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Garden Party Opening at The Ladder and A Gig

There was glorious sunshine for TheĀ  Ladder opening party in the garden we helped to create last Saturday. The old library is coming back to life and in the most imaginative and exciting way. Click on any photo for a larger view and the caption.

This evening we have been to listen to Angeline Morrison who was playing in the amphitheatre at the Eco park – a beautiful voice and person in a beautiful setting.

There were eight dogs in the audience!

 

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Supplement to Yesterday from LiveWire3

“Guest blogger here again!
It was our last day in Cornwall so we had to go to Truro. We went to Waterstones to mooch around and we got some delicious Cornish pasties. We also bought some new shirts for LiveWire2 which was very successful!

Later on I went to choir with Granny! I was so excited as I have been goingĀ  since I was very young and whenever I get the chance to join in, I always take it! We sang a beautiful (and fun) Roma Gypsy song, Sao Roma arranged by Stephen Taberner, a song about May and one called Voice of Change about the Earth, about how we need to save it! I love the energy in the room and everyone is so enthusiastic and welcoming!

As we drove back home, there was so much rain! And it was really fun because there were loads of massive puddles that splashed so high and made such a loud noise. Every time we splashed through one, Granny and I both went ‘WOAH’!

I was very sad for it to be the end of our trip but I’m sure we’ll see each other again very soon! And I’m sure I’ll be coming back here again in the summer!”

Voice of Change follows,Ā  sung by The Suitcase Singers with the thanks to Jamie for the lyrics. Claire Ingleheart composed the music.This song is now sung all over the country at Climate protests.

 

 

Celebrating A Very Special Birthday

Our Dear Friend, Ti, is 104 years old today and we visited to take her a card, a posy of Lily of the Valley from the gardenĀ  and some Butterfly Buns in her choice of flavour, Victoria Sponge.Ā  We also took a recording made by the choir yesterday of ‘Voice of Change,’Ā  a song written by our choir leader and sung by the choir on the beach for Ti’s 100th birthday. Listen to the words – they become more important as every day goes by.
Click here to see the post of the party on the beach. .Ā  Click on this link to see the BBC report on her beach birthday. Do check them out. She’s a wonderful climate activist and is an example to us all. .

Happy 104th birthday to Ti who reads my blog every day on her iPad. xxx

 

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Mobile Piano, Care and Stones

It was great fun shopping in town this morning as so many people were enjoying the lovely singing and piano playing outside our excellent Greengrocery/Butcher and Deli.Ā  Ā We loved that ChloeMarie had cycled into town!

ChloeMarie Aston

TheĀ  sign below was in the chiropractor’s window (hence the skeleton!) and rings a bell with me.

We walked in Trelissick Gardens this afternoon, enjoying the bird song, the Spring flowers and the excitement of children on their nature/egg hunts.Ā  The stone pattern is in one of the shelters.

 

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Story, Painting and Greenham Songs

I loved today’s writing workshop and especially the activity that came in little eggs! Each egg contained the traditional words for starting a story from various countries around the world – ours being “Once upon a time…….”Ā  From that start we each wrote a story for 10 mins and I have never known time fly by quite so quickly. Mine was the Irish beginning. I shall ask our Ukrainian friends for the story beginning they use.

