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Hi everyone! I’m back and glad! This was our last full day in Cornwall but it has been, of course ,wonderful so far. Today, I went to Choir with Granny and was probably one of the best ones I’ve been to. Everybody is always so nice and welcoming and loves to help me during songs I don’t know. My favourite song was a Liberian song where we sang Cockadoodledoo in Liberian so if I ever want to go to Liberia, I can say Cockadoodledoo!
(I’ve tried to add an MP4 here but it’s not working – yet)

The day was foggy and murky yet seeing the ship wrecks on the mud was like a scarecrow in a field of daisies.

Later on, we went to Porthtowan for what was meant to be a fleeting encounter with the waves and pebbles but we got caught up and forgot time was running and stayed there for almost an hour stepping over stones and finding lettered pebbles.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 11, 2024 in Cornwall, family, music, Penryn, Porthtowan, Postaday 2024, Sea, singing

Cathedral, Automata and Boogie Woogie Stomp

03 Apr

I love this particular view of Truro Cathedral, looking down the curve of the lovely Walsingham Place.

I had heard that there was an exhibition of automata in Truro Museum and we were not disappointed by the wonderfully crazy things on show. It’s well worth visiting if you are one of my readers in Cornwall.

I was watching a video of the lovely Angeline Morrison when this Boogie Woogie one came up next and I just had to share it. I just love how how everyone listening and watching has a smile on their face. I hope it makes you smile too.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 3, 2024 in art, Cornwall, craft, environment, music, piano, Postaday 2024, Truro, Uncategorized

Tags: Nico Brina, Paul Spooner, Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro Cathedral, Walsingham Place

St Piran’s Day, A Song and Cornish Daffodils

05 Mar

Happy St Piran’s Day to you all!

A huge thank you to Harry Glasson for writing this beautiful song which has become such an anthem for Cornwall! Here are The Ingleheart Singers singing Cornwall My Home for you, recorded on Monday afternoon for sharing today. Do click on the link to see the video.

https://fb.watch/qD9NUPAbT4/

Primroses and The Best Music!

05 Feb

It is so lovely to see the primroses coming out in our front garden. They are my absolute favourites.

My brother, SIL and the lovely Mr S always say,”We had the best music!” and here is the proof.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 5, 2024 in environment, flowers, garden, music, nature, Postaday 2024, Uncategorized

Tags: old musicians, thanks to codigolibre

Christmas – A Concert, A Poem and Our Tree

18 Dec

Tomorrow evening, both my choirs are singing in the ShelterBox Christmas concert and although, Dear Readers, you are all over the world, you can still join the festivities from the comfort of your own home by watching live at shelterbox.org/ChristmasConcert. I hope you’ll be able to join us. If you do, please add a like or a comment tomorrow evening. We’d love to know where in the world the concert was watched.

The lovely poet, Brian Bilston, has very kindly said I can share another of his poems with you all. For me, it sums things up very well indeed – if only we still had a cat. We have tickets for his gig in Falmouth next May!Our tree is covered in angels. They have been bought over many years and all around the world where we have visited. (Still need to go to Vietnam, Cambodia and Australia!) There are angels from Warsaw, Volcano in Hawaii, Phoenix, Santa Fe, Denver and Seattle, from Munich, Salzburg, Sheffield and Truro, from Mapoch in South Africa, Nepal and more! The fluffy ones were my Mum’s.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on December 18, 2023 in America, Celebration, Cornwall, music, poetry, Postaday 2023, ShelterBox, travel, Truro

Christmas Carols and Glass Angels

04 Dec

Yesterday my choir, The Ingleheart Singers, sang Christmas Carols to entertain the visitors to the Eco Park Christmas Market. We thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon despite the rain and today, our leader sent us the following photo and some wonderful comments that have pleased us all.

I was there but I’m behind our esteemed leader!

