The set of The Choir of Man, yesterday’s post, was a pub and at the start, lots of audience members were among the cast enjoying a drink. If you are local, there are still some tickets left this week at The Hall for Cornwall, Truro.
I liked the paper flowers in the shop window as we collected our bread this morning.
Walking back along Lovers’ Lane, there was lots of Cow parsley, more prettily known as Queen Anne’s Lace.
Along the way there was a delicate white feather on the path.
I missed Six on Saturday this week as it was a very busy weekend so here are my six for last week.
First some really good news – we thought our Acer, a present for our Ruby wedding, 19 years ago, had succumbed to the drought. It may be a different shape as it recovers but it isn’t dead! We spotted some new growth today.
The Japanese Anemones are looking very good especially with the purple of the Verbena Bonariensis.
The Rudbeckia are glowing.
The Clematis Montana in the front garden has two flowers but you’ll have to look hard to see them!
Other Clematis seed heads are looking delicate and lovely.
The Buddleia is in the field behind us, not strictly in our garden but we benefit from the blooms.
I’m a bit late to the party this week but you could still pop over to Jim, over at Garden Ruminations, where you’ll find Six on Saturday and in the comments, you’ll find many delightful posts from keen gardeners all over the world.
Our lovely neighbour who takes my cakes to the market each month, made a special sign for it on the market stall. 
There was a new stall at the market, a French/Italian patisserie, Nougatine, and, my goodness, the Lemon Tarts were absolutely the best I have ever tasted.
The sky this evening was beautiful. 
P.S. The exhibition at Truro Cathedral ends on October 5th.
This evening we went to the Hall for Cornwall in Truro to listen to Lucy Worsley, historian. She was very entertaining. On the way we appreciated the gorgous flower displays and the view of the cathedral. 
It’s time for this month’s Happiness calendar.
I made a scrumptious Lemon Victoria Sponge cake for the volunteers today and it went down a storm. It was rather delicious!
We have a wonderful carrot harvesting team as I think I mentioned a couple of weeks ago when I used some of the carrots for the following week’s cake. We have a bunch of youngsters from toddler to nearly 9 years old who are superb at pulling up the carrots! All the parents gave permission for the photos to be used here
We pulled more Sweetcorn today and gave a couple to Sue-next-door in exchange for some of her beans grown on her allotment.
There was a neighbourhood wedding at the weekend, the whole event being in the garden and the field behind. Today our neighbour brought us one of the pretty table jam jars of garden flowers.
Looking for a poem for today in my “A Poet for Every Day of the Year, I found one that appealed to me under today’s date.‘What’s the Railroad to me?”,”I’ve included the introduction too as I really enjoyed learning about Thoreau. 
It’s been a busy morning harvesting – sweetcorn and tomatoes.
We had freshly boiled and buttered sweetcorn for lunch and I cooked four more cobs and cut off the corn to freeze. There’ll be more for lunch tomorrow.
The black tomatoes from one plant I have today made into a rich tomato chutney with a hint of cardamom. It’s delicious.
500g tomatoes made two and a half little jars of chutney
This afternoon one of my choirs, The Suitcase Singers, had our last gig of the summer at The Meudon Hotel.
Looking from the dining room down the garden.
In 2018 I was the Humanist Celbrant at a delightful wedding in the gardens of the Meudon Hotel.
My Suffragette Garden, all purple, white and green, needs some overhaul. The clematis, Polish Spirit, seemed lost last year but is now doing a good job as ground cover which is pleasing. I think I’ll encourgae it up the fence as well.
Polish Spirit
Nearby are the delicate white Autumn flowering cyclamen.
Cyclamen hederifolium f. albiflorum:
I have just bought some crocus bulbs to lift the patch in the Spring and there are already Narcissus lurking underground to make their appearance next year.
The Japanese Anemones are looking good and please me greatly.
Japanese Anemone –Â Honorine Jobert
The Choisya Ternata gives us white and green in the summer months but I do need to get more purple for then. There was some Verbena Bonariensis but it has. disappeared sadly. Re-planning, replanting on their way.
Jim, over at Garden Ruminations, hosts  Six on Saturday Pop over and in the comments, you’ll find so many delightful posts from keen gardeners all over the world.
Sadly, our beautiful Mandella bought in Arizona many years ago, has been attacked by moths and we can’t keep it.
After a delicious lunch with our dear friend M, we went to the garden centre to find a new shrub. No luck with that but I did see an amazing bee hotel.
In honour of our fellow human beings in Nepal who are suffering in the terrible flooding, I give you some pictures taken when we were lucky enough to visit in October 2013. Beautiful people, beautiful country. My heart goes out to them all.
I just heard that our Cornish based charity, ShelterBox, is on the ground already and assessing how they can help. They had a deployment of boxes in the area so will be able to provide help quickly. They are a wonderful charity.
If you would like to see more of this beautiful country, click here and move forward through the days. I am so deeply moved by this tragedy having fallen in love with the place and its people on our visit in 2013.
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
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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