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Kindness Calendar, Coincidences and Sweetcorn

From Action for Happiness: “In a world that feels divided, kindness is a quiet but powerful act of hope. Whether you’re supporting a friend, helping a stranger, or simply listening with care, your actions matter. Every kind choice makes a difference.”

We went today to have the staples removed from my lovely Mr S’s new knee and had really interesting conversations with the two nurses who looked after him. They asked where we lived and when we said where, the older one said she’d been to St Euny Church just near us, to see a wonderful production in the churchyard in 2017.  That was our Until the Day Break! She said she absolutely loved it and that now she views graveyards in a very different light and likes to think of the real stories behind each gravestone.  If the production is new to you Dear Reader, check it out on the red links here.

The second coincidence was that when we were asked where we used to teach and said Doncaster, the younger Nurse said her father had been to Uni there at the old School for the Deaf as he is profoundly deaf. My Mum trained at that school in the 1930s but even more coincidental was the fact that when a youngster, her dad was taught at the special unit for deaf children at Roskear School in Camborne and it was my Mum who set up the unit and who would have taught him!  Ellie, the nurse is going to ask him if he remembers Mrs Wiseman. One of her old pupils commented on my blog when I wrote about my Mum and her work here.

Our Sweetcorn is coming along well, flowers on almost every 5′ high plant and some tassels indicating a cob getting ready.

 

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Sweet-peas, Twelfth Night and Another Birthday Cake

The sweet peas on the trellis outside the kitchen window are beginning to flower. The geranium is the best its ever been.

We’ve been to see Twelfth Night this evening and laughed all evening. What a terrific interpretation of the play and just five actors playing all the roles!  Miracle Theatre are touring Cornwall so if you are a local reader, do try to catch it, all outdoor performances and utterly delightful.

The set

Our dear friend for whom I made the cake on Tuesday, celebrated her actual birthday this evening with a trip to the show and a fabulous chocolate cake made by her lovely husband.

 

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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.

 

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White Horse

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.

 

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New Moon, Soup and Hope

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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Shakespeare’s London

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 on February 16, 2025 in art, Postaday2025, The Globe, theatre

 

Ballet, Cornish and Tossers

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

 

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Happy Solstice, Songs and A Play

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.

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

 

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Tiles, Yellow Harvest and Circus

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. .

Scary moments towards the end

 

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Fern, Soup and Hope

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.