Eco Park: “Thank you so much for the wonderful singing. I’ve come here from Germany to stay with my daughter for Christmas. Your choir just opened my heart”

“As I walked towards the market, it looked so atmospheric and beautiful with the lights and everything, then I heard this incredible singing and saw you all in your reds stood there, it really was the cherry on the cake! It was the best Christmas singing I’ve ever heard in my life!”

Chef from the cafe: “You must be very pleased with yourselves, I’ve just had some people come in and say they were moved to tears by the singing.”

I’m working hard to get my last few angels finished. I’m incorporating more of the sea glass I have been given. Here are the last few in various stages of being done.

Thanks to Judith for the sea glass xx

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on December 4, 2023 in art, Christmas decorations, Food Bank, gigs, glass, Happiness, music, Postaday 2023, ShelterBox

Joy and Harmony

27 Nov

I love this flashmob with my choirs. There’s a need for joy and harmony right now. All the very best to all my Dear Readers.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on November 27, 2023 in Cornwall, Flash mob, Happiness, music, Postaday 2023, singing, Truro, Uncategorized

Tags: harmony, joy, Lemon Street Market, peace

Joy and Singing

15 Oct

One of my Blogger pals has given me permission to share this post of hers which I love. If you go along to her blog, https://ladysighs.wordpress.com/you can hear her singing and that is a delight. I recommend you do just that. As she says, “I have lost the source for this song. The words are uplifting no matter what one believes.”

Joyful joyful we are joyful
We have truth in nature found
Hearts unfold like flowers before us
Opening to the sun above
Melting clouds of ill and sadness
Driving the dark of doubt away
Knowledge is our source of gladness
Fills us with the light of day

All natures’ works with joy surround us
Earth and heaven’s distant rays
Stars and planets arch above us
The sun the center of our days
Field and forest vale and mountain
Flowery meadow flashing seas
Singing bird and flowing fountain
Call us to rejoice in peace

May we be giving and forgiving
Ever honest with respect
Wellspring of the joy of living
Ocean depth of happy rest
Father brother sister mother
Live in love and peace in time
Teach us how to love each other
Lift us to our joy’s desire

Friends we join the happy chorus
Which the morning stars began
Natures love is shining on us
Brother love binds man to man
Ever singing march we onward
Victors in the midst of strife
Joyful music leads us sun-ward
In the triumph song of life

I’ve been out tonight singing with my choir, raising money for our two charities and it was great fun. I meant to ask friends in the audience to take a photo but forgot but Ladysighs has stepped into the breach. Thank you!

One of my singing friends has sent me a photo of us all as were were warming up before the concert last night. Thanks L for D’s photo!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 15, 2023 in CPR Foodbank, Postaday 2023, ShelterBox, singing, Uncategorized

Tags: https://ladysighs.wordpress.com/

Roots Harvest Celebration

14 Oct

Poster by Imogen Street-Rees

Brilliant, heart-warming and positive day today! It has been a day of Harvest celebration with lots of happy people, lots of delicious cakes, wonderful music and lots of laughter, a real uplifting day to be a part of.

Enjoy our gallery of the event.

Pumpkins at the entrance

Our working poly tunnel full of bunting

I made an Apple, Almond and Cinnamon Cake

Busy

Lots of fun

Collecting lunch

The set

Leo enjoying the music of Jaclarabag

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 14, 2023 in baking, Celebration, community, Cornwall, environment, friendship, Happiness, music, photography, Porthtowan, Postaday 2023, Uncategorized

Tags: community roots, Jaclarabag

Flags, St Mawes and A Lighthouse

24 Jul

It has been the night of the choir’s boat trip. We hire a leisure boat, take food to share and have that on the way from Falmouth to St Mawes where we get off and busk a while collecting for our two charities, ShelterBox and the local Food Bank. On the way home, as the sun is setting, we sing all the way back to Falmouth – a wonderfully happy evening made all the better because LiveWire 3 is with us and joined in all the singing. Just a few pictures as I spent all evening singing!