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Category Archives: Postaday 2016
Grasshopper, Alstroemeria and Chaffinch
This week’s Photo Challenge is Detail which suits me very well. Here are today’s three beautiful things in close up, showing detail. First a Field Grasshopper. I love his armour plating.
Grasshopper
Alstroemeria light up in the sunshine and have beautiful markings.
Alstroemeria
This young bird has a crest as he flies in and lands but would not stay still enough for me to catch it. His youth shows in the fluffy detail around the edges.
Male Chaffinch
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The Black Pearl, Sugar Bowl and Cascading Flowers
As you can see, the dress I fell in love with is still in the shop. I tried it on, and the navy version, but, sadly, it just wasn’t quite right. The shop is full of beautiful clothes in my ‘style’ so I will be back.
Afterward we went to Dolly’s Tearooms for cake! I loved this little sugar bowl. I took the above photo on my way back. It’s still a beautiful frock!
Just across the road is St George’s Arcade where the planters are overflowing with flowers and are just gorgeous.
Weekly Photo Challenge – Look Up
We were in London at the end of June and I took this photo looking up at Big Ben. The detail took my breath away.
Beautiful Big Ben, Westminster, London
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Purple, White and Green in the Front Garden
Much of our front garden is planted in purple, white and green to honour my Suffragette heritage. This month we have next door’s Clematis Niobe which is over the fence and our Hydrangea Black Lace and the Seeboldii contributing to the colour scheme.
Shoreline, Bows, Thirsty Dog and Bedruthan Steps
Shoreline is a beautiful production on Cornish beaches incorporating dance and music. Do click on the red link to discover what it is all about and enjoy the gallery of today’s Premiere on Watergate Bay Beach. Click on any photo for the bigger picture. Today we watched our choirs singing – in the productions on Sennen and at Kynance next week, I will be a part of it all.
A little girl in the audience had beautiful bows in her hair.
Leaving the beach and the choir having their picnics before the second performance, I spotted a new use for a sand spade.
After that very emotional performance, I felt the need for some sea and space so we went a few miles up the coast to Bedruthan Steps where we were blown about by the wind on the cliff tops.
Signs, Footprints and A Bookshop
I post here anything that makes me smile and these signs did just that. I love the idea of the mad rabbit and the ferocious hamster! I know someone who would love Chien gentil.
We noticed a plaque on the pavement that pleased us too.
This bookshop, Beerwolf Books, was another delight today, books to browse through, beer or coffee to be enjoyed and a special table to put one’s drinks on while browsing! Just perfect.
Summer Exhibition, Accordion and Henna
The Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy is always fascinating. This year two pieces touched my heart. The first is of a child weeping, actually called, ‘Silent Howler’ a sculpture in bronze by Laura Ford. The detail is beautiful, her cardigan, her socks, her hands, her stance. She reminded me of when we first moved to Cornwall when I was six and I lost my Mum. I was outside Littlewoods, crying and snotty. And eventually with my nose bleeding too! Such a beautiful piece 
The second is a tiny piece of pottery from the Tsunami, called ‘Mending, Substitution, Consolidation, Coupling – Restoration of a Sake bottle collected in Watari-cho after the Tsunami by Aono Fumiaki.
We loved this by Bob and Roberta Smith too. It seems particularly apt for these troubled weeks.
Just outside East Finchley Station was an accordion player making the street sound like a street in Paris. 
It was the Summer Fair at the Live Wires’ wonderfully multicultural school today and T had a henna pattern put on her hand.
Penryn River, Palm Flowers and Baby Tomatoes
Singing overlooking the Penryn River is always a delight, this morning even more than usual.
The Dracaena Palm just outside the Zed Shed is in flower and is lovely.
We have baby tomatoes!
Garden Flowers, Vigil and Words
Our local Labour Party arranged vigils today for Jo Cox, the MP who was so cruelly murdered last week. We picked a bunch of flowers, Lupins, Daisies, Fuchsia and Rosemary, from the garden to take with us to Camborne this lunchtime and were very moved by the small and beautiful ceremony that was led by our Conservative MP.
The following inspirational words are from Jo’s husband, Brendan Cox:
‘Jo believed in a better world and she fought for it every day of her life with an energy, and a zest for life that would exhaust most people.
‘She would have wanted two things above all else to happen now, one that our precious children are bathed in love and two, that we all unite to fight against the hatred that killed her.
‘Hate doesn’t have a creed, race or religion, it is poisonous.’
