Last night was the full Harvest Moon.
I made a big moussaka today and will freeze it in portions for almost instant dinners on the nights I don’ t feel like cooking.
Another gloriously pink-becoming-orange-becoming-fiery sunset and all within moments.
Our eldest daughter came today to help my lovely Mr S move our very heavy Finger Labyrinth sculpture a few feet. It has been tricky mowing around it so now it’s at the edge of a flower bed and a new lawn will be sown where it was. It looks much better where it is now.
My next job will be to find plants to grow at the base that won’t grow too high to obscure the carved words. I shall start researching an evergreen, low growing shrub that has flowers, maybe scent……
Ars brevis vita longa
Amor vincit omnia
Blue skies and a temperature of 21C – perfect!
Chicken, leek and bacon pie
We made a pinhole camera for the eclipse yesterday and it worked well to see the changing shape of the sun but it was a very small image. Blue Peter skills came in handy here. We were glad of the colander!
Such a strange cloud a day or two ago, not a vapour trail and unlike any we had spotted before.
Perhaps there is a nephophile out there who can explain.
I’ve just started a new book, the new ShelterBox bookclub choice that arrived in the post on Monday. It’s a very powerful read that I am finding hard to put down. 
It’s less of a story that a collective diary, written by twenty-one women who are each recording their experiences in Kabul as the Taliban take over again in August 2021. I’ll tell you more when I’m done. I’m just 80 some pages in.
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.
Sunset on the way home
Wolf Moon at 10pm, wish I could have caught it coming over the horizon.
Another evening with family. What a joy it is to have them all around for such a long time! One daughter left this evening, another family leave in the morning, another in the afternoon but the family from Barcelona will be with us until Tuesday! This has been the best week ever!
I went to weed the leeks at the allotment this afternoon and found this pretty self-sown flower growing on our patch.
I hope some of you have managed to see the eclipse/ Blood Moon this evening. Today’s clouds disappeared so I spent half an hour looking East but we are too low down here,. However, the clouds turned pink for the duration so it was just out of sight below the horizon. I shall hope to get a photo of the full moon, the Corn Moon, later this evening.
Looking West a few moments later, the sunset was quite subdued but I do love the silver lining and the tree silhouette. .
I haven’t been up to see the dawn for a very long time but the family were leaving early for their long drive home so I caught the gorgeous peachy clouds of the morning. The house is now too quiet. 
Our Sweet Peas are still gorgeous. I’ve taken a photo today as Cornwall has a yellow weather warning for heavy rain overnight so they may not be as lovely tomorrow.
The Japanese Anemones are lovely too, today. 
I’ve just returned fro singing at the Eco Park tonight – a wonderful evening of song and joy
TONIGHT! Join the Ingleheart Singers, Suitcase Singers and friends for a night of Shanties and more…
We will be collecting for Shelter Box, Penhaligons and St Petrocs
7pm – 9pm
Eco Park Porthtowan
FREE Entry and Parking
Atrium bar and food available from Canteen from 6pm
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