Sadly, we cannot see the planetary conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter as we have been beaten by the mizzle as so many full astronomical events are in Cornwall. Nevertheless, I send Solstice Greetings to you all and a picture of the conjunction sent to me by my sister in Hawaii where the volcano, Kilauea, also woke up today. How auspicious!
Halemaʻumaʻu happening tonight! by Mary Strong
Our Advent Candle is nearly done…….
Our walk along Cliff Road in Falmouth was a chilly one in cool winter sun.
We were briefly in Truro this morning to find a particular book for the lovely Mr S (with success) and when finished called in at a well spaced and airy cafe for toast and coffee!
My choirs have been unable to sing together this Christmas but a very tech savvy member of our gang has put together a video of us singing in previous years with some stills. Here it is.
Our first Christmas present was delivered today, a gorgeous bunch of autumnal coloured flowers already in their glass so no chasing around trying to find one. I love the bright red berries in the water too. 
A friend of our is on the James Clark Ross travelling to Rothera Base in Antarctica for British Antarctic Survey. He’s going to be Boat Officer for a summer, a winter and a summer. Today he sent his sister, our lovely neighbour, this photo of a most beautiful iceberg!
We visited our friends who have planted a forest in a field. Their latest project is the making of a wild flower meadow. Some of the trees can be seen to the left.
Newly dug patch that is going to be a wild flower meadow.
We loved their Christmas cake, beautiful with marzipan vegetables on top, just fabulous!
Fabulous Christmas cake which tasted as good as it looks, especially with a slice of cheese.
The seed heads of Agapanthus in their garden are gorgeous and how Agapanthus usually look in this part of the world in December, unlike the ones we saw last week in flower.
Agapanthus seed head
We have the Christmas wreath on the front door.
We were late walking today ( I am spending every minute finishing off the embroidery wall panels for two of the LiveWires – forgive me for not coming to visit your blogs) and it was lovely to see the Town Clock from the park and to see the angel lights going up Fore Street through the bare winter trees.
Tonight was the Christmas party of one of my choirs, The Ingleheart Singers, all on zoom but fun nevertheless. It was good to see so many happy faces after all this time of not singing together.
The Ingleheart Singers.
Our squirrel came to investigate his feeder for the first time this morning (photo taken through the window on a very long zoom). We have since propped it open a little to help him as he didn’t manage to get any peanuts this morning.
I found some delightful Angel earrings today for our choir zoom parties next week. 
It was such an unexpected joy to come across the Redruth Wassailers singing The Redruth Wassail in the market this morning. Here is a snippet for you.
The Gallery where I sell my glass, Fannie and Fox, closed throughout the pandemic, is doing a Christmas pop-up for the two weekends before Christmas and today I delivered some pieces to go in the display. My pieces are made with recycled or rescued glass and discarded and re-used bits of jewellery. Some pieces also have precious sea glass.
The lights on our tiny tree in a pot in the garden look gorgeous through the rainy window.
We have two Yew trees in the garden and I want to decorate them like these two we saw online, as Nisse.
There are some stones on the beach at Mousehole unlike most, not dark with white streaks but beige and smoothly rounded.
On the way home we went by St Michael’s Mount just as the sun came out.
Yesterday we went to The Exchange in Penzance to see the Grayson Perry tapestry exhibition. It was amazing, we were in there over an hour and intend to go back on our 7 day ticket. If you live close enough, do go to see it. If it visits you elsewhere in the country/world, do try to visit. Here are the introduction board, two complete tapestries and various detailed extracts. They have to be seen to be truly appreciated, dramatic, detailed, thought provoking and so very moving.
Third tapestry
And the last one, so very moving…….
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