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The Concert, The Book and The Song

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

Optimistic October and A View

01 Oct

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 1, 2026 in environment, Happiness, Kindness, nature, Postaday 2026

Tags: action for happiness, optimism

What a Lovely Day!

26 Aug

It’s our 59th Wedding Anniversary and we have some family here to celebrate with us – cards, flowers and chocolates and then a delicious breakfast of croissants and pain au chocolat made by LiveWire no 2. Join us…….as we walk along the cliffs at Godrevy, watch the seals at Mutton Cove, eat Sallie’s Ice-creams and have a really lovely time.

Breakfast made by J

Godrevy Lighthouse

A family having fun in the water

Looking across to St Ives where 59 years ago we went for our honeymoon having been married in Truro.

Seals in Mutton Cove

Tonight, to cap off a beautiful day, it’s another Shanty Sing at the Eco Park and LiveWire 3, who has been singing with my choirs since she was 6 or 7 whenever she was here on holiday, joined us with the rest of the family in the audience.

And here we are singing,”Cornwall My Home.”

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 26, 2026 in Cornwall, gigs, Godrevy, Happiness, nature, Postaday 2026, singing

Tide Coming in

25 Aug

Lovely busy family day today, Roots, the sea, more sea, fish and chips, games and chatter………

Low view of the sea

Fabulous Quilt

09 Aug

In May, we went with friends to Amsterdam and while there visited a lovely quilt shop as our friend K is a quilter. A couple of weeks ago, an enormous box was delivered and to our utter delight, inside was the most beautiful quilt, the pattern being the very distinctive houses of Amsterdam, along with a bridge and canal. Absolutely stunning.
We were given washing instructions but wanted to hang this beautiful piece of art rather than throw it over a bed. We found a curtain pole, a pair of bronzed hooks and over the weekend, have rearranged paintings on our landing and hung the quilt in pride of place in the stairwell. It looks amazing and we love it.

Little Amsterdam designed by North Sea Quilters and made by K.

The amount of work in this is remarkable and we treasure this beautiful piece.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 9, 2026 in Amsterdam, art, Beauty, friendship, Happiness, Postaday 2026, quilting, Uncategorized

Tags: North Sea quilters

Ferry to St Mawes to Sing

07 Aug

It was late when I arrived home last night so here is a small gallery showing our trip from Falmouth to St Mawes to sing and the ferry ride back again. Click on any photo for the caption and if you like, listen to us singing on the ferry on our way home. It’s ‘Cornwall, My Home” written by Harry Glasson and it’s really the new Cornish anthem.

Leaving Falmouth

Approaching St Mawes Castle

Cottages in St Mawes

Rowers

One of the races

St Mawes Hotel where we were to sing outside

Sunset on the way home

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 7, 2026 in community, Cornwall, environment, Falmouth, friendship, Happiness, music, Postaday 2026, Sea, singing, sky, St Mawes

Tags: Harry Glasson

Happy Fourth of July!

04 Jul

Sending love and good wishes to all my family and friends and all my readers in America on this your 250th anniversary.

Here are two of our fridge magnets collected on trips to your beautiful counrty.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 4, 2026 in America, Celebration, community, family, friendship, Happiness, Postaday 2026

Tags: Thomas Jefferson

Father’s Day – Breakfast, Lunch and A Walk

21 Jun

Happy Summer Solstice to all my Dear Readers.

I made a favourite breakfast of Blueberry Pancakes with creme fraiche and maple syrup for my lovely Mr S.

Our eldest daughter came for the day and we had a delicious lunch in the Redruth Buttermarket in bright sunshine and with colourful hanging baskets and bunting blowing in the breeze. The excellent kitchens allow for each of us to choose – burger, foccacia, pad thai.

Later we had a rather warm walk down to the beach at Trelissick. All in all, a delightful happy day.

Walking down to the beach

Looking out over Channal Creek

Rock Samphire

Walking back up with the house in view.

And of course, my own lovely Dad is also in my mind today, especially as we enjoy Trelissick which Mum and Dad both loved too.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 21, 2026 in Cornwall, environment, family, Food, Happiness, nature, Postaday 2026

Tags: Redruth Buttermarket, Trelissick

My Mum, Precious Words and Deeds

04 Jun

My lovely Mum died on this day in 1994 and I still want to tell her stuff that excites me or that I need her wisdom on. That doesn’t go away. She was a very special person and supported me every way in everything I did.

Regular readers will have seen this photo before, a favourite taken at Carn Brea Castle on the occasion of Mum and Dad’s Golden Wedding celebration in 1989

I have been going through some treasures and found some letters from Mum, all relating to her care of me while becoming a mum myself.
A story for you – Very early in my third pregnancy , I knew that I was expecting twins. I had wanted to have twins since I was 9 years old! My GP told me I was being silly and that he would tell me if/ when this was so. My lovely parents believed me and bought us ‘multiple birth’ insurance at 8 weeks and the GP wrote a letter to the insurance company saying that he was sure it was a single birth.
Roll on eight months or so to September 9th 1977 and the doubting GP sent me to see the consultant at the hospital. She listened to me, sent me for an x-ray and there they were, arms and legs everywhere! Before taking the plates back to her, I phoned my lovely Mr S and my Mum to share my utter delight. What follows is the letter from my Mum that came the next day:

Letter dated 9/9/1977

Just a week later, our twins arrived on 16th and 17th September, and so did my Mum to help look after our other two, 4 and nearly 2 years old, while I was in hospital and then three more weeks to help – but that is another story.