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Pride, Patches and A Challenge

After days and days of sunshine, today was properly damp which was brilliant for the garden but sad for Market Day and the Pride Party in the Park. We did our usual Saturday foray into town for fruit, veg, coffee in our favourite coffee shop and a laugh with Make A Mends.

Pride bunting in the wind and rain. On a sunny day this courtyard is buzzing.

My badge

I donated a pretty top that I no longer wear to Make A Mends and they, in their inimitable fashion, have made it even prettier.

We met a lovely couple in HomeGround coffee shop, Heidi and Pete, who were at the start of their Land’s End to John O’Groats cycle ride. Should they read this, we wish them all the best on this adventure.

The lovely couple we met today at the start of their amazing cycle ride.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 5, 2025 in art, community, Cornwall, Postaday2025, Redruth, sewing, Uncategorized

Tags: Home Ground coffee shop, Land's End to John O'Groats, Make A Mends

International Knit in Public Day

14 Jun

As it is Knit in Public Day, I took my latest piece into town and knitted in our regular and favourite coffee shop in town.

The Craft Collective had planned to knit outside but as you see from their sign, we had some heavy showers today so they retreated indoors.

I found this on an Fb page I follow – and send solidarity to all those out on protest today, knitting or not. I hope you have all been safe.

National Knit in Public Day falls on June 14th. Consider knitting at a local NO KINGS DAY RALLY! Nothing says pacifist like a group of knitters, knitting in public.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 14, 2025 in community, Cornwall, craft, knitting, Postaday2025, Redruth, Uncategorized

Tags: Home Ground coffee shop

Valentine’s Day and A Poem

14 Feb

Happy Valentine’s Day, Galentine’s or Palentine’s – whatever floats your boat!

I have a couple of favourite love poems. Today I give you Carol Ann Duffy’s Valentine, one the teenagers in my English classes really took to.

Not a red rose or a satin heart.

I give you an onion.
It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
It promises light
like the careful undressing of love.

Here.
It will blind you with tears
like a lover.
It will make your reflection
a wobbling photo of grief.

I am trying to be truthful.

Not a cute card or a kissogram.

I give you an onion.
Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips,
possessive and faithful
as we are,
for as long as we are.

Take it.
Its platinum loops shrink to a wedding ring,
if you like.
Lethal.
Its scent will cling to your fingers,
cling to your knife.

We have been out this evening to Home Ground’s Pizza night, a delicious meal, all handmade from fresh ingredients, in lovely cosy surroundings and a really lovely ambience.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 14, 2025 in Celebration, Eating out, poetry, Postaday2025, Redruth, Uncategorized

Tags: Carol Ann Duffy, Home Ground coffee shop, Valentine

Guest Blogger Catch-up

23 Aug

On Thursday, I went to choir with Granny as I always do. This session was extra special as it was ‘Sing for your heart’ instead of regular choir. So it wasn’t just the Suitcase Singers but it was also people from the public who wanted to just sing for their hearts. At the end we did a sound bath where me and Granny and other pairs stood back to back surrounded by a circle of basses, altos and sopranos. First the basses sang a hollowing note then the altos joined in with perfect harmony and finally the sopranos sang an angelic high note as a cherry on top. As they got closer and closer towards us in the middle, the sound got fuller and fuller. Everything in my mind was still and empty and at that point it was almost like white noise in the most beautiful way. I recommend.

We went to Truro to mooch about the shops and swerve around the cobbles. We also had our delicious Cornish pasties and no pesky seagulls stole them.

Before our delicious feast this evening, we went to see my great Grandmama and Grandadad’s bench which was dedicated to them. It was a simple yet beautiful sight to see and lovely to see how much beloved they were by our family.

Granny and Grandad took us, as well as my Uncle and Auntie, to Home Ground in Redruth where we had pizzas, pasta and many servings of Tiramisu.

Tiramisu

HomeGround, outdoor section

Walking home after dinner, three ‘kids’ and one LiveWire. Three of us went home by car!

See you guys soon, can’t wait to be back!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 23, 2024 in Cornwall, Eating out, environment, family, Food, Happiness, Postaday 2024, Truro

Tags: Home Ground coffee shop

Harvest and Evening Out

04 Aug

I harvested a pile of Purple Teepee beans from the garden today using Mum’s trug and have blanched and frozen them, just over 1kg in this first picking.

