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Yesterday, Dying Day Lily and Strawberry Jam

1   I’m still reeling from yesterday’s wonderfully moving production. Tomorrow, I promise, the photos of the event. For now,  – war has just been declared and recruitment has begun.

Who is going to volunteer?

Who is going to volunteer?

2   As each Day Lily fades there is the most beautiful veining in the petals for just a couple of hours each day.

Beautiful veining

Beautiful veining

3   We’ve been so busy recently that I thought I’d missed finding strawberries to make the best jam in the world! Today we found some reduced English strawberries and so have started off the freezer jam. Because it isn’t cooked, it retains the truly delicious taste of just picked strawberries………  I’ll put the very easy recipe up the days after tomorrow when it is finished.

Strawberry freezer jam started

Strawberry freezer jam started

 

 

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Abandoned, Grass and Costume

1    The family left early this morning and as always, everywhere is too quiet and the expression on the monkey’s face says it all.

Where have they all gone?

Where have they all gone?

2   I love the delicacy of these grasses against a rather grey sky.

Grasses and a grey sky

Grasses and a grey sky

3  Claire, the lovely MD of the choirs I sing with, and the Musical Director of Wildworks has sorted her costume for the event at The Lost Gardens of Heligan on 3rd August and she looks just perfect. I’m still working on mine!

Claire in her 1914 outfit

Claire in her 1914 outfit

 

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Rehearsing with Wildworks

What a fabulous day rehearsing for “100:The Day Our World Changed” at The Lost Gardens of Heligan. We started in Mevagissey on the quay as the production will next Sunday and waved off the new recruits with a beautiful and very moving old song called ‘The Soldier’s Farewell’. From there we moved on up to Heligan’s lovely gardens and continued discovering how the songs we have been rehearsing are to fit into the production.  Click on any photo in the Gallery to get a sense of the rehearsals and an idea of the beauty of the gardens – and if you live in Cornwall or are visiting  next weekend, come to join in this amazing immersive theatrical production involving the local community. It will be brilliant.

Poster for the show

 

 

 

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