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Category Archives: Postaday 2024

Helpers, Signs and Decorations

I love it when the little ones come to Roots and get stuck in to various jobs. This youngster was helping to put compost into pots for the cuttings to be potted on. We also had canine assistance today!

I wrote the names of various winter salads on the paddles I painted last week and prepared another batch of paddles to be written on next week.

Our front inner door has two of our oldest and favourite decorations on it now, one on each side of the original etched glass.

Our Polish Christmas tree

Our American wreath of hearts

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on December 10, 2024 in Christmas decorations, community, Cornwall, craft, Postaday 2024

Tags: American decoration, community roots, Polish decoration

Hearts Together and Place Names

09 Dec

In the dining room at Hearts Together is this delightful piece made by a local Scout group.

The place names on our ride home always amuse me. Forgive the quality of the shots, all taken from a moving car!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on December 9, 2024 in art, community, Cornwall, Humour, painting, Postaday 2024, Uncategorized

Sunset Sky and A Christmas Tree

08 Dec

We have come up to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth again for my lovely Mr S’s check-up after his spine op nine weeks ago. It’s an early appointment so we are staying at the wonderful Hearts Together hospital hotel overnight. There’s a lovely half moon high in the sky.

Sunset through a double glazed window

In the communal dining room

Storm Darragh and Cake

07 Dec

Well, that’s been quite a storm and another 24 hours of it are still to come albeit at Met Office yellow warning level rather than the amber it has been last night and all day today. We have been pretty lucky, fairly minor damage though I don’t like to see Welly Dog lying down after being blown over.

We set off to go to the market to deliver the golden coffee cake and to do our shopping but we were blown back up the drive so decided not to risk it. Consequently, I invited our lovely neighbour in for coffee and cake as we wouldn’t / shouldn’t eat a whole cake ourselves!

After we’d had coffee and cake, S suggested that as she was going into town, she could take the rest of the cake in to the market! She also offered to do our shopping for us.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on December 7, 2024 in baking, friendship, Kindness, Postaday 2024, Uncategorized

Tags: Storm Darragh

Red Shanks and A Tea-towel

06 Dec

Yesterday, after choir, there was a flock of unusual birds on the muddy Penryn River. I asked a knowledgeable friend and he has kindly told me, “They are definitely Redshank. We usually get 2 or 3 most low tides, but I guess they were hunkering down before the storm.”

A friend, knowing of my family history and my interest in the Suffragettes, gave me this delightfully illustrated tea-towel.

Thanks, J. Designed by Alison Gardiner.

Tree, Angel and Life

05 Dec

I love our tree of lights that the lovely Mr S has put up today, our first Christmas decoration.

I bought this delightful little angel at last Saturday’s market loving that she is made from a local shell, sports the colours of the Suffragettes (purple, white and green) and also the colours of the Suffragists (white, red and green) who believed in non violent action.

A friend sent me today’s poem by Ellen Bass and it moved me to tears. Here it is for you:

To love life, to love it even

when you have no stomach for it

and everything you’ve held dear

crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,

your throat filled with the silt of it.

When grief sits with you, its tropical heat

thickening the air, heavy as water

more fit for gills than lungs;

when grief weights you like your own flesh

only more of it, an obesity of grief,

you think, How can a body withstand this?

Then you hold life like a face

between your palms, a plain face,

no charming smile, no violet eyes,

and you say, yes, I will take you

I will love you, again.

~Ellen Bass

(Book: Mules of Love)

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on December 5, 2024 in Christmas, Christmas decorations, poetry, Postaday 2024, Uncategorized

Tags: Ellen Bass, Mules of Love

Sunset

04 Dec

Driving home yesterday there was a lovely winter sunset.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on December 4, 2024 in Cornwall, environment, Postaday 2024, Uncategorized

Community Roots, Kohl Rabi and Candle

03 Dec

Being winter, there is less sowing and planting so today I re-painted the sign boards and will do the lettering next week. The last of the carrots were harvested. Over coffee we always go over the jobs board and decide what next to get on with.

Harvesting carrots

Waiting to be painted

Start made

Ready for writing on next week

Weeding in the poly tunnel

The jobs board

This is our Kohl Rabi. We’ve not eaten one before so will try it out soon.

Our Advent candle, photo taken yesterday

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on December 3, 2024 in community, Cornwall, environment, friendship, growing, nature, Postaday 2024, Uncategorized, volunteering

Tags: community roots

Posy, Post Box Topper and Cake

02 Dec

Every year on this day, I take a tiny posy of whatever is flowering in our garden as a little gift to remember our lovely neighbour, Bill-next-door whose birthday is today. This year there was a tiny violet, a primrose, alstroemeria and a sprig of rosemary for remembrance.

Thanks for the photo, Sue

At our sorting office where we we posting a 16th birthday card for Live Wire 2, there was this delightful post box topper.

Just tried a new recipe for tomorrow’s cake for the volunteers – Banana, Chocolate and Almond Loaf. The mixture on the beaters tasted delicious so I hope the cake does too!