We’ve had a delightful evening that felt like being in a European city! Our favourite coffee shop, Home Ground, is doing pizza evenings on Fridays through the summer and we sat outdoors with lots of other happy eaters, enjoying our wine and pizzas and quiet music, just a lovely and rather special evening – and just what we needed.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 4, 2023 in Uncategorized

Tags: Home Ground coffee shop, Purple Teepee beans

Door, Feather and Special Words

10 Aug

Next door to our favourite coffee shop, Home Ground, a new butcher’s shop is opening soon. We were both amused by the finger drawing in the white out paint, making the lovely door appear to have a beautiful, almost- handlebar moustache.

A feather has been left on the windscreen of my Beetle. I love the serendipity of my photo, the accidental placing of the feather on the finial on our roof. I love how sometimes, the magic of a photo isn’t seen until it’s on the computer.

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power.

Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget… another world is not only possible, she is on her way.

On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”

Arundhati Roy

©Time Magazine – Arundhati Roy

Passion Flower, Honeysuckle and Cake?

06 Oct

It seemed to me like the back view of a huge green cat and turned out to be a lovely Passion Flower growing up a post just outside town this morning. Look carefully, there is just one flower.

Up the road on our way home was this beautiful Himalayan Honeysuckle, Leycesteria formosa. I need to grow this!

We stopped off this morning at Home Ground, our favourite coffee shop in town. We had our coffees and our Portuguese Custard tarts and bought our lunch to take home – a Pepperoni Flatbread to share with a salad and a new cake, like an enormous Jaffa in a sponge with a tart orange filling and a wonderful chocolate ganache on top – and it was vegan. I’m sorry I forgot to take a photo before we ate it all, to the very last crumb! My plate is on the right. I have asked for the recipe but they buy it in so I am going to have to invent something myself. When it works, I will share it with you as it was Amazing!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 6, 2020 in baking, nature, Photography, Postaday2020, Redruth

Tags: Home Ground coffee shop, Leycesteria formosa, Portuguese custard tarts

Silver Birch, Sky Painting and A Tart

17 Aug

The bark on our Silver Birch is fabulous against the dark purple of the Pittosporum.

On our walk into town today, we popped into our favourite coffee shop, Home Ground, to pick up a couple of their delicious Portuguese custard tarts. During lockdown they have made some really lovely improvements, one being the painting of sky on the ceiling of their outdoor space, It’s lovely.

At Home Ground Coffee shop

One of the tarts!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 17, 2020 in art, Cornwall, Food, garden, nature, Photography, Postaday2020, Redruth, Uncategorized

Tags: Home Ground coffee shop, Portuguese custard tarts

Mars, Libraries and Flower Baskets

27 Jul

After three months of clear skies, tonight it is raining and cloudy, just the night when I had hoped to see the Full Moon and the Lunar Eclipse. If the skies clear, I will post photos tomorrow. However, last night, I did get a picture of the almost full moon and, if you look very carefully in the bottom left hand corner, Mars, the red planet!

Nearly full Moon and Mars

This came my way earlier today.

Libraries

Our town is full of beautiful flowering baskets hanging from lamp posts and brackets above shops.

Beautiful baskets in Redruth, this one outside our favourite coffee shop, Home Ground.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 27, 2018 in Cornwall, environment, nature, Photography, Redruth

Tags: full moon, Home Ground coffee shop

Fledgling in the Rain, Home Ground and Magnolia

06 Feb

We were promised 50-70mms of rain today and it all arrived at once this morning in the hooliest of hoolies that we have ever seen! Our garden became a series of ponds and the field behind us looked like a lake.

‘Fledgling’ by Richard Holliday, in the rain

A walk into town became possible this afternoon and we called in to try a new Coffee Shop, Home Ground. It was lovely and warm in all respects. The welcome was friendly, the coffee excellent and the cakes delicious. We bought an extra one to share tomorrow, an almond and chocolate one which also happens to be gluten free. It aims to be a home from home and certainly the bookcase full of good reads was very inviting. The idea is that you can read while you are there and if the book takes your fancy you can buy it! There were some of our favourites for children on the bottom shelf – The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Masquerade among them.