It’s June already!
This was the purple, white and green posy we took for Ti today.
We read a new poem with Ti today, ‘Chocolate Cake’ by Michael Rosen – and we all loved it. Here’s a Youtube version of this delightful poem.
Category Archives: Happiness
Joyful June, A Posy and A Poem
A Hedgehog, A Candle and Blowing Out
I’ve shown you the hedgehogs on the roundabout in Truro when in hibernation. Here is one of them out to welcome the Spring!
Thanks, M, for the photo
I’ve kept the one candle we took for Ti’s 104th birthday.
Here she is blowing it out and laughing.
A Day at Community Roots
Wild weather again, lightning, thunder and really heavy rain, Most of us worked indoors in the poly tunnels until the rain lessened late afternoon. The growth of the crops is wonderful. It is inspiring to work at Roots and to be a part of this community. Enjoy the gallery.
Lone worker in the rain
The tomato tunnel
Squash, Aubergine and Chilies ready for planting out
Marigolds
Rainbow chard in all its glorious colours
Weeding
Borage flowers
After walking around taking the photos, I noticed the Marigold petal on my boots.
Kindness, Calendar and A Butterfly Bun
I saw this today and liked it.
I’m a bit late with this month’s Happiness Calendar……. Meaningful May
I’ve made buns this afternoon to be made into Butterfly Buns for a special day tomorrow. I had to finish off two so that we could test whether to use commercial jam or my strawberry jam. My freezer jam it will be!
Dawn, Laughter and Salad Crops
Such a pretty pink dawn but the colour really did presage stormy weather.
Some brave souls worked outside in the driving rain this morning at Roots but we stayed in the poly tunnel and pricked out the baby plants (Red Russian kale, lettuce and fennel) into their bigger homes. There’s a lot of laughter as we work!
The salad crops are wonderful, such a colourful selection and very tasty. 
Happiness Calendar and Suffragette Colours
Here’s this month’s calendar, Active April.
I’m loving the Anemone Blanda blooms and leaves in Suffragette colours in our wall garden outside the kitchen.
Singing in Truro Cathedral
What a fabulous event this was to be a part of!
Truro Cathedral Concert
Our wonderful audience raised £720 for our three charities. Here we are singing the wonderful last song, “We Shall Be Known” by Karisha Longaker of MaMuse.
Thank you to the lovely Mr S for the video.
International Day of Happiness
“The International Day of Happiness is celebrated throughout the world on 20 March. It was established by the United Nations General Assembly on 28 June 2012. The International Day of Happiness aims to make people around the world realise the importance of happiness within their lives.”
On another grey day here in Cornwall, here are lots of spring flowers in our front garden to hopefully contribute to happiness for you, dear reader.
This makes for very happy reading! https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/quiet-anarchy-ridding-redruth-deprived-8257349?fbclid=IwAR0vOOXbZh0agEabtUPcQqoqQdpLKmMq60rymbMw5UIu4Fz4WKOSOidSA9w
Have a happy day!
Gift, Hugs and Refugees
A parcel arrived today and what delights were inside! A reader in the North East who has become a friend has collected lots of beautiful sea-glass and posted it to me. Thank you so much, J, such lovely pieces and colours. Joy!
Along with the glass, in the parcel, were two beautifully made ‘pocket hugs.’ What a delightful idea! Our pocket hugs will come on our walks with us
It seems the right time to share again the following poem by W H Auden, written in a different time but with a hurtful relevance today.
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Refugee Blues by W H Auden Say this city has ten million souls, Once we had a country and we thought it fair, In the village churchyard there grows an old yew, The consul banged the table and said: Went to a committee; they offered me a chair; Came to a public meeting; the speaker got up and said: Thought I heard the thunder rumbling in the sky; Saw a poodle in a jacket fastened with a pin, Went down the harbour and stood upon the quay, Walked through a wood, saw the birds in the trees; Dreamed I saw a building with a thousand floors, Stood on a great plain in the falling snow; |
Reflection, Surfers and A Number Plate
Daughter No 1 has been with us today to celebrate her birthday so we’ve been to the beach, watched the surfers and the incoming tide for over an hour, called in at The Blue Bar for hot chocolates and cake, talked and talked and talked and had a delicious birthday dinner. She travelled in her favourite car which has a new personalised number plate, part of her birthday present. I love it!.
Audi S8
