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Daffodils, Coat Hooks and Knitting

It’s just over 18 years since we came back home to Cornwall and Cornish daffodils fill our kitchen again. I love how Cornish daffodils flower so early. They were to be seen several times at the side of the road on our way through to Gylly on Sunday.

While re-decorating after the new window, we took down coat hooks and pictures etc. The little elephant hooks will go back soon.

A very dear friend has made me the warmest of ponchos for this cold weather – all in suffragette colours! It’s both gorgeous and very cosy.

Thank you P.

People all around us have seen the Aurora and i still hope to catch a glimpse later!

 

 
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Posted by on January 20, 2026 in Uncategorized

 

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Father Christmas, Daffodils and Libraries

It was so dark driving to choir this morning at 8.45 that the Christmas lights in a couple of the villages I go through were still lit up and so lovely to see. At one point I was in a long standstill queue and managed to get a quick photo of Father Christmas.

Our daffodils are opening.

I thought you, Dear Readers, might like to hear about Spellow Library.

Redruth Library Service will be leaving a light on in their window in solidarity with Spellow Library in Liverpool.

In the summer of 2024, Liverpool’s Spellow Library and Community Hub was set alight and destroyed during the race riots and a vital neighbourhood asset was temporarily lost. Tomorrow, Thursday 12 December 2024, Spellow Library will re-open to the public.

To commemorate this, libraries across the country will be lighting up their library ‘bringing back the light’. This will spotlight the essential role our libraries play in the cultural fabric of our towns, cities and villages and reinforce the importance of these sanctuaries of knowledge, sanctuaries which don’t discriminate when it comes to offering a sense of belonging.

After the fire, a young woman started a crowd funder to raise £250 to buy some replacement books. She raised £250,000!  So many people were horrified at the thought of burning books and now it’s open again!

 

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A Posy and A Poem

We took our first three daffodils as a posy for our dear friend today and she loved them.

We always enjoys poetry together, ‘Warning’ by Jenny Joseph, ‘The Path Less Travelled’ by Robert Frost , ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ by Edward Lear and others that raise smiles of recognition and discussion of rhyme, rhythm and the scene conjured up.  This one, ”Silver’ by Walter de la Mare, was new to us and we all enjoyed it. At the time of an almost full moon, the slivery effect on the garden is gorgeous and captured perfectly here..

Silver 

Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees;
One by one the casements catch
Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;
Couched in his kennel, like a log,
With paws of silver sleeps the dog;
From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep
Of doves in silver feathered sleep
A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
With silver claws, and silver eye;
And moveless fish in the water gleam,
By silver reeds in a silver stream. 

 

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Daffodils, A Poem and A Beautiful Film

Our lovely neighbour has brought us a big bunch of Cornish daffodils, just as she did on the day we arrived in 2008 and has done on the anniversary ever since. Thank you so much, S.

I have shared this poem before but as it was in 2014 when I had far fewer followers, I thought it worth sharing again. It really speaks to me and , I hope, to you.

The following very sweet film came my way today and I thought my Dear Readers would appreciate it too. Just click on the red link.

https://aleteia.org/2020/01/02/20-year-old-filmmaker-wins-award-for-powerful-1-minute-film-about-marriage/?fbclid=IwAR0ciK8rEznCnpEry7f32aV9cNHJB5PsLWLiFjXsunsW-vJo8AfEN-fyneo

 

 

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Daffodils, Roots and Tomato and Two Cheese Torte

I bought our first Daffodils of the season yesterday, locally grown of course, and they are a beautiful bunch of brightness on a gloomy day.

First daffodils

First Cornish Daffodils

I have taken the glass grown Hyacinths out of the dark and into the daylight as they have very good roots now. I had hoped they might be in flower for my birthday in just over three weeks but I think that is unlikely. They will be with us in January brightening up those short days.

Hyacinth roots

Hyacinth roots

We are going out to an evening with friends and music and shared food tonight and I have made a Tomato and Two Cheese Torte. Click the red link for the recipe. The evening is to raise money for Paul’s chosen charity, Children of Peace, and for which he is walking from Rome to Jerusalem.

Tomato and Two Cheese Torte

Tomato and Two Cheese Torte

 

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Cornish Daffodils, Zig Ziglar and Cornish Yarg

1   A very good friend brought me some beautiful Cornish grown daffodils today, very much appreciated. The gesture warmed my soul. Thank you.

Gift

Gift

2   This little plaque came my way via two other lovely friends, one here in Cornwall and her sister-in-law in Vermont. We all do our best!  Thank you to you two too. Please share my  bright and cheery bunch of flowers.

Always do the right thing

Always do the right thing

 

3    Those of you outside Cornwall may not know this delicious Cornish cheese, Yarg. It is a semi-hard cow’s milk cheese made  from the milk of Friesian cows. Before being left to mature, this cheese is wrapped in nettle leaves to form an edible, though mouldy, rind. Hence the beautiful pattern on the outside.

Cornish Yarg

Cornish Yarg

 

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