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Another Day Out

We took our friends over the King Harry Ferry today to enjoy The Roseland. We strolled around St Mawes enjoing the warmth, the sea, the delightful streets and the wonderful views. On the way back to the ferry, we stopped off to see the beautifully placed St Just Church. Click on any photo in the gallery for the caption and a bigger view.

St Just Church

Heron on the shoreline as the ferry prpares to unload the cars

Looking out from St Mawes

View from inside the church

The main door

The Church, pillars and organ

Heron kneeler

View kneeler

Owl kneeler

Another beautifully decorated doorway

View from the grounds

On the ferry approaching home

And for dinner tonight we went up to Carn Brea Castle and had a very special evening.

It is thought that Carn Brea Castle was first built around 1379 AD as a chapel to St. Michael. Around 1790 the building was converted into a castle folly by the Basset Family who once owned the hill as part of their Tehidy Estate.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 3, 2024 in architecture, Carn Brea, Cornwall, environment, Food, friendship, nature, Postaday 2024, St Mawes, Uncategorized

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Guest blogger again!

16 Aug

Hi, It’s LiveWire 3 again! This time we arrived spontaneously because we love coming here and take every chance we get to come to Cornwall and see our family! Today we had a magical beach trip to Kynance Cove which was unimaginably beautiful. It was like being in Spain or Italy! The water was bluer than sapphire, it was like a matching outfit, the sky as a shirt, the sea as trousers. It was absolutely idyllic!

In the evening, we traveled up the ferny hill to a castle, but not just any castle, a restaurant! The castle floated over some massive rocks and it felt like we were royals in the 16th century! We walked up the stairs and sat down, surrounded by stones and sunshine. It was so cosy – especially with the candles! Our food was so delicious and I don’t think the plates even needed to be cleaned after we’d finished!

We watched the sunset through the windows and as we left everything was orange so we stood behind those massive rocks and just immersed ourselves in the sunlight.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 16, 2023 in Carn Brea, Cornwall, environment, family, Grandchildren, Happiness, photography, Postaday 2023, Redruth, Sea

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Strawberry Moon, Trough and My Mum

04 Jun

Last night’s almost full Strawberry moon had a halo around it and just about lit up the houses on the hill in silhouette.

Our trough full of edible plants is looking good. There are various lettuces, chives and garlic chives, Spring onions and Viola flowers to decorate salads and cakes.

It’s 29 years today since my lovely Mum died. This is my favourite photo of us together at one of the celebrations for her and Dad’s Golden wedding anniversary. This was taken in Carn Brea Castle as we were waiting to go into the dining room for dinner. The second photo is of her with her Mum.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 4, 2023 in Carn Brea, Cornwall, environment, family, garden, nature, photography, Postaday 2023

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Dawn, Steam and A Tree

11 Dec

Dramatic dawn sky on a bitterly cold morning

After the cold start came some winter sun causing steam to rise from our wooden labyrinth sculpture.

The lovely Mr S went to collect leeks from the allotment this afternoon and took a diversion.

Winter tree with Carn Brea Castle in the far distance . Photo by Mr S

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on December 11, 2022 in Beauty, Cornwall, environment, nature, photography, Postaday2022

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Daffodils, Castle and Santa

27 Dec

We were delighted to see Daffodils in bud on a verge on our walk today.

We had sunshine every now and then today and I caught Carn Brea, the Castle and the Monument in a bit of it.

On the way home we spotted a Santa whose rope ladder seemed to have run out as he looks down rather despondently contemplating jumping off the bottom…….

Our lovely neighbour is safely out of self-isolation as her contact’s test has come back negative. Relief all around.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on December 27, 2020 in Carn Brea, Christmas, Cornwall, environment, nature, Photography, Postaday2020, Uncategorized

Tags: carn brea castle, The Bassett Monument

Lichen, Castle and Squirrel Food

06 Dec

On our walk after the rain, I found some lichen floating in a puddle.

The Castle on Carn Brea which was once a hunting lodge was first built around 1379 AD as a chapel to St. Michael. Around 1790 the building was converted into a folly by the Basset Family who once owned the hill as part of their Tehidy Estate. It is now (and has been for many years) a charming restaurant serving Middle Eastern food.

Carn Brea Castle

We have a visiting squirrel that eats the bird food. We put up a baffle to keep him off but somehow he still gets up to the bird feeders. The solution seemed to be to give him his own feeding station so here it is. We have yet to see him getting his peanuts….. It’s been up only a week.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on December 6, 2020 in Carn Brea, Cornwall, environment, nature, Photography, Postaday2020

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Green Field, A View and Confetti

17 Jun

On our walk around the back we have been watching the progress of a field from ploughed to sown to the tiny shoots and now, the grains appearing and creating a view as if an impressionist painting.

Carn Brea Castle in the distance

Further around the walk the views go for miles across farmland to the sea.

St Euny Chuch and beyond some engine house chimneys and beyond that, the sea

The rain has taken nearly all the blooms from the Crinodendron. Now they are on the grass and the little table looking like confetti.

Mothers’ Day, Shears and A Castle

11 May

It was Mothers’ Day in America yesterday and my kid sister, who lives in Hawaii, posted a photo of our beautiful Mum who died in 1993 but is, of course, still much missed.

I started making masks today and the instructions suggested that I use pinking shears. Mine got taken for craft work many years ago but Mum’s are still in her sewing box where I am always finding haberdashery treasures. They look a bit rusty but they cut perfectly.

Our walk took us under Carn Brea today and I took this photo for the LiveWires who love going up there and scrambling on the rocks. In fact, the castle never was a ‘castle’ but a folly and later a hunting lodge.See here for the history.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 11, 2020 in Carn Brea, Cornwall, environment, photography, Postaday2020

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Rear Window Boxes, Dandelion and Carn Brea

26 Mar

I was pleased to see my favourite car parked along the road in Penryn as I walked to the hairdresser. I love these window boxes.

Spring flowers

What a lovely splash of gold among the heather.

Dandelion

The view of Carn Brea changes depending on the direction you are looking from. This was from Barncoose.

Carn Brea Castle and the Bassett Monument

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 26, 2019 in Cornwall, environment, garden, Humour, nature, Photography, Postaday 2019

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Castle, Monkeys and John Clare

28 Jul

Walking home from town today, we suddenly caught an unusual view of Carn Brea Castle from just near our house.

Carn Brea Castle

Our Three Wise Monkeys are now in charge of a floriferous Begonia which was yellow when we bought it, changed to pink soon after and is now this lovely peachy colour.

Begonia

This morning on Radio 4, I heard this beautiful poem by John Clare being read but I missed the introduction so don’t know why it was chosen. The summer has not been ‘beaming forth’ today as temperatures have plunged from 30C to 15C and the skies have stayed grey though the last many weeks past, we have had the most glorious sunshine.

Sonnet by John Clare

I love to see the summer beaming forth
And white wool sack clouds sailing to the north
I love to see the wild flowers come again
And mare blobs stain with gold the meadow drain
And water lillies whiten on the floods
Where reed clumps rustle like a wind shook wood
Where from her hiding place the Moor Hen pushes
And seeks her flag nest floating in bull rushes
I like the willow leaning half way o’er
The clear deep lake to stand upon its shore
I love the hay grass when the flower head swings
To summer winds and insects happy wings
That sport about the meadow the bright day
And see bright beetles in the clear lake play