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Garden Birds, Doorway and Memories

1 The birds are back! There was an enormous crowd of Long Tailed Tits taking turns at the feeder today, in skittish mood and impossible to photograph. There were also Goldfinches and Great Tits. It’s lovely to have them all back again.

2 We went back to Penzance today, albeit briefly, and this open doorway was very inviting but we were in a hurry….. Next time.

Open gate

3 We went past a tree with a purple ribbon tied around it so I stepped over the grass to find out what it was all about. I have never before seen a plaque so worded and I found it very moving.

Be-ribboned tree

Memories

My Mum would have loved this blog. She had such a lovely positive attitude to everything and today, her birthday, is Bonfire Night. Mum loved that everyone celebrated her birthday with her!

NaBloPoMo

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on November 5, 2013 in Beauty, environment, nature, photography, Postaday2013, Uncategorized

Tags: goldfinches, great tits, Long Tailed Tits, memorial, NaBloPoMo, work related deaths

Longtails, Independence and Help in the Garden

20 Aug

1 The feeder was full of Long Tailed Tits this morning, a dozen at a time but they are so skittish, I only managed to catch a few on camera. I love how they live in big family groups.

Longtails at the feeders

2 Our Grandchildren and their parents are with us for a holiday, T loving to escape with her scooter.

I’m off!

3 J was a very willing helper in the vegetable garden, collecting beans and then topping and tailing them

Off to pick the beans

Help with the harvesting

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 20, 2013 in Beauty, birds, garden, Grandchildren, growing, nature, photography, Postaday2013

Tags: harvesting home grown produce, Long Tailed Tits

Long Tailed Tits, Christmas Decoration and Nepalese Tea-pot

28 Nov

1 My favourite birds are back – the Long Tailed Tits who arrived this morning. I love the way they live in families of several generations and they are just such beautiful little birds. They didn’t stay long so this is a photo I found online. Thanks to the photographer.

2 I have made a new Christmas decoration. It’s a clear ball filed with all the bits of wool cut off from all my knitting for the Grand-babies this year. I read about the idea ages ago and have forgotten where it came from but have been saving the trimmed off bits of wool since I started knitting for the Grandchildren some 4 and a1/2 years ago, each year in a different bag so there are now four wooly-bits baubles.

Wooly-bits bauble

3 I fell in love with this tiny tea-pot when in Nepal. I think the colours and the inlay are very beautiful.

Tiny Nepalese tea-pot

PS I sewed some sequins onto T’s hat but they didn’t enhance it one bit so they are all off again and I will post the hat as soon as I can. I can hardly wait to see T’s reaction!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on November 28, 2012 in art, birds, inlay, mosaic, nature, Nepal, postaday2012, Uncategorized

Tags: baubles, Christmas Decoration, grand babies, homemade decorations, little birds, Long Tailed Tits, nepal, Nepalese Tea-pot, Postaday, postaday2012, tea pot

A Gift, Long Tailed Tits and Lunch with My Brother

23 Jul

1 I have woken to find this posting from a lovely ex-student of mine and it has made my day! He says,” Your philosophy of teaching I would say…x”

2 As I walked round the garden this morning, I became aware that the bird feeder was full of young Long Tailed Tits. I stood absolutely still and watched as they came and went,10 of them in the feeders at one point but I didn’t have my camera! Later, I caught just this one – so beautiful and such an amazing few moments!

Long Tailed Tit

3 We met P&V at the beautiful, restored-after-its-fire, Pandora Inn on Restronguet Creek for lunch. When I went to place our order, the bar person said, ‘Sorry, you must have your table number wrong, someone else has just ordered on that number, ‘ and I was able to say, ‘No, that was my brother. He was just ordering too.’ How lovely to be able to say that, my brother is here! He is ordering too! It is so lovely to have him and V here for so long!