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Mini Holiday, Cirque du Soleil and A Poem

Apologies for no blog over the last few days. We have been in London with family, their new Maine Coon kitten, enjoying the company of LiveWires 2 and 3 and spending an evening in The Royal Albert Hall enjoying the amazing spectacle of Allegria by Cirque du Soleil. Enjoy the gallery, click on any photo for the bigger version.

Murky train ride across the Tamar into England

The Maine Coon kitten, just 4 months old. Look at those ears!

The Maine Coon kitten. See the length of her legs – an indication of big she is going to be

Crossed paws

The Albert Hall in the interval

The Albert Hall before the show

Poem on the Underground

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 10, 2024 in Cornwall, environment, Happiness, poetry, Postaday 2024, theatre, Uncategorized

Tags: Maine Coon kittens, Poems on the underground, The Albert Hall

White Horse, Poem and Kitten

12 Nov

We always look out for the White Horse in the hills at Westbury and today , through the mist, the sun was on it.

From time to time the London Underground publishes poems which appear along with the adverts. Today we spotted this one.

The boy who sits on bins becomes

a chough, admires the sight of his red beak

Against the wall

He goes nicking coins

Across the city, flies back and roosts

In the chimney stack above our house.

At dawn he climbs down and walks to school

With rooftop-torn jeans and fingerless gloves

The colour of smoke on a winter morning

In his pockets: a half pack of matches,

a lighter, a week’s worth of razor blades.

Imogen Cassels

It has been hard to get a photo of our Daughter’s beautiful kittens. Here is Boris.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on November 12, 2015 in Beauty, nature, photography, poetry, Postaday 2015

Tags: colourpoint kitten, Poems on the underground

Sensing Spaces, Macarons and Poem on the Underground

26 Feb

1. The Sensing Spaces exhibition at The Royal Academy is fabulous! If you are in London, don’t miss it. Come on a brief tour with me.

All the exhibits are interactive. The towers can be climbed up inside on spiral staircases and the golden angels can be seen in close up. The straw construction is being made by the visitors who are encouraged to add to the display. My offering was of plaited purple and green straws in a circle. The big wooden maze is entrancing and mind blowing as one encounters the mirrors and the noise of the pebbles underfoot. The smell of the wood reminds one of cut wood, a lovely smell.

2. Near the Royal Academy there is a beautiful shop that sells Les Macarons a la Ganache and I treated us all to a few for dessert tonight. Delicious!

3 Travelling home on the underground we were treated to one of the series of Poems on the Underground. I just love this one which is new to me. I hope you like it too. To me, it conjures up supper in the warmth of a Greek Island…..

Poems on the Underground is such a delightful idea. Well done to somebody!