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

 

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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.

Another poem for you, another one that I love.

 
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Posted by on August 8, 2024 in art, Cornwall, embroidery, Perthi Kov, Postaday 2024, Redruth, Uncategorized

 

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

28 Feb

Tonight we have been to see a one person performance of The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and it was brilliant, powerful and totally absorbing. The performance, sensitive and dramatic, the simple and very effective set and the haunting sound effects combined to make a stunning and very atmospheric show. It’s performed by John O’Mahony and produced by our lovely neighbour, Sue Hill.  If you get the chance to see it, go along! There are lots of venues. For friends in Cornwall, there will be performances in Penzance and Scorrier House.
Check out the website for all the information here.

Programme cover

John O’Mahony as the Ancient Mariner

Plastic debris all collected from the beach and harbour at Portreath, used on the set.

After-show questions

From the programme:

“Coleridge’s epic poem is magnificently brought to life in John O’Mahony’s mesmerising account. He sets the scene, draws the characters, and takes the audience on a spell-binding journey.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s story of an epic sea journey, written in 1797, centres around the killing of a harmless sea-bird – the albatross. The havoc wreaked by this pointless act of vandalism explodes into one of the most popular and best loved poems in the English language.

In an age that is increasingly aware of humanity’s relationship to, and dependence upon, the environment, Coleridge’s ‘poem of the biosphere’ is undergoing a popular revival. And no wonder; it is a rollicking good yarn suffused with elements of the gothic and the downright ghostly… ‘an unforgettable story told in unforgettable language’.

“A tour de force by a master storyteller. Not to be missed”

 

 

 
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Posted by on February 28, 2024 in art, community, Cornwall, environment, poetry, Postaday 2024, theatre, Uncategorized

 

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Mini Holiday, Cirque du Soleil and A Poem

10 Feb

Apologies for no blog over the last few days. We have been in London  with family, their new Maine Coon kitten, enjoying the company of LiveWires 2 and 3 and spending an evening in The Royal Albert Hall enjoying the amazing spectacle of Allegria by Cirque du Soleil. Enjoy the gallery, click on any photo for the bigger version.

Murky train ride across the Tamar into England

The Maine Coon kitten, just 4 months old. Look at those ears!
The Maine Coon kitten. See the length of her legs – an indication of big she is going to be
Crossed paws
The Albert Hall in the interval
The Albert Hall before the show
The Albert Hall before the show
Poem on the Underground
 
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Posted by on February 10, 2024 in Cornwall, environment, Happiness, poetry, Postaday 2024, theatre, Uncategorized

 

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Nursery Washing Line, Lights and A Poem

22 Dec

I loved this washing line outside the nursery that we passed on Thursday, Santa costumes and fairy outfits – just delightful.

We were in Falmouth last night for the funniest show of Christmas, Christmas. Time. by Near-Ta Theatre and the street lights were lovely.

We love our visits to our Dear friend Ti and sharing poems with her. This was one of the ones we all enjoyed today, by Mary Oliver.

 
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Posted by on December 22, 2023 in Christmas, Christmas decorations, community, Cornwall, Falmouth, Humour, photography, poetry, Postaday 2023, theatre, Uncategorized

 

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0ne Hundred and Ten Years On

19 Jun

A hundred and ten years ago, seven women from Cornwall started their walk to Hyde Park in support of getting the vote for women. Ten years ago, some of us walked a little of the way to support their memory and today, another group, again led by Claire Ingleheart and Dreadnaught Southwest, walked from Lands End to St Just to commemorate the day.
In the Plen an Gwarry in St Just the walkers met with another hundred people who had come along to sing to honour those women and the thousands that joined them in a rally in Hyde Park. We all sang Oxygen and it was extremely moving as the seven names of those women were remembered.  I was so involved I didn’t get many photos but here is a taster and one of me taken by a friend as we were leaving after the most uplifting community event.

Posy made by one of my choir friends
The walkers arrive
On a street in St Just
I’ve had the most wonderful afternoon, here wearing my facsimile scarf.

Here is a recording of the Ingleheart Singers singing the wonderful rousing song, Oxygen,  in Truro Cathedral some time ago. I had just had my hip replaced and was in the audience able to record though I couldn’t sing on that occasion.

 
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Posted by on June 19, 2023 in community, Cornwall, Dreadnought, friendship, photography, Postaday 2023, singing, Suffragettes, Uncategorized

 

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Songs of Rebellion and Glass Work

15 Jun

Yesterday  my choirs performed in Redruth at Kresen Kernow, a beautiful building that used to be the old brewery and is now a library of all Cornish archives. We were there to celebrate .an exhibition of stories about women in the South West and to sing our songs of rebellion and those about Cornish women. It was brilliant! The audience loved us and gave us a standing ovation!

This afternoon I have been helping our lovely artist neighbour with a project she and her brother are making for a festival in Glasgow, huge mirror ball faces and I’ve been helping to cut the glass and fill in some repairs on the old heads.

 
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Posted by on June 15, 2023 in art, Celebration, community, Cornwall, craft, Dreadnought, friendship, glass, photography, Postaday 2023, Redruth, sculpture, Uncategorized

 

Calm Water, Swan and Julius Caesar

28 Apr

We met friends for breakfast today by the Penryn River which today was calm and lovely. The daffodil field across the water was very bright.

I think the swan came close to the quay in hope of being fed but I had nothing suitable with me.

We are going to The Hall for Cornwall this evening to see the RSC’s production of Julius Caesar.

It was brilliant!

 
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Posted by on April 28, 2023 in Cornwall, environment, nature, Penryn, photography, Postaday 2023, theatre

 

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Beach, Selfie and Pins

21 Jan

Such a beautiful day with bright sun and the bluest of skies so we went to the beach and one of our Hooligan friends came with us.

Toddler in wellies in the waves, Porthtowan, Wheal Coates on the cliffs

Us three

One of our young Hooligan Art Community friends has been back to Kyiv in between her visits here and she brought us all gifts of pins. Mine means Freedom and Will and joins my Ukrainian flag on my bag. The lovely Mr S has the military roadblock being used to stop Russian tanks and Sue-next-door has the word for bread (palianytsia) , a word that Russians can’t say so it is used to establish nationality.

 
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Posted by on January 21, 2023 in community, Cornwall, environment, friendship, nature, Peace, photography, Porthtowan, Postaday 2023, theatre

 

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Performances and Bunting

11 Jan

Our Ukrainian friends are coming back to Cornwall. We are so excited!  I love the poster that shows the next tour – Falmouth and Redruth along with Leipzig and Berlin!

I’ve bought lots of lovely bunting to decorate one of the venues.

 
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Posted by on January 11, 2023 in friendship, Happiness, Postaday2022, Redruth, theatre

 

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