After a super singing session ( there may be a video to come….) at the Eco Park, we had mince pies in the airy atrium to wish each other a Happy Christmas. Our next sing will hopefully be in January. I love the colour in the car park area, reminding me of my golden Docs, worn to school when teaching and earning me the nickname of Goldenboots, which I learned about years after retiring and which I love.
Tag Archives: Porthtowan Eco Park
Singing, Boots and More Boots
Eco Park, Bee and Poppy
My choirs are meeting up at the Porthtowan Eco Park where we can sing in the atrium, covered but with plenty of air circulating. Over the weeks I’ve been watching the development of a beautiful mural and today stopped to talk to the artist, Camilla, to tell her how much I love her work. All the elements of the eco park are here – vegetables and edible flowers growing, wind turbines turning, musicians playing and singing, food being served, campers playing and all in such lovely earthy colours. She’s working on an elevated platform and is well wrapped up against the wind and mizzle. 
The bee flew off just as I focussed!
A poppy self-seeded in the edible garden in the trough just outside the kitchen window. I know it isn’t edible but I left it there because it is beautiful.
Photo taken through the window
Busy Day and Sunset Walk
Haven’t stopped today! Gardening, sewing masks, joining in Claire’s Singing Workshop at the No Pressure online Festival and then reading stories over Skype to Twin LiveWires 5 and 6 who are three years old. No 1 LiveWire always listens in too even though she is 12 and she loves Super Worm and Peppa Pig as much as they do.
Claire and her lovely daughters
Tyres, Crocuses and Glass Trees
After a wonderful session singing at the Eco Park this morning, I spotted these brightly painted tyres as I was leaving. I’m sure they will all be planted up before too long
In a first for February, our lawn needed mowing today! As he was busy, the lovely Mr S realised that some crocuses had planted themselves in the middle and called me out to see a surprise.
I put donated/discarded jewellery on all my glass pieces (which are all made from reclaimed or rescued glass) and today I have added Cherry Blossom to one of my trees and an owl to the other. There are three more in the making….. These are all being made for 29th February when we will be joining in the planting of 800 trees and raising money for a Refugee charity.
Little Owl
Cherry blossom
Snoods, Designs and A Crocus
I’ve been knitting snoods for a collection of warm stuff for refugees.
Snoods
Modelling a snood!
The first Wednesday of each month is Sing For Your Heart at the Eco Park. Today was as uplifting as always. There was a goodly collection of donations for the next load going to Calais to help the refugees. Love the designs in the atrium.
At the Eco Park
Our first purple Crocus has appeared.
Purple Crocus
Recycling, Cake and Book No 7
I always enjoy going to Porthtowan’s Eco Park both for the Singing for Your Heart and Soul and for the grounds. Today I found another quirky planter made of old tyres.
Beautiful planter
This afternoon, it being stormy and wet again, I decided to bake and made a Hummingbird Cake. I found it in one of my SIL’s cookery books while we were in Atlanta in September. It sounds delicious, contains bananas and pineapple, vanilla and cinnamon so we will see when it is sandwiched and iced with a cream cheese icing.
Just out of the oven
My last choice for the Book Challenge is Lonesome Dove, a 1985 Western by Texan author Larry McMurtry. It was reading this that made me want to visit Montana but we haven’t made it yet.
I loved a Western!
The story focuses on the relationship between several retired Texas Rangers and their adventures driving a cattle herd from Texas to Montana. The novel explores themes of old age, death, unrequited love and friendship and is unputdownable! I think it has been made into a film but I don’t like to see films of books I have read as they rarely match up to the film I had in my head when I was reading!
Webs, A Planter and Marrows
We were greeted by a thick fog this morning and it hardly lifted all day. The result was beautiful droplets on plants and webs in the early morning.
Diamond strings
I went singing at the Porthtowan Eco Park this morning. The session is called ‘Sing for your heart, sing for your soul’, led by Claire Ingleheart, and it is as uplifting as it sounds. I love looking round the site after singing and found this delightful planter made from an old tyre.
Toucan planter
The crop of marrows was very impressive!
What a crop!
We met with friends in the afternoon at The Blue Bar in Porthtowan and spent a delightful couple of hours catching up, not having seen each other since our South Africa holiday in May. The sea was barely discernible through the fog so no photos of the sea today.
Singing, Eco Park and Pesto
This morning was the monthly Sing for your Heart session at Porthtowan Eco Park and it was fabulous as always – truly uplifting. It is wonderful to look around the room and see so many people smiling with pleasure at the harmonies they have just achieved under Claire’s magical tutelage. If you are reading this and you live in Cornwall…….
Sing for your Heart poster
After a delicious brunch, I walked over to the secluded fire pit area and sat in Nature’s silence to read my book for a couple of hours. I’m sure you can imagine the peace. The gallery will give you a flavour of this lovely place and so will this earlier post and this one,
A pair of totem poles
Through the window
Where I sat for two hours
Looking across the fire pit to the window
A dream catcher on one of the trees in the orchard
I have made my own Pesto for the first time today. Instead of mixing Basil into the tomato sauce for Mozzarella Pasta, I served a dollop of the Pesto on top and it was delicious! I also used Pea pasta which gives us another of our 5-a-day!
Mozzarella Pasta
Planters, Shed and Scarf
Singing at the Eco Park was once again, just brilliant! I love walking around the grounds afterwards too and liked these tyre planters.
Tyre planters
Further round was the Community Garden and its delightful painted shed.
Painted shed
Long-standing friends came to our Family party a couple of weeks ago as they have known us all for many, many years. A brought me a really lovely silk scarf to say thank you for being included. There was no way that we would leave them out – they are family too!
Beautiful scarf – thank you A.
Please forgive me, regular readers and blogger friends, for my not replying to comments, not reading or commenting on your blogs over the last few weeks. Life has been happily hectic!
Autumn Day, Sunset and A Bonfire
What a glorious Autumn day as we went off to Port Isaac, (you may know the village from Doc Martin), exploring all the little byways and lanes, mostly uphill it seemed and finding a little cafe to have lunch.
In Port Isaac
Port Isaac
Tonight there was the most glorious sunset. I took this photo from the middle of our town.
Sunset from Redruth
Tonight we have been to a Sing for your Supper event at the Eco Park ending up singing round the fire – just brilliant!
Singing around the fire
