ago, had succumbed to the drought. It may be a different shape as it recovers but it isn’t dead! We spotted some new growth today.

The Japanese Anemones are looking very good especially with the purple of the Verbena Bonariensis.

The Rudbeckia are glowing.

The Clematis Montana in the front garden has two flowers but you’ll have to look hard to see them!

Other Clematis seed heads are looking delicate and lovely.

The Buddleia is in the field behind us, not strictly in our garden but we benefit from the blooms.

I’m a bit late to the party this week but you could still pop over to Jim, over at Garden Ruminations, where you’ll find Six on Saturday and in the comments, you’ll find many delightful posts from keen gardeners all over the world.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 7, 2026 in Cornwall, environment, garden, nature, Postaday 2026, Redruth, Uncategorized

Sign, Patisserie and Sky

05 Sep

Our lovely neighbour who takes my cakes to the market each month, made a special sign for it on the market stall.

There was a new stall at the market, a French/Italian patisserie, Nougatine, and, my goodness, the Lemon Tarts were absolutely the best I have ever tasted.

The sky this evening was beautiful.

P.S. The exhibition at Truro Cathedral ends on October 5th.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 5, 2026 in baking, community, Cornwall, environment, nature, Postaday 2026, Redruth

Tags: Nougatine Bakery & Pâtisserie (@nougatine.cornwall), solar energy

Flowers, Cathedral and Lucy Worsley

04 Sep

This evening we went to the Hall for Cornwall in Truro to listen to Lucy Worsley, historian. She was very entertaining. On the way we appreciated the gorgous flower displays and the view of the cathedral.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 4, 2026 in Cornwall, environment, Hall for Cornwall, History, nature, Postaday 2026, Truro, Uncategorized

Happiness, Cake and Carrots

01 Sep

It’s time for this month’s Happiness calendar.

I made a scrumptious Lemon Victoria Sponge cake for the volunteers today and it went down a storm. It was rather delicious!

We have a wonderful carrot harvesting team as I think I mentioned a couple of weeks ago when I used some of the carrots for the following week’s cake. We have a bunch of youngsters from toddler to nearly 9 years old who are superb at pulling up the carrots! All the parents gave permission for the photos to be used here

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 1, 2026 in Children, community, Cornwall, environment, Food, growing, nature, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Harvesting, Preserving and Singing

30 Aug

It’s been a busy morning harvesting – sweetcorn and tomatoes.

We had freshly boiled and buttered sweetcorn for lunch and I cooked four more cobs and cut off the corn to freeze. There’ll be more for lunch tomorrow.

The black tomatoes from one plant I have today made into a rich tomato chutney with a hint of cardamom. It’s delicious.

500g tomatoes made two and a half little jars of chutney

This afternoon one of my choirs, The Suitcase Singers, had our last gig of the summer at The Meudon Hotel.

Looking from the dining room down the garden.

In 2018 I was the Humanist Celbrant at a delightful wedding in the gardens of the Meudon Hotel.

Humanist Wedding, Phillip Pullman and Blooms

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 30, 2026 in Cornwall, environment, Falmouth, gigs, growing, nature, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Tags: The Meudon Hotel

Six on Saturday – Suffragette Garden

29 Aug

My Suffragette Garden, all purple, white and green, needs some overhaul. The clematis, Polish Spirit, seemed lost last year but is now doing a good job as ground cover which is pleasing. I think I’ll encourgae it up the fence as well.

Polish Spirit

Nearby are the delicate white Autumn flowering cyclamen.

Cyclamen hederifolium f. albiflorum:

I have just bought some crocus bulbs to lift the patch in the Spring and there are already Narcissus lurking underground to make their appearance next year.

The Japanese Anemones are looking good and please me greatly.

Japanese Anemone – Honorine Jobert

The Choisya Ternata gives us white and green in the summer months but I do need to get more purple for then. There was some Verbena Bonariensis but it has. disappeared sadly. Re-planning, replanting on their way.

Jim, over at Garden Ruminations, hosts Six on Saturday Pop over and in the comments, you’ll find so many delightful posts from keen gardeners all over the world.