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Posy, Stone and Award

Our lovely LiveWire has done the blog for a couple of days so I didn’t mark 14th April as I would have done. Our Dear neighbour Bill Mitchell died eight years ago and I always take a posy to mark the day to Sue-next-door. LiveWire 4 made the pretty bow to tie the posy up.

Sue took some beautiful flowers to his memorial stone in St Euny Churchyard.

We recently listened to a repeat of a brilliant programme, The Reunion, on BBC Radio 4 all about the people who made the production, The Passion, in Port Talbot fourteen years ago. Bill and Sue, Wildworks, worked with Michael Sheen to bring this piece to life. The programme will be repeated on Good Friday morning and can also be heard by clicking on the red link. It’s really well worth listening to. Bill and Michael Sheen won a Best Director award for their remarkable work.

If you missed my blog eight years ago about Bill, click here.

White Horse

07 Mar

We are just back from seeing the brilliant White Horse by o-region at our local theatre – an entrancing performance with live music, puppetry, film and story telling. It’s written and directed by Simon Harvey, based on Michael Morpurgo’s White Horse & Other Stories. As the Radio 4 Today programme said a week ago when interviewing Michael Morpurgo and Simon Harvey about their show, “It’s being premièred in the West End (in Redruth!)”. They plan on taking it on tour next year so find it if you can.

New Moon, Soup and Hope

02 Mar

Last night my lovely Mr S spotted the tiniest sliver of the new moon, above it Venus and below a richly red sunset sky and I caught the photo with the better of my two cameras.

Friends came for soupy lunch today before we went together to see the live streaming of Macbeth by the Donmar Warehouse. It was absolutely brilliant! Catch it if you can.

Leek and Potato Soup with some of the last leeks from our allotment.

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer gave me permission some time ago to post her lovely poems as long as I credit her properly. This one seems so particularly apt after the last few days.

Hope by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer University of Arizona Poetry Center. Thank you for this one.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 2, 2025 in allotment, Cornwall, environment, friendship, nature, poetry, Postaday2025, theatre

Tags: Cornish Sunset, Donmar theatre, Hope, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Shakespeare’s London

16 Feb

We have a new jigsaw and it’s hard! Fascinating and fun but hard!

It is a challenge identifying the various characters and they are all very small so this is going to take us a while but it’s a lovely way to spend these cold, grey, windy days!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 16, 2025 in art, Postaday2025, The Globe, theatre

Ballet, Cornish and Tossers

21 Jan

We’ve been to the Hall for Cornwall this evening to see The Nutcracker by the Mergaliyev Classical Ballet company and what joy that was. I’ve come away feeling proper happy. We loved the live music, watching the musicians almost as much of a treat as watching the ballet.

I thought you might like to read a little bit of Cornish on the safety curtain at the interval.

Waiting to pay for parking in Truro afterwards my eye was caught by a shop front.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on January 21, 2025 in art, dance, Happiness, Humour, music, Postaday2025, theatre

Tags: Cornish language, Hall for Cornwall, Mergaliyev Classical Ballet, The Celtic Tossers

Happy Solstice, Songs and A Play

21 Dec

We sing this lovely song, Solstice Carole, and the following one, words by the poet Lemm Sissay, which was sung this morning at Stone Henge for the solstice.

https://fb.watch/wCYGKJx6wU/

We have just returned from seeing a local theatre company performing a charming story about the Solstice.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on December 21, 2024 in community, Cornwall, Postaday 2024, theatre, Uncategorized

Tags: Duffy and the Stiltskin, Lemm Sissay, Miracle Theatre, The Princess Pavilion, Wyrd Sisters

Tiles, Yellow Harvest and Circus

28 Sep

Going from the car park into town today, we noticed some new artwork, a collection of lovely handmade tiles on the wall of the Ope. .

Apart from the raspberries which just keep on producing, I think we are coming to the end of our harvesting at the allotment. There were dozens of tiny golden tomatoes ( Tom Clementine) and lots of bright yellow marigolds to bring home today.

Early this evening we went to the circus, NoFit State Circus: Bamboo in the Fairmeadow car park, another in the week long Harbour Festival of International Theatre that has been playing in town. It was absolutely magical – funny, clever, with breath holding moments and a joy to behold here in Redruth. My photos really cannot do justice. If you are local, they are on again tomorrow. Wrap up warm and enjoy the show. .

The start

More bamboo

Even more stuctures

The live music was brilliant, very atmospheric

A real breath taking moment . Thanks T for the photo

Leaping into their arms

And… handstand

Grace and beauty

Scary moments towards the end

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 28, 2024 in allotment, comedy, community, Cornwall, environment, Food, nature, Postaday 2024, Redruth, theatre, Uncategorized

Tags: Harbour Festival of International Theatre, NoFit State Circus: Bamboo

Fern, Soup and Hope

25 Sep

A mizzly morning today so we went to the Grow Box Cafe at Krowji for coffee and a treat of one of their delicious cakes. We ate them before I thought to take a photo but on leaving I noticed a tiny fern growing out of the wall.

Yesterday we brought home some lovely carrots just pulled from the earth and today I made them into the most delicious soup with a sweet potato and a couple of our own onions. There was enough for lunch and two pints for the freezer.

The production for which I was sewing the dolls is happening now. It is a WildWorks production called Stranger Beasts. It is a landscape promenade production on the Cornish cliffs by the old Geevor mine and it is getting rave reviews.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 25, 2024 in art, Cornwall, environment, Food, nature, Postaday 2024, theatre, Wildworks

Sculptures, Sunflowers and French Theatre

24 Sep

Another busy day at Roots, sowing, potting on, weeding and harvesting. There were two kinetic sculptures, left over from a festival last weekend, which I really liked.

The sunflowers all over the site are looking terrific.

Tonight we went to an hilarious performance called Cirque Content Pour Peu. It was a delightful show full of acrobatic lifts and humour borrowed from silent cinema where we were all constantly surprised at the twists and turns. It’s all part of a special theatre week in Redruth and was well worth going to. If they come your way, do go and see them – you will come out with a smile on your face!

Last Saturday , as part of the same theatre festival, we saw the Hooligan Art Community again and it was wonderful to catch up with our friends from last year’s hosting.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 24, 2024 in art, comedy, community, Cornwall, environment, nature, Postaday 2024, sculpture, theatre, Uncategorized

Tags: Cirque Content Pour Peu

New Project, Stone and A Poem

08 Aug

I have a new sewing project, another patch for the Redruth Story Coat. Each patch tells a story and this one will be the story of F. R. Gill and his mother, Mary, buried together in St Euny Churchyard and marked with a war grave stone. Theirs was the story I wrote for our production, Until the Day Break, in 2017. You can read a little about the production here. I’m still working out how to picture the stone on the patch.

On top of the stone when we visited today to get photos and details, was this pleasing little painted stone, which I put back as soon as we had our measurements.