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Sewing, Secret and Sea

There are now 30 little creatures on the long fabric strands.

I’m being allowed to show you a little more of the project. The whole piece remains secret until the exhibition starting on March 31st. I wonder if you can work out what it is.

After sewing and my lovely Mr S working in the garden in sunshine, we decided to go out for lunch at the Falmouth Hotel and have a walk by the sea. It really does my soul good to see, smell and hear the sea. The blues were so beautiful today.

Out for lumch

Our next treat was a trip to Falmouth Art Gallery for a wonderful exhibition of automata which I’ll show you tomorrow.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 18, 2026 in art, Cornwall, craft, environment, Falmouth, Gyllyngvase, nature, Postaday 2026, sculpture, Uncategorized

Hail, Muscari and More Primroses

13 Mar

It’s been crazy weather today, wind, sunshine that actually gave warmth and many, many wild hail showers. I was delighted to watch a horizontal spider’s web outside the kitchen window act as a hammock for hailstones. If you look carefully at the photo, you can make out the strands of web holding the hailstones.

A bank of primroses

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 13, 2026 in Cornwall, environment, garden, nature, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

St Michael’s Mount, Wind Surfer and Advice

11 Mar

I need to heed this advice

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 11, 2026 in Cornwall, environment, Postaday 2026

Tags: Marazion

Primroses, Tamar Narcissi and Landays

10 Mar

Our border of primroses is coming on.

The daffodils we bought last Saturday in town are lovely. I usually prefer single blossoms but these doubles are really beautiful. I think we were told that they are Tamar Fire but these seem more delicately coloured than the ones I find online.

This afternoon I listened to a wonderful programme, ArtWorks on BBC radio 4: Lyse Doucet, the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent and regular visitor to Afghanistan, was talking to female Afghan poets about the landay: a 22 syllable Pashtun verse form they create, perform and share to speak of love, sex, war and hardship. There are 9 syllables on the first of the two line poem and 13 on the second. The poems were very moving and the programme is well worth finding on BBC Sounds.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 10, 2026 in environment, flowers, garden, nature, poetry, Postaday 2026

Tags: Afghanistan

Cookies, First Tulip and Pink

09 Mar

I made some Fork Cookies this morning, so called because you flatten the ball of dough with the tines of a fork.I then dipped them in dark chocolate. They are scrummy!

Our tub of tulips is flowering already, seems quite early. I’m loving the delicacy of the green and pink bits.

Both the flowers below were presents, the pretty pale pink one from my dear friend and colleague Sharon, lost in 2024 and the deep pink primulas bought for us by LiveWires 5 and 6 who planted them for us in the allotment. We dug them up to bring them home once we gave up our tenancy.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 9, 2026 in baking, Cornwall, environment, garden, nature, Postaday 2026

Full Moon, Sunshine and A Robin

04 Mar

Last night’s full moon is known as the Plough Moon or Worm Moon, both signifying the coming of Spring. It is also called the Sap Moon indicating the time for tapping the sap from Maple trees.

The sun has shone almost all day once the mists had cleared. We went for a walk at Trelissick Gardens and the sun was shining right on the golden squirrel of the weather vane on the Water Tower.

We could hear the most glorious bird song and then spotted the robin singing his heart out.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 4, 2026 in Cornwall, environment, nature, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Cookies, Bumper Sticker and Flowers

03 Mar

I only had two eggs so couldn’t make a cake for the volunteers at Roots so I made Choc Chip Cookies instead.

We followed a car with a bumper sticker that made us smile.

Our garden has bloomed in today’s very welcome sunshine.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 3, 2026 in baking, environment, Glendurgan Gardens, Humour, nature, Postaday 2026

Happiness Calendar, Community Roots and St David’s Day

01 Mar

Today the allotment is no longer ours but our fellow allotmenteers from the last few years came to visit Community Roots to hear about no-dig and to learn all about the garden. It was a very damp and fascinating morning which was greatly enjoyed by everyone. Here are some of them after the tour and after having worked in the new orchard.

It’s St David’s Day and here are more daffodils to honour my Welsh heritage. My Mum’s father was Welsh. They really were nodding in the breeze and the rain as I took the video through the window.

Crocuses, Tomatoes and Ukraine

24 Feb

My Suffragette garden is coming into bloom, purple, white and green crocus plants.

You may remember that last week we sowed many trays of tomatoes of various sorts. Today they were up and ready for transplanting and I was so busy doing that I forgot to take any photos. The following photo of Gardeners’ Ecstasy is from the internet, not mine!

We send our love to our friends in Ukraine as the war reaches a 4th anniversary. We remember with great fondness the friends we made among the Hooligan Art Community. Here are some photos from 2023 when they were visiting.

Slava Ukraine!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 24, 2026 in community, Cornwall, environment, friendship, garden, nature, Postaday 2026

Tags: Hooligan Art Community, Slava Ukraini

Amaryllis, Catkins and Daffodils

23 Feb

The last of the blooms on our Amaryllis is almost gone. The plant has been remarkable, two stems and nine blooms in total. I hope I can look after it properly so that it’ll do the same next year.

Spring is on the way, more rain and mizzle but also Catkins. The image is a bit blurry as it was windy and all five photos I took were out of focus!

I wish I could show you the daffodils lining the lanes all over the place. The yellow blurs by as I drive around to choir and it makes me smile. There were some in the car park too so here’s a taste of the loveliness.