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The Bunch, Sweet Peas and New Clematis

Here is the beautiful bunch of brightness that our friends brought yesterday.

The beautiful Bunch

Our Sweet Peas are just about finished which is very disappointing and much earlier than last year. We have picked all the ones from the very top and dug the rest up!

Last of our Sweet Peas

We will replace them with Clematis that will come back year after year rather than us having to plant each year – labour saving ploy and finding the best in the situation as is my wont. We have bought two purple and two white ones, the names of which I have forgotten for the moment. I’ll look at the labels tomorrow.

Clematis

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 13, 2017 in Beauty, friendship, garden, nature, Photography, postaday2017

The Gift of a Flower

12 Aug

We’ve had a delightful time with friends this evening and this beautiful bloom was in the flowers they brought for us.

One of the bunch

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 12, 2017 in Beauty, flowers, friendship

A Very Special Wedding

23 Jul

Here is a gallery of photos from last Monday when Mydd and Josh celebrated their marriage at Godrevy Beach, Cornwall. Click on any photo for detail. It was a day so full of love that it was tangible. The air was alive with love and laughter, smiles and serenity. May their life together be long and happy and full of beauty.

A young guest

Flowers and Godrevy Beach

Flowers for everyone

Creating small bunches

In the afternoon

Six Spot Burnet Moth found on the rocks

All coming down to the beach for the Ceremony

Guests

Pete

Sue

Marquee full of food and drink

We’re on our way down!

Coming down carefully

Coming down onto the beach

Waiting for the Ceremony to begin

Now we have our garlands, we can begin

Love

Happy!

First kiss

Mercedes reading her ceremony poem

A small guest

Ceremony over

First swim

Beautiful Becca

Many guests in the water too

Coming out of the water

Rose petal confetti on the beach

Good friends

Coming back from their first swim

Special pot shards for the guests

Against the sunset

Sunset ending the best day ever!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 23, 2017 in Beauty, Celebration, Cornwall, friendship, Godrevy, Happiness, nature, Photography, postaday2017, Wedding, Wildworks

Tags: love, romance

Rainy day, Old Friends and Wild Flower Meadows

11 Jul

What a lot of rain fell today! The garden needed it and it has has certainly freshened the air. This is the view through a rain spattered back window.

Rainy garden

We went to visit old friends in Truro today. They are both in their 90s and were friends of my parents. We all enjoy a good natter – they like hearing about our lives and we learn so much of their history too – and we share our political concerns…. We took with us a rain drenched bouquet of flowers from our very wet garden.

Garden bouquet

Driving away later, we went down Daniell Road, into Daniell Street where I have never seen so many beautiful window boxes and out to the top of Lemon Street (details for family and friends who know Truro well). The two patches of grass outside The Daniell Arms (now called The Thomas Daniell) are now little wild flower meadows and they are glorious!

Taken from a moving car

Light Tree, Cake and Perthi Kov Reunion

01 Jul

I had a brainwave today about where to put our light-balls.

Light balls on white tree

I made a Coffee and Pecan Cake for our Perthi Kov reunion today, the plan being to have tea and cake and to share ideas about the whole experience.

Coffee and Pecan Cake

St Euny Church was buzzing again this afternoon as people met friends, old and newly made during the production, and shared reminiscences. Click on any photo for a larger version. One of the gang has made a beautiful Memory book which has inspired others to do the same.

St Euny Church full of Perthi Kov performers, makers, stewards, writers and the rest!

The Swindells sisters listening to the recording

Enjoying the afternoon

Old friends

Sharing memories

Listening to stories

Sue, explaining the new offers we have had for future productions…..

Explaining his part to the adults

New ideas being discussed

Serious discussion re interviewing techniques

We did enjoy ourselves!

Friends with flowers

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 1, 2017 in baking, Beauty, Celebration, community, friendship, Happiness, Perthi Kov, Photography, postaday2017

Tags: Coffee and Pecan Cake, St Euny Church, Until the Day Break

Bee, Verbascum and White Strawberries

25 Jun

It is good to see bees busy on these Summer days.

Bee collecting nectar

I love the peachiness and furriness of these Verbascum flowers.

Verbascum

What a feast for supper tonight! Our lovely neighbour came in to share our roast chicken and brought with her a cornucopia of fresh produce from her allotment – new potatoes (which I cooked with mint and butter), broad beans (for which I made a creamy white sauce), a courgette (which I fried in butter with lemon zest) and White Strawberries for our dessert. I think they are lovely with their tiny red seeds and they certainly taste good! The birds don’t recognise them as ripe so they survive!

White Strawberries from Sue’s allotment

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 25, 2017 in Beauty, bees, environment, flowers, Food, friendship, garden, nature, Photography, postaday2017

Tags: Mullein

Jacket, Broccoli and Painted Biscuits

13 Jun

I wish my patchwork jacket were as bright when dry! My special friend, Kath, for whom this blog is written, had one of these jackets too.

The veins on the Purple Sprouting broccoli are turning purple.

It is a year since Jo Cox, MP, was murdered and in celebration of her belief that we have more in common, many, many people are taking part in The Great Get Together this weekend. We will be in London and will be unable to join in with our local Allotment Society’s Barbecue Get together so this afternoon I have baked some biscuits to be taken down as our contribution to the party. I found the flower cutters a few weeks ago and saved their first use for these painted biscuits.