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Young Veggies, Autumn Leaves and Apples

We returned to Community Roots this morning and hoed and re-potted and loved being back in the fold. All the seeds that were planted weeks ago have nearly all been potted on and planted out in our absence. It was brilliant to see the progress in all the poly tunnels.

In the propagating tunnel

I love the colours of leaves in Autumn.

We have harvested the four apples on our new family apple tree. These are Lord Lambournes, crisp firm apples with a lovely flavour. Let’s hope there are more next year as it is described as a ‘heavy cropper!.’ The other branches gave no apples this year.

The Concert, The Book and The Song

19 Oct

The Inglehearts’ Anniversary Concert last night was a blast! We had a couple of standing ovations, there were tears and laughter and the joy in the room was palpable. Amazingly, we raised £1000.00 to be shared between our two charities, ShelterBox and Community Roots. What a generous audience they were.

Our wonderful committee have been working hard for months putting together a photo-book full of twenty years of singing for Claire. Here are a couple of the pages for you to see.

A very talented member of our choir wrote new words for the much-loved song ‘Cornwall My Home’ by the Cornish singer and song writer, Harry Glasson, who very kindly gave his permission to sing his tune with R’s words. Here I give you the chorus:

But I’ll always remember as time moves along
The love and the laughter that goes with the songs
With good times aplenty and sad times a-few
When you’re part of our choir, our choir’s part of you.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 19, 2026 in art, Celebration, charity, community, Cornwall, friendship, gigs, Happiness, History, Postaday 2026, ShelterBox

Tags: community roots, Harry Glasson

Singing, Our Concert and Memorabilia

12 Oct

I love singing and this afternoon was back at our choir rehearsal. It appears that the happy chemicals seratonin, oxytocin and dopamine are all released when singing together and I certainly fely better for the session.

Our annual concert is only six days away! We are celebrating the Ingleheart Singers’ 20th Anniversary. I have been in the choir for the last 18 years and 7 months and our concert is going to have a selection of pieces from those last 20 years. If you are local, do come and join us and please, introduce yourself! It will be an evening full to bursting with JOY!

We are collecting memorabilia of those years and today I took along a poster and programmes from Until The Day Break, a wonderful open air theatre production I was instrumental in producing. Claire had brought in a card from a wedding we sang at and at which I was the Humanist Celebrant.

If you’d like to see more of Until the Day Break, where the Ingleheart Singers were the singers, click here.

Extra info for the concert:

Free parking, bar open, raffle, donations on the door to Community Roots Cornwall and ShelterBox

Thankyou to Ruby Ingleheart for the lovely poster!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 12, 2026 in Celebration, community, Cornwall, friendship, Happiness, Humanist ceremony, Perthi Kov, Postaday 2026

Tags: Porthtowan Eco Park

Card, Kindness and Hoodie

08 Oct

Our dear friends at Community Roots have missed me on our Tuesday volunteering sessions and have sent me a delighful card full of lovely get well messages.

Thank you so much everyone!

I sent for a sweater, not my usual style but I loved the message.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 8, 2026 in art, community, friendship, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Tags: community roots, Hoodies for Heroes

Breakfast and the Sea

30 Sep

After a delicious breakfast with lovely friends at the Blue Bar in Porthtowan, we had a brief walk on the beach, wary of the looming black clouds which dropped a downpour ten minutes later just as we arrived home.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 30, 2026 in Cornwall, Eating out, environment, friendship, nature, Porthtowan, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Lovers’ Lane, A Feather and Sunset

25 Sep

It was a beautiful afternoon and after lunch with a very good friend, in the sun at The Buttermarket in Redruth, I walked home along the lanes listening to bird song and noticing all the lovely things on the way.

Lovers’ Lane

Pink flowers, bright green leaves

Dark red leaves

Happy landing for the feather

Tonight’s sunset

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 25, 2026 in Cornwall, environment, friendship, nature, Postaday 2026, Redruth

Posy, View and A Poem

23 Sep

I visited a friend this afternoon and took a small posy of the last of our sweet-peas. They smelled gorgeous.

The view from W.s flat in Falmouth is absolutely wonderful, an ever-changing seascape and cloudscape.

Today is the Autumn equinox and the official start of Autumn. The air certainly had that feel both early morning and this evening with some lovely warm sunshine in the middle.

Kim has given me permission to share his poems before but hasn’t seen my message today. I’m hoping permission will be on its way because posting his poem tomorrow won’t be the same…

P.S. I was, very kindly, given permission! Thanks, Kim.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 23, 2026 in art, Cornwall, environment, Falmouth, friendship, nature, poetry, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Tags: Autumn equinox, Kim Ridgeon poet

Community Roots Today

15 Sep

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

Painting, Bath and Soup

06 Sep

Yesterday, after buying the wonderful pastries at Redruth’s monthly market, we called in at our favourite gallery in town, 89 Redruth. The room was full of very interesting work but my eye was immediately drawn to a small painting, We went in saying, we mustn’t buy another piece and came out later to have a short chat about whether to buy. Happily, my lovely Mr S loved as much as I did so we were back within minutes and today called in to collect it. It was so lovely to meet the artist and to see her reaction to my loving her work.

Sunset at Elmscott by Michelle Rudd

We went to a birthday do at recently refurbished Rose Cottage today. We just had our lunch but the guests were encouraged to make use of the spa in the delightful back garden of the pub. After cooking themselves in the sauna, they had the option of three ‘plunge pools’ – one warmed by the sun in a lovely white bath, next a cooler metal bath and lastly, for the truly hardy, a refrigerated tub!

Today we have harvested the last of our sweetcorn cobs and I have made a big batch of Corn Chowder. We had some tonight and the rest will go in the freezer to enjoy some summer sunshine on a grey winter day.