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Category Archives: Hall for Cornwall

Roots, Pizza and Theatre

After a very busy morning at Community Roots preparing 24 seed trays for the winter salads and 13 module trays for Spring onions and other seeds, I’m out for the evening – going for a meal with a dear friend and then going to what promises to be a crazy evening.
The publicity material says, “An uplifting celebration of community and friendship where everyone is welcome – don’t miss this feel-good night of foot-stomping entertainment, so good you’ll want to come back and see it again and again.”

Back home. That summary was right! If you get the chance to see the show, it really is a treat.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 8, 2026 in Cornwall, Hall for Cornwall, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Tags: #Choir of Man

Flowers, Cathedral and Lucy Worsley

04 Sep

This evening we went to the Hall for Cornwall in Truro to listen to Lucy Worsley, historian. She was very entertaining. On the way we appreciated the gorgous flower displays and the view of the cathedral.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 4, 2026 in Cornwall, environment, Hall for Cornwall, History, nature, Postaday 2026, Truro, Uncategorized

Soup, Stamppot and A Talk

18 May

We had some delicious courgette soup in the sunshine before going into the very interesting H’Art Museum in Amsterdam.

That evening, wanting to eat Dutch food, I had Boerenkool Stamppot and being a big fan of mash and gravy, absolutely loved this meal.

Tonight we have been to the Hall for Cornwall for a talk I really wasn’t interested in, A Gun Through Time by the historian David Olusoga. However, the subject was made quite fascinating by him concentrating on the social history rather than the military history of guns.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 18, 2026 in Amsterdam, Food, Hall for Cornwall, History, Netherlands, Postaday 2026, travel

Tags: David Olusoga, Kop van Jut

Concert and Soup

14 Sep

We’ve been out this evening to The Hall for Cornwall to a concert by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. It was brilliant and the conductor, Enyi Okpara, was a delight to watch, so expressive and very entertaining.

A quick, rather blurry shot as they were tuning up

We had our home grown Pumpkin soup for supper.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 14, 2025 in Cornwall, Hall for Cornwall, music, Postaday2025, Uncategorized

Tags: Enyi Okpara

St Petersburg Ballet – Swan Lake

20 Jan

From the programme

On stage at The Hall for Cornwall

The live orchestra

What a brilliant evening that was! Thanks Sue, for your company and KJ and L, for the ticket for my birthday – a real treat.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on January 20, 2018 in Beauty, friendship, Hall for Cornwall, Postaday2018

Tags: classical ballet

Boat and Vivaldi by Candlelight

15 Jan

I could only stay for half tonight’s Inglehearts’ session as we were booked to see Vivaldi by Candlelight at The Hall for Cornwall. In the corridor at the school was another paper sculpture lantern – The Troon.

Troon boat

We thoroughly enjoyed the concert by The Locrian Ensemble.

The stage

From the programme

The Locrian Ensemble – photo by Nadia Hubbard

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on January 15, 2018 in art, Beauty, Hall for Cornwall, music, Postaday2018, sculpture

Tags: The Locrian Ensemble

Truro, The Ballet and The Cathedral

18 May

What a splendid evening in Truro. First a wander, then dinner and the Birmingham Royal Ballet who were just wonderful, especially Frederick Ashton’s piece Momentum 11 set to Eric Satie’s Gymnopedies and then the Cathedral lit up against the dark sky.

Walsingham Place

Birmingham Royal Ballet

Truro Cathedral

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 18, 2016 in art, Beauty, Cornwall, dance, Hall for Cornwall, Photography, Postaday 2016, Truro

Tags: Birmingham Royal ballet, Eric Satie, Momentum

Daffodils, Rooster and Choux Hearts

14 Feb

1 Yesterday, friends delivered a lovely bunch of Daffodils in the bud from my beautiful choir leader, Claire. Today they are open and very lovely. Thank you so much, Claire!

Claire’s daffodils

2 Last night we went to see Ballet Rambert performing one of our favourite ballets, Rooster, to the music of the Rolling Stones. It was brilliant as was the rest of the show.

Rooster poster

Details of the ballets

3 It being Valentine’s Day, we have had a special meal tonight, the dessert being Choux pastry Hearts filled with Vanilla cream and topped with a chocolate ganache. They went down well!

Choux heart

Happy Valentine’s Day to all my readers!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 14, 2015 in Beauty, dance, flowers, Food, Hall for Cornwall, Kindness, photography, Postaday 2015

Tags: Ballet Rambert, choux pastry hearts, Cornish Daffodils, Rooster, to the music of the Rolling Stones, Valentine's Day

Bliss, Free Coffee and Laughter

15 Jan

1 Oh, bliss! I’ve been to the Osteopath whose magic hands have made walking and standing without pain possible again!

2 We went shopping in Truro before going to the theatre tonight. One of my favourite shops kindly had coffee and biscuits on the house for all shoppers on this cold, wet afternoon. Just look at the beautiful china cups and saucers with which they trust their customers!

Help yourself!

3 At The Hall for Cornwall, we saw Dr Phil Hammond who had his audience in stitches! If you get the chance to go to one of his shows, take it. You’ll come away all the better for the laughter! Click on the red link if you’d like to know more.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on January 15, 2014 in Beauty, Hall for Cornwall, Humour, Kindness, Postaday 2014, Uncategorized

Tags: comedy, free stuff, http://drphilhammond.com/, laughter, osteopath, Phil Hammond

The Extra Mile, Red Docs and Ballet Boyz

29 Nov

1 I took a very large envelope to the Post Office today, sending some of the Christmas Clings that Marilyn very kindly sent to me, to our Grandchildren. I asked if they had a ‘Please do not bend’ label but they didn’t. The woman behind the counter suggested that I add a piece of card to strengthen it all and so I said I would take it home, do that and come back tomorrow. ‘Just a minute,’ she said and disappeared into the back. She then spent the next 5 minutes or so undoing my package, fixing it up with a piece of card and resealing it! What a star!

2 I am so excited! I now have my red Doc Martens! Some of you will know I have been eyeing these for some time and today, there were some new ones in, in red leather rather than the patent and so I have some at last. I wore them out of the shop which reminded me of being little when we always took our old shoes home in the box and wore our new shoes home with such pride!

My new red Doc Marten boots

3 Tonight we went to The Hall for Cornwall to see The Ballet Boyz, an all male modern dance group. THe first dance was incredibly lovely showing off the beautiful male bodies; the second dance full of stylised violence and suppressed aggression and quite exhilarating.

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