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The Seaside, Ice-cream and Gladioli

I have been to see the sea today! The sea at Chapel Porth was the quietest we have ever seen it. Usually it is full of surfers, today there were lots of swimmers enjoying the unusually flat sea. It was fabulous to get my lungs full of sea air.

It was just as pleasing to have a special ice-cream, a Foxy, which is Cornish ice-cream, topped with Cornish cream and then rolled in Flapjack crumbs! Can you imagine anything more delicious? Thank you, Rose.

The other day my lovely friend, A, brought some Gladioli that she hoped would open to be purple and white with green foliage. They are now open and very beautiful.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 8, 2015 in Beauty, Chapel Porth, Cornwall, environment, Happiness, nature, photography, Postaday 2015

Tags: Calm seas, Cornish ice cream, Gladioli

The Suffragette Pilgrimage, Sea Gazing and Ice-cream

19 Jun

1 More than fifty walkers turned up today to watch the opening episode of Oxygen and to walk in the footsteps of their Suffragette sisters marking the Great Suffrage Pilgrimage of 1913. That was so brilliant! The play was inspiring and moving and then the walk started, led by the actors, singing songs from the play. What a day!

The episode begins at Land’s End

The episode continues

One of the actors answering J’s question,”Why did they walk all the way to London?”

Grandbaby T watching the whole cast singing

The walkers set off led by the cast

About to hit the trail, The Cornish Way

On their way

The actors waving the walkers on their way

2 The children and I only walked at the start and then waved everyone off (There will be more photos very soon from the walkers themselves) We took the children to play in the sand at Mount’s Bay……

Gazing out to sea

3 …….. and finished off the day with a delicious Cornish ice-cream, thinking all the afternoon of those of my dear friends walking the trail at the same time as those amazing women walked exactly 100 years ago today. The Suffragettes in 1913 walked for themselves and for those who couldn’t and that’s what my people did for me today. Thank you.

Strawberry ice-cream

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 19, 2013 in Cornwall, Dreadnought, photography, Postaday2013, Suffragettes, theatre

Tags: Cornish ice cream, Oxygen, suffrage, Suffragettes, the Great Suffragette Pilgrimage, women, women's rights, women's vote

Growing Strawberries, Making Rockets and Eating Ice-Cream

05 Jun

1 Inspired by the beautiful photos of strawberries here http://dhphotosite.wordpress.com/ I went out to see how mine, grown in another old chimney pot, are doing.

Strawberries growing in an old chimney pot

Our first strawberry, just needs some sun

2 Rain until teatime today so first some soft play at Snappy’s in Portreath, with my first experience ever of bouncing in a bouncy castle! (Quite disorientating!) That was followed by rocket building this afternoon, one making an ‘ear splitting sound’ according to Jake.

Jake and his rockets

3 Tabitha had her first taste of real Cornish icecream and was determined to get every last lick.

Cornish ice-cream is the best!

Apologies to those of my readers who have liked and commented in the last few days and to whom I have not yet replied. I had forgotten how very time consuming having little ones around can be. It’s all I can manage at the moment to keep my blog going – so here is a big Thank You to you all and I’ll get back to you soon!