A List of Beginnings

Arabic: ā€˜There was, oh what there was (or there wasn’t) in the oldest of days and ages and
times…’
Armenian: ā€˜There was, there was not…’
ā€˜Three apples fall from the sky/heaven. One for the writer, one for the storyteller, one for the
listener…’
Czech: ā€˜Beyond seven mountain ranges, beyond seven rivers…’
Esperanto: ā€˜In a time already long past, when it was still of use to cast a spell…’
Estonian: ā€˜Beyond seven lands and seas, there lived a…’
Filipino: ā€˜At the beginning of time’, or ā€˜At the first time…’
German: ā€˜Back in the days when it was still of help to wish for a thing…’
Gujarati: ā€˜This is an old story.’
Hungarian: ā€˜Once there was, where there wasn’t, there was a…’
Irish: ā€˜A long, long, long time ago it was (and there was a king in Galway)’
Japanese: ā€˜Long ago, long ago…’
Korean: ā€˜In the time when a tiger used to smoke…’
Koti (Mozambique): ā€˜Once upon a time, there was a truly great friendship…’
Lithuanian: ā€˜Beyond nine seas, beyond nine lagoons…’
Persian: ā€˜Someone was, someone wasn’t…’
Romanian: ā€˜There once was, (as never before), because if there wasn’t, it wouldn’t have been
told…’
Russian: ā€˜In some kingdom, in some land, there lived/there was…’
Slovak: ā€˜When the water was being strewn and the sand poured…’
Tanzania: ā€˜I remember something that our father told me, and that is this:’
Turkish: ā€˜There was/lived in an exotic land far, far away, a/an…’

Walking through town later, I came across two sign-writers, very carefully repainting our direction signs. They were happy for me to take their photo, found it a very funny request and I could hear them laughing all the way down the street!

Just back from a brilliant evening of remembering the amazing protest camp at Greenham Common, hearing from someĀ  women who were actually there and singing some of their songs. Here’s one. ‘Hey Sister, Don’t You Weep.’

 

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A Tyre, A Flower and A Song for You

Singing at the Eco Park this afternoon my eye was caught by a planted up tyre.

Camellia flowers are beautiful at the moment, even when they fall.

I thought you might like to hear one of our songs from this afternoon, “My Flower, My Companion and Me”

 

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Peace and Charity Auction

Singing at the Zed Shed where this vision of peace greets us in the morning, is very soul restoring.

Choir this morning have recorded a short piece for the ShelterBox Auction. The top bidder for us will win an hour’s concert! Ā  Here is a YouTube video for you of The Suitcase Singers singing Anne Glanville

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnXNwa5XTVA

When our Ukrainians were with us, I contacted Spotlight South West to encourage them to see the show and do interviews with the Hooligan Art Community. Here is the interview for you to see. It takes a while to load.

 

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Goodbye, Last Sunflower and A Song

Photo by Danylo, thank you!

Unloading all the luggage from the truck ready to catch the train

Our last Sunflower brought in from the garden

My choir sang ‘Love Will Carry Me’ and I put it here for our Ā Ukrainian friends, their families, their friends and their country.

It’s very quiet at our house tonight. Ā Bunker Cabaret will next be performed on October 14th at The Point in Eastleigh.

P.S. I up-dated yesterday’s post with some photos.

 

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International Day of Peace and Peggy Seeger

September 21st is the United Nations Day of Peace. You can read more about its origins and this year’s themeĀ here.

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One of Peggy Seeger’s songs that I love is, “How I long for Peace.” Ā I sing it loudly in the car and feel every word deeply.

I wish for peace for all of you and those you love, my Dear Readers.

 
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Volunteering, Dahlias and Peggy Seeger

We’ve been out and it’s very late so please call back tomorrow for photos and words. šŸ™‚

That was a very busy day. First we went to help paint the old Redruth Library which has been abandoned for sometime but is now undergoing change. It is to become a community space for The Writers’ Block, for creativity, for story telling and writing workshops, for drama and performance. A call was put out for volunteers to help paint the first story telling room so off we went. The pictures tell the start of the restoration of this room, preparation and starting to paint. I did work as well as taking photos! Permission was given for all photos to be shared.

Wonderful colour was to be found at the National Dahlia Collection where we went late afternoon.

The best was yet to come. Ā We went to St Ives to see the wonderful Peggy Seeger. What a woman she is, still performing at 87, still the fierce feminist and activist. She was supported by her singer songwriter son, Neil and their last song which she said was her goodbye to us all, was her beloved Ewan MacColl’s goodbye to her and his family, “The Joy of Living.” I suspect there were few dry eyes in the house.

I bought a tea towel from her ‘merch’ table – I already had the other stuff!

 

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