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Category Archives: Postaday 2015

Perfect View, Silver Linings and Peace

We went for coffee with a very good friend this morning, an oasis of calm in the busy-ness of family life and it was delightful. This is the beautiful view we were treated to.

View from Bolanken Barn though some bunting

Silver linings behind the dark clouds over Carn Brea.

Silver linings

We were in Truro today for D to do some last minute shopping for his family before he leaves tomorrow. Browsing in the bookshop, I found two new Poetry books. Expect many more poems this year!

And one more thought for the New Year………

Let There Be World Peace

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on January 3, 2016 in Beauty, Cornwall, nature, Peace, Photography, Postaday 2015

Tags: Bloggers 4 Peace, Bloggers for Peace, Bolanken Barn to rent

Waves and Goodbyes

02 Jan

The last day with most of the family here and we went to see wild waves at Portreath, spent some time drawing, packed up the Birthday Crown and began to clear up a bit after the best four days ever with the family together for my birthday bash! Click on any photo for more detail.

Portreath waves

Wild seas

Birthday crown

Party popper leftovers

This is my Granny! Art by T

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on January 2, 2016 in art, Beauty, Christmas, Photography, Portreath, Postaday 2015, Sea

Tags: Birthday crown, Portreath Pepperpot, wild waves

Beautiful Day

30 Dec

It blew a hoolie and the rain poured down and we had a beautiful day with our Littlest Live-Wire, then everyone else arrived for dinner together of the Christmas Pie and salads. Happy days!

Decorating the stairs

Playing with the Welly Dogs

Splashing in puddles

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on December 30, 2015 in Beauty, Grandchildren, Happiness, Photography, Postaday 2015

Tags: Tinners Hounds by David Kemp

Sand Dog, Floor Piano and Little Hands

29 Dec

Walking around Truro this afternoon we came across this wonderful sand dog being made. It looked very realistic.

Sand sculpture

Littlest Live-Wire arrived this afternoon and opened her Christmas present of a floor piano.

Playing on the floor piano

At her nursery she had made this delightful picture of Rudolph with her hands and her feet.

Rudolph

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on December 29, 2015 in art, Beauty, Christmas decorations, photography, Postaday 2015, sculpture

Tags: sand sculpture

Christmas Pie, Hyacinths and First Arrival

28 Dec

For many, many years I made a raised Christmas Pie for Boxing Day but after the children left home it was too much for the pair of us. This year everyone will be here for my special birthday on New Year’s Eve so I have made the fabulous contraption for the first night they will all be here, 30th December. They are all in charge of the cooking for the rest of their stay! Good job we brought them all up well to be excellent cooks!

Christmas Pie

The Hyacinths that I planted for Christmas are just in flower.

White hyacinth

Our son, D, who now lives in Barcelona, has arrived this evening for the week of celebrations! Yippee!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on December 28, 2015 in baking, Beauty, Celebration, family, Food, nature, Photography, Postaday 2015

Tags: Hyacinth, Raised Christmas Pie

Penguins, A Window and A Primrose

27 Dec

We visited some special lovely friends this morning and were very taken by the beautiful penguins visiting their beautifully simple Swedish Nativity scene!

Nativity with penguins

I loved this window in their laundry/wet room – just delightful and cheery.

Stained glass window, one of two

In our front garden, on our return, we spotted some Primroses – so lovely, one of my favourite Spring flowers.

Primroses in December

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on December 27, 2015 in Beauty, Christmas, Christmas decorations, friendship, nature, photography, Postaday 2015

Tags: Nativity scene

A Warm Windy Walk on Boxing Day

26 Dec

I am so very happy! Today I have done a proper walk around the back, a walk that I have not done for over a year. That steroid injection has put me back to where I was before the rotten seats at the cinema in October and I can walk happily again, up hills, on rough ground, nearly being blown over and I feel fabulous! Join us by looking at our gallery, almost every photo out of focus as the wind was so very strong but showing what is in flower right now in this unseasonably warm weather.

Palm trees in the wind

Gorse

Wheal Uny

Bramble flowers

Pink Campion

Celandine

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on December 26, 2015 in Beauty, Cornwall, environment, Happiness, nature, Photography, Postaday 2015

Tags: Wheal Uny Engine House, wild flowers

A Full Cornish and Wild Seas

25 Dec

Full Cornish breakfasts were on offer for anyone who wanted to turn up this Christmas morning at Gweal An Top in Redruth. There were lots of volunteers cooking, serving and washing up. A full Cornish breakfast has – eggs, bacon and sausages, fried bread and beans, mushrooms and tomato, fried potato and Hog’s Pudding, a Cornish speciality – an amazing spread! What a kind and beautiful thing to do for people who are perhaps alone or those for whom a Christmas dinner is not on the menu. Well done to the organisers and all the lovely volunteers.

A Full Cornish Breakfast

A Christmas Day tradition for our family and many others is to go to the beach on Christmas Day, whatever the weather and so we did in wild, wild winds! A number of my dear friends are among those for whom the tradition is to swim in the sea on Christmas Day! Some of them were off to Carbis Bay to swim today but I haven’t yet heard how they got on.

Wild seas at Porthtowan

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on December 25, 2015 in Beauty, Cornwall, Food, Kindness, Photography, Porthtowan, Postaday 2015, Sea

Tags: Full Cornish breakfast, wild seas

Margaret Mead, Surprises and A Refubishment

22 Dec

Let’s do it!

It is lovely to see how a real eyesore in our town, The Hollies Hotel which had been destroyed in a fire, has now been converted into five one-bedroom flats which will be let to local people in housing need. The newly refurbished building is now known as Kelyn House, with Kelyn being the Cornish word for holly.

Kelyn House – Thank you to The West Briton for the photo.

Some months ago, I commissioned a local artist to make us something very special and today it was delivered, meeting all expectations! I will show you in the New Year!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on December 22, 2015 in Postaday 2015, Uncategorized

Tags: Kelyn House

Solstice, Sugar Tongs and Stained Glass

21 Dec

This beautiful piece was made by Natalia Manley and was on exhibition in São Paulo Brazil 2016. Isn’t it remarkable and just perfect for today, Winter Solstice, as the shortest day passes and the days begin to lengthen. Happy days!