A good singing session with a new Helen Yeoman song to learn was just what I needed this morning as the Live Wires went off to Trebah Gardens to meet us later ready to go to Tehidy Woods for Rogue Theatre’s Wild Woodland Summer Ball. There, there is a winding walk through the misty woods where all sorts of entrancing things hint at the stories to come. T had her fabulous mask which she has been making over the last couple of days and J his ‘woodland walking’ stick so off we went……..
After a delicious breakfast of Eggy Bread with Fruit, a busy time making a mask for the Summer Ball at Tehidy tomorrow and some bird watching (Goldfinches, Bullfinches, Magpies, Blackbirds and a Woodpecker) we set off for nearby Heartlands where there is a most imaginative playground and the rain really doesn’t matter. Later we went next door to visit S and the cats. Share our day with us in this gallery.
We have the Live Wires to ourselves for a day and a half as their parents away celebrating their 10th Wedding Anniversary and what a day we have had – making, baking. playing hide and seek, helping to fix the fountain, a picnic in the garden, a late visit to the beach to play and stories read to us and by us. I think (and hope) we will all sleep well tonight.
What a lovely day! First, with an early start to the beach at Maenporth and then at the cinema this evening to watch The BFG all in the company of two of our lovely Live-Wires who are growing up so very quickly. Get a flavour of our day in this gallery. If you get a chance to see The BFG, do go! It is the most beautiful, heartwarming film I have seen in years with both tears and laughs aplenty.
Happy days! Our Live Wires arrived just in time for tea and here I caught them, just after bath-time trying to catch a glimpse of ‘our’ foal.
I wish I could share with you the perfume on our little back patio which is planted up with Nicotiana, Night Scented Stock and Sweet Peas that have almost reached the top of the arch.
It has been great fun knitting this little cardigan with multi-coloured yarn and seeing how the stripes appear. It is fun too to imagine one of our expected twin Grand-babies wearing it. Now to get on with finishing off its pair, in the same yarn but turning out quite different which is also fun. This cardigan, like the others I am knitting has little mother-of-pearl buttons from the babies’ Great Great Grandfather, buttons on cards which I have inherited and treasured from my Grandad’s days as a button salesman. So, the buttons, being over 100 years old, are antiques!
For one of the babies expected in January, 6 month size.
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After a busy, busy morning, I spent the afternoon relaxing under a beautiful blue sky alternating between sewing up a tiny cardigan for our expected twin Grandbabies and reading. A Red Bottomed Bee was visiting the Cornflowers and the Courgettes have another flower. I have yet to cook a courgette flower…..
There are seed pods all over the garden and they are all very beautiful in very different ways.
I read about Banana Lollipops recently and am making a supply for the arrival of the Lives Wires at the weekend.
Banana Lollipops
We have a baby foal in the back field. We think he must have been born last night or even this morning while we were out as he is still a bit wobbly. Just look at his long legs and his beautiful perky ears. His Mum is staying very close whenever he takes a step away from her.
I loved the knitted strawberries on this cream tea display in a bakery in Truro.
The hanging flower baskets in Truro are fabulous again this year. Every corner turned shows more beautiful planting.These are in front of the Cathedral. A big thank you to the people who plant and look after these gorgeous displays.
Cornish pasties for lunch are a treat especially from Bray’s and Kay’s in Redruth where we saw this sign.
What a grand front entrance this is. I love the brick arch and the decorated pillars.
Someone knows how to make the best of a small space with bright Sunflowers and an Apple tree full of fruit. Delightful.
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